YOUR LIBRARIAN

Mrs. Baker is living her best life as the Library Media Specialist for Prairie Grove Junior High School. She loves her job because she gets to match incredible students with phenomenal books! Outside of the library, you can find Mrs. Baker on the trails with her husband, Micah, and their spunky dog, River. She is a lover of books, music, and ribeyes. She despises bullying, olives, and bicycles.

YOUR LIBRARY MISSION

The mission of the Prairie Grove Junior High Library is to support teachers while empowering students to be critical thinkers, effective and ethical users and producers of ideas and information, and lifelong readers and learners, in order for them to become productive citizens in a global society.

Library Media Center

Services + Procedures

The Library Media Center is open from 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM. Students are encouraged to make use of the library for independent research, individual study, group work, reading, or special programs and activities offered by the Library Media Specialist. The following guidelines and procedures have been established to provide a Library Media Center that operates efficiently and provides an atmosphere that is conducive to academic study.

Behavior Expectations

The Library Media Center and its materials are provided as extensions of our classrooms for all students to access to enhance their education. Students should utilize library time productively and appropriately. Improper, inappropriate, or destructive conduct will lead to a loss of these privileges.

Acceptable Behavior Includes:

Checking out and requesting materials
Reading
Studying
Completing school assignments
Quiet group work

Students who come to the library from a class must come with a pass sent from a PGJHS staff member.
Upon entering the Library Media Center during free-flow, students must sign in using their student ID.

Circulation Expectations

Up to three library materials can be checked out for an assigned time period. Fiction and nonfiction are circulated for three weeks.
To locate a book in the library, students should use the online library catalog. If assistance is needed, students should ask a member of the library staff.
Students are allowed to bring books home for their reading pleasure and/or homework. Students should take good care of these books, as they were bought with library funds for the whole school to enjoy.
To renew a book, the student must have the book in hand.
Students should not let other students borrow books checked out under their name. They should treat the books as the librarians have prescribed.
When library books are overdue, students will receive a paper notice.
Excessively overdue books will be marked as lost and treated as such. If a book becomes lost or damaged, the student’s parents must pay for the lost/damaged items. Parents will be sent an invoice if this should occur.

Chromebook Checkout Expectations

Students are expected to bring their chromebooks to school each day fully charged.
The library will provide chromebooks for daily student checkout in the event that a student's chromebook is broken, left at home, or without battery charge.
If a chromebook is broken, students will bring it to the library to fill out a work order form. The technology department will work to return the chromebook to the student in a reasonable time.
Students are expected to return chromebooks borrowed from the library at the end of the school day. Failure to do so may result in lunch detention.
Chronic borrowers of library chromebooks may be subject to lunch detention or ISS.

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