Vision

Texas school libraries are essential, interactive, collaborative learning centers, providing physical and virtual access to ideas, information and learning tools for the entire school community.

Mission Statement

Certified librarians and trained staff nurture a culture of literacy and inquiry throughout the school community.  An integral part of instructional teams, librarians and library staff collaborate with teachers on curriculum, technology, design and delivery.  They maintain a professionally curated collection of print and digital materials and assist learners in locating resources that match their academic and personal interests.  Librarians and staff model and teach information literacy and digital citizenship, empowering learners to make ethical, informed choices in an increasingly complex and evolving global environment.

Intellectual freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored.

Kemp ISD Libraries provide grade-appropriate materials to ALL without restriction based upon one particular set of beliefs.

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In accordance to Kemp ISD Board policy, Kemp ISD Libraries will use the Standards adopted by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, in consultation with the State Board of Education.

Click HERE to view Texas School Library Standards & Guidelines

Kemp ISD Libraries are glad to partner with parents and guardians in supporting each student’s reading journey and building a lifelong love of learning.

Kemp ISD follows the policy that parents and guardians are the primary decision-makers when it comes to their student’s access to library materials.

We value feedback from Kemp ISD students, parents and guardians, educators, and community members about library materials and services. If you have questions, concerns, or suggestions for books to add to the collection, please connect with your campus librarian for a conversation.

Parents and guardians can view all books and other materials checked out by their children and indicate books they do not want their child to check out.

Parent User Account Instructions for Parent Account

Partnering with Parents and Guardians

Parents and guardians are also encouraged to communicate with the campus librarian and their child’s teacher about special considerations regarding library materials that have been self-selected by their student. In accordance with state law and administrative procedures, parents or guardians may select alternative library materials for their student.

Parents can access the online library catalog here. Library digital resources can be accessed by logging into the student’s account through the KISD ClassLink portal.

Library Book Notification

To comply with the law passed by the Texas legislature in June 2025, all parents will receive an email notification when their student borrows a book from the school library. This email notification provides a record of all student checkouts to parents. If you do not wish to continue receiving those emails you can click ‘unsubscribe’ at the bottom of the email.

In compliance with state law, Kemp ISD provides a public list of all library materials that have been donated to or are proposed for purchase by a school library. These lists are available for a public comment period of at least 30 days before final board approval. Each list applies to that grade level and below. All titles are selected in accordance with the TSLAC Mandatory Collection Standards and the Kemp ISD EFB Local school board policy.

Kemp ISD Book Lists - Fall 2025

We welcome community input during the comment period. 

To share your feedback, please click on the KISD Public Feedback form.

Texas Talking Books

The Talking Book Program (TBP) provides free library services to qualifying Texans with visual, physical, or reading disabilities. TBP is part of the National Library Service to the Blind and Print Disabled, a program administered by the Library of Congress. The TBP collection consists of more than 100,000 titles, including hundreds of titles in Spanish, and some in French, German, Russian, and other languages.

Eligibility
To qualify for TBP service, your students must meet one or more of the following four criteria:

Blindness - Visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with corrective lenses or the widest diameter of visual field subtending an angular distance no greater than 20 degrees.
Visual Disability - Inability to read standard printed material without special aids or devices other than regular glasses.
Physical Disability - Inability to read or use standard printed material as a result of physical limitations, such as paralysis, extreme weakness, missing arms or hands.
Reading Disability - Organic dysfunction of sufficient severity as to prevent reading standard printed material in a normal manner.

Applications will need to be signed by a certifying authority. Certifying authority is defined to include doctors of medicine and osteopathy, ophthalmologists, optometrists, registered nurses, therapists, professional staff of hospitals, institutions, and public or welfare agencies (e.g., reading specialists, dyslexia specialists, speech-language pathologists, social workers, case workers, counselors, rehabilitation counselors, teachers and superintendents). In the absence of any of these, certification may be made by professional librarians or any person whose competence under specific circumstances is acceptable to the Library of Congress. Certifying authorities are not permitted to certify relatives.

You will have to submit individual applications for your students who are not registered with TBP.

For more information or for questions call: 1-800-252-9605 or 512-463-5458 in Austin.

Click HERE to get more information on the Talking Book Program