What makes a good school libraries?
The school library enhances the learning outcomes of the students
by providing a effective services and products. It helps the students and the teachers
in academics and a good library encourages the reading experiences of students
and thus it long run it helps in creating lifelong learners.
Characteristics of an effective school library?
It should provide quality services and programmes that
support the academic curriculum.
It also helps teachers to integrate the information literacy
skills in the learning activities of students.
The school library helps students to develop skills to find,
evaluate and use the information knowledge thereby promoting the information
literacy.
Once a student enriches the reading experience. He/she will become
an independent and lifelong learner.
It will also support teaching and learning strategies and
both teachers and students get benefited.
A good library will provide teachers the support to enhance
learning outcomes.
A library is a source which will help the students and teachers
to find the latest information in multiple formats both print and non-print.
A efficient school library always incorporate the latest
technologies to enhance the learning experience of readers.
Offer stimulating teaching and learning environments.
A good library reflects and support the social and cultural
profile of the school.
What makes a school library efficient?
A library should have skilled, trained and enthusiastic
staff.
The time allocation for the services provided by the library
should be adequate so that the users didn’t find any problem regarding the
timing. The school must include few hours for library in his time table.
A good library needs funds for its services and maintenance.
Every school should provide a good budget to their library as it is one of the
crucial organs of the school.
The library staff should many planning activities. They should
be a part of school committees.
The library staff should always have awareness of the best
practices they can incorporate in the library services.
Guiding principles for school libraries:
Information literacy: Every school library must focus on the
information literacy of their students. If the literacy skills are learned by
the readers from school level it will always help them in their academics. It
will also help in the development of an information-literate student.
Service: The school library should provide ICT enabled services.
In present world the application of ICT is very important even in school
libraries.
Reading: The school library is a catalyst to learners and it
will produce a life-long learners. If we
incorporate good learning habits in school student it will help to spread the
information literacy skills.
Access: The school library should provide their services
both in the library located in the school and through remote login. In the
present scenario where due to pandemic conditions the students are taking their
lectures from home the school library should work to provide the relevant material
via remote login access.
Information resources: The collection of school library must
support the curriculum of the school and satisfy the query of the readers.
Place: A library is considered as a heart of the institution
so the location of the library in the school is such that readers can easily have
the access to the library. Mostly it is situated in the central place in the
library. It plays a key role in the intellectual, educational, and cultural
life of the school.
Grassroot scenario of school libraries:
There are many library which are well equipped with the latest technology and have good library collections. and they also provide information literacy programme to their students. But this is not the case of all the libraries. There are still a lots of libraries that require improvement to meet the need of the current digital environment. They don't have a good collection, the trained library staff and the technical support. there are many reason behind it the major one is that they don't have needed budget for their library. So, we have to work in this area to develop a society which is information-literate.
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