1. WHAT IS A CENTRE FOR DOCUMENTATION AND INFORMATION ( C.D.I ) ?
It is a centre of multidisciplinary resources for students, teachers and the local community
It supplies information in various forms (written and electronic)
Hosts pedagogical activities (initiation in documentary research)
Offers a place to put into practice projects of cultural animation.
2. WHICH IS THE PURPOSE OF C.D.I.?
It provides documentary support that allows students to assisted or autonomously develop their own knowledge and skills
It facilitates the access to information through activities of initiation in the techniques of documentary research
It supplies information about the school and the relationship with potential partners outside the educational system;
Stimulates pedagogical innovation .
3. WHICH ARE THE FUNCTIONS OF C.D.I.?
Technical (it refers to the administration of the documents according to the current regulations)
Pedagogical (initiation in the documentary research techniques)
To receive (students, teachers, members of the local community)
To offer general information
To relate with partners outside the school
To encourage reading
To inform students for school and future career
To provide cultural animation
4. C.D.I. REGULATIONS
1. ACCESS
Priority is given to:
a) Students who want to study in order to prepare their lessons, homework, essays and projects, or simply get information for school or future career.
b) Students who want to read and refer to the documentation.
2. STUDENTS’ ENTRANCE
Students have access according to the schedule.
3. BEHAVIOUR IN THE C.D.I.
a) Students enter the C.D.I. without luggage and silently
b) Students are not allowed to stop or play the audio and video sets if not attended by the documentary teacher
c) After referring to a document, it has to be placed back correctly on the shelf.
d) Do not forget that a misplaced document is a lost document.
e) The C.D.I. is a centre of resources, a work instrument and not a talk room. Eating is forbidden. Students should keep quiet so as not to disturb the others.
f) In the C.D.I. there is room available for reading.
4. REFERENCE AND BORROWING OF DOCUMENTS
a) All the students registered in the C.D.I. have a card based on which they can refer to and borrow different documents.
b) Documents can be borrowed for 14 days, the deadline being marked in the file. Students can borrow two volumes at most and teachers can borrow three volumes at most, with the possibility to keep them up to 25 days.
c) Dictionaries, encyclopaedias, atlases, albums and unique publications cannot be taken home.
d) If borrowed documents are not brought back in time the class teacher is informed and warnings are sent to parents. Books which are not taken back after the second warning or those that are lost are imputed.
5. THE DISPOSAL OF DOCUMENTS IN THE C.D.I.
a) Fiction books are ordered alphabetically and by genres.
b) Documentaries are ordered by domain, according to the Universal Decimal Classification, and within the domain they are ordered alphabetically.
c) Periodicals are ordered chronologically and by titles
d) Documentary files are ordered by domains and alphabetically
OBSERVATIONS
When entering the C.D.I. students will leave their things in the furniture available in the reception section.
1. In the C.D.I. it is forbidden:
1.1. To use the internet for other purposes than those connected with studying for lessons
1.2. To write on or scratch the furniture
1.3. To destroy documents by tearing pages or underlining
2. To use documents in the reading room, students will write down in the register their name, class, the document they referred to.
Breaking these regulations is followed by punitive measures.
5.THE C.D.I. SECTIONS
