LIBRARY POLICY FOR KENDRIYA VIDYALAYAS
Every Kendriya Vidyalaya will have a library. The objectives of the library is to:
·
Be the knowledge hub of the school
and disseminate knowledge as widely as possible.
·
Facilitate creation of new knowledge.
·
Facilitate optimal use of knowledge
by all staff and students.
·
Ensure easy access to the facilities
available to all staff and students.
·
Encourage and foster reading habit
among staff and students.
·
Effectively participate in the
teaching-learning programmes of the school. In order to achieve these
objectives the library will undertake to:-
Serve as the center of information for the Vidyalaya and provide easy access to national and global knowledge to all staff and students.
·
Offer an inviting and attractive
physical space with proper seating arrangements and other amenities.
·
Ensure that staff and students are
treated with courtesy and offered all assistance in their pursuit of knowledge.
·
Offer proactive services to all
users.
·
Optimize its potential to provide
access to information and knowledge to all by proper display, categorization classification of resource materials.
·
Help all the users to develop the
skills to make optimum use of all the facilities.
·
Undertake activities to foster an
interest in books and increase involvement in the library.
·
Improve the collection and services
on a continuing basis in consultation with user’s stakeholders.
·
Workout a progamme in consultation
with teachers for the effective use of all types of library materials.
·
To work effectively and efficiently
by undertaking every activity in a professional manner.
materials
to satisfy the regular needs of the staff and students. The core
collection
would consist of several copies of textbooks, reference materials
related to
each subject, costly essential books which would include
encyclopedias,
maps, atlas, rare books on particular topics/subjects or
exclusive
editions of general books.
2. Besides the core collection other general
(fiction and nonfiction) books for
regular
issue should be available in the library.
3. The core collection may be
supplemented through networks, e-resources etc.
to provide
better qualitative and quantitative services.
4. Library collections are dynamic
resources and therefore, there should be
constant
review and renewal of material to ensure that the collections are
relevant
to the users/stakeholders.
5. Weeding out of books should be a
regular feature and should be carried out
with the
approval of the competent authority, at least once in a year
6. Categorizing/classifying and
indexing of books should be invariably done
keeping in
mind the objective of the library.
7. The library should follow open
access system.
Vidyalaya and subjects offered besides covering project based
activities,
career guidance, counselling etc.
2. Books
should be available in both English and Hindi.
3. Besides
the core collection, other general books put together should be at
the rate of 5 books per student subject to a
minimum of 1500 books for newly
opened schools. This collection should be well thought out. Low cost and
age
relevant editions of classics and fictions should be preferred for the
general
section of the school library.
4. Book
purchase should be a continuous process and some percentage of the
total Vidyalaya budget should be earmarked for collection development on
a
recurring basis. Out of this budget, 50% should compulsorily be
earmarked
for elementary classes (i.e. up to class VIII)
5. To
encourage more teacher participation in the library, a teacher may be
allowed to submit name / list of book(s) intended to be purchased (which
are
not available in the library) amounting to Rs.500/- to the Library
Committee.
After approval of the Library Committee, the teacher may be allowed to
purchase the intended book(s). The cost of the book / books should be
reimbursed to the teacher after the books are deposited in the library
along
with the bill. However, this kind of purchase would be limited to only a certain
amount that would be decided by the Library Committee.
6. During
annual stock taking, weeding out of collection should also be carried out.
7. For newly opened Vidyalayas a
one-time budget would be provided for setting
up the basic collection.
8. Besides books, libraries should
subscribe to useful magazines, periodicals and
journals.
SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED BY THE
LIBRARY
time for a
period of one week. Staff members, including Principal, would be
issued
maximum five books at a time for a maximum period of one fortnight.
Failure to return books on time would compulsorily lead to penalty of Re. 1
per day
for all (students & staff).
2. A recall system for overdue books
should be introduced. This could be
achieved
by sending an overdue note to the concerned student through the
Class
Teacher. In case of staff the note can be sent through the school
office.
3. Reissue of books by a user may be
allowed maximum twice more after first
issue.
4. Newly purchased books should not
be issued to any user for at least one
month but
should be displayed separately as new arrivals.
5. Issue of subject reference books -
Only subject reference books from
reference
section would be issued for home use on those days when the
successive
day is a holiday. The book will have to be returned on the next
working
day. Dictionaries, Encyclopedias etc. would not be issued.
6. One set of textbooks may be issued
to teachers for the subject being taught
by them
for the whole session.
7. In case a user loses a book he/she
would have to either replace the book or
deposit
three times the price of the book in the library.
8. Each user would be provided with
library cards for issue of books.
9. Magazines and periodicals may also
be issued for a week only. However, it
must be
ensured that at least two previous issues are available in the library.
A separate
register should be maintained for this purpose.
10. Reading facilities in the Library
- There should be comfortable seating
arrangement
with proper lighting in the library. The library would be open on
all
working days and the entire duration of school hours.
