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Riverglen Library Rules and Check Out Policies

Riverglen Junior High Library

7:30 am – 3:00 pm

  YOUR LIBRARY STAFF:                  Mrs. Stark, Librarian and Drama Coach (Word Play)  
                           Mrs. Falconer, Library Assistant 


1.  RESPECT:    This is a beautiful facility with over 11,000 books and magazines, many                          games, plus 26 student computers.  We are here to help you be successful 
                         learners and also to have fun here at Riverglen. 

                           *Take care of this library and it will take care of you!

2.  PASSES:  You must have a pass to visit the library during class time or your lunch period.
                      (See Mrs. Stark or Mrs. Falconer about temporary or permanent lunch passes).

3.  LUNCHTIME:       Whenever we don't have a meeting or class scheduled during lunch time                                         you may visit the library (with a pass) to read, play board or card games, do                                 homework, or just to socialize with friends.  Please sit at a table and keep the                                 noise level down so people doing homework and reading are not distracted.

4.  CHECKOUT POLICY:

                       Number of Books Allowed:  4 books for 4 weeks. ("4x4 Policy")

                      Renewals:  Must be done with the book in hand (so that we know that it is                                                    not lost).

                      Fines:  We do not charge daily late fines, but a book that 6 days is considered                                           LOST.    Your parents will be mailed a bill for the price of the book.

                    *Late or lost books result in your loaning privileges being taken away until  the                                     book is paid for or returned. 

                     *If the book is returned in proper condition after the bill is sent, we will erase                                     the fine.

5.  CLEAN UPDo pick up after yourself but DON’T RESHELVE BOOKS!

                           *We put away books in exact places (not only by genre or dewey number and                                   author – by the title of the book as well.)

                            *We have specially trained student aides for this.  They are graded for accuracy

                             *Your reshelving doesn’t “help” us.  A misshelved book = a lost book!

6.  COMPUTERS:  The computers are only to be used for school work and looking up books on                                  the card catalog. 

                          *If you need to use the internet for an assignment please ask the librarian. 

                                 *You must abide by the District's Acceptable Use Policy (no email, chat                                            room, games, or non-school related and/or inappropriate sites). 

                                 *Violations will result in loss of computer privileges in the library (and the                                       rest of the school as well).

7.  PRINTERS:   You may print school work for free in the library

                                       (no web pages, just student creations--  essays, brochures, ect.)

                            *Personal copies must be paid for:  10 cents per black and white page, and 20                                  cents per color page. 

                                                   
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Library Bill of Rights

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. 

http://www.ala.org/work/freedom/lbr.html#rights 
Appendix A: American Library Association Statements 
 

Adopted June 18, 1948. 
Amended February 2, 1961; June 27, 1967; and January 23, 1980, 
by the ALA Council


Riverglen Junior High Library Mission Statement

The Mission of the Riverglen Junior High School Library Media Program is to encourage the students and staff to be effective users of ideas and information, and to foster a love of reading.

This mission is accomplished: 

by providing intellectual and physical access to materials in all formats 

by providing instruction to foster competence and stimulate interest in reading, viewing and  using information and ideas and 

by working with other educators to design learning strategies to meet the needs of  individual students. 

Adapted from AASL and AECT 1988/98 as published in Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning. 

"Today this mission focuses on offering programs and services that are centered on information literacy and that are designed around active, authentic student learning as described in information literacy standards for student learning." 

These goals, in summary, are: 

1. To provide intellectual access to information through learning activities integrated into the curriculum and develop student abilities to access, think through and communicate information in all formats and content areas. 

2. To provide physical access to information through 
a. maintaining a local collection and 
b. maintaining access to sources outside the media center.

3. To provide learning experiences that encourage students to be "discriminating consumers" and "skilled creators" of information. 

4. To help teachers and others plan effectively for media and information instruction activities. 

5. To encourage lifelong learning and reading for pleasure. 

6. To provide a program that functions as the information center of the school with integrated and interdisciplinary learning activities in school and access to additional information beyond the program.

7. To provide a broad range of resources and diverse perspectives in support of intellectual freedom and responsible citizenship, both prerequisites to maintaining democracy. 

Home of the Grizzlies!

Adrienne Stark, Librarian
Pam Stanfield, Library Assist.

Riverglen Junior High
6801 N. Gary Lane
Boise, ID 83714

Library Phones ~
    854-5927 (Mrs. Stark)
    854-5928 (Mrs. Stanfield)

Attendance Office ~ (208) 854-5910
Fax ~ (208) 854-5911

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