Hinds AHS - Library

Hinds AHS Library

Citing Sources
The Writing Center
OWL (Online Writing Lab)
Noodle Tools

Colleges and Careers
State of Mississippi Financial Aid
FAFSA
Financial Aid and Scholarship Information
ACT Registration
Career Choices/Occupational Outlook Handbook

News and Weather
The Clarion Ledger
USA Today
CNN
MSNBC
The Weather Channel

Resources (Dictionaries and Encyclopedias)
Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus
Bartleby (including Columbia) Encyclopedia
Medline Health Information
Mississippi Authors and Illustrators Index
Create A Graph

Mission
The mission of the Hinds Agricultural High School Media Center is to assist in providing a quality education for every child and to encourage lifelong literacy and learning through reading. The library media center provides an environment in which students and staff learn to access, evaluate and apply information using a variety of print and electronic formats. The library media center supports the school's curriculum and assists members of the learning community in becoming effective users of information.

Goal
The primary goal of the school library media program is to become an integrated part of a school's curriculum so that students are empowered to be effective users of ideas and information in a variety of formats in a constantly changing learning environment. The following objectives should be met to reach this goal:

Objectives

To lead in providing equitable access to and effective use of technologies and innovations by articulating the connection between technology and instructional goals.
To develop, implement, manage, and evaluate the library media program to ensure that students and staff have a well-balanced and systematically-organized collection and/or have well-balanced and systematically-organized resources that promote the proliferation of ideas and the wise use of information.
To facilitate the full interdisciplinary integration of the library media program into
the curriculum through collaboration, planning, implementation, and assessment of learning with all members of the school community.
To engage, direct, and encourage students in the location, gathering, selecting, synthesizing, and evaluation of relevant information in a collaborative effort to prepare students to become life-long learners in an information-rich society.
To encourage reading for pleasure, enlightenment, and information as a means of enriching and promoting success in the lives of all students.
To ensure a welcoming, flexible, user-friendly environment in which all other objectives may be met.

Library Policies

Books are to be checked out to students for two weeks and may be renewed.
Current magazines and newspapers may be checked out to teachers for one class period. Students may use them only in the library.
Most audio-visual equipment may be checked out to teachers for one day and must be returned at the end of the day. Overhead projectors and cart may be checked out to teachers for an entire semester.
Audio-visual equipment should be reserved at least one week prior to use.
Classes should be scheduled at least one week prior to their visits to the library. Teachers should remain with their classes during library visits.
Groups of three or fewer students may be sent to the library without scheduling their visits. Student must bring passes from their teachers.
Teachers should notify the librarian when they assign specific library research. If notified in advance, the librarian will try to have the resources readily available for the students.
Students will be expected to pay the replacement cost of any materials that they check out that is lost or returned in such poor condition that it cannot be used.
Students will abide by the internet policy that is printed in the student handbook.
Students and the librarian will abide by the federal copyright laws.
Students are to maintain quiet and orderly conduct in the library.
Students must sign in on a user list and must present a pass from their teacher.
Students will refrain from eating or drinking in the library.
Students will obey school rules in the library.
Books and materials will be selected for addition to the library collection according to the Selection Policy.
Books and materials will be weeded from the library collection according to the Weeding Policy.
The librarian will abide by the ALA Library Bill of Rights.
If an objection arises concerning materials that are in the library's collection, the approved Procedure for Handling Objections shall be followed.

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