Library
The mission of the White Settlement ISD Library System is to provide access, through judicious selection and appropriate funding, to organized, timely, balanced, and age-appropriate Learning Resources which enrich the academic pursuits and varied interests of students, staff, and educational community; to support the curriculum; and to promote information literacy, life-long learning, and love of reading
"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education."
- Harold Howe, U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1913
Our Team
Elementary Schools
School | Contact Info |
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Blue Haze Elementary |
Amanda Bryan, Library Assistant (817) 367-2583 ext. 6480 Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. Monday--Friday |
Fine Arts Academy |
Jennifer Horn, Library Assistant (817) 367-5396 ext. 6344 Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Monday--Friday |
Liberty Elementary |
Bernice Weaver, Library Assistant 817) 367-1312 ext. 6539 Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday--Friday |
North Elementary |
Abby Hartman, Library Assistant (817) 367-1323 ext. 6179 Hours: 7:50 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday--Friday |
West Elementary |
Renee Williams, Library Assistant (817) 367-1334 ext. 6247 Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday--Friday |
Tannahill Intermediate
Paula Simpkins, Library Assistant
(817) 367-1370 ext. 4829
Hours: 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Monday--Friday
Destiny Follett Campus Catalog
Brewer Middle School
Brianne Buschbaum, Library Assistant
(817) 367-1267 ext. 4529
Hours: 8:30 - 11:15 a.m. & 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Monday--Friday
Destiny Follett Campus Catalog
Brewer High School
Ashley Frost, Lead Librarian
(817) 367-4129
Terra Wood, Library Assistant/Sub Coordinator
(817) 367-1200 ext. 4128
Circulation Desk
(817) 367-1200 ext. 4133
Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (later by arrangement) Monday--Friday
Destiny Follett Campus Catalog
WSISD Learning Resources
Library Associations
American Library Association
American Association of School Librarians
Awards
2 X 2 books for children age 2 to grade 2
Texas Bluebonnet books for 3rd through 6th grade
Tejas Star bilingual books for ages 5-12
Lone Star books for children grades 6-8
TAYSHAS books for high school students
Maverick graphic novels
Little Maverick graphic novels for grades K-5
Lariat recommended fiction for adults
Texas Topaz nonfiction for all ages
Creative Commons Media
Here are a few sites for copyright-free, educationally appropriate images, check it out!
Images
- Creative Commons
- Gratisography
- IM Creator
- Life of Pics
- Morguefile
- Photos For Class
- Pix4Learning
- PicJumbo
- Pixabay
- Snapographic
- Wikimedia Commons
Music
Policies & Procedures
II. MISSION STATEMENT
A. Local
The mission of the White Settlement ISD Library System is to provide access, through judicious selection and appropriate funding, to organized, timely, balanced, and age-appropriate Learning Resources which enrich the academic pursuits and varied interests of students, staff, and educational community; to support the curriculum; and to promote information literacy, life-long learning, and love of reading.
In order to assist patrons on each campus in their quest for knowledge:
- Library programs will provide meaningful opportunities for students to develop critical thinking skills by learning how to seek information from a variety of sources, organize and manipulate the information, and communicate the results to others.
- Library programs will strive toward attaining Exemplary status as defined by the State Board of Education and the Texas State Library and Archives Commission in the Texas Administrative Code: Title 13 http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/schoollibs/sls/index.html
- The WSISD libraries will be directed by qualified personnel and will provide a range of resources in a variety of formats.
- Library staff will provide library skills instruction, as these skills are required, to meet student needs or curriculum goals and objectives.
- Library facilities will provide safe learning environments.
- The libraries will remain open for study and research throughout the school year during the times that students attend classes.
- Library patrons will have access to an organized and managed collection of instructional materials and technologies.
- Librarians will identify resources available to meet educational goals and determine additional resources needed to meet program and student needs.
- Material will be placed in the libraries under specific selection policy guidelines.
- Librarians will develop adequate budgets for needed materials, supplies, equipment, and services based on the identified goals for student achievement.
- The library programs will not restrict reading materials to those required by assignments.
- Use of the library will be restricted only in cases of misuse or abuse of the library or library materials.
