The school accepts the responsibility to provide materials for its students as stated in the School Library Bill of Rights.

1. Responsibility for selection of materials
   1. Materials are selected by the school library media specialist with the approval of the principal and the Supervisor of Library Services.
   2. Selection is based on the careful study of reviews from reliable sources, and, when possible, on personal inspection of the materials.

1. Criteria for media selection
   1. Materials are selected which contribute directly or indirectly to the school curriculum.
   2. Each item is evaluated for its particular contributions to the collection.
   3. The wide range of pupil reading abilities, maturity levels, and interests are considered.
   4. Recreational and developmental needs of pupils are represented as often as possible.
   5. Nonfiction books must be functional, appropriate, accurate, and objective.
   6. It is important that there be a balance of opposing ideas represented in the collection.
   7. Fiction books must have two positive reviews which include age appropriateness of materials.
   8. The form of medium must be appropriate to the information it carries.
   9. The technical qualities of the medium should include clear sound and/or image and an aesthetically pleasing format.
   10. Material which may be offensive to some are evaluated in the light of their overall contributions. Honesty of presentation, literary value, and a realistic manner of portraying life are considered in determining their right to a place in the collection.
   11. Gift items must meet the same standards as those of items purchased before being added to the collection.
   12. The collection is constantly under reevaluation. Materials which no longer meet the needs of the pupils are discarded. The decision to replace lost, damaged or worn materials is based on the availability of newer or better materials and the continuing need for the materials in question.
   13. Challenged materials will be evaluated by a committee of teachers and administrators selected by the principal. Reevaluation is based on the county's selection policy.

The school library media center has a vital place in the total educational program. The school library media center exists to provide materials, equipment and services for the students and faculty it serves. Selection of various materials, therefore, becomes an important, responsible task as stated in the School Library Bill of Rights for School Library Media Center Programs which the school upholds:

The American Association of School Librarians reaffirms its belief in the Library Bill of Rights of the American Library Association. Media personnel are concerned with generating an understanding of American freedoms through the development of informed and responsible citizens. To this end, the American Association of School Librarians asserts that the responsibility of the school library media center is:

To provide a comprehensive collection of instructional materials selected in compliance with basic written selection principles, and to provide maximum accessibility to these materials.

To provide materials that will support the curriculum, taking into consideration the individual's needs and the varied interests, abilities, social-economic back-grounds, and maturity levels of the students served.

To provide materials for teachers and students that will encourage growth in knowledge and that will develop literary, cultural and aesthetic appreciation and ethical standards.

To provide materials which reflect the ideas and beliefs of religious, social, political, historical and ethnic groups and their contribution to the American and world heritage and culture, thereby, enabling students to develop an intellectual integrity in forming judgments.

To provide a written statement, approved by the local Board of Education, of the procedures for meeting the challenge of censorship of materials in school library media centers.

To provide qualified professional personnel to serve teachers and students. The school library media center houses a collection of materials including books, newspaper, periodicals, filmstrips, slides, records, microfiche, tapes, computer software and media kits that support and enrich the school's curriculum. In addition, to supporting the ever-changing needs of the curriculum, the school library media center staff recognizes the need to enhance and to effectualize each student's recreational, developments, and extra-curricular interests and needs, as well. Thus, materials are also selected based on the growth...physical, mental, emotional and intellectual...of the individual child, encompassing his wide range of reading abilities, interests, and maturity levels.

Each item whether print or non-print is carefully evaluated within the framework of sound selection principles, using reliable reviewing sources and personal inspection of the materials whenever possible. The following standard selection tools are utilized:

• Booklist
• Hornbook
• Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books
• School Library Journal
• Internet Review Sources, Such as Follett, Bound to Stay Bound, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Etc.

Responsibility for Selection

The school library media specialists believe that selection is a continuous and cooperative process involving all professional members of the school staff teachers, school library media specialist-subject to the approval of the Supervisor of Library Services and the school principal.

