1) The document discusses the features, significance, and organization of a social science library. It outlines the various resources that should be included, such as books, periodicals, newspapers, and internet access. 2) The social science library serves several important functions, like developing reading habits, providing up-to-date information, and helping students with projects and assignments. It aims to stimulate intellectual curiosity and help students engage in self-study. 3) A variety of book and non-book resources are recommended, including text books, reference materials, unit booklets, magazines, pamphlets, and newspapers. Proper utilization of the resources involves teaching students to locate relevant materials and giving assignments that require investigation of multiple

1. ONLINE ASSIGNMENT
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Submitted to:
Miss Uma Jyothi
Social Science Teacher
Submitted by:
Sally Paul
Optional: Social Science

2. FEATURES, SIGNIFICANCE AND WAYS TO ORGANIZE SOCIAL
SCIENCE LIBRARY
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3. INDEX
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1 Introduction
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Social Science Library
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3 Functions of Library 5
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Objectives of a Social Science Library
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Important Library Resources for Social
Science
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Utilization of Library Resources
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Conclusion
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INTRODUCTION
The Social Science as an area of school curriculum demands a lot of
reading on the part of both the teachers and the pupils. There is the utmost
necessity for the provision of book as well as non – book resources for the
proper teaching and learning of Social Science.
Reading is one way and a good approach to learn Social Science. There
are certain ingredients in teaching that will assist pupils to improve reading
skills in Social Science. Each pupil needs to be a successful learner. Improved
self concepts develop as a result of achieving success in ongoing lessons and
units of study. Reading on Social Science can offer pupils rich and satisfying
experiences in learning. Social Science Library will help for this.
SOCIAL SCIENCE LIBRARY
The Social Science teacher needs to have numerous library books
available for pupils to select from and read. Empowerment of pupils is
important so that they feel more confident in learning and in achievement. The
library books need to be on different reading levels. So each pupil may choose a
challenging book to read. The library books for pupils to read should be on
different topics, but relate directly to the Social Science unit presently being
taught. It is best to use a variety of reading materials so that pupil may check
one source against the other, critically and creatively.

5. Library may be defined “as a public institute or establishment charged
with the care of collection of books, the duty of making them accessible to
those who require the use of them and the task of converting every person in its
neighbourhood into a habitual library goer and reader of books”.
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FUNCTIONS OF LIBRARY
A good library is a sine-qua-non of good teaching and effective learning.
It widens the outlook of the students, and instils in them a love for extra
reading. To widen the intellectual horizon of the students of Social Science, the
library should perform the following functions. The library should:
 Guide pupils in developing regular reading habits.
 Assist pupils to become skill full and discriminating users of
printed material.
 Act as an agency to promote self – study habit among the students.
 Provide up – to – date information to the student community.
 Guide the pupils in such a manner that they can become writers in
future life.
 Help in the cultural growth of the students.
 Aid the students in their choice of books and different learning
material.
 Students become resourceful in the use of books and gradually
develop the habit of investigation.

6.  Library helps the pupils in profitable use of their leisure hours.
 Library reduces the chance of indiscipline in the school campus.
 It develops the habit of supplementary reading.
OBJECTIVES OF BUILDING A SOCIAL SCIENCE LIBRARY
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1) To create interest in the subject.
2) To create intellectual curiosity and disequilibrium in the minds of learners
and also to help them equilibrate by gaining new ideas & experiences.
3) To stimulate the students mind into a fine restlessness.
4) To develop in the student a critical attitude and a capacity for independent
judgement.
5) To cultivate in the student a taste for extra reading.
6) To enable the pupils engage in self study.
7) To acquaint the pupils with the various forms in which Social Science
materials can be had.
8) To enable the pupils to prepare projects, assignments etc.
IMPORTANT LIBRARY RESOURCES FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE
1. Book Resources: Books are essential for presenting different points of view,
for providing adequate background for understanding the people, the places of
the processes being discussed in Social Science instruction. In book resources
we can include:

