Print and Non-Print Guidelines

Print and non-print materials selected should exemplify quality literature and encourage discernment in individual selection.

Selection Criteria

The following criteria are provided as guidelines for selecting appropriate print and nonprint materials. These criteria support Seventh-day Adventist beliefs.

Select print and non-print materials that:

•Support the local school’s curriculum

•Match the maturity level of the students

•Relate to various cultures

•Address current issues

•Free of gender or ethnic bias

•Present information with accuracy

•Demonstrate good literary style

Avoid print and non-print materials that:

•Emphasize evolution. However, brief references to evolution whose major content is of value can be used as an opportunity for the teacher to bring out the differences in Biblical creation and evolution.

•Picture evil as desirable and goodness as trivial.

•Highlight vulgarity, eroticism, sentimentalism, and escapism. Materials in which minimal references of profanity are found may be selected if it is clearly marginal and content has significant value .

Culling Criteria:

The following criteria are provided as guidelines for discarding print and non-print materials:

Discard print and non-print materials that:

•Does not meet the Print and Non-print Materials Selection Criteria

•Is out-of-date or non-applicable

•Is in poor physical condition

•Is not appropriate for age level