My School Library
Essay No. 01
For a school or a college, a good library is an essential requirement. It is essential both for the students as well as the teachers. The library helps in not only acquiring or increasing your knowledge but also updating it. In my school, there is a reading room as well as a library. In the reading room, newspapers and magazines are kept. The library contains thousands of books on different subjects. The premises where the library is housed is a big building, spacious and airy. About fifty persons can sit there at any time. The students and teachers come there to study. The books are issued for a period of two weeks. Reference books are not issued but these can be consulted in the library itself. The library is under the charge of a librarian, who is qualified in library-science. The librarian is a very helpful person. His guidance regarding selection of books is readily available. There is an assistant to help him. There is also a peon to look after certain other jobs. A unique feature about our school library is that it also opens on Sundays from 11.30 A.M. to 5.00 P.M. The students and teachers who want to avail of the facility can visit the library on their week-end. Our school is fortunate to have a good library.
Essay No. 02
Our School Library
Our school is blessed with a wonderful library. It has so many books that it seems impossible to count them. There are long lines of shelves and cupboards containing books on a variety of subjects.
In the reading room, there are many long tables with chairs, and a little placard with the word SILENCE written on it, for a library is a place of peace and quiet. On a table are magazines of all kinds, in English, Hindi, and Urdu. There are newspapers as well. When a student wants to borrow a book from the library, he chooses the book and takes it to the librarian who stamps it and notes the name of the child, the book and the date on which it is taken.
A library is a part and parcel of all schools. Every school encourages the children to cultivate good reading habits, for books give us knowledge and are our greatest companions too!
The librarian is a trained and qualified person. He helps the children to select good books and keeps the library in perfect order.
A place of peace and silence, the library is a storehouse of books written beautifully by well-known authors. Be it a biography of Churchill or Nehru, or verses by Tagore or Wordsworth, a student can remain with the books here for many hours. It is well stocked with storybooks too.
The true function of a school library is to make the students aware of good and wholesome books, that will widen their knowledge, and help them to grow up intellectually. As a poet says:
Away from the noise and bustle,
Just take me
To the quiet sanctity
Of the library.
