TOPIC :LIBRARIES,SCHOOL LIBRARY,IMPORTANCE,ORGANISATION

Shintu TNatural Science

A LIBRARY IS A COLLECTION OF SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND SIMILAR RESOURCES, MADE ACCESSIBLE TO A DEFINED COMMUNITY FOR REFERENCE OR BORROWING.

A library's collection can include books, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts, films, maps, prints, documents, microform, CDs, cassettes, videotapes, DVDs, Blue-ray Discs, e-books, audio books, databases, and other formats.

School library

A school library (or a school library media center) is a library within a school where students, staff, and often, parents of a public orprivate school have access to a variety of resources. The goal of the school library media center is to ensure that all members of the school community have equitable access "to books and reading, to information, and to information technology."

Importance of school library It supplements class work by increasing

students’ vocabulary, quickening their intelligence and extending their general knowledge;

It enables the students to prepare themselves for taking part in the various co-curricular activities of the school. They get information which is very helpful to them in taking part in debates, giving lectures and writing for the school magazine;

It develops habits of the students to derive pleasure and information from recreational and informative books;

It broadens their outlook by placing a vast sphere of information before them

It imparts training to the students for the proper use of books;

It gives students training in punctuality by impressing ‘ upon them the necessity of returning and borrowing books at a fixed time;

It provides suitable books to the students to satisfy their hunger of reading books and saves them from the harmful effects of reading unsuitable and injurious literature;

It inculcates in the students the habit of silent reading.

It provides an opportunity to make the best use of leisure time thereby lessening the chance of indiscipline in the school.

Father of Library sceince

Dr. S.R RANGANATHAN

NATIONAL SCIENCE DAY

AUGUST 12