11. Each section will have two
library periods per week. Classes VI to XII will go
to the
library during this period. For primary classes the teacher supervising
the
library period will give books from class library to the students. One
teacher,
who would help in maintaining discipline in the library as well as
assist the
librarian, will accompany the students of class VI & above to the
library.
However, the arrangement for library class may differ from school to
school
depending on the number of sections per class. In very large schools
one period
of class library can be introduced. Notwithstanding this the
number of
library periods would be two per section out of which one period
will be in
the library. The class library period can be utilized for other library
related
activity also for which the class teacher would be in-charge.
12. The librarian should also
identify two students in each section who would
assist in
library activities.
13. Librarian should facilitate in
the use of the library by acting as intermediary
between
the users and the collection.
14. Computer and Internet access -
The library should have a computer, which
would be
used for storing information of the collection, record of books
issued,
digitalized books and provide internet access.
ORGANIZATION OF THE LIBRARY
done to
provide easy access and also to keep account of the books. Dewey
Decimal
Classification (DDC) system should be used for this purpose.
2. Computerization of the library
should be carried out.
3. Books should be arranged in
lockable shelves but open access system should
be
followed.
4. The library' should subscribe at
least 10 periodicals/journals/magazines.
These
should be attractively displayed on magazine racks. Newspapers
should be
displayed on stands. Old periodical/magazines/newspapers should
be arranged
date wise and preserved for at least 6 months.
5. The display boards in the library
should show the jacket covers of latest
books,
interesting information on various topics, besides writings of students
and
teachers.
6. The library should also carry out
a number of activities like:-
11. Book reviews
iii. Organization of book fairs (at
school or cluster level by involving other
nearby schools).
iv. Career guidance and counselling
corner.
v. Themes for the week and display of
related material.
vi. Compilation of material from
newspapers/magazines etc. for various topics
like environment, science and technology etc.
vii. Organization of Book Quiz.
viii. Prizes to students who have borrowed
the maximum number of books.
ix. Establishing of
book clubs.
7. The library should invariably
display the following information:
Total no. of books
ii. No. of text books
iii. No. of Reference books.
iv. No. of general( fiction and non
fiction) books
v. Subject wise list of books
vi. Class wise list of fiction and
non-fiction available in the library.
vii. No. of periodicals/magazines
available along with their names and periodicity.
include all that has been stated in the previous sections.
2. There shall be a library
committee, headed by the Principal and at least 03
teacher
members who have a genuine love for books. The teachers should be
one each
from Primary, Secondary and Sr. Secondary classes. The committee
would also
include two students to be selected by the Principal from Classes
VII to XII.
The Librarian would be the Member-Secretary of the Committee.
The Committee
will select books for the library keeping in view the natural
interests and needs of the children, their age
group and intelligence. There
should
also be continuous
renewal of books for which meetings should be held
on half
yearly basis. The
Library Committee can invite other teachers
/students to the
meetings for their advice/suggestion. This committee shall
meet as
often as possible but at least once in a month.
3. Besides recommending books for the
library the Library Committee will also
recommend
suitable budgetary provision for the library; develop a general
programme
of library service to suit the interest and requirement of
different sections of users; review library
rules and formulate new rules for
the
library, make recommendations for proper functioning of the library.
4. All teachers and students can
recommend books for the library for which a
suggestion
box should be kept in the library. Suggestions received through
this box shall be placed for consideration
of Library Committee.
5. Besides books for children, the
Committee will also select books for teachers
on various
subjects apart from Academics.
6. For Primary classes (1 to V),
class library will be set up. These libraries will be
under the
charge of class teachers. The class teacher will get books from the
main
library, which will be in accordance with the standard and interest of
the age group of the children of the
class concerned. They should be
attractively displayed in lockable shelves and
kept in the class. The teacher
will issue
books to the
children during library period. After these books have
been read,
another set would
be issued from the main library.
7. The Primary teacher would maintain
a register regarding issue of books to
the students
so that he/she can keep track of the books read and students
are not given
books they have already read.
8. The selection of books for the
class libraries will also be done by a committee
comprising
of H.M, librarian, class teacher, two other teachers and two
students who will be nominated by the
Principal.
9. The class teacher will ensure that
every pupil in the class maintains a
notebook in which
the name of the book read, its author and a brief account
of the content is
recorded.
10. Non-compliance of the
instructions given above will be considered to be a
dereliction
of duty for which suitable action may be initiated against the
concerned
Principal/Librarian/Teacher/ H.M.
MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF
COLLECTION AND SERVICES
1. No. of users.
2. No and percentage of collection
issued on any given day.
3. Number of books issued during a
stated period.
4. Average books issued per user per
unit time.
5. Number of recommendations received
for purchase of books per year.
6. Class wise list of activities
conducted in a year along with number of participants.
7. Number of new books added per
year.
8. Number of old books weeded out.
