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Accessible from any Internet connection, you can search our library or any library in the district. v **Searching at school**: Click on the “Library Search” icon in your “Common Web Links” folder. Choose Minshew Elementary. v **Searching at home**: Go to the Minshew Web Page: @http://www.schools.mckinneyisd.net/minshew/ v Under the Learning Commons tab, choose “Library Search.”
 * How to Search for Books in the Minshew Library **
 * Ø Basic tab: Search by keyword, title, author, subject, or series.
 * Ø Power Search: Allows you to limit the search by adding specific information.
 * Ø Visual Search: For younger students, allowing them to search with pictures.
 * Ø Destiny Quest (left tab)is a new visually engaging library search interface designed to appeal to the 21st century learner.

We are happy to pull library resources for you. Please give us at least 24 hours notice. If you know you’ll need a certain book in an upcoming unit, let us know **2 weeks ahead of time** and we’ll reserve it for you, or request a copy from another school if it is already reserved. Here are the steps to make a book list of desired books:
 * __Easy and Paperless Book Requests__**
 * 1) Search our library (or other schools also) to find the books you need. (You can limit the searches by format, reading level, etc.
 * 2) Click “Add to this list” for each title you want us to pull for you. Repeat for additional searches.
 * 3) When your list is complete, click on Resource Lists > Printable.
 * 4) Select File>Send >Page by email. Send your list to Cecilia. She will pull them and email when they are ready to be picked up.