Children’s Section

The children’s section is located on the premises of the Domínico Americano School (DAS). Its services are exclusively for DAS students. They include loaning out children’s books and audiovisuals to kindergarten through fourth grade.

Throughout the school year, there is a diverse program of reading encouragement activities and library orientation services, which aims to stimulate children’s enjoyment of reading and teach them to use a systematically organized library (library skills).

Collections

Collections of Books and Audiovisuals for children:
The children’s section has a wide collection of children’s literature and videos in English and Spanish, appropriate for grades kindergarten to 4th grade; and specialized books in subjects of the American curriculum taught by the Domínico Americano School (DAS) in the aforementioned grades. The collection of books for 5th through 12th grade of DAS and related technical areas are located in the main reading room of the BL.

Electronic information resources

The electronic information resources to which the BL is subscribed; or those that the BL has access to via institutional agreements are:

EBSCO HOST: indexes, academic periodicals and full-text articles and documents covering different areas of the sciences and humanities. It is accessed through a username and password provided to students and teachers of the Domínico Americano School (DAS) and the Universidad Domínico Americano (UNICDA).