Roles and Functions of an Educational Media Center

1. LESS0N 18
ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF AN
EDUCATIONAL MEDIA CENTER
Prepared by:
Jerrelyn C. Yamson
Jerlyn D. Manlapas
Jessa Albao

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

5. EMC Serves a myriad of roles,
among which are:
 Center of Resources
 Laboratory for Learning
 Agent of Teaching
 Service Agency
 Coordinating Agency
 Recreational Reading Center
 Stepping stone to other Resources of the Community

6. The Educational Media Center functions as a vital
instrument as well as a basic requirement for a quality
education by enriching all parts of the school’s
educational process:
 It reflects and supports the philosophy of the school.
 It shares and implements the school’s aims and objectives.
 It is involved 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.
 A coordinating agency.
 A center for recreational reading, viewing, and listening.
 As a stepping stone to other community resource centers.

8. ORIENTATION
All new teachers are given an
orientation on the Educational Media
Center. The students are also given an
orientation on their first Media
Instruction Program class.

9.  SELECTION OF PRINT AND NON-PRINT MATERIALS
The librarians continually select and
acquire print and non-print materials that
suit the needs, interest, and special
abilities of the students and teachers.

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

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

12. REFERENCE
The Educational Media Center attends to
request such as bibliographic, information
the card catalog, search through books,
periodicals, pamphlets, documents and non-
print materials.

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

14. MEDIA INSTRUCTION PROGRAM
The Media Instruction Program
aims to teach students to be skilful and
discriminating users of print and non-
print media.

15. CLASS SUPERVISED RESEARCH
It is a scheduled program of activity
particularly in Science and Social Studies. It
refers to the class periods allotted to these
subjects where the students are brought to
the EMC to do the research for a
topic.

16.  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.

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

18. PHOTOCOPYING SERVICE
A self-service photocopying
machine is available for the faculty
to Xerox materials needed.
may also request photocopying of
library materials.

19. VIDEO AND SOUND PRODUCTION
Simple productions for class
instruction, program, and schoolwide,
presentations are put together in the
Audio-Visual area.

20. 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.