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Riverglen Library Rules and Check Out Policies

Remember:  Everyone has a right to learn.  Please respect yourselves, others, and library property!

1.  You must have a pass to visit the library during class or lunch.  You do not need a pass before school, after school, or during break.  The library is open from 7:30 to 3:00 pm ( later with librarian's permission).

2.  You must have your ID card with you to check out books or use the computers.

3.  During class visits please sit at your assigned table.

4.  Remember why you're here and use your time wisely.

5.  We are here to help you, but try to be an independent learner.  Use OPAC (Riverglen's online public access catalogue) to find library materials.

6.  You are allowed four (4) books at any one time.  Please return them promptly and in good condition.  You may check out books for four (4) weeks.  Books may be renewed if they are not on hold for another patron.  Renewals must be done with the book in hand (so that we know that it is not lost).  If a book is late or lost, your loaning privileges will be suspended until the book is paid for or returned.  We do not charge late fines, but a book that is overdue by more than 5 days is considered lost.  A bill will be sent to your house asking for payment for the lost book.

7.  Internet privileges should not be abused.  Please abide by the District's Acceptable Use Policy (no email, chat room, games during class time, or inappropriate sites).  Violations will result in loss of computer privileges in the library (and the rest of the school as well).

8.  You may print school work for free in the library.  But for personal use, remember to bring money if you want to print pages from a computer.  Black and white copies are 10 cents per page.  Color copies are 20 cents per page.

9.  NO food or drink  is allowed in the library (except for special meetings approved by the librarian.  Students attending the Friday Activity Club may also eat their lunch in the library). Candy and gum are never allowed in the library.

10.  Help us keep this beautiful library clean.  Please pick up after yourself!

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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. 





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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

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