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Unit 3: Management at Different Levels-Elementary, Secondary, Higher Education

Essentials For Any Subject Laboratory Notes
(1) There should be 30 sq. ft. space for each student.
(2) Every lab should have one store room. It may also be use as the preparation room or the
separate preparation room may beprovided.
(3) Appropriate benches are necessary while working with science tools in the lab.
(4) There should be the provision of lecture room-cum-laboratory in each science subject.
(5) Proper lighting, ventilation, water supply, gas supply and waste disposal arrangements should
be made in each laboratory.

3.10 Library

In the foreword addressed to the Reader in Eastman’s Books it has been said, “Books are not mere
paper, ink or cloth, they are persons. For the most part, they are a company of the immortals who
have weathered the centuries and are now marching toward eternity. They told me of their
adventures, their romances, their meditations and their exploration of the inner world. They lifted
my horizons. They made me laugh and cry and rejoice living in the same world. They invite you
too.” Books are collected and preserved in library. Therefore, the Library occupies a very prominent
place in the educational set-up. Modern changing pattern of education demands that the learning
must be accelerated and broadned by the use of many and varied devices and materials. Library is
an essential part of school. In a dynamic approach to teaching, , it supplies enriched materials in all
fields of study. “All good methods of education postulate the existence of a well-stocked, efficiently
organised library.” Modern teaching is class-room centred but child centred and library centred.
The child’s learning has to be self-directed. He has to acquire reading skill and do reading activities
through the school library.
While curriculum and text-bool aim at providing the least common multiple of all students in a
class, the library aims at bringing out individual differences and developing special interests and
aptitudes their best advantage. Civilization has progressed by virtue of specialization. Library habit
creates specialists.
It is one of the duties of the school to provide this environment and enviroment of attractive books.
Carlyle has aptly said, “The ultimate aim of education is to teach boys how to read once they learn
to read, education will take care of itself."
Recent discussions about the role of libarary in the life of the school have led to the following
conclusions :
1. It is a collection of a “background material” which can be drawn upon to enrich the work of the
curriculum.
2. It is a place where the use of books as sources of information may be taught and practised.
3. It provides material to inspire and develop a pupil’s extra-mural interests and pursuits.
4. It is a place where various valuable responsibilities may be exercised.
Thus the school library plays an important role in all aspects of education. Its service makes a
substantial contribution to children’s education during school life and also helps in their future
search for knowledge. H. G. Wells remarked, “A school without an easily accessible library of at
least a thousand volumes is really scarcely a school at all it is a dispensary without bottles, a kitchen
without a pantry.”
Frances Henne writes, “Good schools, very good schools, and excellent schools, all need excellent
libraries. Inferior schools, need excellent libraries too, to overcome the commissions of the
curriculum and to compensate for the poor instructional programme.”

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