Library Media Center

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Library Media Center

Ms. S. Arnold - Library Media Specialist
Ms. E. Smith - Library Media Assistant

Hours   |    Circulation   |   Fines and Charges   | Resources  

The work of the library media center and its staff are vital to the educational process in ensuring that all students achieve academic and personal success.  A thriving library media program ensures that the lives of its patrons will be improved, enriched and challenged as it supports efforts to prepare students to become lifelong learners.

 

 Vision:   The library media center is a sanctuary for books and a place where students can learn how to use a library to become effective users of information in a rapidly changing technological world.

 Mission: The mission of the Central High School Library Media Center is to create an enthusiastic atmosphere that provides teachers and students with curriculum supportive instruction and resources.  This will ensure that all the members of the school community will be effective retrievers of information through the use of traditional resources and evolving technologies.

Hours: The Library Media Center is open on school days at 7:25 A.M.  It closes at 2:35 P.M. on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.  On Tuesday, when activity buses are available, the Library Media Center will remain open until 4:00 P.M.

Circulation:  All students and staff are encouraged to use the media center and borrow materials.  Students may check out fiction and non-fiction books for 2 weeks.  Reference books and magazines do not circulate.  All circulated materials are checked out via our on-line computer system.                                                                 

Student Access to the Library Media Center:

All students must have a pass to the Library Media Center during the school day.

Students may secure lunch passes to the LMC between 7:25 A.M. and 7:45 A.M. each morning.  Monthly passes are also available to students.  A sign up sheet is available at the circulation desk the last five days of each month for those students who wish to obtain a monthly pass.   The monthly passes are distributed to nineteen students per lunch period on a first come, first served basis. 

When using the LMC during class time, students should present the LMC staff with a pass from their current period's teacher.  The teacher should note on the pass what the student is supposed to be doing in the LMC so the LMC staff can best monitor the students' activities and resources.

Several teachers and classes use the LMC resources daily.  Therefore, teachers sending small groups of students to the LMC, should plan their students' visit with the Library Media Specialist to ensure the resources their students need are available.

Students are expected to behave appropriately, following all Central High School and PGCPS rules when visiting the LMC.   Food and drink are not permitted.  Talking must be kept to a minimum.  Learning activities should be taking place.  Students will be issued only one warning about their behavior in the LMC before they are asked to leave.  The LMC staff reserves the right to refuse Library access to students who are disruptive.

 Student Access to the Library Media Center Computers:

Students who have agreed to the conditions and terms of Central High School's Internet Use Policy will be issued an Internet Surfer's License that will be placed on the back of their student ID badge.  Use of the computers in the LMC is limited to students who come with a pass, who are wearing an ID with a Surfer's License, and who have a visible assignment. 

Fines and Charges: The following fines are levied when materials are returned late:

  • Fiction and Non-fiction:  Ten cents ($.10) per school day overdue

  • Lost Books:  Students will be charged the replacement price of each lost book. 

 

Resources Available through the Library Media Center

 

  • Approximately 11,000 books

  • Print indexes to magazine articles

  • Approximately  1,000 educational videos (list is available in OPAC and in print)

  • Catalogs for PGCPS Film Library

  • Twenty-four word-processing stations

  • Twenty-four on OPAC stations that are Internet Accessible

  • Space to accommodate one class and one small group doing research

  • Write-on and thermal transparencies

  • Laminating Services

  • Scan-Tron forms

  • TV/VCR units (checked out from the equipment log next to the LMS office

  • LCD Projectors with computer carts (3)

  • Equipment available to check-out all year or periodically for shorter periods including:

  • Overhead projectors (limited number)

  • Visualizers (3)

  • CD player available for limited check-out

  • Video Camera

  • Digital Camera (through the computer lab)

  • Slide projector available for limited check-out

  • 16 mm film projectors

  • filmstrip projectors

  • Cassette tape player

  • Record players

  • Instructional Development (ID) conferences