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Behavior Guidelines | Library Policies | Resources | Services for Students
Student Activities | Student Periodicals

Behavior Guidelines

  • Students must show respect and consideration for others and avoid disruption of their work.

  • The library is a study area, not a social area. This means only occasional, quiet talking is allowed.

  • Students from study hall must have passes and sign in at the circulation desk.

  • Students returning to study hall must have their passes signed by a librarian and sign out at the circulation desk.

  • All students must return to study hall before the end of the period.

  • Students must ask a librarian for passes for lockers or lavatories.

  • Library materials and furniture must not be damaged in any way.

  • Food and drinks are not allowed in the library.

  • Mrs. Kadamus and Mrs. Williams are in charge of students in the library.

  • Students must follow their instructions.

  • Inappropriate behavior may result in a seating change, loss of the privilege to use the library, or referral to an administrator.

Library Policies

  • All library materials must be checked out before being taken from the library.

  • Fiction and non-fiction books are loaned for 3 weeks and may be renewed once.

  • Magazines and pamphlets are loaned for 1 week and may be renewed once.

  • The newest issues of magazines may be read only in the library.

  • Overdue notices are given to middle school students during 9th period and high school students during 1st period on G days; no fines are charged, but no additional materials may be borrowed until the overdue item is returned.

  • Students are charged the full replacement cost for lost or damaged library materials. No additional materials may be borrowed until the payment is made.

  • Photocopies cost $.10 a page.

  • There is no charge for computer print-outs. To keep paper usage to a minimum, read the Think before you print" note on the computer monitors.

  • The World Wide Web may be used to find information for class assignments and for personal interest about topics that are appropriate in school. Please see the school district's

  • Computer Network for Education Regulations.

  • Personal e-mail, chat rooms, and electronic games may NOT be used in the library.

Resources

  • automated public access catalogs

  • Voorheesville High School catalog

  • catalogs of 47 local schools

  • public library catalogs

  • books

  • non-fiction - 7,400 volumes

  • fiction - 1,700 volumes

  • reference - 1,300 volumes

  • paperback fiction - 800 volumes

  • magazines

  • research

  • leisure reading

  • current 4 years in paper

  • some go back to 1960 on microfilm

  • online databases

  • information about animals, business, careers, colleges, current issues, health, history, literature, science, and many other topics

  • information from encyclopedias, magazines, journals, newspapers, primary
    documents, reference books, and reporgs

  • Daily newspapers - Times Union, Daily Gazette, New York Times, USA Today

  • Weekly newspaper - Altamont Enterprise, Spotlight

  • Pamphlets - Life Skills, Opposing Viewpoints, vertical file

Services for Students

Access to information in books, magazines, reference books, databases, and the World Wide Web

  • help in locating and using information and literature

  • instruction in locating and using information and literature

  • Interlibrary Loan - borrowing books and magazine articles from other school libraries

Student Activities

  • doing research

  • reading

  • borrowing and returning library materials

  • doing homework

  • receiving instruction

  • working in a small group

  • meeting with a teacher

  • photocopying

  • word processing

Student Periodicals
Last 4 years in hard copy

  • Altamont Enterprise

  • BMX Plus

  • Calliope

  • Car & Driver

  • Choices

  • Cobblestone

  • Consumer Reports

  • Current Health 2

  • Current History

  • Current Science

  • Dirt Bike

  • Discover

  • Health

  • Kids' Discover

  • Nation

  • National Geographic

  • New York Times Upfront

  • Newsweek

  • Off Road

  • Physics Today

  • Popular Mechanics

  • Popular Science

  • Psychology Today

  • Read

  • Science News

  • Science World

  • Scientific American

  • Seventeen

  • Skateboarder

  • Ski

  • Sports Illustrated

  • Spotlight

  • Super Science

  • Teen People

  • Time

  • US News & World Report

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