Library
The mission of the King David High School Library is to support the academic goals of the students, faculty and staff. This vision is implemented by providing state of the art wired and wireless access to the Internet coupled with a strong emphasis on research skills and critical evaluation.
The King David Library is approximately 2200 sq. ft. and occupies the southwest corner of the high school. It currently has 12 workstations available for student use, complemented by 20 data ports and wireless access. There is over 500 linear feet of shelving space available for printed materials (this is enough space to hold approximately 6000 books to support student learning). The library provides individual and group study space to enable students to complete class assignments as well as engage in self-directed learning.
The computer workstations provide access beyond the physical walls of King David High School guided by the Internet resources available via the library catalogue's WebPath Express. WebPath Express provides more than 50,000 educational resources with high quality content that have been reviewed for their educational value and grade appropriateness.
In addition to the library catalogue, the library has purchased:
- World Book Online Reference Centre, World Book Atlas and World Book Dictionary; World Book Advanced, which includes encyclopedic, multimedia, eBook and primary source databases all accessed through a single search feature, correlates to BC high school curriculum standards, and offers a citation builder
- L'Encyclopedie Decouverte, an extensive encyclopedia supporting French curriculum and language development
- Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos, an intermediate Spanish-language encyclopedia
- MasterFILE Premier which contains the full-text of nearly 1,750 journals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues as well as the full-text of almost 500 reference books, more than 85,000 bibliographies, over 100,000 primary source documents and 300,000 photos, maps and flags
- Academic Search Premier with the full-text for more than 4,500 journals covering biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion and theology
- Canadian Reference Centre that combines the full-text of leading Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswire and reference books as well as leading Canadian and international journals, biographies, photos, maps and flags
- Consumer Health Complete, the single most comprehensive resource for consumer health information from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic and integrated medicine sources that includes the full-text of more than 200 health reference books and encyclopedias, hundreds of consumer health related periodicals, thousands of evidence-based health reports and drug patient education sheets as well as hundreds of medical images, diagrams and physician-generated videos
- Business Source Premier, a full-text database containing more than 2,300 journals covering all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics
- NoveList with more than 60,000 juvenile fiction records, a readers' advisory service with access to 155,000 fiction titles and access to author read-alikes, book discussion guides and reading lists
- Encarta Online, Microsoft's well-respected digital learning resource
- McGraw-Hill's Access Science with over 8,500 online full-text articles from the 10th edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from their Yearbook of Science & Technology, over 110,000 definitions from their Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, and 15,000 illustrations and graphics
- Encyclopedia of British Columbia Online Edition, which supports the BC Social Studies curriculum
These resources are complemented by the electronic databases and full-text sources provided by the Vancouver Public Library, which students use to supplement their educational endeavours.