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Management of Libraries and Information Centres

Notes parent helpers
community members
children with special interests
community agencies/groups
commercial providers
movie theatres
other resource teachers

Student Involvement

Whole Class roster
Voluntary
Coordinated by resource teacher with class input.
Every class or class member contributes a piece of work
Assignments completed

14.4.3 Furniture and Equipment
Bureau of Indian Standards provides that a library should have a stack room, a Librarian’s room
and a Reading Room having seating capacity of 40 to 120 chairs. The stack room should be big
enough to accommodate between 6,000 and 10,000 books. A Sample Layout of Library is given as
a suggestion in the Appendix A. The library-in-charge would need to plan actual library size and
seating capacity of ‘reading room’ keeping in view the optimum number of members in an adult
education set- up, the variety of library services it is planning to offer, and the members of the
adult community who would be coming to visit the library for social interactions.
The library equipments and tools like furniture, fittings and accessories should of standard pattern
and design, so that users feel comfortable in using them. The following is the list of essential
furniture and fittings for an adult education set up.
1. Reading tables
2. Chairs for pupils
3. Librarian’s table
4. Circulation or charging desk and chair
5. Librarian’s shelf list trays
6. Card catalogue trays
7. Card catalogue cabinet
8. Bulletin board and notice board
9. Book supporters
10. New arrivals display case
11. Dictionary stands
12. Periodicals display stand
13. Newspaper display stand
14. Storage cabinet for work room
15. Filing cabinets
16. Atlas stand
17. Wall clock

Notes Besides, the library may acquire radio and television set, taperecorder/player, VCR
and VCP, slide and film projector, overhead projectors, computers with internet
connection, Xerox machine, etc.
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