The CDI of the Pierre-André Chabanne Trades High School

Designed for students, professors, as well as for all members of the educational community, Cbetween Ddocumentation andInformation provides everyone with access to culture and lecture, makes it possible to be informed and to carry out recherches documentaries, to cultivate a taste for reading, to discover exhibitions…

What is a CDI used for?

  • The CDI is a place of training in documentary research where autonomy in the face of work is a priority. The documentary fund is fully computerized, each document is referenced in the BCDI software (books, journal articles, DVDs, etc.). To this available and real fund, is added a referencing of web resources analyzed by information professionals.
    Thanks to the esidoc portal, users can do a documentary search using keywords and quickly locate a document in the CDI.
  •  The CDI is a space for reading and cultural openness.

Students come to read for pleasure, to learn and to open up to the world. Animations are organized such as meetings of writers, the week of the Press, reading competitions, exhibitions... The works of pupils are also highlighted there.

CDI

What you can find at the CDI

  • A work room: Documentaries, usual, magazines and newspapers
  • A reading corner: Comics, mangas and novels
  • Computer equipment:
    • 11 multimedia stations
    • E-sidoc, the CDI's documentary portal
    • Internet reserved for documentary research
    • Microsoft Office and Open Office, Photoshop
  • Information on school, cultural and associative life.
  • A color printer
  • A binder for your files
  • The ONISEP kiosk

The CDI subscribes to many journals

Daily newspapers and magazines

  • Free Charente
  • Confolentais
  • campus-magazine

Leisure magazines

  • kezako mundi
  • chat
  • marmiton
  • I love english
  • I love english world
  • Phosphorus
  • Spindrift
  • fine arts magazine
  • marmiton

Professional journals

  • Work and safety
  • Educational notebooks
  • Photo documentation
  • Capital
  • trade mag
  • 60 million consumers
  • LSA
  • Points of sale
  • For the eco
  • Esthetica
  • New aesthetics
  • beauty forum
  • Paris hairstyle
  • Biblond

The role of the teacher-librarian

The activities of the teacher-documentalist are divided between training students in documentary research, management of the resource center (catalogue, documentary portal, loan of documents, provision of computers), setting up and/or or participation in educational projects, advising and helping students, working in collaboration with teachers, providing everyone with a friendly and efficient place...

Students come to the CDI on their own or with their class to work on a particular subject, research information, work in groups or individually, revise, document their orientation, read for pleasure, format an internship report or a presentation, borrow or return a document…

Rules of procedure of the Documentation and Information Center

Rights :

Why come to CDI?

You can come to the CDI to read, do your homework using the documents present at the CDI, do educational research in the CDI collection or on the Internet.
To do this, simply register on the notebook at the entrance.
The librarian is there to help you with your research or to advise you in choosing a book.

The loan

Loan of books is free. 

Novels can be borrowed for a renewable period of 3 weeks from the librarian.

  • Documentaries can be borrowed provided that a class is not working on them.
  • Magazines are lent for 3 weeks

The total of loaned documents is 3.

Your opinion is important to us

You have the possibility of giving ideas for the purchase of books using the suggestion book made available to you in the reading corner.

Homework :

The rules of procedure apply to the CDI:

  • Mobile phones, MP3 players must be in silent mode.
  • Drop off your bags at the entrance.
  • For the respect of all, the work is done in silence. You have at your disposal a fireplace to relax.
  • It is not allowed to drink or eat at the CDI.
  • Before leaving the CDI, return the documents used to the place where you took them.