An educational media center (EMC) is a facility within a school designed to house and utilize all educational media. It is a basic requirement for providing quality education. The EMC supports the school's educational process, teaching and learning, and reflects the school's philosophy. It serves many roles, including as a resource center, learning laboratory, teaching agency, service agency, coordinating agency, and recreational reading center. The EMC orients students and teachers on its resources and services, selects and acquires print and non-print materials, organizes and lends out materials, provides reference services, and supports media instruction, research, photocopying, and multimedia services.

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. An EMC is a facility designed for
housing and utilization of all
educational media w/in a 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 fulfill its mission and realize its
vision by living up to the school’s
philosophy and aims.

19. It serves a myriad 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

20. 1. The Institutional media service
The evaluation question for a functional EMC (Lucido
& Borabo, 1997) give the following elements
2. Media and Instruction
3. Classroom Facilities
4. Media Program