LIBRARY INFORMATION

Library Visits

Our library is open Monday-Friday 8:00am- 3:30pm.

Students and staff are welcome to check out materials at any time within the library hours of operation.

Students are also permitted to check out materials during their weekly scheduled library class.

Library Check-Out Policy

Our school library offers materials available for students to read, enjoy, and check out. These materials include books in our fiction, nonfiction, and everybody book sections. Materials located in the reference, professional, and audiovisual sections are for in-school use only and therefore cannot be checked out by students.

Students in PreK and Kindergarten are permitted to check out one book at a time. First and second graders can choose two books to check out, and students in grades three through fifth are permitted to check out three books at a time.

Teachers are permitted to check-out an unlimited number of items, as needed.

Materials are checked out to students for a period of two weeks. The titles may be renewed once before they must be returned.

Library Collection

Our library collection is a mixture of books and materials that support the reading interests of the students/teachers and those titles that best support the curriculum taught in our building in all subject areas grades K-5.

Donations

We would love your donations. Please understand, in an effort to maintain the best collection possible for the users of our library, that we have explicit guidelines when considering donated materials for our collection.

Responsible Reading

In a library that serves faculty and students ranging in ages from four to adults, a wide variety of materials are needed. Obviously, what is interesting and appropriate for four-year-olds may not be interesting and/or appropriate for eleven-year-olds. When students first visit the library each year, Mrs. May issues her standard advice: “If you choose a book that makes you uncomfortable or that would make your parents uncomfortable, return it.” The beauty of libraries is that they are all about choice. Find a book you can completely “enjoy.” Parents can help students enjoy the library. Ask students what they are reading and talk to them about their choices.

Library Bill Of Rights

As users of our school library, your intellectual freedom and right to free access of materials are protected by a series of rights known as the Library Bill Of Rights.

The American Library Association (ALA) affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the following basic policies should guide their services.

I. Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation.

II. Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.

III. Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.

IV. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.

V. A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.

VI. Libraries which make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public they serve should make such facilities available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting their use.