Brownsville Independent School District

Library & Media Services Department

Destiny: Your Portal to Digital Content

The following digital resources can be accesed from the Library and Media Services Department webpage. (www.bisd.us/lms) Click on the

"Digital Library" button to go to the Destiny Homepage

For more information, contact the Library and Media Services Department at (956) 698-0170.BISD does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability or genetic information in employment or provision of services, programs or activities.

Destiny Login and Password:• Faculty must use their Employee ID with the addition of a (9) at the beginning and

enough (00s) to total nine digits (Example: ID 123456 will use: 900123456) andtheir BISD email as a Password (Example: drseuss@bisd.us will use: drseuss).

• Once logged in to Destiny, no other logins are required from campus or home forfaculty or students!

Direct Digital Resources Login Requirements: • Digital resources can be accessed directly, but require additional login and or password.

Gale – Brain Pop -Ebsco –

Discovery –Britannica –Adams Mathew –

Digital Resources • Video Stream• Articles, pictures, and many other

digital resources, all free fromcopyright restrictions

Newspapers

Magazines

TeacherLesson Plans

eBooks • Available for checkout by Teachers and

students

Student Research Notebooks

TeachingBooks.net –

Support Literacy and Instructionfor teachers.

Instructions to Check Out Ebooks

TREC FollettShelf

1. Student must login to Destiny as usual (if using Destiny Quest, must login and Exit to use Destiny Home

Page)

2. Select the: TREC FollettShelf eBooks

for patrons - Login Required, See

Librarian

3. In the FolletShelf page, please login

using Student ID number as

Username and Password

4. Proceed to select the eBooks, once open, will give the option to check out the EBook for 5 Days.

MackinVia

1. Student must login to Destiny as usual (if using Destiny Quest, must login and Exit to use Destiny Home Page)

2. Select the: MackinVia

3. Select school: Brownsville I.S.D. Elementary

VIA and select Login

4. In the MackinVia site, please login using

Student ID number with Username and

Password.

5. Ebooks have access to check them out

available on each record or entry.

6. MackinVia Ebooks check in automatically in 7 days. Ebooks can be renewed up to 21 days.

*Students can also access these EBooks thru the Universal Search in the Destiny catalog.