Library Services

A library is a collection of sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing. It provides physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical building or room, or a virtual space, or both. A library's collection can include books, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts, films, maps, prints, documents, microform, CDs, cassettes, videotapes, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, e-books, audiobooks, databases, and other formats. Libraries range in size from a few shelves of books to several million items. In Latin and Greek, the idea of bookcase is represented by Bibliotheca and Bibliothēkē (Greek: βιβλιοθήκη): derivatives of these mean library in many modern languages, e.g. French bibliothèque.

School Librarians and Library Paraprofessionals


Adams Elementary	DeQueen Elementary	Houston Elementary
Meagan Thierheimer Claudia Chapa	Brianna Hidalgo	Dulce Melendez


Thomas Jefferson Middle School	Lakeview Elementary	Lincoln Middle School
Erin Bowman Brenda Moreno		Carissa Robertson


Memorial High School	Memorial 9th Grade Academy	Port Acres Elementary
Jose Gonzalez Chrae Leday	Richie Williams	Joan Woods


Travis Elementary	Tyrrell Elementary	Washington Elementary
Flor Martinez	Alexia Gutierrez	Donna Victor


	Wheatley Early Childhood

Resources

http://www.follettlearning.com/

Classroom Books & Materials

By aligning your class materials to what your students are reading, you can transform your classroom into a learning environment that meets curriculum standards. From classic literature to reference materials to book bundles and beyond, Follett has everything you need to equip your classroom for success.

Explore our full range of classroom books and materials.

Classroom Shop

Follett is your one stop for everything classroom. Our selection of textbooks, supplementals, test prep, reference books, and more includes materials from all of the top K-12 publishers. Featured are both new and pre-owned offerings that can save you up to 75% off publisher prices.

http://destiny.paisd.org/

Getting started with Destiny Library Manager

Destiny brings all your library automation together on one server: circulation, cataloging, searching, and reporting. It is completely browser-based — providing access to your library from virtually anywhere.

This document guides you through accessing Destiny and performing the initial setup tasks. It includes the following sections:

Opening Destiny

Bookmarking Destiny

Logging in to Destiny

Changing your password

About browser settings and navigation

Building your database

If you are converting from Circulation Plus/Catalog Plus

If you are importing your patron and title records

Setting up your site

Setting up your calendar

Setting up your loan policies

If you converted from Circulation Plus-Catalog Plus

If you imported your records

Destiny’s default loan policies

Understanding access levels

What’s next?

If you need installation instructions, see "Installing Destiny" in the documentation provided with your Destiny installation CD. For help converting your database from Circulation Plus/Catalog Plus, see Converting to Destiny Library Manager.

http://texquest.net/welcome

TexQuest is a statewide digital resources program that provides anytime, anywhere access to high quality, authoritative digital resources to all educators, students, and students' immediate families in Texas K-12 public schools and open enrollment charter schools. Supported, in part, by appropiations from the Texas State Legislature, Texas districts pay a small per student participation fee to gain access to TexQuest resources from the providers listed on this page.

The Texas State Library and Archives Commission administers all aspects of the TexQuest program and is responsible for selection and coordination of all TexQuest resources, as well as district invoicing.

Education Service Center, Region 20 serves as the TexQuest Support Center and is responsible for help desk, technical assistance, outreach, communication, and training to support the program.

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Follett Library Resources is an authorized reseller of Renaissance Learning products. The Renaissance school improvement process is a combination of research-based software and teaching strategies which supercharge your existing curriculum and instructional programs. Here’s a list of the Renaissance Learning products you can order from Follett!

Renaissance Place enables schools and districts to centralize all the information from Renaissance products into a single accessible database, allowing for consolidated school- and district-wide reporting, improved ease of use, and enhanced service and support. Renaissance Place will allow schools and districts to more easily implement Renaissance programs and significantly improve information accessibility for teachers, librarians, principals, parents, and district personnel while providing significant cost benefits.

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Pearson Testing Online

http://www.arbookfind.com/UserType.aspx

Searching for books with a corresponding Renaissance Accelerated Reader 360® quiz is easy with AR BookFinder. Students, teachers, parents, and librarians can search in English or Spanish using criteria such as ATOS book level or a Lexile™ measure, interest level, title, author, fiction/nonfiction, subject, award-winners, state lists, CCSS Exemplars, and more.

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	ProQuest is committed to empowering researchers and librarians around the world. Our portfolio of assets -- including content, technologies and deep expertise -- drives better research outcomes for users and greater efficiency for the libraries and organizations that serve them.
	Access your TexQuest resources from Britannica Digital Learning!

EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-books and discovery service to libraries of all kinds. For over 70 years, we’ve partnered with libraries to improve research with quality content and technology.

Google Books

https://books.google.com/

How to use Google Books: Student Research

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyrHFXbeMu8

Google Book Search

Google Book Search allows Harvard researchers to search the full text of scanned books (contributed by Harvard, other libraries, and publishers) via the Web, and to read selections or the full text of these digitized texts.

How to Access Google Book Search
Get the full benefits of Google Books by going through the Harvard library portal.

Access to the Harvard version of Google Book Search is provided through the E-Research @ Harvard Libraries site. Users can search Find E-Resources by title (entering Google Book Search in the field provided) or by selecting Google Book Search from the "Quick Jump to selected major resources " drop down menu. You can also bookmark GBS directly using the following URL: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:googlebk

Note: Researchers who connect to Google Book Search without going through a Harvard library web site or using the URL listed above will not have access to the full text materials licensed through Harvard libraries and will not see the Find at Harvard University link on the result screen.

Basic and Advanced Searching
Digging deeper with these useful search tips!

Browsing Results
Deciphering a Google Books' results list.

MyLibrary in Google Book Search
How to create your own virtual library using Google Books.

Downloading and Printing Books
When you want to turn a digital book back into paper.

Linking to a Specific Titles
Creating persistent links to records in Google Books.

Play Books

How to use Google Play Books

Read your favorite books with the Google Play Books app (Android | iOS), on your computer’s browser, or with the Play Books app for Chrome.

Read books

Reading features & settings

File & device help

Some Google Play products and features aren't available in all countries. See what's available in your country

PDF Books

Technology Navigation

Contact

Erin Bowman
District Lead Librarian

Megan Thierheimer
Elementary Lead Librarian