Moscow Junior High Library  Moscow School District   Moscow, Idaho 83843  

Moscow Junior High Library Policies

Contact Information

Emilie Jacobus, Media Specialist

Jean Penoncello, Media Assistant

(208) 882-3577

1410 East D Street

Moscow, Idaho  83843

Library Hours
Usually 8:00 a.m. - 3:45 p.m., all school days

Early closure times/dates (for staff meetings or school/district committee meetings) are posted on the kiosk inside the library entrance.

Checkout Policy
            including books, reference materials, magazines, recorded books, videos, and DVDs

Library Fines
Students are responsible for the reasonable care and prompt return of books and library materials they borrow. MJH Library imposes no overdue fines for late books and materials. However, students cannot check out anything until all overdue items are returned or renewed. Students must bring any library material with them to renew.

MJH Library will hold books for five school days for a student who already has five books checked out or for a student with overdue library materials. After five days, the book is taken off the hold shelf and becomes available for others to check out.

Students are responsible for books and materials they have borrowed. They need to pay the cost of the missing or damaged item plus $2.00 for processing. Students pay only bindery costs if a damaged book can be repaired rather than replaced.

Library Rules
v Show care when using all library resources.

v Eat your food or snack before you enter the library. Water bottles are okay.

v Come to the library with a pass/signed agenda unless you are with a class group.

v Bring your lunch pass when you come after eating lunch. You must stay in the library until the end of the lunch period. Lunch passes are available at the circulation desk every morning.

v Print only what you really need at our black laser printer. 

v Have your classroom teacher sign your agenda when you want to print a project in color. Color printout is limited to final version of each project. The cost of color prints for personal use is $.20 each (2011).

v Get your English teacher’s signature beside the title of each AR quiz before you take the quiz if you are in eighth or ninth grade.

v Respect other people's files in shared classroom folders. Do not change, copy, read or access files that are not yours.

v Request books from Idaho libraries through interlibrary loan.

v Check your e-mail before or after school, but not during school hours. However, you may send/receive your assignments via e-mail throughout the day. You need permission from a librarian or teacher who is in the library each time before you go to your e-mail account to send or retrieve an assignment.

v Play games at home. Games are not permitted on the library or LCC computers.

Using the Library during ACCESS

• Sign up in the library anytime Monday-Wednesday to come to the library during Thursday's ACCESS period. Students can read, study in small groups at tables, take AR quizzes, and use computers for school work. They may listen to music with ear buds. Students with LIBRARY ACCESS passes need to bring their work materials with them when they arrive for ACCESS. They need remain in the library until the end of school. There is a sign-out sheet for emergency restroom visits. 
• Students from other ACCESS classrooms may come to the library for 15 minutes to take AR quizzes, use computer to do school work, select and check out books. After 15 minutes, these students will return to their regular ACCESS classrooms.
• Library functions for students, such as AR celebrations and special programs, will be held occasionally during ACCESS.

Electronic Access
Using the OPAC to Select Appropriate Websites
Go to the OPAC (online public access catalog) on our Library Web page, http://www.sd281.k12.id.us/mjhslibrary/other_libraries.htm , and follow instructions there to see titles of books and media in our library. To go to excellent Internet sites about any topic, enter a subject or keyword and click on the blue icon in the results list, and then click on ELEC ACCESS, This list of first-rate sites has been evaluated for grade-level appropriateness and is updated monthly.

Using Online Databases from Home
Access, read, and print full-text articles from numerous online databases, provided by Lili (Libraries Linking Idaho).  All these databases and eBooks are print sources accessed through the Internet. They are not Internet sites. Go to Research Links at the MJHS Library Web page to begin. The user name and password for all our students are listed in their Student Agenda. Everyone in your family is encouraged to use these databases. 

Library Media Center

The Library Media Center is an integral part of the educational program at MJHS. Students have access to a wide variety of resources with reading levels 2.5 through 12+. The librarian's job is to prepare our students to be learners for the 21st century and to become effective users of information and ideas. The library staff helps students and staff in an environment conducive to learning, provides appropriate and adequate information resources, and models the behavior of lifelong readers and learners.

Librarian Services

Build and maintain a user-friendly MJHS Library Website.

Coordinate STAR testing and management of reports.

Co-teach with classroom teachers mini-lessons on relevant topics.

Generate, print, and distribute overdue and hold notices.

Help students choose books and other resources

Compile and print bibliographies for staff.

Maintain an accurate electronic card catalog.

Maintain accurate circulation records.

Monitor AR quizzes, printing of reports, and student AR accounts.

Monitor make-up quizzes and tests. See usage procedures below.

Order and replace lamps in AV equipment.

Plan and coordinate motivational activities that encourage students to read and achieve.

Provide interlibrary loans from other libraries for students and staff.

Provide open study hall before school, at lunch, and after school.

Select, order and process books, periodicals, newspapers, and other materials.

Set-up equipment for teachers in the library or LCC, including video and audio equipment

Library and Library Computer Center (LCC) Use Procedures

Class Group Use

The Library (main hall) and the Library Computer Center (LCC) are busy places. Teachers can sign up and hold class in the main hall or in the LCC. The LCC and the main hall are filled on a first come, first served basis. No more than two class groups may share both rooms, along with drop-in students. The sign-up sheet for the main room and the LCC is located on the checkout counter. Teachers can reserve one room, or one-half of each room. A five-day limit of the LCC is preferred for each classroom project because of limited computer access in the building.

Individual/Small Group Use
Teachers may reserve up to five spaces for students on a first come, first served basis unaccompanied by their teacher. Students are responsible for their own behavior in the Library and the LCC. Students are greeted as they enter the room, asked if they need help, and asked what they will be working on. Students who are off-task or interfere with others are asked to resume working, and if they cannot, they are told to return to the regular classroom. Teachers may also send individual students for make-up quizzes and tests. The student will turn in the completed test/quiz to library staff and the library staff will return work completed to the teacher mailbox at the end of each school day unless the teacher sends a written request with the student to do otherwise.