Van Ruiten Family Library

 

 

Hello, and welcome to the library!

 

My name is Karen Crow, and I am your SMHS Librarian! These four walls will come to be the greatest tools in your academic journey here at Saint Mary's. We have provided a variety of tools in this portal to help you achieve the academic excellence that you desire. In the navigation bar above, you will find links to different pages that you can use to accomplish many different goals. We encourage you to look around each area of our page to understand our mission for you here; learn all that you can! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to me at [email protected]

 

 

 

 

The American Library Association (ALA) 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 19, 1939, by the ALA Council; amended October 14, 1944; June 18, 1948; February 2, 1961; June 27, 1967; January 23, 1980; inclusion of age reaffirmed January 23, 1996.