Guidelines for booking A/V equipment:
*LCD projectors are at a premium. Please do not book more than 3 consecutive days in any one week.
*Remember that we have VCR/TVs combos, or VCR/DVD/TV combos, or DVD/TV combos. Please be sure to specify what you want.
*Remember that A/V useage is particularly high shortly before holidays and major testing dates. We will not accept bookings more than a month in advance, so please don't book in August for Winter Holiday.
LIBRARY SERVICES FOR THE TEACHER
Your librarian, Carl Casteel, manages a collection of over 26,000 items. But managing the collection is only a small part of what I do. I am an educator as well and want to help you and your students find, evaluate, and manage information. I want to increase reading among all Bellaire's students. Here is a list of offered programs that advance those goals:
Research skills: C. Casteel teaches a unit on the "Independent Investigation Method" in which students learn a step-by-step process of attacking a research problem and developing strategies to write the paper.
Research skills: C. Casteel teaches a unit on analyzing a website for validity.
Introductions to the library: C. Casteel will gladly introduce your students to the services available in the library.
Databases: No matter what your students or you are looking for, there are one or more databases made available through HISD that will provide information. Let us introduce you to them and how to search efficiently and creatively.
Book Talks: Almost monthly new and interesting young adult non-fiction and fiction is published that your students will want to read. Let C. Casteel give brief book talks that highlight the more interesting books available to your students.
