The library books can be divided into nine collections. These are:
The collection of reference books and reference books for adolescents: These are encyclopedias, atlases, dictionaries, and other resource books for students and university students, from first year through the postgraduate level, and of all the different disciplines the ICDA offers: Computer science, business administration, accounting, secretarial skills, marketing, tourism, and education; dictionaries in English, Spanish, and bilingual English-Spanish, etc. Besides, reference sources for schools that use the American curriculum and the Secretaría de Estado curriculum.
The General Collection and the General Collection for Young People: This includes materials on science, history and geography, social sciences and literature, besides technical information about the above-mentioned fields, as well as the acquisition of a foreign language, especially English.
Special Collections of Reading Books for children and teenagers (E “Easy Collection”, E; and J, “Juvenile Collection”), Young Adults (YA), and Fiction (F) reading books for young people and adults.
The Foreign Language Collection includes foreign textbooks for the teaching of English, and of French and in Spanish as foreign languages.
The collection of audiovisual aids and maps consists of videos, cassettes, and CD- ROM’s, as well as informational and educational maps.
The collections of biographies (JB, “Juvenile Biography”, B, “Biography”) contain biographical books for young adults and adults respectively.
The Vertical File includes newspaper clippings, brochures, and pamphlets with topics of current interest, preferably national themes.
Periodicals: This collection comprises magazines for children, adolescents, teachers, and the general public. These magazines specialize in scientific, technical, recreational and political topics about national and international current events. The Lincoln Library also receives local and foreign newspapers.
Public
catalog
The stock of books available in Lincoln Library is made up of reference books, monographs, videos, cassettes, maps, periodicals, diskettes, and CD- ROM’S. In order to provide the user with an easy access to the same, the Lincoln Library has an open shelf system, and a computerized catalog (GoPAC) to help the readers in their search by titles, themes, authors, and key words.
Periodicals
Here
is a list of the publications the Lincoln Library is subscribed
to:
1. American Girl
2. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (*Bound the years 87, 92, 93, 94, 96, 97, 99, 2000)
3 . Caribe, El
4 . Educational FO RUM, The (*bound the years 95, 96, and 97)
5 . Educational Leadership
6 . Estudios y Perspectivas en Turismo (*92, 93, 94 and 96; 97, 98,99 and 2000)
7 . Highlights for Children*
8 . Hoy
9 . Kids Discover
10. Lady Bug
11. Listín Diario, El
13. Mailbox Magazine. Kindergarten Edition
14. Mailbox Magazine. Primary Edition
15 . Miami Herald, The
16 . Muy Interesante
17. National Geographic (*bound the years: January-June 96, July-December, January-June 98, July-December 98)
18 . Newsweek
19 . P.C. Magazine (Spanish)
20 . Revista Latinoamericana de Turismo (*bound the years: 91)
21 . Selecciones del Reader’s Digest
22 . Spider
23 . Sports Illustrated for Kids
24 . Studies in Second Language Acquisition (bound the years: 25, 89, 94, 96, 97 and 99)
26 . TESOL Journal
27 . TESOL Quarterly (*bound the years: 87, 89, 94, 96, 97 and 99)
28 . Tobogán
[] periodicals that have been discontinued.
* Periodicals that the Lincoln Library collects for reference. All other periodicals are kept in the book deposit for a period of two years.
* Periodicals can be taken out when they have been in the Library one month.
List
of CD-ROM’s
This
is a list of the bibliographic bases available on CD-ROM’S
and “Diskettes” in the Lincoln Library:
