Learning Commons at the CBE
Today’s learners cannot imagine life without the internet and supporting technology. The concept of the traditional library is changing to include technology, online tools and spaces for collaboration and exploration.
School Literary Materials Selection
Related to Ministerial Order (#034/2025), Standards for the Selection, Availability, and Access of School Library Materials, CBE has published an administrative regulation AR3051: School Literary Materials Selection. Families and community members can request a review or reconsideration of a literary resource in a school's learning commons by completing the School Library Materials Reconsideration Challenge Request through their local school.
CBE also has an eLibrary online tool available to families, students and staff, which is an online catalogue for all CBE school libraries with detailed information on books, DVD’s and other resources that are available to borrow.
Additionally, parents and legal guardians are welcome to review classroom library collections by contacting your child's school.
Our Learning Commons
Is the hub for our school learning community. It is for available to all students and is for research, reading and quiet study.
We have approximately 16,000 shelf items including one of the finest novel collections in the Calgary Board of Education. Books can be checked out for two weeks, and renewed with picture ID.
Hours are dependent upon Library Assistant hours:
Monday to Thursday 8:55 to 3:33 PM
Friday 8:55 to 1:00 PM (check hours as some Fridays have closures)
Photo ID Card
Your school photo ID card is a means of identification and must be produced to sign out library resources and text books.
Borrowing Privileges
Resources may be signed out for a two-week period, and can be renewed without penalty. We offer overnight loans of reference books and periodicals. Movies are only loaned for classroom use.