Teaching and libraries in kendriya vidyalayas

TEACHING AND LIBRARIES IN
KENDRIYA VIDYALAYAS
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o School Library
o Understanding KV Libraries
Objectives
Resources
Services
Activities
o Role of a Teacher
User
Advocate
Contributor
Collaborator
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Changing concepts
Impact on Academic Achievement
Student-Teacher-Librarian
Classroom-Library
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S. L. Faisal www.slfaisal.com
KVS Induction Course 2015
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o Building Collaborations

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16th Century

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1895 A. D.
http://www.trevormidgley.com/LGSHistories/Pri
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The 21st Century School Library
Resources
Books
Online
Resources
Library
Periodicals
Newspapers
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Automation, Networking
Multimedia
Library Staff
Services
Databases
Consortia
Collaboration Teachers
Parents
Administrators
Society
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 Supporting and enhancing educational goals as outlined in Kendriya Vidyalaya
Sangathan’s mission and curriculum.
 Be the knowledge hub of the school and disseminate knowledge as widely as
possible.
 Provide a curriculum-based, flexibly scheduled, open access learning environment
that accommodates all learners.
 Facilitate creation of new knowledge.
 Facilitate optimal use of knowledge by all staff and students.
 Encourage and foster reading habit among staff and students.
 To remain technologically advanced and updated.
 Effectively participate in the teaching-learning programmes of the school.
 To provide intellectual access to information through learning activities that are
integrated into the curriculum and that help all students achieve information literacy
by developing effective cognitive strategies for selecting, retrieving, analyzing,
evaluating, synthesizing, creating, and communicating information in all formats and
in all content areas of the curriculum.
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Objectives of a School Library