General Criteria for Media Selection

The following are general guidelines used to evaluate the materials considered for inclusion into the media center's collection:

• The school library media center materials should be pertinent to the curriculum and contribute to the instructional objectives of the school's educational program.
• Materials should be relevant to today's world and represent artistic, historic and literary qualities.
• Nonfiction materials must give functional, appropriate, accurate and objective information.
• Fiction books must have positive qualities of plot, style, characterization and theme.
• All school library media center materials are related in content and vocabulary to the diverse high school student and geared to satisfy his informational, recreational and cultural needs.
• Materials should lead to the development of responsible citizens.
• Materials should reflect the problems, aspirations, attitudes and ideals of society.
• Nonprint materials should be of good technical quality; have clear narration and images; synchronized sound and an aesthetically pleasing format appropriate to the information conveyed.
• Materials are purchased from recommendations in reviews and standard lists.
• Materials may be purchased from student, faculty or community recommendations.
• The school library media center shall have materials on hand that represent differing viewpoints on controversial subjects for information and research purposes.
• Materials sometimes considered unsuitable for adolescents may be denied a place in our collection. Specifically, materials of poor literary quality or unnecessary nudity, violence, vulgarity, profanity, or those extreme in academic utility and expense are felt to be unnecessary in our collection. The fact of sexual incidents or profanity appearing does not automatically disqualify media materials. Rather, the decision is made on the basis of whether the material presents life in its true proportions, whether the material is of literary value and whether circumstances are dealt with realistically.

Gifts

Items, whether print or non-print, which are presented as gifts to the school library media center must meet the same standards as those materials purchased before the gift item will be added to the collection.

The American Library Association affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the following basic policies should guide their services.

1. Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background,or views of those contributing to their creation.
2. Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
3. Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.
4. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.
5. A person's right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.
6. Libraries which make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public they serve should make such facilities available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting their use.

Adopted June 18, 1948. Amended February 2, 1961, and January 23, 1980, by the ALA Council

Professional Library Catalog


Standard Databases - Elementary Schools*

• SIRS Package
• World Book Encyclopedia
• New Book of Knowledge
• America the Beautiful
• C.E.R.F.
• Alexandria
• Wilson Educational Index (Educational Resouce for Teachers)
• Culture Grams
• Discovery Education (Basic Package)

Standard Databases - Middle/High Schools*

• Culture Grams
• Maps 101
• Wilson Educational Index
• Gale Resources Center Gold
• Gale Opposing Viewpoints
• Gale Science
• Gale Testing & Educational Reference Center
• Reference Suite @ Facts.com
• SIRS Package
• New Book of Knowledge (Middle Only)
• Culture Grams
• Discovery Education (Basic Package)
• Grolier Multimedia (Middle Only)
• Americana (High Only)
• Lands and People
• Bridges (Careers)
• Alexandria
• Miti Net (MARC Wizard)
• Wilson Educationa Index (Educational Resource for Teachers)

*Ask the Media Specialists How to Access These from School or Home

MLA Style Guide (based on the MLA Handbook for Writers of Reseach Papers, 7th ed., 2009)

In MLA (Modern Language Association) style, sources are acknowledged by short parenthetical citations in the text instead of numbered footnotes. The parenthetical citation includes just enough information to point the reader to the complete information about the source in the Works Cited list. The parenthetical usually includes the author's last name (use the first one or two main words from the title if an anonymous work), and the page number cited. Leave the author's name out of the parenthetical if it is clearly stated in your sentence. When your Works Cited list includes more than one work by an author, the parenthetical should include part of the title, i.e., (Hudson, West Nile 125). If the entire work is being acknowledged, or there is no page or paragraph number (as in the case of online works), incorporate the author's name into the sentence instead of using a parenthetical.

