The educational media center serves several important functions: it provides teachers and students with easy access to information resources; it enriches the educational process; and it houses educational media for the school. Specifically, the media center offers consultant services to improve instruction; upgrades standards through media use; provides information on educational developments; assists in creating instructional materials; supports research through media; and makes multi-media facilities and equipment available to students and teachers.

1. ROLE AND FUNCTION
OF AN EDUCATIONAL
MEDIA CENTER
Present by: Jastine Mico Benedicto
LESSON 28

2. Importance of an educational media
center ?
The importance of Educational Media Center is to
provides teacher and students easy access for
information search.
The Educational Media Center functions as a vital
instrument as well as a basic requirement for quality
education by enriching all parts of the school's
educational process. And it is designed for the
housing and utilization of all educational media with
in the school.

3. The center's specific function
A media program has the following elements assigned to it:
 Consultant service to improve instruction, learning
and use of educational media resources and
facilities;
 Upgrade instructional standards through the use of
educational media resources;
 Information on new educational development;

4.  Creation/production of instructional materials to
suit the special needs of teacher and student
 Upgraded research through media support to
individual investigation and exploration;
 Multi-media facilities with areas made available to
students, teachers and the media staff.
 Educational media equipment made available for
classroom use to student and teachers.

5. Consultant service
 The center media specialist act as resource persons for
teacher in designing media for instruction. These specialist
may also work directly with students in selecting and
evaluating materials they need for presentation and learning
purposes
Upgrade Instruction via media
 An educational media center is made by a professional staff
compose by media specialists, technicians and media aids.
the staff function to serve media users through a program of
services which make educational media available for
instruction , learning and research purpose.

6. Information on Educational Development
 The center provides information about innovations and
recent development in specific subject areas and in the
general field of education. It also keeps teacher posted on
available in-service workshops and courses, conference and
professional activities which they may find advantage for
their professional growth.
Production of Instructional Materials
 The media center staff assists the various academic
department and their teacher in the creative
conceptualization and production of materials and devices
for improve instruction.

7. Materials for Class/Individualized
Learning
 The media center may serve the purpose of centralizing
educational media equipment and materials for accessibility
to potential users. However, such resources as chart, maps,
and globes may be permanently remain in classroom since
they are frequently needed as instructional reference
materials by classroom users.
Equipment Use, Maintenance and Storage
 it is distinct feature of an educational media center to
provide the facilities and space for the use, maintenance and
storage of media hardware. The center assurance users of the
available equipment and substitutes in case of equipment
breakdown and malfunction.

8. The Center Facilities and Resources
 The sized of media center depends on such variable as the
population, the financial capability of the school, and the goals and
purposes of the media program.
The following standers may help to those who are managing media
centers or are planning to establish the:
1. Environment- an education media center should have
facilities that will ensure comfort and effective learning for
users. Good lightning, acoustical treatment, and
temperature and humidity control are some notable features
of media center facilities.
2. Location and Space- while media center should be easily to
users, the design of media center may vary. There may be a
single media center housed in just one building but divided
into separate section to perform separate function .

9. Regardless of these designs and arrangements, the media
center generally has the following provision:
2.1 Entrance, circulation and distribution – for display and exhibits, card
catalog, periodical index.
2.2 Viewing and listening – through a facility which can accommodate
not more than 100 students.
2.3 Conference room —for media specialist and teachers. It may be
adjust to a media production laboratory. It may have movable walls
to allow expansion or combination of areas.
2.4 Small room/Viewing/Listening – with adequate power outlets,
viewing monitor/ screen, acoustical treatment and comfortable
space.
2.5 Workshop room – a classroom-sized flexible space with multimedia
equipment for instruction, production, demonstration needs.

10. 2.6 Administration – an office space and area for media planning.
2.7 Maintenance and reparse services – for minor and preventive repair
of equipment.
2.8 Media production laboratory – audio, video and photo laboratory
with power, light, sounds and darkroom facilities.
2.9 Storage room – with necessary temperature and humidity control.
2.10 AV equipment distribution – may be decentralized in case of
bigger schools.
2.11Optional space – for computerized learning and radio, television
and film work.