Our goal with library classes is to help our KIS students connect books, the library, and the classroom with their Units of Inquiry and their understanding of the world around them. Teachers extend classroom learning – they are signing up for extra library classes to incorporate skills needed for the research and the access to information. The library is designed to develop lifelong readers and effective users of information technology.

In the library, KIS students learn how to identify, locate, organize, and present information—students learn how to find particular books on the shelves and how to find answers to questions by using the resources available in the library.

Our KIS library utilizes an online website to store our KIS library database, libraryworld.com, which makes it possible for teachers to access the library catalog from the classroom or parents and students can access the KIS library resources from home via the Internet.

Mrs. Dorothy, our KIS Librarian, was born in Wellington, New Zealand and she always wanted to be a teacher, from early childhood. Mrs. Dorothy first came to KIS in 2008 when she was asked to take over grade 2. She graduated Palmerston North Teacher’s College with a Teaching Certificate. Mrs. Dorothy’s favorite memory from growing up is when her brother rescued her from a cliff—she had climbed up halfway but was stuck, unable to go up or down, and so he climbed up at his own risk to talk her down.