The Role of the School Library
“Books are the best friend of humankind.” They offer a rich storehouse of knowledge that remains forever with an individual throughout life. Keeping the importance of books in view, a spacious, well-stocked library serves as a special feature of the school. Books related to different subjects and fields are available for the students, besides newspapers, magazines, and journals. Having separate arrangements for students and teachers, this place becomes an excellent resource for them during leisure and in need.
The school library is integral to the teaching and learning process. The school library facilitates the work of the classroom teacher and ensures each student has equitable access to resources, irrespective of home opportunities or constraints. While the role of the school library remains constant, its design, digital platform, strategies, and tools change as pedagogy and technology change.
- Create and develop motivating, flexible physical and digital learning spaces.
- Run independent learning programs, which integrate information resources and technologies.
- Collaborate with classroom teachers to plan, implement, and evaluate inquiry-based programs that will ensure students acquire skills to collect, critically analyze, and organize information, problem-solve, and communicate their findings.
- Provide and promote quality fiction to develop and sustain in students the habit and enjoyment of reading for pleasure and to enrich students’ intellectual, aesthetic, cultural, and emotional growth.
- Cater for differences in learning and teaching styles through the provision of, and equality of access to, a wide range of curriculum resources-fiction and non-fiction, digital, print, audio, and video.
- Provide teachers with access to relevant curriculum information and professional development materials within and outside the school; and opportunities to cooperatively plan, implement, and evaluate learning programs.


