Censorship+Team+2

1. Pressures: 2. The LMS is the leader of the selection committee and the final say in what is added/weeded to the collection. The LMS should refer to professional reviews such as Booklist, Horn Book, and ALA prior to making a final decision on a selection. The role should also be to be open-minded of what others think is acceptable and appropriate for the media center. The media center is for use for all, so the collection should reflect everyone's needs. 3. The role of teachers is to provide suggestions and wish lists for books, audio, periodicals, web sites, databases, and equipment to improve student learning. Try to be a member of the selection committee and to collaborate with the LMS. 4. Parents should also be a part of the selection committee and/or PTA. They can also share a suggested reading list for appropriate and non-appropriate material in the center. 5. 6. The "reconsideration of materials" process includes step 1: present selection policy and professional reviews as evidence step 2: Citizen's Request Form for Reevaluation is completed and submitted to the principal step 3: Committee meets to determine validity of complainant's request (often public) step 4: Committee submits decision to superintendent step 5: Superintendent makes a decision step 6: School board votes on and informs complainant step 7: Document decision (cannot be reevauated for three years within the school system) The material in question should remain on the shelf while reconsideration process is progress. 7. The media specialist should allow access to all those (with parental consent) especially those learners without access outside of school. The LMS should make sure that all users know how to effectively and appropriately use the Internet. Some challenges would include monitoring what the students are viewing and use for educational purposes, filtering, and keeping up with who has permission to use Internet.
 * Parents can pressure regarding what they want their child exposed to in the school.
 * Non-educational web sites/ social sites used during instructional time
 * BOE
 * Teachers can even pressure the LMS to remove items from the collection that they feel are inappropriate either socially, culturally, or religiously.
 * The elements of a good selection policy are mission statement with goals and objectives, list of participants in selection process, list of types of media and selection aides, description of procedures, forms, and practices used, areas of collection that will be stressed or de-emphasized, how materials will be weeded, criteria for selecting items for different patrons, gift/donation, borrowing, selection of databases, intellectual freedom guidelines along with challenged books (handling complaints), copyright, and Internet use.
 * These elements combined ensure that all members of the learning community involved in the learning process "adds new dimensions to the collection but also provides better insight into users tastes and interests and new avenues of communication are opened between the center and its patrons" (Morris, 2004, p. 309). Some of the important elements include borrowing and database selection.