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A school library (or a school media center) is a library within a school where students, and sometimes their parents and staff have access to loan a variety of resources, often literary or digital. The goal of a school library or media center is to ensure that all members of the school community have equitable access "to books and reading, to ...
The draft policy — aimed at addressing some concerns about "sexually explicit" materials in school libraries — would replace the district's current "opt-out" policy, where parents can ...
Dec. 6—CHEYENNE — The months-long dispute over a controversial library book checkout policy ended, as expected, with its approval, but not without further conflict. Several local activists ...
Island Trees High School in 2019. Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico, 457 U.S. 853 (1982), was a landmark case in which the United States Supreme Court split on the First Amendment issue of local school boards removing library books from junior high schools and high schools.
Amid the fiery debate about books in schools, here’s advice from librarians about how to identify Pa. policies that protect intellectual freedom. Dozens of Pa. school districts have changed book ...
Secondly, planning aids in making decisions for future improvement in library infrastructure and proper distribution of funds for the institution. [3] Thirdly, in the current environment of limited funding and competition between departments and agencies, a written collection policy aids in the library's public relations.
A vote from the Central Bucks School District enacted a controversial library policy, which gives residents the ability to challenge school books.
The Library Bill of Rights is the American Library Association's statement expressing the rights of library users to intellectual freedom and the expectations the association places on libraries to support those rights. The Association's Council has adopted a number of interpretations of the document applying it to various library policies.