7.  Text books: The library should have a variety of most up -to- date text
books on different sections of Social Science.
 Unit booklets: The booklets on a variety of topics ranging from family
life and neighbourhood to people of other lands & places should be
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available in the library.
 General book materials: Inspirational & imaginative literature;
particularly tales of adventure should appear prominently alongside
books of information on children’s hobbies- which may be anything from
boats and balloons to kites or from doll houses to dress designs. Easy
biographies, historical series, animal stories etc are favourites with
children. Travel stories are really magic carpets to those who cannot
leave their homes.
 Reference materials: The library should be fairly well – equipped with
reference materials – standard or conventional reference books.
Conventional reference books include dictionaries, encyclopaedias,
yearbooks, atlases, maps, charts, pamphlets, hand books, manuals, and
syllabi of different classes and books of knowledge. There should be
some picture collections which should include well – known master
pieces and everything to which teachers and children are attracted.
The Non – conventional reference materials consist of all other
library books that may be employed for reference service of any other
kind. They include books on special subjects- History, Economics,

8. Civics, Sociology, and Anthropology, Government and Political Science
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etc.
2. Non – book Resources: The field of Social Science is concerned with
happenings in the local community, the state, the nation and the world.
Naturally, it becomes essential that books are supplemented by periodicals,
pamphlets, newspapers, and other such materials which may help the teaching
of Social Science. The following non – book resources should be available in
the Social Science Library:
 Periodicals
Some good periodicals and magazines which throw light on
current events and various aspects of Indian life showing art, Literature,
music, dance etc., should be available in the library.
 Pamphlets
Pamphlets published by various government agencies and bureaus
for specialized service are also very importance sources of information
about different walks of our social, economic, and political life. They are
generally low – priced. Every school library should subscribe for these.
 News papers
It is essential that the Social Science teacher and pupils keep well
informed of events of national and international importance. A
newspaper is a wonderful source of such information. Some local news

9. papers and one or two other daily newspapers of All –India circulation
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need to be provided.
 Internet
In this technological age, internet facility is not a luxury; it is an
essential medium even in a secondary school library. It opens unlimited
access to the treasure house of knowledge and information. The use of
internet needs no sophisticated expertise; a minimum skill for the use of
computer is enough. Students can acquire this skill and search for any
additional or supplementary information within a matter of minutes.
UTILIZATION OF LIBRARY RESOURSES
It is necessary that pupils are taught the techniques of locating relevant
references and resource material quickly. Assignments should be given in the
form of problems. This would compel the pupils to investigate and examine
multiple sources. In the course of the search, pupils will not only assimilate
some of the essential facts concerning the learning unit, but more important
than that, they will be using these facts in a creative and productive way to
arrive at their own independent conclusions, and thereby, will invariably grow
in enriched knowledge, abilities, skills, and interests.
CONCLUSION
The library today is considered to be the intellectual laboratory of the
school. It is being rightly felt today that textbooks are no longer “educational

10. bibles” to be used alone. They need to be supported, supplemented and
reinforced by other sources of information. A library is the treasure vault of
ideas, the store- house of knowledge and the flowing stream of living thought.
If Social Science is to be a living and vital discipline, the library must be
accepted as an integral part of the entire Social Science Programme.
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REFERENCE
1) “Teaching Social Studies Successfully”- Marlow Ediger, D. Bhaskara
Rao, Discovery Publishing House, Newdelhi.
2) “The teaching of Social Studies”- S.K Kochhar, Sterling Publishers Pvt.
Ltd, Newdelhi.
3) “Social Studies in the class room trends and methods”- P.K Sudheesh
Kumar and P.P Noushad, Scorpio Publishers and distributors, Calicut
University, Kerala.
4) “Teaching of History”- Biranchi Narayan Dash, Neelkamal Publications
Pvt Ltd .Newdelhi.

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