The document provides information about the McCullough Junior High School Library Media Center. It outlines the library staff, hours of operation, policies for student access during classes, lunch, and after school. It describes the resources available in the downstairs and upstairs libraries, including books, magazines, computers, and printers. The document outlines circulation rules, overdue fines, and consequences for inappropriate behavior. The goal is to inform students how to properly use and benefit from the library resources.

1. Orientation to the McCullough Junior
High School Library Media Center
Pat Perez
Librarian

2. Library Staff :
Corinne Bedaw
Diane Roush
Terry
Belcher

3. Library Hours:
 8:00 – 4:00
Monday-Friday

4. When can I come?
• Before school: must sign in, no pass required, must stay
until the bell rings
• Lunch: must have a lunch pass from the AP on lunch duty,
must sign in
• Advisory: pass required, sign in, must stay for entire
advisory - Bring your things!!
• Between classes: for a quick exchange, return, or to pay a
fine. We will not write a tardy pass. Please do not use the
library as a pass through between classes.
• After school: We close at 4:00. Paws is held in the
downstairs DiscoveryZone.

5. Downstairs
Library
Dictionaries
Encyclopedia
Reference Books
DiscoveryZone
Research Center
Internet Lounge
Study Nook
Professional

6. Downstairs Computer Lab

7. Research Room

8. Work Tables
Textbooks will be available for use in the downstairs library.
These may not be removed from the library.

9. MAGAZINES
Avid Magazine readers!
Magazines may be used in the library or students may
check out 2 magazines for 1 week (this counts as a
“book” check out and fines apply).
Current issues from the display may not be checked out.

10. Copy machine
10¢ a copy

11. Upstairs Library
Circulation
Computer
lab

12. Library Gates

13. Upstairs Computer Lab

14. Book Circulation
Know your
student ID to
help speed up
your check
out!!!

15. Circulation Rules!
The magic
number!
2 books: number of books
you may check out
2 weeks: how long you may
keep your book
2 renews: how many times
you may renew your book

16. Overdue books
Fines are .05 a school day
You may not check out a book if you
owe a fine or have an overdue book
You must pay for a lost or damaged
book – there is a $2.00 processing
fee added to the cost of the book as
well.

17. CARD CATALOG

18. Non-fiction

19. Fiction

20. Biography

21. Everybody

22. Paperbacks

23. Story Collection

24. DISPLAY SHELVES

25. Pass System
 During class: Students may use
a pass during class from a subject teacher to visit the library. Leave
your pass in the basket. One of us must sign the pass when you
leave.
 During advisory: Students must have a pass from a subject teacher
who has given them homework that requires using computer lab &
library resources. Leave your pass in the pass basket and sign in.
You must arrive in the library before 2:00 for advisory or you are
counted tardy and sent back to your advisory class.
 When you come to the library in the morning or during advisory, you
must stay with us the entire time, until the bell rings.

26. Library Computer Labs
 Downstairs lab: 30 computers. These are the computers
for advisory and before school use.
 Upstairs library lab: 30 computers.
 Classes come before individuals, so you may have to
give up your computer to a class.
 Changing settings on a computer will earn
consequences.
 Inappropriate websites, gaming, personal email,
chatting, or myspace will earn dire consequences.

27. Library Computer Labs
• Learn to utilize First Class and your Student
Server domain account in the labs.
• Come prepared! Know your user name and
password.
 Individuals may work on computer projects in the
downstairs lab from 8:00 – 8:50 and during
advisory.
• Students may use the upstairs lab during lunch.
• Passes are not necessary before school.
• Lunch and Advisory do require a pass.

28. Library Printing Services
 Copy machine: 10 ¢ a copy.
Copy machine takes nickels, dimes, quarters. The
upstairs copy machine also takes dollar bills.
 Color laser printer: 50¢
 Black laser printer: up to 5 pages free.
 Transparencies (downstairs, please):
black and white: 25 ¢
color: $1.00

29. Fire Drills
If you are in the
library without your
teacher during a fire
drill, we are your
teachers and you are
to stay with us. We
are responsible for
you during
emergencies and fire
drills.

30. McCullough Lab & Library Rules
 Be courteous. Enter the library quietly.
 Be respectful of other students in the library, as
they are to you.
 The library is a place to learn, research, and
read.
 Consume food & beverages in the cafeteria.
 Gum is not allowed in school at all.
 Do not use the library as a shortcut.
 Some library doors remain locked during the
day.Do not use emergency doors as an exit!

31. The Consequence Talk

32. Overdue library books and fines
1.Your Language Arts teacher will be notified
when your library book is overdue and when
you have not paid your fines.
2.Your parents will begin to receive emails and
phone calls when your library books become 2
weeks overdue, and when you owe library
fines.
3.Very overdue books and very large library fines
MAY earn a referral from Mrs. Perez.
Be responsible and do not earn a fine to begin with!

33. Behavior in the Library
•Failure to follow the
rules may result in
losing your
library/computer lab
privileges.

34. "What a school thinks about its
library is a measure of what it
thinks about education.”
Harold Howe, former U. S. Commissioner of Education

35. “A great library contains the
diary of the human race.”
George Mercer DAWSON (1849-1901)

36. “There are 70 million books in
American libraries, but the one
I want to read is always out.”
Tom MASSON (1866-1934)