[LM_NET] media center fines and access to books

["Brenner, Christine Salerno" <CS1221@ECU.EDU>]

As a middle school English teacher, I was scheduled to take my class to the media 
center every two weeks. Inevitably, students would incur fines and lose books and 
not all children/families could afford the fines or book replacement costs. The 
result would be that the student would not be able to take out materials. If access 
to information and materials is a right and not a privilege, how can we deny 
students this right? And if looked at closely, the students being denied are our 
most disadvantaged. I know that we are trying to teach responsibility with this 
policy, but isn’t there another way that doesn’t deny children/teens access to 
books? Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Any alternatives to this media center 
policy you have seen tried? Is this a form of discrimination?

Thanks!

Christine Brenner
MLS student/Language Arts teacher, Raleigh, NC
cs1221@ecu.edu

(Also, I am an MLS student. Any advice about getting into the field would be 
greatly appreciated as well.)



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