Fiction or Nonfiction Books

Type of Entry	Bibliography / Works Cited List	Citation in Text
1. Book – one author	Last Name, First Name. Book Title. Place of Publication: Publisher, copyright date. Print. Smith, Joan.  Famous Women. Chicago: Wilson and Company, 1992. Print.	(Smith 170) Smith has argued…(170)
2. Book – more than one author	Last, First, First and Last, and First and Last. Book Title. Place of Publication: Publisher, copyright date. Print. Jones, Richard, Carl Smith, and John Dow. Running Wild. New York: Random House, 1995. Print.	(Jones, Smith, and Dow 9)
3. Essays, poems, short stories in an anthology (collection of works/articles)	Original author of work. “Title of Work.” Title of Book. Editor of book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Copyright date. Pages article is found. Print. Peploe, James. “Poe’s Ultimate Downfall.” Gothic Tales.  Ed. John Smith. New York: McGraw Hill, 1998. 39-52. Print.	(Poe 45) Poe’s main character, Roderick Usher, mentions “phantasmagoric conceptions” (Peploe 45)...
4. Book – author with an editor	Last, First. Book Title. Editor. Place of Publication: Publisher, copyright date. Print. Dickinson, Emily. Great Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ed. ;Henry Smith. Boston: Houghton, 1974. Print.	(Dickinson 25)
5. Book – edited	Title. Editor. Place of Publication: Publisher, copyright date.Print. Medieval Civilization. Smith, Sue and Mary Jones, eds.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. Print.	(Medieval 175)
6. Bible	Title of Bible.  Place of Publication: Publisher, copyright date.Print. Holy Bible King James Version.  New York:  Catholic Review, 1969. Print.	First reference (King James Version, Gen. 3.15) Subsequent references (2 Cor. 5.17)

Reference Books

Type of Entry	Bibliography / Works Cited List	Citation in Text
7. Article – unsigned in a reference book (most are multi-volume sets)	Look to see if an author is scripted before or after the subject article. If no author is to be found: “Article/Heading title.” Reference book title. Editor. Volume. Place of publication: Publisher, copyright date. Print.  “Vietnam.”  The Sixties in America.  Ed. Owen Edwards. Vol. 1.  New York: Salem Press, 1999. Print.	(“Vietnam” 192)
8. Article – signed in a reference book (most are multi-volume sets)	If an author is scripted before or after the subject article: Author last name, first name. “Article/Heading title.” Reference book title. Editor. Volume. Place of publication: Publisher, copyright date. Print. Luft, Herbert. “Berlin Wall.” The Sixties in America. Ed. Rachel Wellek. Vol. 6. New York: Salem Press, 1999. Print.	(Luft 5807)
9. Dictionary	“Word.”  Title of Dictionary. Edition. Copyright date. Print. “Verisimilitude.”  Webster’s Dictionary.  14th ed. 1996. Print.	(“Verisimilitude”) no page number is necessary because entries are arranged alphabetically
10. Reprinted article Decide format for original article. Is it a signed reference article, a journal article, a news article, etc.? Then use the corresponding format. Everything after the “Rpt in” Should follow the example	Author Last Name, First Name. “Title of Original Article.”  Title of Original Book Volume (Year):  Pages. Rpt. In Title of Reference Book.  Editor’s Name.  Volume.  Place of Publication:  Publisher, copyright date.  Pages. Print. Roberts, Shelia. “The Bell Jar: Plath’s Confined World.”  World Literature Review 24 (1984): 232-38. Rpt. In Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.  Ed. Dennis Poupard.  Vol. 25.  Detroit: Gale, 1988. 399-402. Print.	(Roberts 400)

Periodicals

Type of Entry	Bibliography / Works Cited List	Citation in Text
11. Journal article (regardless of type of pagination)	Last, First. “Title of Article.”  Title of Journal Volume number. Issue (Year): page numbers. Print. Carter, John. “Motors in Our World.” Science News 51 (1984): 499-506. Print.	(Carter 500)
12. Magazine article (signed)	Last, First. “Title of Article.”  Title of Magazine day month year: page numbers. Print. Pikar, Avil. “Why Homework Can Hurt.” Newsweek 23 Dec. 1991: 70-71. Print.	(Pikar 70)
13.   Newspaper article (unsigned)	“Title of Article.” Title of Newspaper day month year: page. Print. [If the newspaper is a certain edition, morning or late, etc., add a comma after the date and place the edition. Follow the edition, or the date if there is no edition, with a colon and the page number(s)] “Give Baltimore More Hope.” The Baltimore Sun. 18 Dec. 1994: G6. Print.	(“Give” G6)