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Material Resources
Books Periodicals Newspapers
•Dynamic Collection
development Policy
•50% budget allotted for
books for elementary
classes (up to VIII)
•Separate collection of
publications by KVS,
NCERT and CBSE
•50% of the amount spent
on purchase of books in
Hindi language
irrespective of subject
matter.
•A core collection of books
in the regional language
(for extended reading)
•At least 25 periodicals
•General, subject,
children’s & competitive
exam related magazines
•Journals related to
Education, Training,
Teaching and Research.
•Multiple copies of the
children’s magazines
should be procured and
issued to class libraries for
leisure reading.
•At least 5 Newspapers
•4 National and 1
Regional in scope
•English-2, Hindi-2,
Regional Language-1
•Where regional
language is Hindi, only 4
newspapers should be
subscribed.
•Schools having
Economics/business
studies/commerce as a
subject should subscribe
a business daily besides
the general newspapers.
•Business Daily for
extended reading
Special Collections
•Students’ project work
•Question papers
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Material Resources
Multimedia
•Children’s multimedia CD/DVDs
•Children’s Films (CD/DVDs)
•General multimedia reference CD/DVDs
•Curriculum based CD/DVDs
•Open source software
programmes/resources
•Documentaries
•Feature Films
Open Educational Resources
Resources for differently abled users
Collection of Maps, coins, pamphlets,
manuscripts, mind games, stamps,
newspaper clippings, rare books and
historical documents
Electronic/Online Resources
•Educational Databases (free/paid)
•E-Journals, Online Encyclopedias
•E-Books (Textbooks, classics, subject
reference books, etc) (free/paid)
KV Library Digital Consortium
for E-Content
KVS may centrally subscribe to Electronic
databases, E-Book depositories and E-
Journals and provide access to each school in
a password protected environment where
libraries will act as nodal points.
(eg: UGC-INFLIBNET, N-LIST, etc)
KVS may create own E-content depository
developed by teachers and students and
provide access to it through the Libraries.
Other Learning Resources
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How to suggest/procure books for the Library ?
To encourage more teacher participation in the library, a teacher may be
allowed to submit the details of book(s) intended to be purchased (and which
are not available in the library) amounting to not more than Rs. 1000/- to the
Library Committee. After approval of the Library Committee, the teacher may
be allowed to purchase the intended book(s). The cost of the book(s) should
be reimbursed to the teacher after the books are deposited in the library
along with the bill.
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Library Management
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Principal Primary Teacher-1
Primary Teacher-2
Secondary Teacher-1
Secondary Teacher-2
Secondary Teacher-3
From
different
subject
backgrounds
Librarian
Student-1 (Class VII-XII)
Student-2 (Class VII-XII)
School Library Committee
Sub-Committees
Book Selection Sub-Committee
Stock Verification Sub-Committee
Reader’s Club Sub-Committee
1. To develop the Annual Library Activity
Plan (ALAP).
2. To recommend suitable budgetary
provision for the library.
3. To select books and other resources for
the library keeping in view the natural
interests and needs of the children, their
age group and intelligence.
4. To select books for teachers on various
subjects apart from Academics.
5. To review library rules and formulate new
rules for the library.
6. To make recommendations for proper
functioning of School Library.
7. The Library Committee can invite other
teachers/students to the meetings for
their advice/suggestion.
8. This committee shall meet as often as
possible but at least once in two months.
Functions (Terms of Reference)
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Library Management
Library Periods
•Each section will have 2
Library periods/week
(defers depend on the
number of sections)
•The librarian shall be
excluded from allotting
library/arrangement periods
in the first period of the day
to allow him/her to carry out
stock rectification, proper
arrangement of periodicals,
newspapers, furniture,
records, taking back-up in
the software, recording daily
statistics, cleaning and
dusting.
Class Libraries
•Under the charge of class
teachers.
•Class Library Book issue
register in the Library and a
book issue register with the
class teacher.
•Books shall be attractively
displayed in glassed
shelves.
•The set of books issued
should be renewed at least
once in 3 months.
•Every student should
maintain a library note
book.
•Class Library Book
selection Committee shall
be formed.
Departmental Libraries
•Departmental libraries shall
be developed in senior
secondary level under the
charge of the senior most
PGTs (Head) of each subject.
•Subject reference books
shall be issued from the
main library in the name of
these teachers through a
Departmental library issue
register.
•The teacher in-charges
should maintain a stock
register and keep the books
in lockable shelves. These
books shall be recalled at
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Library Services and Activities
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Library
Circulation
Books
Periodicals
Multimedia
Reference
Ready Reference Service
Current Awareness Service
Library Instruction
Reading Lists
Newsletters, Guidelines,..
Inter-Library loan
Digital/Virtual Reference
Library Blog
Career &
Guidance
Reader’s
Club
Digital Library
Annual Library Activity Plan (ALAP) Library Curriculum
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Library Services: Circulation
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Books
Issue of books for home
use –
•Each student would be
issued two books at a time
for a period of two (2)
weeks.
•Staff members, including
Principal, would be issued
maximum five books at a
time for a maximum period
of one month.
Periodicals
•Periodicals may also be
issued for a week only.
•However, it must be
ensured that at least two
previous issues are
available in the library.
•A separate register should
be maintained for this
purpose.
Multimedia
•Multimedia CD/DVDs shall
be issued to the teachers
only to use within the
school campus to avoid
copyright violations and
misuse.
•A separate register should
be maintained for this
purpose.
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Loss of Books & Library Fine
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In case a user loses a book
he/she would have to either
replace the book or deposit the
market cost of the book at the
time of loss.
Loss of Books Late fine (Students)
Students : Exempted from fine.
But as a measure to avoid overdue:
After the allowable two times renewal, if the
book is not returned, the defaulters name shall
