PLAY Student Library Card Program

 

PINES Library Access for Youth (PLAY) is brought to you through a collaboration between Carrollton City Schools, Georgia Library PINES*, and your public library Neva Lomason Memorial Library. 

Carrollton City Schools student ID numbers will act as a library card number for your public library! The public library provides free access to books and online resources to help your child succeed in school, as well as fun resources that help develop a lifelong love of reading.

HOW IT WORKS:

• Visit http://www.wgrls.org/services/librarycard/ for more information on how to receive your library card or register for digital access. 

• This is an “opt-out” benefit. Your child’s Student ID number will be provided to the West Georgia Regional Library to be used as your library card number unless you choose to opt-out using the link below.

  OPT OUT

Benefits of the PLAY library card are endless!

• Search the library catalog of over 11 million items for books, DVD’s, audiobooks, and other materials
• Access the Online World Book Encyclopedia and nonfiction ebooks
• Access Mango, the highest-rated language-learning app, for free!
• Download audio books for free via Libby
• Access practice tests for the SAT, PSAT, and many others
• Store a personal list of books you’ve read and would like to read

When your student visits a library in-person, there are even more perks!

• Request items from over 300 PINES libraries across Georgia for free delivery to your local library
• Ask our expert staff for book recommendations
• Check out up to five items (books, DVD’s, audiobooks)
• Pay no late fees! (Fees apply only for lost or damaged items.)
• Attend free storytelling, classes, activities and special events

 

NOTICE:

The purpose of this program is to provide every student in the Carrollton City Schools  district with public library card access provided by West Georgia Regional Library System (WGRLS). To this end, the parties agree to undertake the following:

1. CCS agrees to designate WGRLS as a school official for purposes of FERPA, and to provide access to personally identifiable student information only in accordance therewith.
2. CCS will provide WGRLS with the following for every student enrolled in CCS student ID number, first and last name, birth date, school, grade, address, phone number, and parent email address.
3. WGRLS will integrate CCS Student ID numbers with WGRLS/PINES Library accounts to allow every student enrolled in CCS instant access to WGRLS databases and materials.  Implementation will include training for students and staff on WGRLS's educational resources.
4. At all times during the use or maintenance of the student information provided for in this agreement, WGRLS agrees that is subject to the direction and control of the CCS with regard to the handling of the above-described student information.
5. Upon the specific, written request of any parent, guardian or eligible student, WGRLS agrees to permanently destroy any student information for said student obtained under this agreement. This provision shall be inapplicable to any separately or independently created WGRLS records associated with the student.   

If a parent disagrees with any of the above, they may choose to opt-out their child from access. Please click the Opt-Out link above. 

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*Georgia Library PINES (Public Information Network for Electronic Services) is the public library automation and lending network for 300 libraries and affiliated service outlets in 53 library systems serving 146 counties in Georgia.