The purpose of this site is to help Columbus students, staff, parents, and other community members access online resources and information quickly and effectively, encourage reading for pleasure and promote good research skills. In an information age, literacy demands not only the ability to read and write, but also the ability to process information and communicate effectively.

Quick Links

School Library Information Center	Landmark Citation Maker
AEA Online Resources	Waterloo Public Library
Daily Current Events Quiz	How To Study

Media Center Hours
The high school media center is open from 7 a.m. to 2:50 p.m. Monday - Friday. Students must have a pass and sign in when entering the media center during the school day.

Patron's Catalog
This program will assist you in finding materials located in the media center and is accessible from all computers in the LMC. Please ask for assistance at the circulation desk.

Loan Times for Materials
Books - 3 weeks
Magazines - 1 week
Reference materials - overnight

Overdue Fines
Books and magazines - $.10/day overdue
Reference books - $.50/day overdue

Online Databases
Several online databases are available for use at school and at home. Please click here. Login and password information is posted on all computers in the Media Center and Labs.

Computers @ CHS
The LMC has 22 computer workstations. The Open Access Lab has 20 computer workstations. Save your work often! This should be done every few minutes, especially after every major change.

If you experience problems printiing, see the staff. Do not logout of a school computer until your file has finished printing. Do not print directly from a web browser. Copy and paste into a word processing document such as Microsoft Word and then print.

Lab computers do not have floppy drives. Bring files from home on a flash drive or CD-R or email yourself the file. School computers are for education purposes and school work. For your safety, your computer may be remotely monitored at any time.

Reminder to all students
The media center is a quiet study area. There is NO food or drink allowed in the media center or computer lab. Please be respectful of others.

Printer Cartridges
Help the media center raise money by bringing in empty printer cartridges from home.