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Media Center PoliciesChecking Out Materials:Students are provided with a library barcode placed in the front of their agendas which is necessary for checking out materials. If the barcode is lost, there is a nominal charge of $0.50 to replace it. Students may check out two items at any one time. Regular library books may be checked out for a two-week period. Reference books and magazines may only be kept overnight. Students are responsible for the safe return of all books and magazines. If damaged or lost, it is the responsibility of the student who checked it out to pay for it. No other books may be checked out until a lost item is paid for. Certain extracurricular privileges will be lost if books are not returned within a reasonable time.Overdue Fines:We charge overdue fines just like the Hall County Public Libraries. Our overdue fees are $0.05 per day that the book/item is past due up to the replacement cost of the book/item. We encourage students to return their items on time by stamping every item with the due date.Placing Holds:Students can now place books on hold! Two books may be on hold at a time and holds expire after 60 days. To place a book on hold, the student will need to sign in to Destiny, our catalog system, using a zero and their lunch number. Click on the title of the book you wish to hold and a "hold it" button appears on the right hand side. Click "hold it" and the book is now on hold. Your homeroom teacher will let you know when you have a hold ready for pick up.Internet Usage:Students will not be allowed to use the Internet in the media center without direct classroom teacher supervision. Students must be accompanied by a teacher to use the computers in the media center.A statement from Kate Messner regarding middle grades books: Our school librarian does a phenomenal job making sure that there are books of interest to every student in our building. That’s a lot of students. A lot of different students. This middle school serves sixth graders as young as ten years old and eighth graders as old as fifteen. Five years is a big gap, and those are no ordinary five years. The difference between ten and fifteen is the difference between Legos and iPods, the difference between trick-or-treating and Homecoming Dances. The difference between child and young adult. Our kids are not only different ages; they arrive at school with different reading levels, different backgrounds, and different experiences that have shaped their lives in both positive and negative ways. They have different needs when it comes to reading. The book that is perfect for your wide-eyed sixth grade girl isn’t likely to be a good fit for a fifteen-year-old boy repeating eighth grade. The book that eighth grader will read and love is probably not one that would be right for your sixth grader right now. But as teachers and librarians, we have a responsibility to serve all of the kids who come to us. We have a responsibility to offer literature choices that speak to all of them and meet all of their diverse needs. Kids, in general, do a fantastic job self-selecting books, and when they find they’ve picked up something they’re not ready for, they’re usually quick to put it down and ask for help choosing something else. As teachers and librarians, we’ll offer recommendations and steer kids toward books that are age-appropriate, and we encourage you to talk about books with your kids. We have multiple copies of many titles in our library. Let us know if you’d like to check out two copies of a book so you can read together. And if you find that your student has chosen a book that you think might not be the right book for him or her right now, talk about that, too. We respect your right to help your own child choose reading material, and we ask that you respect the rights of other parents to do the same. If you object to your child reading a particular book, send it back to the library, and we’ll help your student find another selection. We’ll put the first book back on the shelf because even though you don’t feel it’s the right book for your child right now, it may be the perfect book for someone else’s. Our library will continue to have a wide range of choices for kids – to meet all of their varied needs and help them all develop a love of reading. If we can ever be of help to you in recommending titles for your family, please don’t hesitate to ask. South Hall Middle School's Media Specialist agrees with the above statement and does her best to choose appropriate books for your children. Feel frre to contact Mrs. Losch with any book concerns. Kate Messner's entire Blog post can be found at: http://www.katemessner.com/heading-off-book-challenges/
Mrs. Losch's Library Lounge South Hall Middle School 4335 Falcon Parkway Flowery Branch, GA 30542
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