Roles and Function of an Educational Media Center

1. LESSON 18:
ROLES AND
FUNCTION
OF AN
EDUCATIONAL
MEDIA CENTER

2. “We have said that the best
ideas in the world are to be
found in a modern library. But
the modern educational media
center must include excellence
in varied media – not merely in
printed materials”
- Edgar Dale

3. An educational media center is a facility
designed for the housing and utilization of
all educational media within the school. It is
a basic requirement for school to render
quality service. It is not independent of the
school. Rather, like any part of the human
body, it is the unit in the school that
cooperates with other unit of departments
that help the school fulfill its mission and
realize its vision by living up to the school's
philosophy and aims.

4. Educational Media Center functions as a
visual instrument as well as a basic
requirement for quality education by
enriching all parts of the school's
educational process. It reflects and
supports the philosophy of the school. It
involve in the teaching and learning process.
It is a source center .It is a learning
laboratory. It is a teaching agency. It is a
service agency. It is a coordinating agency.
It is a center of recreational, viewing, and
listening and it is a stepping stone to other
community resource centers.

5. EMC serves a myriad of roles,
among which are:
1.Center of Resources
2.Laboratory for Learning
3.Agent of Teaching
4.Service Agency
5.Coordinating Agency
6.Recreational Reading Center
7.A stepping stone to other
resources of the community.

6. An EMC renders various
kinds of services.
Its services boil down to
improving the teaching-
learning
process by making it more
interactive, collaborative,
interesting and authentic.

7. EMC SERVICES:
- 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.

8. - SELECTION OF PRINT &
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.

9. - ORGANIZATION OF
PRINT AND NON-PRINT
MATERIALS.
A technical librarian
organizes all the purchased
print and non-print
materials for easy retrieval.

10. - CIRCULATION OF
PRINT & NON-PRINT
MATERIALS
The Educational
Media Center lends out
various types of materials
to students and teachers.

11. - REFERENCE
The EMC attends to request
such a bibliographic
information from the card
catalog, search through
books, periodicals,
pamphlets, documents and
non-print materials.

12. - BIBLIOGRAPHIC
SERVICE
There are listings of
materials and periodical
articles to publicize the
new materials and
periodical articles in the
EMC.

13. - MEDIA INSTRUCTION
PROGRAM
The MIP aims to teach
students to be skill full
and discriminating users of
print and non-print media.

14. - CLASS SUPERVISED
RESEARCH
It is a schedule program of
activity particularly in Science
and Social Studies. It refers to
the class periods alloted to these
subjects wer da students r
brought to da EMC to do
research for a particular topic.

15. - GRADE LEVEL
NEWSPAPER
Each grade level is given a
subscription to a newspaper
of their choice. It is a
service rendered to ensure
that the faculty is updated
daily on current events locally
and internationally.

16. - MAGS-ON-WHEELS
Selected professional and
general interest journals are
routed in different grade levels
& service areas. The service is
given to maximize the different
subscriptions for professional
and personal growth of the
school community.

17. - PHOTOCOPYING
SERVICE
A self- service photocopying
machine is available foe the
faculty to Zerox material
needed. Students may also
request photocopying of
library materials.

18. - VIDEO & SOUND
PRODUCTION
Simple production for class
instruction, program and
school wide presentations
are put together in the
audio-Visual area.

19. - MULTI-MEDIA
SERVICES
Different non print media-
materials are acquired.
Teachers are encouraged to
maximize use of their
materials. The procedures for
reservation and usage is
teacher-friendly.