At Bell High School Library, we’re proud to offer a unique educational experience designed to enhance intellectual growth and promote participatory engagement fueled by human decency, peace, kindness + love!
-Mr. Stewart
ABOUT US
Vision: The Bell High School Library of the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) seeks to promote a culture of literacy and intellectual pursuits to enhance achievement and empower students, parents and educators to become life-long digital citizens and learners of all things knowledge.
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Mission: The mission of the Bell High School Library is to serve students, parents and educators with literary tools; allowing them to become effective users of information and their imagination. The Bell library seeks to empower students to be ethical researchers, users of information and critical thinkers that seek to serve the world, as to make it a space of peace and love.
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Hours:
Monday- Friday
8:30am- 4:00pm
During class time, students please have a pass.
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Collection:
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More than 12,000 books, audio-books, eBooks, and reference volumes.
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Numerous periodicals, magazines, and newspapers in online formats.
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A world languages collection that supports the curricular and personal interests of our students and faculty.
Students and faculty: To access our online catalog and databases​ and to view other library resources, please log into Follett Destiny.
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By accessing our catalog, you can check on the status of your currently borrowed materials, renew materials, and place items on hold. To access your account, simply click “Login” and then sign in with your username and password.
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Students - User: Student ID # Password: mmddyy (of birthday)
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MEET THE STAFF
LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST
CHRISTOPHER STEWART
Christopher Stewart is an award-winning research scientist and senior librarian who is passionate about education, youth advocacy, and accessible technology. Stewart was awarded the title of Library Journal's Movers and Shakers (2021) alongside library change agents. He is the recipient of the 2022 Social Justice Award by the Middle States Council for Social Studies. Stewart graduated from Saint Mary’s College of Maryland with a degree in Political Science and, he received his Master of Divinity and Master of Theological Studies from Wesley Theological Seminary as a Missional fellow, with the following concentrations: poverty intervention/ prevention and, juvenile justice reform; he then went on to graduate from Catholic University with a Master of Library and Information Science with a focus in law.
Stewart has volunteered as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) and has served with the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. Currently serving with the District of Columbia Public Schools, as a senior school librarian, Stewart has more than 20 years of experience in academic, public and school libraries. He has volunteered in Ethiopia at an orphanage and in Haiti, in a tent city, where he created curriculum and built a library.
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Christopher is also a professor of library science and author of the new Children's series, Becoming Ari, with a mission to promote literacy, end world poverty, and empower all to seek peace and love. But Stewart and his wife and partner's biggest accomplishment happens to be their
three children/ superheroes.
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3101 16th St NW
Washington, 20010
USA
202-939-7700 Ext. 5118