Since the community at Bonn International School represents some 60 countries and the school curriculum follows that of the International Baccalaureate, the BIS Media Centre seeks to be an academic hub at the school and provide for a diversity of learning needs and styles by maintaining a dynamic, internationally-minded, relevant collection. The collection provides materials to implement, support and enhance classroom instruction. It also offers a broad range of current, interesting, challenging and age-appropriate materials that present diverse points of view in order to help students develop into critical, inquiring thinkers. 

Supporting the IB curriculum, the Media Centre strives to develop as a state-of-the-art facility with authoritative, high-quality electronic resources and superior print and audiovisual collections. The Media Centre is critical to learning at all ages at BIS.

• The Media Centre contains ca. 24,000 volumes.

• It has a large number of periodicals, including academic journals, newspapers, news magazines, magazines for young children and teenagers as well as general interest magazines.

• It subscribes to several scholarly databases for Secondary and Primary students, giving access to academic articles.

• The Media Centre is managed by a full-time, highly qualified librarian, with two library assistants and an operations coordinator.

• The library has 6 computers for Primary students and 8 computers for Secondary students (who are also encouraged to bring their own laptops) as well as an AVI Room with 7 computers open for use by both Primary and Secondary students.

• The Media Centre is open during the week from 8:00 - 17:00.

Primary students come to the Media Centre once a week for fixed library sessions. They are also encouraged to come on their own to browse through the collection and borrow books. Secondary students come to the Media Centre either as a class for book talks or for research purposes. As with Primary students, Secondary students are encouraged to read for pleasure as well and borrow from the Media Centre for this reason. There is also a section of the Media Centre where parents may come to borrow books for their reading interest as well as rights to borrow from the regular book collection.&nb