Learning Bank # 18:ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIA CENTER

          It serves a myriad roles and functions  and services  such as:

• Orientation-All teacher are given an orientation on the Educational Media Center.The students are also given an orientation on their first Media Instructional Program class.
• Selection of print and non-print materials-The librarians continually select and acquire print and non-print material that suits the needs, interest, and special abilities of the students and teachers.
• Organization of print and non-print materials- A technical librarian organizes all the purchased print and non-print materials for easy retrieval.
• Circulation of print and non-print materials-The Educational Media Center lends out various types of materials to students and teachers.
• Reference-The EMC attends to request such a bibliographic information from the card catalog,serch throug books, periodivcals, pamphlets, documents and non-print materialsd.
• Bibliographic Service-Threre are listings of materials and periodical articels to publicize the new materilas and periodical aricles in in the EMC.
• Media Instruction Prprogram-The MIP aims to teach students to be skillfull and discriminating uesrs of print and non-print media.
• Class Supervised Resarch-IT is a schedule program of activity particularly in Science and Sicial Studies.
• Grade level newspaper- Each grade level is given a subsripytion to anewspaper of their choice..
• Photocopying Services- A self- service photocopying machine is available foe the faculty to Zerox material needed.
• Video and Sound Production-Simple production for class instruction, program and school wide presentations are put together in the audio-Visual area.
• Multi-media Services- Different non-print  media- materials are acquired.