FILE:  IFBC

 

INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA CENTERS

 

 

The Iberville Parish School Board recognizes the importance of adequate and appropriate instructional materials to complement and augment the educational process.  Instructional media centers serve to enhance the learning activities of students and also serve as an essential instructional resource for teachers.

 

Therefore, in establishing and maintaining well-organized libraries and media centers for students, the Board subscribes to the following:

 

a.

To provide a comprehensive collection of instructional materials selected in compliance with basic, written selection principles, and to provide maximum accessibility to these materials.

 

b.

To provide materials that will support the curriculum, taking into consideration the individual's needs, and the varied interests, abilities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and maturity levels of the students served.

 

c.

To provide materials for teachers and students that will encourage growth in knowledge and that will develop literary, cultural, and aesthetic appreciation and ethical standards.

 

d.

To provide materials which reflect the ideas and beliefs of religious, social, political, historical, and ethnic groups and their contributions to the American and world heritage and culture, thereby enabling students to develop an intellectual integrity in forming judgments.

 

e.

To provide qualified professional personnel to serve teachers and students.

 

LIBRARY BILL OF RIGHTS

 

The Board affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the following basic policies should guide their services.

 

1.

Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves.  Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation.

 

2.

Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues.  Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.

 

3.

Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.

 

4.

Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgement of free expression and free access to ideas.

 

5.

A person's right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.

 

6.

Libraries which make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public they serve should make such facilities available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting their use.

 

 

Ref:     American Library Association, School Library Bill of Rights

Board minutes, 12-13-93

 

Iberville Parish School Board