3. A LIBRARY IS A COLLECTION
OF SOURCES OF INFORMATION
AND SIMILAR RESOURCES, MADE
ACCESSIBLE TO A DEFINED
COMMUNITY FOR REFERENCE OR
BORROWING.
4. A library's collection can
include books, periodicals, newspap
ers, manuscripts, films, maps, print
s, documents,
microform, CDs, cassettes, videotap
es, DVDs, Blue-ray Discs, e-
books, audio books, databases, and
other formats.
5. 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."
6. 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;
7. 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;
8. 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.
