Welcome to Your Big Sky Library

The Big Sky Library contains a wealth of print and digital resources for academic needs, personal interests, and reading enjoyment. Our goal is to enrich your learning environment to ensure students and staff are effective producers and consumers of ideas and information.

Please enjoy your access to library resources and reach out to us bigskylibrary@mcpsmt.org with any questions.

Library Hours

Library Access & Requests

Mpl Library card

Sign up for a Library Card with the Missoula Public Library

Database passwords

Request the Academic Database passwords for home/off-site use

Personalized Book Shopper

Looking for your next great read but not sure where to start? Fill out our Personalized Book Shopper Form, and your teacher librarians and library staff will handpick a small stack of books just for you! Whether you love fantasy, mystery, graphic novels, or want something totally new, we’ll tailor our recommendations to your interests and reading level. It’s like having your own personal book shopper—free and fun!

Personalized Shopper

Big Sky HS Library Book Recommendation

Have a book in mind that you’d love to see added to our collection? To request a new purchase for the Big Sky High School Library, please first check our online catalog to make sure the book isn't already available. Once you’ve confirmed, simply fill out the request form, and we’ll consider adding it to our library for you and your fellow students to enjoy!

Recommend a book

Library Expectations, Standards, & Policies

Expectations

Physical Library Expectations:

Return items on time

Ethical use of materials and equipment

Smile and use please and thank you

Please be courteous and respectful to others

Enter the library with a class or a pass

Clean up after yourself

Talking is OK, at a reasonable level

Check-out/ Return Policy:

Materials normally circulate for four weeks. Cameras and some other equipment circulate overnight. Students may also request and check out materials from any other school within the District. With a Missoula Public Library card, students and staff have access to materials from libraries across the state which can be delivered to Big Sky Library.

Passes and Behavior Expectations:

Students come to the Library with a hall pass, unless they are with an entire class during class time. They are expected to check in and out when entering or leaving the Library during a class period. All students must have an signed network policy (with parental consent) to access the MCPS network. Students should work in a non-disruptive manner and may work in groups for class projects. Students follow the school policies for vandalized or missing items.

Standards

9th/10th (Updated 2023)

New Knowledge (NK)/Inquire

LM.NK.9-12.1 Formulate and refine essential questions through reading, constructing hypotheses, research questions, and thesis statements
LM.NK.9-12.3 Reflect at the end of an inquiry process

Demonstrate Diversity (DD)/Include

LM.DD.9-12.1 Evaluate resources for relevance, currency, authority, and bias including those by and about tribes in Montana

Work Effectively (WE)/Collaborate

LM.WE.9-12.3 Work with others to solve problems and make decisions on issues, topics, and themes being investigated

Make Meaning (MM)/Curate

LM.MM.9-12.4 Create original products using a variety of technology tools to express personal learning
LM.MM.9-12.5 Independently pursue answers to self-generated questions

Exercise Freedom (EF)/Explore

LM.EF.9-12.1 Select a variety of types of materials based on personal interests and prior knowledge
LM.EF.9-12.3 Routinely read, view, and listen for personal enjoyment, to learn, to solve problems, and to explore different ideas
LM.EF.9-12.5 Identify the rights of self and others to access information freely and pursue the right to read, view, and listen

Safe, Legal, Ethical (SLE)/Engage

LM.SLE.9-12.3 Participate safely, ethically, and legally in online activities

LM.SLE.9-12.5 Credit sources by following copyright, licensing, and fair use guidelines for text, visuals, and audio in generating products and presentations

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