Miscellaneous

Type of Entry	Bibliography / Works Cited List	Citation in Text
14. Interview	Wiesel, Elie. Interview with Ted Koppel. Nightline. ABC. WABC, New York. 18 Apr. 2002. DVD. Ekey, William. Personal Interview. 12 January 2007.	Mention in your text According to Mr. Ekey…
15. Cartoon	Trudeau, Garry. "Doonesbury." Comic Strip. The Baltimore Sun 4 May 2002: 26. Print.	Mention in your text Trudeau’s humor in “Doonesbury”…
16. Map (non-digital)	Michigan. Map. Chicago: Rand, 2000. Print.	Mention in your text Michigan shows Brown Lake…”
17. Art work (painting, photograph, sculpture, etc.)	Original Bearden, Romare. The Train. Carole and Alex Rosenberg Collection, New York. Photograph of work (indicate complete pub. info for the source in which photo appears, including page) El Greco. Burial of Count Orgaz. San Tomé, Toledo. Resaissance Perspectives in Literature and Visual Arts. By Murray Roston. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1987. 192. Print.	Mention in your text The mystery of Bearden’s The Train…
18. Film or video	Title of film. Screenplay writer. Director. Main actors. Distributed by, year released. Jaws. Screenplay by Peter Benchley. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Perf. Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss. Universal Pictures, 1975. Film.	Mention in your text The horror in Jaws…

Digital Sources

Check online databases and other web services for “How to Cite” or Bibliography links. These links give you the actual citation or up to date steps and examples for MLA and APA formats.

Type of Entry	Bibliography / Works Cited List	Citation in Text (no page numbers used for digital sources)
19. Article from an online database When citing an online source, include the pub’tn date (1999) and the date you visited the site (25 Feb. 2004).	Follow guidelines given to you by the database	Mention in your text: Plath wrote...(“Sylvia”) According to Frick...
20. Newspaper article from online database When citing an online source, include pub. date (5 June 1998) and date you visited the site (25 Sept. 2003).	Follow guidelines given to you by the database	Mention in your text: Fletcher reports...
21. Article/Work from a Web site	Author/editor. "Title of Article." Web Site. last updated copyright. Publisher or sponsor or the site or N.p. if none given. Date of publication or n.d. if none given. Type/medium of publication (Web). Date of access (day, month, and year). Baish, Vanessa. "Self-Image." Teen Health and Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers. 2007. Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. n.d. Web. 19 Dec. 2007.	Mention in your text: Baish states...
22. Entire Web site When citing an online source, include the pub. date (2003) and the date you visited the site (25 Sept. 2003).	Electronic Poetry Center. 2003. State University of New York Buffalo. 25 Sept. 2003 <http://epc.buffalo.edu>.	Mention in your text: The Electronic Poetry Center archives...
23. CD-Rom	Author’s Last, First. “Title of Article.” CD-ROM Source.  Publisher of CD-ROM Source: Place of publication, Copyright date. CD-ROM. Aristotle. The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation. Ed. Jonathan Barnes. 2 vols. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1984. CD-ROM.	Mention in your text: Aristotle wrote…
24. Online government document	Agency. Title of Source. Date of pub.(day, month, year). Medium of source. Date of access (day, month, year). Center for Disease Control.  Fighting AIDS.  1984. Web. 15 December 1998.	Mention in your text: According to the Center for Disease Control ...
25. Online graphics	“Title of graphic.” Graphic type. Copyright holder. Name of site providing graphic. Date of access (day, month, year) “Afganistan.” Map. Magellan Geographix. SIRS Knowledge Source. Web. 25 Feb. 2004.	Mention in your text: “Afganistan” shows that the country’s population…

Sample Works Cited Page

Alvarez, Claire. "Inside Investigative Reporting: Nellie Bly’s Madhouse Memoir.” Newsweek. 25 Nov. 1999: 42-56.

Print.

American Experience: Around the World in 72 Days. 1999. PBS Online. Web. 10 October 2006.

Elbert, Monica M. “1850-1910.” Women Who Changed America. Ed. Robert Davis. Philadelphia: Chelsea House,

2004. 181-202. Print.

Kroeger, Brooke. Nellie Bly. New York: Random House, 1994. Print.

"Nellie Bly." Great Lives from History. Ed. Larissa Juliet Taylor. Vol. 1. California: Salem Press, 2006. Print.

