-- by Roxanne Kennedy, Media Specialist

Welcome to Baggett’s Media Center• Our media center is open from 7:30 am to 3:00 pm every school day.

• It is open to students, teachers, and parents.

• Students in grades K-3 can check out one book at a time.

• Students in grades 4 and 5 can check out two books at a time.

Mrs. Kennedy, Media Specialist

(left)

Mrs. Wright, Media Clerk (right)

• Students must get a pass from their teacher to come to the media center.

• Students may come to the media center up to twice a day.

• Passes should be worn around your neck.

• When you come into the Media Center, use an inside voice and please do not run.

• Please use the following steps to find a book to check out and read!

• You can look up what books we have on OPAC, our online catalog.

• If you don’t know how to use it, just ask Mrs. Wright or Mrs. Kennedy.

• It’s also fun just to browse the shelves too!

• A shelf marker is the first thing you should get when you come into the media center.

• A shelf marker marks the spot where a book goes on the shelf while you are looking at it.

• Look for a book that may interest you in the storybook, chapter book, or non-fiction rows.

• Select the book you’d like to look at and slide your shelf marker in next to it.

• Pull the book out and leave the shelf marker on the shelf, marking the spot where the book came from.

• Look at the book.

• Read a page to see if it’s on your reading level.

• Decide if the book is interesting to you. If not,….

• Put it back in carefully by your shelf marker if you don’t like it.

• Make sure the spine is facing out so it doesn’t go in backwards.

• Pull your shelf marker out and go look for another book that interests you.

• Don’t take too long deciding! Your teacher expects you back in the classroom in 5-10 minutes.

• Once you find a book you want, walk to the checkout desk.

• Wait for Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Kennedy, or a parent volunteer to assist you.

• Tell them your I.D. number, which is your lunch number also.

• If you can’t remember your number, please tell them your first and last name, so they can look it up.

• Once your number is typed in, you can scan your book under the red scanner light.

• Your book is checked out! It is due back in two weeks! Enjoy!

• When you’re finished with your book, slide it into the book return slot.

• Now you can go look for another book to enjoy!