importance of school library and organisation

1. IMPORTANCE OF SCHOOL
LIBRARY AND
ORGANISATION
SUBMITTED BY : SARANYA .S.NAIR .Roll-112 Dept OF NS
SUBMMITTED TO: Dr. PADMAPRIYA Dept OF NS
NSS TRAINING COLLEGE PANDALAM

2. INDEX
INTRODUCTION 3-4
CONTENTS 5
CONCLUSION 6
REFERENCE 6-7

3. INTRODUCTION
A library is a treasure-house of knowledge or to be more precise with the
definition: library is an organized collection of resources made accessible
to a defined community for reference or borrowing. It provides physical
or digital access to material, and may be a physical building or room, or a
virtual space, or both. Libraries range in size from a few shelves of books
to several million items.
A school library is a library within a school where students, staff, and
often, parents of a public or private school have access to a variety of
resources. The goal of the school library is to ensure that all members of
the school community have equitable access "to books and reading, to
information, and to information technology." School libraries are
distinct from public libraries because they serve as "learner-oriented
laboratories which support, extend, and individualize the school's
curriculum. A school library serves as the centre and coordinating
agency for all material used in the school.
The school library exists to provide a range of learning opportunities for
both large and small groups as well as individuals with a focus on
intellectual content, information literacy, and the learner. In addition to
classroom visits with collaborating teachers, the school library also
serves as a place for students to do independent work, use computers,
equipment and research materials; to host special events such as author
visits and book clubs; and for tutoring and testing. School libraries
function as a central location for all of the information available, and a
school librarian functions as the literary map to the resources and
materials found within the library
A library needs a good librarian who should be well-qualified in library
science. Such a person can maintain the books properly. He can guide
the students to select suitable books. He should be cheerful and co-operative;
one who can interact well with the readers. The reader easily
gets the books he wants, if he consults the librarian. Thus, the guidance

4. of the librarian saves a lot of time of the readers. A good librarian
welcomes suggestions from readers for the improvement of the library.
He purchases new books after taking into consideration the needs of the
readers. Normally, a library is housed in a very spacious hall but small
libraries are also present in small towns and villages. The furniture
inside the library should be comfortable, neat and clean.
Students/readers should maintain strict discipline, so that others are not
disturbed. The atmosphere in a library should be peaceful and scholarly.
A library has thousands of books in stock. It has books on various topics,
subjects and events. New books are added from time to time. All the
books are kept systematically. They are classified and indexed according
to their subjects. The labelling of books helps the reader to get a
particular book without any difficulty. To find out the library number of
a particular book, one can take the help of the subject and author index.
Most libraries keep a book display rack where new arrivals are kept.
A library also keeps magazines, periodicals, newspapers and journals.
These are kept on the reading table of the library. The readers can keep
themselves equipped with current events and the latest developments in
various fields.
A reader should handle the books carefully so that no pages are torn or
that no books are misplaced. He should keep the book at the proper
place after reading. The librarian should see than pin-drop silence is
maintained in the library. Readers should abide by the library rules.

5. CONTENTS
Libraries are significant for a civil society. They contain books on various
subjects ranging from history, science, fiction, literature, fashion, health
and beauty. Books contain good thought. They ensure accessibility to
vast ocean of knowledge to common man. There are people in every
society who have craving for reading but have no money to satisfy their
urge. Libraries are blessing for such people. The concept of the
emergence of free libraries goes back to the knowledge craving of such
people. In west such libraries are provided by the philanthropist people.
Libraries contain books on various subjects. Some books are cheap but
many books are costly. An ordinary student can finds it difficult to
purchase such books. Libraries help them
Most libraries have materials arranged in a specified order according to
a library classification system, so that items may be located quickly and
collections may be browsed efficiently
Libraries are often divided into departments staffed by both
paraprofessionals and professional librarians.
 Circulation – Handles user accounts and the loaning/returning
and shelving of materials.
 Collection Development – Orders materials and maintains
materials budgets.
 Reference – Staffs a reference desk answering questions from users
instructing users, and developing library programming.
 Technical Services – Works behind the scenes cataloguing and
processing new materials and deaccessioning weeded materials.
 Stacks Maintenance – Re-shelves materials that have been
returned to the library after patron use and shelves materials that

6. have been processed by Technical Services. Stacks Maintenance
also shelf reads the material in the stacks to ensure that it is in the
correct library classification order.
Basic tasks in library management include the planning of
acquisitions (which materials the library should acquire, by
purchase or otherwise), library classification of acquired materials,
preservation of materials, the deaccessioning of materials, patron
borrowing of materials, and developing and administering library
computer systems
CONCLUSION
With the growing popularity of internet, which provides loads of
information with just a click of a mouse, one may pause to think about
the decreasing relevance and importance of a library in today's world.
But one should keep in mind that a person goes to a library not only to
search and get information from books but also to sit and study there.
The ambience and the peaceful and scholarly atmosphere then helps one
to concentrate more on one's work and study. Thus, libraries will never
become redundant. They will always be there to indicate the presence of
a well-read and educated society.
The future of school libraries
There is value for schools offering the ability for an e-book lending
system. We can create an ePlatform that provides schools and libraries
the ability to lend out e-books in a secure manner. It also allows users to
load other material onto their computers or mobile devices, such as the
teacher's notes. In an article supporting e-lending systems in schools,
Temple argues that they add value, stating “Students may no longer have
to carry around the same volume of paper based materials — it could
completely change the way a student works
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