General Information
General Information for Middle/Upper School Library
Hours
8:00 -- 3:05: MONDAY and FRIDAY
8:00 -- 4:00: TUESDAY through THURSDAY
How Many Books May I Check Out?
Since we are in the business of encouraging you to read, study, and write excellent papers, students may have as many as five books checked out at any given time. However, in special instances, when your entire class is studying the same subject, your teacher may put books on reserve and not allow them to circulate. All materials may be renewed for an additional two week period.
Please check at the front desk if you have any questions.
How Long May I Keep the Books and Materials?
Our circulation period is three weeks for everything except REFERENCE books and LAPTOP COMPUTERS. They are used extensively by everyone and must be returned the next morning before the first bell. If you need a REFERENCE book or LAPTOP COMPUTER over a weekend, it must be returned before school starts on Monday.
If the material is borrowed overnight, it should be returned before class starts the very next morning. This is a privilege you should not abuse. Many schools do not allow reference materials to be checked out.
THINK OF THE OTHER STUDENTS AND RETURN MATERIALS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO EVERYONE CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS SERVICE.
Overdues
A list of overdue materials is sent to your homeroom teacher. It is your responsibility to return materials before the due date. We charge a daily overdue fine of ten cents. Should you have overdue materials, return them as soon as possible, or renew them. When the item is returned, your record is cleared. Overdue fines remain on the computer until paid.
Reshelving
Please do not reshelve books. Look at whatever you like, but just place the book on top of the bookcase for the librarian or an assistant to reshelve.
OPAC - Online Public Access Catalog
Fuqua has a computerized catalog and circulation system. When you look at the computer screen, it is located in the upper left-hand corner. You may look up a book by title, author, subject, keyword, or series and see if it is available. If it is checked out, the word "out" will appear next to the title. If the library has more than one copy, that is also noted.
Books! Books! Books!
The library has over approximately 11,000 books. New books are often displayed. If we do not have a title you want, be sure to suggest it to us. We are especially interested if we have missed a specific title in a series.
Laptop Computers
Fuqua has a small number of laptop computers for you to check out overnight. They have enough memory to hold up to sixteen pages of information. A special printer is set up in the library workroom to print your documents. This should be done before school so that the laptop batteries can be charged and the computer will then be available for the next user. All documents are purged from the laptop memory each day. To use a laptop, you must get a form signed by your parents. This form is kept on file in the library media center and does not have to be renewed each year.
Magazines
Fuqua School subscribes to approximately fifty magazines. We keep our magazines for five years, and all back issues may be checked out for the normal two week period. Current magazines are housed in the casual browsing area of the library in red plastic folders. They may not be checked out. The magazines are indexed in Magazine Article Summaries (MAS) and SIRS Discoverer on the library computer network.
Newspapers
Newspapers are kept for two weeks and then discarded. We have: The Richmond Times Dispatch, Farmville Herald, U.S. Today, and all local newspapers.
Last modified
08-18-2006 10:27 AM
