THE FUNCTIONALITY OF LIBRARY HUBS IN THE SCHOOLS DIVISION OF BATANES

EVANGELINE D. CASTILLO

Education Program Supervisor

This research evaluated the functionality of the six (6) library hubs in the Schools Division of Batanes and the factors that affect its implementation like the relevant trainings attended and number of teaching hours of those teacher-library hub in-charge. It also sought to determine the significant difference in the performance of those incharge as reflected by their performance ratings three school years before and three school years after the implementation of library hubs. The researcher made use of quantitative-qualitative method. Data was collected from 6 Library hubs and teacher-library hub in-charge using survey questionnaire. Findings showed that four (4) or 66.66 % of the teacher-in-charge of the library hubs are not trained on how to manage a library hub. Four (4) 0r 66.66 % of the teacherin-charge of the library hub have five (5) hours teaching load in a day. They have only three (3) hours allotted for the library hub. The researcher proposes that the schools division office thru the Education Program of Learning Resource Management (LRM) conducts training on the management of Library Hub to all teachers in-charge and Schools Division Office issue a memorandum giving two hours load allotment to teacher-in-charge of the hub to give more time to implement its action plan.

Keywords: functionality, library hubs, teaching load, learning resources, Batanes