The Board believes that instructional media centers/libraries are a fundamental part of the
educational process. The district meets individual learning needs, provides flexible and innovative
learning experiences and encourages independent learning by providing sufficient resource options
to students and staff.
It is the goal of the Board of Education to provide circulating material, reference resources and
electronic media to meet or supplement the needs of the students and teachers in the school system.
The district shall strive to meet the school media standards as prescribed by the Missouri Department
of Elementary and Secondary Education.
The district librarians, teachers and administrators have the responsibility of recommending and
selecting materials for the district, in accordance with state and district guidelines, and reconsidering
or reviewing the district's collection as needed. The same criteria used to select new materials for
the district will be used to determine whether the district will accept any gift of materials or to
determine the selection of materials purchased with a monetary gift from an individual or group.
District librarians will organize and maintain the district's collection and aid students and staff
members in locating resources.
The superintendent or designee will create procedures as needed to enforce the district policies and
administer the district's media centers and libraries.
Intellectual Access
The library media program serves as a point of access to information and ideas for students as they
acquire critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Students and educators served by the library
media program should have access to resources and services free of constraints resulting from
artificial barriers. Students will have access to library media selected and available in accordance
with district policy and library media guidelines.
Confidentiality
Individually identifiable library records will be confidential as required by law. Individually
identifiable library records of a student will be considered an education record under federal law and
will be released in accordance with Board policy.
Individually identifiable library records of persons other than students will not be released to any
person other than the person identified in the record or to district employees who need to know the
information to perform their duties for the district. However, these records may be released upon
written request by the person identified in the record or in response to a court order upon a finding
that the disclosure is necessary to protect the public safety or to prosecute a crime.
As used in this policy, a "library record" is any document, record or other method of storing
information retained, received or generated by a library that identifies a person or persons as having
requested, used or borrowed library material and all other records identifying the names of library
users. The term "library record" does not include nonidentifying material that may be retained for
the purpose of studying or evaluating the circulation of library material in general.
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Note: The reader is encouraged to check the index located at the beginning of this section
for other pertinent policies and to review administrative procedures and/or forms for
related information.
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Adopted: 11/17/1994
Last Revised: 02/20/2003
Cross Refs: EGAAA, Reproduction of Copyrighted Materials
JO, Student Records
KH, Public Gifts to the Schools
KLB, Public Questions, Comments or Concerns Regarding District Instructional/
Media/Library Materials
Legal Refs: §§ 182.815 - .817, RSMo.
Salem R-80 School District, Salem, Missouri
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