Teacher Loan and Bookbag Service
2010-2011 school year
The following guidelines are established for material loans to schools serving the children of Skokie:
- Teachers working in schools that serve the children of Skokie are eligible for library cards and the Teacher Bookbag Service. The principal must sign an authorization form and send a staff list approving use of the card by the administrators, teachers and aides included on the list. Each person authorized for checkout privileges will have a separate barcode with the card issued first to the school, followed by the person's name. (e.g. EDISON- Linda Jones). These cards will remain in the Library at the circulation desk. Identification such as a school ID or driver’s license will be required at checkout to use school library cards.
- Each teacher may borrow a maximum of 30 items from the Library for an extended period of six (6) weeks. All items must pertain to educational/classroom use. Depending on demand, it may be necessary to limit the number of items permitted, especially in the non-fiction areas. Adult materials may be checked out for school use as well. (Adult New Materials and all video games are excluded from school loans.) Generally five (5) items in a Dewey classification area will be available. Only one feature DVD may be borrowed per teacher loan for the extended loan period. Additional feature DVD’s are subject to regular loan periods. Nonfiction DVDs are available for the extended checkout period. Loan limits for other materials apply as well. Limits for all materials are subject to the discretion of the librarian.
- Fines will be waived on school loans but prompt return of materials will insure continued access to this
service. We count on your cooperation in order to make materials available to all patrons. Schools will be
responsible for the prompt return of all borrowed materials and for the cost of lost or damaged materials, including the bag used for the school loans. Overdue notification will initially be sent to the individual via email. If the person fails to respond in a timely manner, the school administration will be notified and
loan privileges for the individual will be suspended. Continued abuse will result in termination of the individual’s school loan privileges. At the beginning of the school year, loan privileges will be frozen for any school with teachers who have outstanding accounts from the previous year. Overdue, missing or damaged material must be returned or paid for in order for the account to be cleared. - Bookbag requests may be called in, faxed or emailed to the Youth Services Department’s School Services Liaison at the Library. A minimum of seven (7) days notice is required, and as much lead-time as possible is suggested, when a teacher wishes to have a book bag pulled by Youth Services staff. If the school is near a scheduled Bookmobile stop, the bookbag can be put on the Bookmobile for pick-up. Bookbags will be held at the Youth Services Desk for 3 days after pickup notification unless special arrangements have been made.
- The bookbag will include a list of all of the loaned materials. The due date for materials will be included on this list. Materials should be returned to either the East or West desk of the Circulation Department.
- Teachers may also come to the Library to select their own materials at any time, but must receive an approval form in Youth Services for the materials selected before checking out at the West Circulation desk. A list of materials with due dates will be given to the teacher when checking out at the Circulation desk. A copy of this list will also go to Youth Services. As with book bags, all school loan materials should be returned to the Circulation Department for check-in.
- Please note that in order to contact teachers who place reserves on materials using a teacher card, an email address must be provided.