WAYS OF IMPROVING THE USE OF SCHOOL LIBRARY BY SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Schools, be it nursery, primary or secondary, are established with a view to achieve the following objectives.
1) To improve positively on the civil life of the students
2) To impart on the cognitive ability of the students
3) To impart on the moral life of the student
4) Affects the vocabulary building of the student
5) To prepare each student for higher education
Thus, schools establish libraries that partner them in the crusade to achieve the above objectives. This library referred to a school library.
The school library therefore, is the library established, financed, maintained, management found in primary, secondary and teachers training schools.
(TTC). It is expected to serve its community members like teachers. Pupils and student and win their patronage. As the life blood of its parent school, the school library plays certain indispensable roles in the educational up bringing of students.
1) Makes the students indiscriminate readers of books
2) Emancipates the children from learning by role
3) Helps the teachers to prepare for classes
The suffer in the following areas;
I. Poor recognition from appropriate authorities.
II. Lack of trained staff to organize resources
III. Inadequate funding/budget allocation
IV. Dearth and paucity of resources
V. Lack of accommodation
The situation has cumaxed in gross loss of patronage. Is it common knowledge that most schools (Public or private) do not have school libraries, even when they exist, they are nothing less than” small spaces with few books, scattered there and there”. At other times, o full fledged school library exist without enough space. It suffices to say that, most authorities that have the behave to run schools are yet to understand and appreciate the importance of school libraries in primary and secondary education. In the words of Michael Morgan 1998, Libraries serve humanity” and S.R. Ranganathan, “Books are for use”. School libraries, when established, should put into effective use. Just as the holy reads put it.
How can they know Unless they are though
The school teacher librarian should mobilize effort and mount campaign programs that would improve the image of the library, Sir up the reading interest in students that concomitantly draws attention to the library.
According to Amadi in his course Audio visual resources in the libraries, children teens and adolescents, have attaint for what they sec.
Onu quips that teems and children love questhetics, with these, the library staff should improve the library in the following areas:
I. Erect attractive building for libraries with good architectural designs-in and out of the library.
II. Organize readership programs
III. Acquire books and other materials that benefits students
IV. Acquire audio-visual materials that appeal to the students.
