• When you arrive, please leave your passbook on the main circulation counter and sign the clipboard.Please have your passbook signed by the media specialist or adult audio-visual aide. The student aide,media specialist, or adult audio-visual aide may write your departure time in your passbook.
• While in the IMC, you should be working or reading quietly. Please, no tipping back in your chairs. Return the furniture where you found it.
• Classes that have reserved the library for research will have priority over study hall classes. If it is too crowded, you may be asked to return to study hall.
• Study hall classes may visit the IMC twice a week for 15 minutes per visit, unless doing research. A teacher’s pass in your passbook is required for research work.
• No food, drink, or gum is allowed in the IMC.
• Please work one at a time at the computers. There is a ten-minute limit, if someone is waiting.
• No student e-mailing or net surfing, unless special permission is obtained. You must have your name on file for Internet permission.
• All school rules/policies, as described in your Student Handbook, will be enforced in the IMC.
• Please take care of the IMC facilities. Be responsible.

IF YOU CHOOSE NOT TO FOLLOW THESE RULES, THESE ARE THE CONSEQUENCES:

• 1st offense----Verbal warning
• 2nd offense----Student sent back to class
• 3rd offense----Student will be written up and lose IMC privileges

• General fiction and nonfiction books may be checked out for a period of three weeks. If you need more time, you may renew the book on or before the due date, unless someone else has reserved the book. ( Limit 5 )
• SIRS articles may be checked out for a period of three weeks. If you need more time, you may renew the article on or before the due date, unless someone else has reserved that issue. ( Limit 10 )
• Magazines ( that are not the most recent issues ) may be checked out for a period of two weeks. If you need more time, you may renew the magazine on or before the due date, unless someone else has reserved that issue. ( Limit 5 )
• Reference books are to be used in the IMC. The media specialist, under special circumstances, will grant permission for checkout outside the library.
• Videos may be checked out for a project with your teacher’s approval under his name. The loan period is one week for videos.
• Fines of $.05 a day will be charged for overdue materials. Fines stop increasing when the materials are returned or renewed. These fines will carry over from year to year and should be paid at the beginning of each new school year. All fines must be paid before graduation.
• You will have to pay for a replacement copy of any book, magazine, or SIRS article that you lose.