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.
Furniture promotes flexible workspaces for individuals and groups. Students construct meaning and form individual and collective knowledge through discovery, creativity and inquiry. They become critical consumers of information, effective problem solvers and effective communicators.
The Learning Commons:
- Requires a significant change in philosophy (shift in perspective and focus).
- Is a center for intellectual community for both the individual and collective.
- Re-conceptualizes the Collection (books, online resources, film, audio, multi-media, personal devices…)
- Is a media saturated environment.