Video Selection Policy

The White Cloud Community Library subscribes to the use of video materials as a means of home entertainment, information, and instruction. In supplying these materials the Library will use the following criteria:

1. Tapes must be VHS format, 1/2 in. width
    

2. Subject matter should be appropriate for home use, keeping in mind the various interests of all patrons.
    

3. Library staff will select and maintain the collection in accordance with the standards and criteria set forth in the LIBRARY MATERIALS SELECTION POLICY adopted by the Library Board. All titles purchased will include films with a MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) rating of G,PG,PG-13 or R. No X-rated films will be selected. In addition to film classics, educational, and travel video, the Library will acquire popular movie titles selected from reviews, lists of other libraries and patron requests.
    

4. Patrons must be 18 years of age to check out videos.

We strive for a reasonable balance and variety of materials in the collection for both children and adults.

The Library recommends that patrons preview videocassettes to ensure suitability for family viewing. It is the Library Board's feeling that the parents should decide what their child should view.

- June 1999