Welcome to the Aiken High School Media Center

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Welcome to the Aiken High School Media Center

• Media Specialists
• Ms. Young Ms. Keel
• Media Aide Ms. Hiers

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Hours of Operation

• Open 730 AM
• Close 330 PM
• Open during lunch

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Rules for Entering

• Enter with a pass (time/date/signature)
• Enter at lunch through the side door. Leave by
  traveling through the security gate and out the
  side
• Enter during study hall and stay the entire
  period unless otherwise noted by the study hall
  monitor
• Enter with all your stuff LEAVE BAGS AT FRONT.
• Check in at the circulation desk you will be
  scanned into the circulation records with a card.

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Computer Rules

• Use badge to borrow a computer by checking it out
• Velcro the red plastic flag to the computer with
  the matching number
• No Downloading
• No profanity printed or used on computer
• See Ms. Young BEFORE pressing the print button.
  .50 personal printing
• Media personnel retrieve printed items

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Check Out

• 3 books at a time
• 2 week checkout
• Students with overdue books will be issued a
  detention notice by the appropriate grade level
  administrator.

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Need Technology Help?

• Put a red Help cup on the computer table above
  the monitor.

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Computer Databases

• DISCUS http//scdiscus.org
• Biography resource center
• Custom newspapers
• Encyclopedias
• Encyclopedia Americana
• Grolier Multimedia Online
• New Book of Knowledge

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Computer Databases Continued

• Magazine Indices
• SIRS Knowledge Source
• GALE Infotrack
• Book Information
• Literature Resource Center
• Scribner Writers Series
• What do I read next?

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Have Pride in your Work
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Come Back Often