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Library Rooms

  • Main Space

  • Peace, Love & Meditation Room

  • Café Workroom

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Borrowing Books

Student borrowers are limited to the maximum check out of ten (10) books. Materials in the library collection are loaned for a two-week (14 calendar days) period, with the possibility to renew materials twice. On a case-by-case basis, students will have the ability to have more than 10 books out at a time.

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Search the Bell High School Library Destiny Collection here to check out new reads!

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Popular Young Adults Books

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  1. Children of Virtue and Vengeance
    by Tomi Adeyemi

  2. I Wish You All the Best
    by Mason Deaver

  3. Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo 

  4. Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

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Technology

  • The CHEC school community will have access to Dell laptops and Apple MacBook's; for in-library use.

  • Printer/ Copier Availability 

Homework Help!

BrainFuseHelpNow, provided by a grant to DC Public Library in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, BrainFuse HelpNow is an online service that can enable students to find answers and support quickly and extend independent learning.

  • BrainFuse HelpNow is a resource designed for K-12 students and beyond. Live tutoring is available in English and Spanish from 1 p.m. - 10 p.m. EST to provide homework help for core subjects, including mathematics, science, and English language arts. Practice long division, improve reading comprehension, and learn other key skills. Students may submit papers to HelpNow’s Writing Lab for expert assistance and feedback or collaborate with peers in virtual study spaces.

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Copyright
Fair Use Analysis​

Fair use is an exception to copyright law that allows someone to use a work without getting permission from the copyright holder. Fair use can be used for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.

Why do we have Copyright?

Copyright law rests in the Constitution. Article 1 Section 8 Clause 8 of the US Constitution states that copyright exists "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."

The purpose of the law is to help encourage authors to create more works by ensuring that they’ll be able to benefit from their work.

Open Source
Open Access (OA) is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. OA ensures that anyone can access and use these results and ideas to impact knowledge and grow ideas. It is essential as CHEC scholars that you evaluate all content you choose to use for research.

Academic Integrity
If you chose to use your own work in another work, it must be cited like any other. Just because you wrote it yourself, it does not mean you cannot plagiarize.

Unless otherwise noted by a Bell High School educator, please use a standard citation style (APA, MLA, etc.).

Students are not allowed to complete other students work or use A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) to complete assignments.
 

Research

Citations​
Zotero Bib
A free and open-source reference manager - add citations, organize into collections, cite and create bibliographies, use with writing programs, and share and sync.
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