<div dir="ltr">We ask parents of 6th graders (youngest students in our 6-12 building) to sign a form if they wish their child to check out books in the HS section. I've attached the doc. Best wishes.<div>:) Kathy</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><i style="color:rgb(102,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><b>Kathy Sullivan</b></i><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><b style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:12.8px"><i>Princeville Junior Senior High School</i></b></div><div><b style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:12.8px"><i>P.C.U.S.D. #326</i></b><br></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><b><i>302 Cordis Avenue, </i></b></font><b style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:12.8px"><i>Princeville, IL 61559</i></b></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><b><i>309.385-4660 x1574</i></b></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><i><a href="mailto:ksullivan@princeville326.org" target="_blank">ksullivan@princeville326.org</a> </i></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><b><i><br></i></b></font></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"><b><i><font color="#660000">"Literature is the safest key to a nation's treasure."</font></i> </b>- Chaim Nachman Bialik</span></div><p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 2:16 PM Joan Bessman Taylor via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Please revisit library policy and ethics statements around the Student's Right to Read. You should not require permission slips for a student to read any book in your library. What a student reads should be based on their abilities, comfort level and choice not on their chronological age.<font size="2"> Teach students how to select books and know themselves so that they develop the judgment needed over time.<br></font></div><div><font size="2"><br>Access to Resources and Services in the School Library: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights</font></div><div><a href="http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill/interpretations/accessresources" target="_blank">http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill/interpretations/accessresources</a></div><div>See especially the following paragraph warning against the common forms of censorship."Major barriers between students and resources include but are not
limited: to imposing age, grade-level, or reading-level restrictions on
the use of resources; limiting the use of interlibrary loan and access
to electronic information; charging fees for information in specific
formats; requiring permission from parents or teachers; establishing
restricted shelves or closed collections; and labeling. Policies,
procedures, and rules related to the use of resources and services
support free and open access to information."</div><div><br></div><div><div>See also the following blog entry: <a href="https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=12859" target="_blank">https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=12859</a></div><div><br></div><div>stepping down from my soapbox,</div><div>Joan<br></div><div><br></div></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_6113825830304955367gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Joan Bessman Taylor, PhD<br></div>Associate Professor<br></div>School Library Studies<br></div>Curriculum & Instruction<br></div>University of Northern Iowa<br></div><a href="mailto:joan.taylor@uni.edu" target="_blank">joan.taylor@uni.edu</a><br>
</div><div>Pronouns: she, her, hers<br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 1:58 PM Rose O’Connell via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br>Does anyone have a permission-slip form that younger students can have parents sign which allows them to read "older" books? We are at a middle school and categorize some books as "8th grade" only books. Lately we're having students ask if they can have their parents give them permission to read these books.</div><div><br></div><div>If you have a form you wouldn't mind sharing, please send to <a href="mailto:roconnell@ccsd89.org" target="_blank">roconnell@ccsd89.org</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_6113825830304955367gmail-m_4754660371047887458gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Rosemary O'Connell<div>Library Director </div><div>Glen Crest Middle School</div><div>725 Sheehan Avenue | Glen Ellyn, IL 60137</div><div>630-469-5220</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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