• You may check out up to 5 items.

• Books are due 2 weeks after checkout.

• You may renew a book as many times as you need, unless someone else requests the title and there are no other copies available.

• Students may request to check out books over the summer. Requests will be granted on a case-by-case basis.

• Nearly due notices are sent out weekly. Please renew or return books before the due date!

• Overdue email notices are sent weekly. Please be sure to return overdue books, or request a renewal if you are not finished.

  • After one overdue email notice has been sent, the next week you will receive an email notice and a paper notice from your homeroom teacher. I do not do this because I am mad, I just know that sometimes you need a little extra encouragement to remember to bring your books in.

Lost Materials

• Any book not returned by the final due date in June will be marked lost, and you will be fined the cost to replace the book. You are responsible for paying this fine before graduation. If you find the lost book after a fine is sent, you can return the book and the fine will be removed from your account. 

Damaged Materials

• Books will take some wear with use, and that's normal. I will always do my best to repair any damage in books, but if a book you return is damaged in your care to the point where it can no longer be stored or circulated, you will be financially responsible for replacing the book. Please do your best to care for your library books so that other students can enjoy them too! 

  • • Examples of major damage may include:

      • Severe water damage (i.e. the entire book and/or binding is soaked through)

      • Any non-water liquid damage

      • Food stains and/or oily or sticky residue

      • Lost page(s)/cover

      • Graffiti/drawings/writing/highlighting on pages

• If minor damage occurs while you're reading, or if you notice pre-existing damage while reading, please notify the librarian. These damages can be repaired, or may signal that it's time for a copy of well-loved book to be retired and replaced with a fresh copy. You will not be fined in these cases. When in doubt, just ask!

  • • Examples of minor damage may include:

      • Small tears in pages

      • Very small water spills

      • Pages have fallen out (but were not lost)

      • Separation of pages and cover

• Privacy is one of the central tenants of librarianship, as seen in the Library Bill of Rights (below).

• The library will only collect the minimum amount of information necessary to circulate materials to students.

• Students' borrowing histories are not stored in our circulation software.

• Overdue notices will be shared discreetly, so that only the student (not their peers or homeroom teacher) will see its contents.

• The librarian will not discuss student checkouts—current or past—with any other staff members or students without their consent.

The American Library Association 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.

VII. All people, regardless of origin, age, background, or views, possess a right to privacy and confidentiality in their library use. Libraries should advocate for, educate about, and protect people’s privacy, safeguarding all library use data, including personally identifiable information.

Adopted June 19, 1939, by the ALA Council; amended October 14, 1944; June 18, 1948; February 2, 1961; June 27, 1967; January 23, 1980; January 29, 2019.

Inclusion of “age” reaffirmed January 23, 1996.

Although the Articles of the Library Bill of Rights are unambiguous statements of basic principles that should govern the service of all libraries, questions do arise concerning application of these principles to specific library practices. See the documents designated by the Intellectual Freedom Committee as Interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights.