Library Hours

Before school: 7:15 - 7:45 am

Nutrition: 10:05 - 10:25

Lunch: 12:15 - 1:00

After school: 2:45 - 3:30

Regular circulation

Regular circulation time is three weeks, and there is a five-cent fine per day* for overdue materials in this category. Such materials can be identified by their white due date card. All fiction books fall into this circulation category.

Overnight circulation

Overnight circulation materials can be identified by their orange due date card. There is a one dollar per day fine* for overdues of this type. It is especially important that students return these materials in a timely manner because they are often part of a collection pulled especially for a particular project. Other students may wish to use the same materials during the same time period. *See special fine section at bottom of page.

The only other circulation special circumstance involves a blue due date card. This signifies a week-only circulation time period, which is almost exclusively reserved for DVDs. The fine for items with a blue due date card is a dollar per day, to be adjusted as needed.

Reference books

Reference books do not circulate. Students are invited to photograph pages with their cell phones in order to use them for research.

Books checked out at the very end of the school year are not due back until the beginning of the next school year. There are no designated library hours over the summer break.  Contact the main office to schedule your visit with the library administrative assistant.

Fines

The color of the card slipped into the book jacket at checkout hints at the fine for overdue materials.

White due date cards generally denote a nickel-a-day fine; colored due date cards indicate a stiffer, dollar-a-day fine for higher-demand items.

When late materials are returned to the library, a fine that has accrued to reach the cost of the book is generally halved. An exception to this occurs with DVDs for the junior-year Life on the Silver Screen project. Because “holding these items hostage” for longer than the one-week circulation time severely hampers other students’ ability to use them, the dollar-a-day fine stands in full until the fine reaches the purchase price of the DVD.

Patrons who have lost library items have 60 Destiny catalog days during which to replace the item in kind rather than in cash/check form, if desired.  After 60 days, the library will only accept monetary reimbursement (update to the EPSD Board Policy – summer 2018).

Computer Use

The VHS Library offers computers for scheduled class use in its main space for students without devices  (21 HPs with Windows 2010 and a cart with 30 Chromebooks). Computers are available for general student use during the pre-period 1 time and during varying times during the regular school day and after-hours.

The library has one photocopier machine, several black-and-white printers and one color printer for student use. There is a fee of ten cents per page for the photocopier and twenty cents per page for the color printer. Black-and-white copies are free to students (up to ten pages per research article); a fee of ten cents per page is assessed for amounts over the ten-page limit for black-and-white copies.  Students are encouraged to share documents electronically via Google Drive, rather than print, whenever possible.

The EHS Library adheres to the rules of the East Penn School District and its current Acceptable Use Policy. Near each library computer is an easily-read reminder containing the information immediately below.

Concerning electronics use, the following are not permitted:

• Personal E-mail (EPSD gmail acceptable)
• non-educational videos, games and forums/blogs
• Flash drives
• Chat rooms
• Any other external device
• phone calls/photography using personal devices for non-academic purposes

Google Docs is the best/most reliable way to transport information to and from Emmaus High School. Saving information to the district’s network (H drive) under their ID# is another option, but students should be advised that they will not be able to access this drive from home.