B. State
Texas Education Agency
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/technology/libraries/index.html
The mission of the TEA Division of Curriculum for Texas public school libraries is as follows:
- to build the capacity of Texas school library programs to support learning, especially in the core curriculum areas
- to enable students to achieve their potential and fully participate now and in the future in the social, economic, and educational opportunities of our state, nation and world.
III. POSITION STATEMENTS
POLICY
- Library Bill of Rights — American Library Association
- The Freedom to Read — American Library Association
- American Library Association Code of Ethics — American Library Association
A. Library Bill of Rights
The American Library Association affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the following basic policies should guide their services.
- Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation.
- Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
- Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.
- Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.
- A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.
- Libraries which make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public they serve should make such facilities available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting their use.
Adopted June 18, 1948.
by the ALA Council.
B. The Freedom to Read Statement
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/statementspols/ftrstatement/freedomreadstatement.htm
Excerpts follow:
The freedom to read is essential to our democracy…. We, as citizens devoted to reading and as librarians and publishers responsible for disseminating ideas, wish to assert the public interest in the preservation of the freedom to read.
Now as always in our history, reading is among our greatest freedoms. The freedom to read and write is almost the only means for making generally available ideas or manners of expression that can initially command only a small audience. The written word is the natural medium for the new idea and the untried voice from which come the original contributions to social growth. It is essential to the extended discussion that serious thought requires, and to the accumulation of knowledge and ideas into organized collections.
This statement was originally issued in May of 1953 by the Westchester Conference of the American Library Association and the American Book Publishers Council, which in 1970 consolidated with the American Educational Publishers Institute to become the Association of American Publishers.
Adopted June 25, 1953;
revised January 28, 1972, January 16, 1991, July 12, 2000,
by the ALA Council and the AAP Freedom to Read Committee.
A Joint Statement by American Library Association and Association of American Publishers
Subsequently Endorsed by the following:
- American Association of University Professors
- American Society of Journalists and Authors
- Association of American University Presses
- Center for Democracy & Technology
- The Children’s Book Council
- Freedom to Read Foundation
- International Reading Association
- The Media Institute
- National PTA
C. American Library Association Code of Ethics
- We provide the highest level of service to all library users through appropriate and usefully organized resources; equitable service policies; equitable access; and accurate, unbiased, and courteous responses to all requests.
- We uphold the principles of intellectual freedom and resist all efforts to censor library resources.
- We protect each library user’s right to privacy and confidentiality with respect to information sought or received and resources consulted, borrowed, acquired or transmitted.
- We recognize and respect intellectual property rights.
- We treat co-workers and other colleagues with respect, fairness and good faith, and advocate conditions of employment that safeguard the rights and welfare of all employees of our institutions.
- We do not advance private interests at the expense of library users, colleagues, or our employing institutions.
- We distinguish between our personal convictions and professional duties and do not allow our personal beliefs to interfere with fair representation of the aims of our institutions or the provision of access to their information resources.
- We strive for excellence in the profession by maintaining and enhancing our own knowledge and skills, by encouraging the professional development of co-workers, and by fostering the aspirations of potential members of the profession.
Classification System
Nonfiction:
The ten large classes with their numbers are as follows:
000 to 099 - General Works: encyclopedias, periodicals, newspapers, atlases, almanacs, etc.
100 to 199 - Philosophy: esthetics, psychology, logic, ethics, etc.
200 to 299 - Religion: Bible, theology, church, etc.
300 to 399 - Social Sciences: sociology, economics, law, education, etc.
400 to 499 - Language: dictionaries, grammars, readers, etc., in all languages
500 to 599 - Pure Science: mathmatics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, etc.
600 to 699 - Technology: engineerings, health, medicine, inventions, televisions, business, etc.
700 to 799 - The Arts: sculptures, drawing, painting, music, sports, hobbies, etc.
800 to 899 - Literature: poems, plays, and essays in all languages.
900 to 999 - History: geography, travel, histories of all countries and all ages
Biography:
lives of individuals are arranged alphabetically by the name of the person written about.
Fiction:
grouped on the shelves separately and arranged alphabetically by the authors' last names.
The Classification System
The Most universally used system of classifying books and arranging them upon the library shelves was planned by Melvil Dewey. His system is called the Dewey Decimal System of Classification.