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 units 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, functions, and services such as: 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. * Selection of print and 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. * Organization of print and non-print materials- A technical librarian organizes all the purchased print and non-print materials for easy retrieval. Circulation of print and non-print materials-The Educational Media Center lends out various types of materials to students and teachers. * Reference-The EMC attends to request such bibliographic information from the card catalog, search through books, periodicals, pamphlets, documents and non-print materials. * Bibliographic Service-There are listings of materials and periodical articles to publicize the new materials and periodical articles in the EMC. * * Media Instruction Preprogram- The MIP aims to teach students to be skillful and discriminating users of print and non-print media. Class Supervised Research- IT is a schedule program of activity particularly in Science and Social Studies. * Grade level newspaper- Each grade level is given a subscription to a newspaper of their choice. * Photocopying Services- A self- service photocopying machine is available for the faculty to Xerox material needed. * Video and Sound Production- Simple production for class instruction, program and school wide presentations are put together in the audio-Visual area. * Multi-media Services- Different non-print media- materials are acquired.
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. Abstract
THE MEDIA CENTER as it is envisioned today and projected into the future is a relatively new idea in the profession of librarianship. Not much more than a decade ago the librarian who broached the subject of cybernetics at a professional meeting was looked upon as either an erudite individual who was far ahead of his time or a confused person who had stumbled into the wrong meeting. Today the vocabulary of librarianship must include not only cybernetics, but also remote access, information retrieval, computerization, video, networks and myriad other terms.
The growing acceptance that all media, in their many formats, play a role in the education of the individual has brought educational technology to the forefront in librarianship. The book medium has always been the forte of librarianship. It is the new media, as instruments of communication for learning, which cause consternation, As far back as the 1940s, however, while the majority of librarians were denying any responsibilities for audiovisual resources, there were isolated instances of far-thinking, creative librarians who provided multi-media services.
It would probably be safe to say that they functioned this way in spite of their librarianship training! Library education has an obligation to prepare its graduates to function in a variety of positions within the rapidly moving technological environments they will inhabit. The stature of the profession will stand or fall on the success library education has in developing programs which will result in librarians with a better understanding of the interrelationships between man, media and machines and of the role they must assume to bring these interrelationships to fruition. Source: www. google . com
Educational Media Center The Educational Media Center is a unit indispensable to the teacher-training programs of the College. It provides the following services to the faculty, staff and students of the College: audio and/or video media materials recording services, production services, basic repair services, and consultant service on effective media utilization. To do its job, the Center has a collection of audio-visual facilities including cassette tape recorders, slide/tape recorders and projectors, film and film strip projectors, overhead and opaque projectors, video camera and other production hardware and equipment.
For the most part, the Center serves as a laboratory for undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in Educational Technology courses. The Center, in cooperation with the Educational Technology faculty, has been conducting training on planning, production, use, and evaluation instructional media resources not only for the college faculty and staff but also for faculty and staff from other UP Diliman units. It has also conducted training on effective utilization of media resources for public basic education and tertiary level teachers.
