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Forest Hills superintendent outlines draft library access options, calls for MMC handbook and restored district librarian role
Summary
Superintendent presented options to give families more control over student access to media center materials, proposed an updated Media Materials Coordinator handbook, and recommended reposting a district media specialist to standardize acquisitions, weeding and training across buildings.
Superintendent (Speaker 12) told the Forest Hills Board of Education on Feb. 20 that the district will pursue a coordinated overhaul of media center procedures to address inconsistencies in how books are acquired, cataloged and weeded across schools. He said the district holds about a quarter of a million books and that staffing reductions over the past decade left uneven practices that the district now intends to correct.
The superintendent proposed three parental-access options for media materials: keep current self-selection; a notification/prompt system where parents receive alerts or can preselect authors/titles to block for their child; or a model in which parents provide books for their child in the media center. He emphasized the district’s intent is not to “ban knowledge” but to provide choice and transparency for families while…
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