RHS Library Policies

Library Holdings

The Rossview High School Library Media Center provides a wide array of materials including approximately 15,000 books, 55 magazine subscriptions, and daily subscriptions to the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle, the Nashville Tennessean, and USA Today. Multimedia materials available include videos, CD-ROM, DVD and audiobooks on cassette, CD and digital MP-3 players (Playaways). Specialized reference sources include general encyclopedias, special subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, atlases, and extensive biographies.

Materials Circulation

Check-Out Period: Books - 2 weeks; Magazines - 1 day; Audiobooks - 2 weeks

Fines: 25 cents per day per item

Unlimited materials may be checked out (unless fines are owed)

Return materials in the library book drop at the circulation desk.

Printing Services

Student copier: 10 cents per page (coin operated - takes dimes only)

Computer copier: 10 cents per page (pay at the circulation desk)

Special Collections

• Audio Books (marked with an "AB" call number)
• College and career materials (marked with a "CC" call number)
• Story Collection (marked with an "SC" call number)
• Tennessee Collection (marked with a "TN" call number)
• Music CD collection (marked with a "CD" call number)

Electronic Resources

24 computer workstations are equipped to access card catalog (Alexandria Researcher), the Internet*, CD-ROM databases, and other specialized reference sources. Word processing is available upon request.

To search for RHS library materials on the web, go to http://rhslibrary.cmcss.net. In the library, use "Alexandria Researcher" and search by author, title, subject or "any word (keyword).

To access Grolier Online (a paid subscription database that includes Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Books of Knowledge, and The New Book of Popular Science), go to http://auth.grolier.com/login/go_login_page.html from any Internet browser or go to the RHS Library Home page. The username is "cmcss" and the password is "grolier".

To access Electric Library on the Internet (another paid database with magazines, newspaper articles, pictures, books, TV/radio show transcripts,and maps), go to http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/libweb/elib/do/search. The username is subclark37040 and the password is 12527.

To access Visual Thesaurus (great for writing projects), go to http://www.visualthesaurus.com/subscriberlogin.do?success=%2f to log in. The username is "teacher@cmcss.net" and the password is "learn".

To access PowerMedia Plus (a database of video clips on curriculum standards), go to http://www.powermediaplus.com/. Teacher password for RHS is e9UM4hj9gm and student password is 6TcQ3wwu2i.

*Internet access is reserved for school research projects only. Students may check email ONLY before and after school, NOT during class time.

Advisory Passes

Students may come to the library to check out books, do school research, or pay overdue fines during advisory each day. A yellow checkout pass, signed by the library staff before classes begin each day, is required for admittance. Students must sign in at the circulation desk upon entering the library and place their passes in the "in" basket. Overdue notices are also acceptable hall passes for advisory. Passes will be placed in teacher boxes by the end of the day for accountability purposes.