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EDUCATIONAL MEDIA CENTER
Bonneville Joint School District No. 93 will provide media centers that students and staff
can use to access ideas and information.
Guidelines
1. A media center will be established within schools. (Note: For online schools or
schools with less than two hundred fifty (250) students, access to another school’s
media center or district sponsored virtual library and resources from the Idaho
Commission for Libraries will be available.)
a. Secondary school media centers are to meet or exceed accreditation standards
as required by the Idaho State Department of Education.
2. Media centers will provide:
a. A facility that functions as an information center of the school;
b. Instructional and consulting assistance to students and teachers in accessing
and using information.
3. The Media Center Specialist/Elementary Media Center Paraprofessional, under the
supervision of the school principal, is responsible to administer the policies of the
media center, consistent with the policies of the Board of Trustees .
a. Media center personnel are expected to learn the strengths and weaknesses of
the existing collection, the requirements of the curriculum, the applicable Idaho
State standards, and the needs and abilities of the students.
b. The selection of library materials is a professional task conducted by the library
staff. The librarian will evaluate the existing collection, assess curricula
requirements, examine materials, and consult other professionals when selecting
library materials.
c. When choosing library materials or filling requests, library staff will need to follow
the selection guidelines found in policy #2540 Selection and Adoption of
Curricular Materials.
d. When selecting materials, media center professionals will take into consideration
staff and student requests.
4. The Director of Instruction and Learning, or designee, is responsible for the review
and selection of all media center books, resources, and equipment.
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5. Donations may be accepted as long as the guidelines found in policy #4500 Public
Gift-Donations to the Schools are followed.
6. The Media Center Specialist/Elementary Media Center Paraprofessional and the
school principal have the responsibility to receive and process reconsideration
requests for any materials within the media center. Such requests must be on form
#2500F Statement of Concern about Curriculum-Media Resources, and are to be
handled pursuant to policy #2540 Selection and Adoption of Curricular Materials.
7. When materials no longer meet the criteria for selection, they shall be
weeded. Weeding is a necessary aspect of selection, since every library will contain
works which may have answered a need at the time of acquisition, but which, with
the passage of time, have become obsolete, outdated, unappealing, or worn out.
Media center personnel need to refer to policy #9215 Acquisition, Disposal and
Exchange of School Property when weeding books.
8. If a student does not follow media center rules, he/she may be den ied access to the
media center for a period of time.
Overdue Materials
In order to maintain and protect the media center collections, the following guidelines
are established:
1. A fine will be charged on each overdue media center item.
2. If an item is reported lost, the replacement cost of such item will be charged to the
student. If the item is found, the replacement cost will be refunded.
Adopted: 02-04-1998 Reviewed: Revised: 05-09-2012
06-13-2018
04-13-2022
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Cross Reference: Selection and Adoption of Curricular Materials #2540
Statement of Concern about Curriculum/Media Resources #2500F
Acquisition and Disposal and Exchange of School Property #9215
Public Gifts-Donations to the Schools #4500
Legal Reference: Idaho Code § 33-512(8) Governance of schools