ABOUT THE MEDIA CENTER
Media Center Mission
The Media Program at Elkridge Landing Middle School is designed to enhance the school's curriculum through collaboration with subject-area teachers in order to provide research, technology and information literacy skills in a real-world setting. Further, the Media Program strives to serve as a literary, multimedia, and technological resource for the students, staff, and community of Elkridge Landing.
Media Center Goals
The Elkridge Landing Media Program will:
*Encourage students to increase their enjoyment and abilities in reading, listening and viewing.
*Increase students' information literacy by teaching students to search, locate, select, evaluate, create and present information.
*Prepare students to become independent, confident and lifelong learners.
*Prepare students to become ethical users and creators of information in all its forms.
*Encourage students to increase their enjoyment and abilities in reading, listening and viewing.
*Increase students' information literacy by teaching students to search, locate, select, evaluate, create and present information.
*Prepare students to become independent, confident and lifelong learners.
*Prepare students to become ethical users and creators of information in all its forms.
Media Center Procedures
Because the ELMS Community values the resources provided by our Media Center, the following procedures must be followed so that all may use and enjoy the Media Center:
When entering with a class:
✴Wait for your teacher in a line outside the Media Center door.
✴Enter quietly and wait for instructions.
✴Do not enter the Computer Lab unless instructed to do so.
When entering by yourself or in a small group:
✴Check in with Ms. Sheibley or Ms. Scrivener. Tell what class you are coming from and why you are here.
✴Ask permission before using a computer for any reason.
When entering during lunch:
✴At the beginning of your lunch block, go to the Media Center.
✴Stamp your hand and sign your name on the lunch pass sign-up sheet.
✴Go to the cafeteria for lunch.
✴Use your stamped hand as a pass to travel from the Cafeteria to the Media Center.
✴Cross off the number next to your name on the sign-up list.
✴If you need to go to the restroom, ask Ms. Sheibley before you leave the Media Center.
Because we want to help as many people as possible, all people must:
*Use LOW voices when in the Media Center.
*Maintain safety at all times (no running, pushing, etc.).
*Use the materials with care and respect.
*Observe the ELMS Expectations as you would anywhere in our school.
When entering with a class:
✴Wait for your teacher in a line outside the Media Center door.
✴Enter quietly and wait for instructions.
✴Do not enter the Computer Lab unless instructed to do so.
When entering by yourself or in a small group:
✴Check in with Ms. Sheibley or Ms. Scrivener. Tell what class you are coming from and why you are here.
✴Ask permission before using a computer for any reason.
When entering during lunch:
✴At the beginning of your lunch block, go to the Media Center.
✴Stamp your hand and sign your name on the lunch pass sign-up sheet.
✴Go to the cafeteria for lunch.
✴Use your stamped hand as a pass to travel from the Cafeteria to the Media Center.
✴Cross off the number next to your name on the sign-up list.
✴If you need to go to the restroom, ask Ms. Sheibley before you leave the Media Center.
Because we want to help as many people as possible, all people must:
*Use LOW voices when in the Media Center.
*Maintain safety at all times (no running, pushing, etc.).
*Use the materials with care and respect.
*Observe the ELMS Expectations as you would anywhere in our school.
POLICIES
Intellectual Freedom and Open Access
The School Library Media Center will provide information, materials, and resources of different points of view on a wide variety of subjects, topics, uses, and purposes while striving to protect the reading and intellectual rights of all users.
Selection of Materials
The Media Specialist chooses materials and resources from an HCPSS approved list of bibliographic sources and review journals, from lists of resources in HCPSS curriculum guides, and from lists of materials pertaining to HCPSS approved textbooks.
Access to Library Materials
✴The Media Center is open to students and staff from 7:30 am and until 3:05 pm every day that the school is open.
✴The check-out period for most library items is three weeks. Reference items may be checked out for one week. Items may be renewed only if the item is present and if no one else has requested the item.
✴Students may check out up to three items. (Only one may be a Playaway.)
✴Students and staff may request materials from other school media centers in Howard County through the Inter-Library Loan program. Please talk to Ms. Sheibley to place the request.
✴Library passes will be available to students during lunch time.
✴Students may come to the media center during Homeroom AFTER checking in with the Homeroom teacher.
NOTE: Students who have overdue media materials may receive time out from school socials.
✴The check-out period for most library items is three weeks. Reference items may be checked out for one week. Items may be renewed only if the item is present and if no one else has requested the item.
✴Students may check out up to three items. (Only one may be a Playaway.)
✴Students and staff may request materials from other school media centers in Howard County through the Inter-Library Loan program. Please talk to Ms. Sheibley to place the request.
✴Library passes will be available to students during lunch time.
✴Students may come to the media center during Homeroom AFTER checking in with the Homeroom teacher.
NOTE: Students who have overdue media materials may receive time out from school socials.
Acceptable Use of Technology
Students MUST return a signed copy of this agreement to the Media Center. If this agreement is not signed and returned, then the student may NOT use any technology (computer, laptop, etc.) in the building.