• Online Library Catalog: Want to know if we have a book?

    Click the book below to search our library collection by Keyword, Title, Author, Subject, or Series!

    HMS OPAC

  • Suggest a Book for the Library 

    Is there a book you think the library should purchase?  Complete the form below, and we’ll consider buying it!

    Suggest a Book

  • MackinVIA e-Books & Audio Books

    Click on the MackinVIA logo below for your connection to the library's fabulous collection of e-Books and new Audio Books! Please log in with your Active Directory username and password. If you wish to read books on your phone, please download the "MackinVIA" app.

    MackinVIA

Ebooks for Professional Learning

  • Knox County Schools offers a collection of relevant and recent professional development ebooks for staff.

    Please login to the professional ebook collection here.  Your login credentials are your Active Directory username and password.

     

    MackinVIA Professional Ebook Button  

     

    If you are taken to your school shelf, you can access the professional shelf by changing your site:

    Change Your Site

    Title Suggestions for the Professional eBook Library

    While the KCS LMS department cannot guarantee the availability of titles or funds to purchase them at any given time, we will happily take any suggestions you may have for the purchase of either additional copies of resources we already own or new titles to consider as we continue to curate the collection! Please use the link to access the suggestion form.

    Prof eBook Suggestion

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Email:

Degrees and Certifications:

Ms. Emily Haendel

School Librarian

emily.haendel@knoxschools.org

(865) 922-7494 

  • Hours:

    8:00a.m. - 3:45 p.m. Monday - Friday 

    General Rules:

    • You must have a note from your teacher to visit during the school day.
    • Proper behavior is a must at all times. Remember to follow the HMS Devil Decree!
    • Bring your Chromebook, and a pencil to the library every time you visit.
    • Absolutely no food, drinks, gum, or candy in the library.
     
    Circulation Guidelines:
    • Please know your S number.
    • Up to two books may be checked out for two weeks with the possibility to renew two times. 
    • If a book is lost, the replacement cost must be paid to the library via cash or a check made out to Halls Middle School.
    • If a book is damaged, every effort is made to repair the book.  If the book is so damaged that it cannot be repaired, the replacement cost must be paid to the library via cash or a check made out to Halls Middle School.
     
     
     
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    Welcome to the Halls Middle School Library Media Center website. We are looking forward to seeing you soon! 

    Knox County Library Media Mission Statement:

     
    Knox County School Librarians are the friendly faces of knowledge acquisition.  Our libraries are growing, multiservice, dynamic school centers that welcome, motivate, and inspire everyone in our community of users.  We invest our time and skills in nurturing, promoting, and advocating for a learning environment that maximizes services and equitable access to resources. Our library programs are essential to a school-wide culture of innovation, achievement, and collaboration.  Knox County School Librarians are forward-thinking leaders who model inquiry, information literacy, technologies, and trends in reading and instruction.  Our professional charge is to inform and empower by fostering a safe environment where users can read, explore, question, solve and create, leading to Excellence for Every Child.  
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