School Library: An Educational Tool - Hardcover

The School Library : An Educational Tool

Contents Preface Introduction 1 School library-is rise and organisation 2 Aims of the school library 3 Methods in the library 4 Outreach programmes  5 Resource 6 Resource persons 7 Technical matters 8 Infrastructure 9 Children?s literature Appendix Bibliography IndexIn the introduction to this book Mohanraj deals with a survey of the history library movement in our country from its beginning to modern times and takes a peep into the development of school library movement in the world and in India Having said this he rightly points out that those who say that the library is an institution that we inherited from the British are ignorant of our library heritage and those who refuse to acknowledge the contribution of the west to our library movement are blind to realityFew books on school library have dealt with topics that the author discusses in this book Unlike most books on school library the author focuses primarily on the educational aspect of the school library While advocating the need for reforming the method of teaching in Indian schools he calls for encouraging the spirit of research in school children As such he advocates library-centred teaching and says the school library should be seen as an extension of the classroomTwo important topics that Mohanraj discusses are library ethics and discipline in the school library School librarians seldom think of the importance of teaching children library ethic This book gives library ethic the importance it deserves and also deals with the methods of instilling it in children The author it is obvious favours teaching library ethics unobtrusively when children look for source books in connection with research or visit for borrowing books for reading at home and not as a subject per se Regarding maintenance of discipline he sways the ambience of formality prevailing in classrooms considerably helps teachers in maintaining discipline This cannot be expected in the school library where the atmosphere is necessarily very informal In addition to that unlike teachers the school librarian cannot afford to be a strict disciplinarian; he has to be a friend and guide As a result maintenance of discipline in the school library is an onerous taskTechnical matters are confined to one chapter and another chapter is devoted to infrastructure This is the only book on school library that deals with children?s literature in detail and points out the need for a library in preschools Many librarians may raise eyebrows when the author makes out a case for having toys in preschool and primary school libraries This book thus presents several novel ideas not usually found in books on school library 196 pp. Artikel-Nr. 91210

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