be displayed in the library notice board.
•An overdue reminder should also be send to
the student through the class teacher.
If the student fails to return the book at this
stage (after one month) a second overdue
reminder will be sent and he/she shall not be
allowed for further borrowing.
•If the student still fails to return the books it
will be considered as lost and the cost of the
book or the fine amount which ever is less
should be recovered through the class teacher
along with the routine fee collected.
Late fine (Staff)
After the allowable two times
renewal, if the book (excluding
textbooks) is not returned, two
overdue reminders should be
send to the staff member
through the office.
• An amount of Rs. 1/day should
also be collected from the staff
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Reference Services
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Reference
Ready Reference
One copy each of
dictionaries,
encyclopaedias, atlases,
thesaurus, yearbooks,
almanacs, books of
quotations, facts, records,
first aid manuals, etc
This collection should be
kept on a Ready
Reference shelf near to
the reading room and
circulation counter to
provide easy and ready
access.
1. Current Awareness Service (CAS): Announcements in the
morning assembly, display of new arrival lists on the
bulletin boards, current content service (contents pages
of journals are photocopied and circulated among the
teachers), newspaper clipping service, etc.
2. Library instruction: Library orientation and user education
programmes (know your library, how to find your book,
internet search strategies, library tour, etc).
3. Preparation of Bibliographies and Class-wise reading lists
4. Publication of Library Newsletters/Bulletins, Library user
guides, brochures, posters, etc
5. Virtual/digital Reference: Reference services through
telephone, e-mail, chat, SMS, etc
6. Inter-library loan: Libraries in a cluster may share their
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Reader’s Club
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Objective
To develop reading habit and Information Literacy skills among students and teachers
Constitution
Students:
1. President
2. Secretary
3. Class (VI-XII)
representatives
Teachers: 2 (Two)
teachers with good
reading habit
Librarian:
as Convener
Members: (50-75)/
Selected as part of
the school’s club
activity planning
/separately
Activities
1. Competitions: Book review writing, reading competition,
story telling, book jacket/book mark designing, literary quiz,
spot poetry writing, slogan writing, poster designing, etc
2. Assembly programmes: weekly book review in the assembly
in English and Hindi, enacting the famous characters from a
book, etc
3. Awards: Reader of the Month / Best reader awards
4. Events and campaigns: Meet the Author, visit to a local
library, drop everything and read campaign, My dear Book
(Book talks), reading week etc
5. Reading Audit: Annual reader surveys to analyze reading
habit and reader behaviours.
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Extension Activities
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Digital Library Library Blog Career Guidance &
Counseling Corner
•Greenstone Digital Library
software (GSDL) , (Open
source), developed by
UNESCO
•The digital collection shall
contain freely available E-
Books (text books, classics,
children’s literature, etc),
study materials, question
papers, good quality
presentations and projects
by teachers and students,
educational videos, image
collections, web links, etc.
•The digital library shall be
accessed through the
school’s Local Area
Network (LAN)
•The library shall create
and maintain its own blog
through which it can
collect, organize and
disseminate online
resources useful for
students and teachers
effectively.
•The library blog will act as
a publicity tool and a digital
interface to the library.
•This shall be linked to the
school website.
The school website should
have a page for the library
with all basic information
and links to library blogs.
• A career guidance and
counselling corner shall be
set up in the library.
• A collection of related
books and periodicals shall
be maintained.
•A display board for
publicizing career
opportunities and
counselling activities.
•The library shall take
initiative to organize career
guidance and counselling
activities and sessions in
the school.
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1. Exhibitions and Displays: on important days (Independence Day, Republic Day,
Children’s Day, Teacher’s Day, National Education Day, Women’s Day), birth/death
anniversaries of important personalities (Gandhi Jayanti, Ambedkar jayanti, etc)
2. Celebrations: National Library Week, International School Library Month, World Book
and Copyright Day, World Children’s Book Day, Reading week, Hindi Fortnight, etc
3. Competitions: Reading, Story telling, Book review, Book jacket designing, bookmark
designing, Book/Literary Quiz, Library lot, Poster designing, slogan writing, Fastest Book
searcher, Smart web searcher, Spot poetry writing, Story telling, etc
4. Book Fairs: organized in collaboration with Governmental (NBT/CBT) and outside
agencies.
5. Events: Meet the Author, Local Library visits, Book talks, etc
6. Awards: Best Reader Award, Reader of the Month, Best Book reviewer Award, etc
7. Publications: Library Bulletins, user guides , brochures, posters, etc
8. Teaching Information Literacy Skills : Activities based on the Library Information
Literacy curriculum (lectures, presentations, skill tests, hands on sessions, etc)
The librarian shall device innovative library activities/programmes and that should be
incorporated into the Annual Library Activity Plan.
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READ !!!

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Use the Library with your Students

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CO-CREATION

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OPENNESS
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Reaching out: The KV Pattom way

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Blog

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Collaborative
Learning

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Reaching the Users where they are…

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Wikis

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Questions ??

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“A library is not a building stacked with books – it is a
repository and source of information and ideas, a place for
learning and enquiry, and for the generation of thought
and the creation of new knowledge”
-National Knowledge Commission, 2005
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S. L. FAISAL
Librarian
Kendriya Vidyalaya Pattom (Shift-I)
slfaizal@gmail.com
9447699724
www.slfaisal.com

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