Basic Information:

• Hours during the school year:
  
  • Monday thru Friday: 7:30 AM - 4:30 PM (unless otherwise posted)
• Our Mission: Our mission is to develop students who are independent and effective users of information. These information management skills are integral to academic achievement, to responsible participation in a democratic society and to lifelong learning. The library will supply access to materials in a variety of formats, provide instruction in use and promote appreciation of reading with the collaboration of other educators.

Staff:

• Teacher-Librarian/Director: Steve Powell (x 2252) [spowell@durango.k12.co.us]

• Teacher-Librarian: Leigh Gozigian (x 2251)[lgozigian@durango.k12.co.us]

• Please respect the rights of other library users. We expect adult behavior.
• When in the Library:
  • Be considerate of others who are working.
  • Use a quiet voice.
  • Water in closed containers only. No Food.
  • Use appropriate language.
  • Dress appropriately.

When using Library materials:

• When using Library computers:
  • With the exception of the OPAC and staff computers, all other computers are available for research and application (word processing etc.) use.
  • No game playing on any Library computers.
  • Do not exit from the desktop to the control panel, preference screens, or to any unauthorized programs.
  • Authorized programs are listed on each computer.
  • Do not change any Desktop preferences or patterns or any other operating files.
  • Do not download from the Internet.

• Guidelines: A teacher will set the ground rules for the honest completion of assignments within his or her course; the rules may vary from assignment to assignment. In particular, the extent to which group work is permissible depends solely on the instructor.
  • Plagiarism is suspected if an assignment calling for independent design and research results in a product that includes wording or conclusions that do not appear to reflect the individual student’s efforts or work.
  • Cheating is suspected if an assignment calling for independent design and research results in a product that cannot be explained to the teacher, in terms of either general method, synthesis, evaluation and/or cannot be supported by research documentation.
  • A teacher may require that all research documentation be attached to the final product. Absent such documentation, if a question of cheating or plagiarism arises, the teacher may draw conclusions from the product and documentation provided.
  • It should be stressed that in cases of uncertainty it is the student’s responsibility to ascertain from the instructor whether an activity is considered cheating or not cheating.

• Cheating applies to:
  • Online and CD materials, including Internet (written, graphics, images)
  • Audio/visual materials (video, film, cassette, TV, radio)
  • Print materials (books, magazines, newspapers)

What is cheating? Cheating is:

• Submitting someone else’s work, or a modification of that work, as your own, with or without that person’s knowledge (plagiarism). Regardless of the circumstances under which it was obtained, copied, or modified.
• What is not cheating? Cheating does not include:
  • Incorporating someone else’s work, idea, and or graphics and images, in your own work when proper notation to the work is made and proper citation is given.
  • Submitting work done alone or with the help of the teacher.
  • Solving as a group a problem, or creating a product, in which team or group work is permitted, and submitting one copy as group work, identifying each member of the group.

Disciplinary Action:

• Adapted from: University of Illinois at Springfield Computer Science Program: Policies and Procedures Regarding Cheating, May 1977

• Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause, or movement may be explored. Intellectual Freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive, and disseminate ideas.
  • The American Library Association

• Plagiarism includes “both the theft or misappropriation of intellectual property and the substantial unattributed textual copying of another’s work.” (Office of Research Integrity)
• When a person conducts research, he or she will be gathering materials from a variety of sources. The materials may be in books, journals, encyclopedias, sheet music, or other print sources. It also includes other materials such as graphics from the Web, photographs, recorded music, videos, and film. In addition, they may be obtained from CD-ROMs or from the World Wide Web. Wherever the information is obtained, one must be sure to give the author of the work credit when using this information. (University of Maryland)

Examples of plagiarism are as follows:

• If no author is given for an article, Web page, or other work, you still must cite the source. (University of Maryland)