Policy Statement

Employees shall comply with copyright laws and guidelines for use of print, multimedia, and computer software as set forth in the Administrative Guidelines and Procedures. Failure to comply shall result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.

Students shall comply with copyright laws and guidelines for use of print, multimedia, and computer software as set forth in the Administrative Guidelines and Procedures. Students who fail to comply shall be disciplined according to the procedures set forth in the Harford County Public School System's Parent/Student Handbook.

Students or employees shall obtain permission using the Copyright Permission Request form prior to publishing or reproducing more than fair use guidelines permit. When the copyright of a work is in doubt (as on the Internet), the employee or student shall assume it is copyrighted information and shall proceed accordingly.

The Superintendent shall be responsible for ensuring that administrative procedures for copyright policy are effectively implemented throughout the system.

Legal References

17 United States Code 101 et seq.

Policy Adopted: 9/11/2000

_______________________________________________________
Jacqueline C. Hass,
Secretary and Treasurer Board of Education of Harford County

Copyright Policy

Employees shall comply with copyright laws and guidelines for use of print, multimedia, and computer software as set forth in the Administrative Guidelines and Procedures. Failure to comply shall result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.

Students shall comply with copyright laws and guidelines for use of print, multimedia, and computer software as set forth in the Administrative Guidelines and Procedures. Students who fail to comply shall be disciplined according to the procedures set forth in the Harford County Public School System's Parent/Student Handbook.

Students or employees shall obtain permission using the Copyright Permission Request form prior to publishing or reproducing more than fair use guidelines permit. When the copyright of a work is in doubt (as on the Internet), the employee or student shall assume it is copyrighted information and shall proceed accordingly.

The Superintendent shall be responsible for ensuring that administrative procedures for copyright policy are effectively implemented throughout the system.

Procedures

The Human Resources Department will provide all current and new employees with a copy of the copyright policy and the accompanying procedures. All employees will be expected to abide by the policy and procedures.

Copyright

The purpose of copyright is to provide the author of an artistic, literary, musical, or dramatic work the rewards of his/her efforts. It is a legal tool whereby the author may grant (or not) permission to distribute, modify, perform, copy, display, or otherwise use the intellectual property.

While ideas cannot be copyrighted, the following are categories of work which can receive a copyright:

• Literary Works
• Musical Works, Including Accompanying Words
• Dramatic Works, Including Accompanying Music
• Pantomimes and Choreographic Works
• Pictorial, Graphic and Sculptural Works
• Motion Pictures and Other Audio Visual Works
• Sound Recordings
• Architectural Works

Public educational institutions have been granted exemptions to the copyright law in specific instances: face-to-face teaching, educational broadcasting, and non-standard performances. An owner's copyright is NOT infringed when, in an educational institution, an instructor or pupil reads, displays, or performs a copyrighted work in a classroom or similar place devoted to instruction. The activity must take place "face-to-face." Limited exemptions apply to instructional broadcasting and non-profit performances of copyrighted material.

Educational institutions are also granted limited use of copyrighted material through fair use guidelines. These guidelines are explained in the following pages.

Fair Use Guidelines for Printed Material and Music

At some point all educators are likely to be faced with an event or activity that bears directly on The Copyright Act of 1976. The purpose and conditions for the use of copyrighted materials are defined clearly under the law. Although producers have specific rights, which cannot be denied, fair use guidelines allow educators and students to have access to certain material for limited educational purposes. An understanding of the concept of fair use of copyrighted material is a key factor in determining what may or may not be copied. Section 107 of the copyright law states that:

…the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section (Sec.106) for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, (including multiple copies for classroom use) scholarship, or research is not an infringement of copyright.

Furthermore, section 107 lists the following criteria for evauluating the fair use of copyrighted materials in an educational setting:

• The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational pruposes;
• The nature of the copyrighted work;
• The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation of the copyrighted work as a whole;
• The effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

This chart contains the current consensus on the extent of fair use. The more one exceeds these guidelines, the greater the chance of violating copyright laws.

