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School Library
"The school library in teaching and learning for all."
"The school library provides information and concepts that are fundamental to functioning successfully in today's information and knowledge-based society. the varsity library equips students with life-long learning skills and develops the imagination, enabling them to measure as responsible citizens"("IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto 1999").
Materials Selection and Collection Development
Overview and Purpose
The library provides an extensive collection of print, non-print, and digital content to meet the community's informational, educational, and leisure-time interests. It includes items for all ages, interests, education and reading levels, and many cultural backgrounds. The purpose of this policy is to provide guidance and establish the process used by the library to add items to its collection and evaluate its content.
Collection Scope
The School Library provides a balanced collection of print, non-print, and digital resources across a broad spectrum of subjects, enabling the community to explore diverse views on interest issues. The library is responsive to the demand for contemporary materials of interest and significance but attempts to balance this demand to preserve materials of permanent value. The library's collection development objectives are:
To provide resources that inform, educate, empower, entertain, and enrich people as individuals need the user.
To include works of enduring value as well as timely material on current issues.To provide a balanced collection that represents a variety of viewpoints and opinions.
To select materials need-based content for the staff and students.
The libraries provide a broad range of resources to satisfy our international and national school community's numerous needs.
These include the following a wide sort of books-
Magazines and Journals
online resources
Fiction and non-fiction books
Books in Mother-tongue langauges
English
A growing online database like JSTOR, In Thinking, CREDO, Follet, Britannica, Raz Plus. The school libraries cater to the school community. The collection includes resources for history, economics, languages, literature, and Theory of knowledge, as well as reference books for research.
A list of open access resources are also available to specific segments for further assisstance in reading and researching.
Teacher Librarian : Key Roles and Skills in imparting learning in the school community
Personal Statement by Teacher Librarian
My name is Ambika Kapur, Teacher Librarian,at CIS (Bengaluru)
I celebrate my librarianship every day as a tour guide in an extensive information world and a teacher who supports literacy by providing the right information to the right user at the right time. Within best of my possibility, I try to become an interface between the information seeker and motivated user, believing that a library is a learning place and it has to be welcoming and open for the community. On the other hand, I work as a custodian to promote Academic Integrity in the school space, which is crucial to building an informed nation— empowering learners to become critical thinkers and skilled researchers that can affect the greater good. In my additional role in the school community, I like to challenge myself in exploring ingenious concepts in my domain, hence keeping a solid opinion in infusing equality, diversity, and inclusion practices that require complex problem-solving skills. With the support from the senior team, we designed a safe space (virtual or physical) where learning with fun and using appropriate technology regardless of race, gender, and disability can witness. So, to conclude my achievement, our library is built with compassion, empathy, love, diversity, inclusiveness, and equality to all in regards to avail the services and correct use of technology.
The designed website is to support the research and recreational reading practices for learners.
As researching is a big task and overwhelming to know where to start, this website will provide various sessions recording to evaluate their content for factual accuracy. The library website is offering multiple resources for the whole school community. Would you please make sure to use the Knowledge Centre's available resources for further support in reading and researching?
Please note: And it's a working website that will be updated regularly.
Key Roles and Skills
• To make sure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and knowledge
• To empower students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of data
• To instil a love of learning altogether students and ensure equitable access to information
• To collaborate with classroom teachers and specialists to style and implement lessons and units of instruction, and assess student learning and instructional effectiveness.
• To provide the leadership and expertise necessary to make sure that the varsity program (SLP) is aligned with the mission, goals, and objectives of the varsity and therefore the administrative district, and is an integral component of the learning/instructional program.
• Works with teachers and other educators to create and strengthen connections between student information and research needs, curricular content, learning outcomes, and knowledge resources.
Acknowledgment:
I'd wish to express my heartfelt gratitude to my colleagues (Mr.Santosh Akki, India, and Zakir Hossain, IB Teacher-Librarian | Independent Researcher Greater Zurich Area), Kuntal Bhandari (Teacher Librarian at Ecole,India) whose work inspired me to make one such website. Some assistance in curating resources is obtained from their official website, and I am grateful for the opportunity to learn from these experts in their respective fields.
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