Genre	Individual copies for research or preparation	Multiple copies for classroom use
Poetry	One poem	250-word excerpt or complete poem less than 250 words and not more than two pages
Prose	One article, story or essay	One, 2,500 word or less complete article, story or essay or a 1,000 word excerpt of a longer article not to exceed 10% of the work. No more than one complete poem, article, story or essay or two excerpts by the same author. Not more than three from the same collective work or periodical volume during one class term.
Textbook	One chapter	Same as prose
Graphic	One graphic per book	The graphic may not be altered in any way.
Workbook Pages	NEVER make multiple copies of a workbook page, etc., unless permission is granted.	A single overhead transparency from a single page of a consumable workbook may be made.
Music	One copy of a lost part in an emergency if it is to be replaced with a new commercial copy.	10% of a musical work as long as it does not constitute a performable unit. Music may NEVER be copied to be used for a performance

All copies should include copyright symbol, date, and publisher. The law permits nine instances of copying per course per term. The copied material is for only one course in the school.

Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia

The following guidelines were adopted as a nonlegislative report by the Subcommittee on courts and Intellectual Property, U S House of Representatives in 1996. While they are not legally binding, they represent the current consensus on the extent of fair use of multimedia. The more one exceeds these guidelines, the greater the chance of violating copyright laws.

Educational Multimedia Project

Educational multimedia projects are included in the Pre K-12 Instructional Technology Outcomes approved by the General Curriculum Committee in June 1998. Multimedia projects are defined the following way in the guidelines:

Educational multimedia projects created under these guidelines incorporate students' or educators' original material, such as course notes on commentary, together with various copyrighted media formats including but not limited to, motion media, music, text material, graphics, illustrations, photographs and digital software which are combined into an integrated presentation.

When multimedia projects are used for educational purposes, educators and students may include copyrighted material subject to the time, portion, copying, and distribution limitations. Educators in the Harford County Public Schools System are defined as teachers, administrators, and others who engage in scholarly, research, or instructional activities for educational institutions.

Student Use

Students may prepare, perform, and display multimedia projects with limited copyrighted material.

Educators

Students may prepare, perform, and display multimedia projects with limited copyrighted material for the following uses:

• Face-to-face instruction
• Assignments to students for self-directed study
• Remote instruction if the institutions can prevent duplication
• Peer conferences and workshops

Limitations on use of copyrighted material in one multipedia project.

Time	Educators--up to two years Students may retain a copy for portfolio of academic work or for personal use in job interviews.
Copying and Distribution	Educators may retain no more than two copies, one on reserve for students and one to archive for professional portfolio. An additional copy may be made to replace a lost or damaged copy. Students' work may not be copied or distributed without permission.
Portion	For educator or student, the portion limits apply to an academic semester, cycle or term:
Motion Media	Up to 10% or three minutes which ever is less.
Text	Up to 10% or 1000 words, which ever is less.
Music, Lyrics, and Music Video	Up to 10% but no more than 30 seconds of individual or aggregate of works
Illustrations and Photographs	An entire photograph or illustration, but no more than five images by an artist In collective works, not more than 10% or 15 images, whichever is less.
Numerical Data Sets	Up to 10% of 2500 fields (in database) or cell entries (in spread sheet)

Examples of when permission is required

1. Using multimedia for non-educational or commercial purposes.
2. Duplication of multimedia projects beyond limitations listed in guidelines.
3. Distribution of multimedia projcts beyond limitations listed in guidelines.

Caution on use of material from the internet in multimedia projects

1. There is a mixture of copyrighted and public domain information on the internet.
2. Some copyrighted works may have been placed on the internet iwthout permission.
3. Fair use guidelines do not apply to reproducing some or parts of computer softeware.

Multimedia on use of material from the internet in multimedia projects

The use of any form of multimedia in the development of a website should parallel the rules for multimedia projects

Computer software is protected by the 1976 Copyright Act as literacy work; however, fair use guidelines are impossible to apply. Software publishers issue various types of licenses for the purchase and use of their products, i.e., site licenses, lab packs, network licenses, and one license per computer.

Unless written authorization is supplied by the publisher, students and staff are prohibited from copying software licensed from the school system.

Personal software may not be loaded on equipment owned by the school district.

Illegal copies of software may not be used on school equipment.