RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Nature waits “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – RALPH WALDO EMERSON

About the library

The library is situated on the second floor of the school building. Earlier it was on the ground floor, but it was shifted up due to constant termite problems and sinking-in of the floor in this area. The library room is properly furnished, with sufficient seating facility for students and teachers. Every effort is made to make the room have an atmosphere amicable for reading and reflecting. Here is some detailed information on the library:

a. Total number of books: There are at present more than 13378 books in the library. New books are added to the stock every year and outdated/damaged books are weeded out.

b. Subject-wise division of books:

• Accountancy
• Biology
• Business Studies
• Chemistry
• Computer Science
• Economics
• Education & teaching
• Fiction
• General knowledge & quiz
• General studies
• Health & sports
• History
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Religion & philosophy
• Scouts & guides
• Social Science
• Reference books
• Text books
• Others (General)

c. The books in the library are kept in 28 shelves. For easy location and to save the time of the user, the books are arranged subject-wise/content-wise in the following manner:

• SHELF 1 : General Knowledge, Yearbooks, Competitive Exam Studies
• SHELF 2 : General Books, Computer Science, Programming languages
• SHELF 3 : Computer Programs – Softwares, Operating Systems, Programs – Computer Graphics
• SHELF 4 : General Collections – Quotations, Psychology – Personality Development, Indian Philosophy and Religion,
  Social Sciences, Economics, Indian Economics, Tourism Industry
• SHELF 5 : Constitution of India, Education, Scouting, Teaching & Teachers, Guidance & Counselling, English Language, Spoken English, English Dictionaries, English Grammar and Usage
• SHELF 6 : Pure Sciences, Mathematics, Algebra
• SHELF 7 : Geometry, Statistical Mathematics, Physics, Electricity & Electronics
• SHELF 8 : Chemistry & Allied Sciences, Physical Chemistry, Biology
• SHELF 9 : Health related topics, Management (Business Studies), Accounting
• SHELF 10 : The Arts, Handicrafts, Athletics & Sports, Children’s Literature
• SHELF 11 : Children’s Literature, English Poetry and Drama
• SHELF 12 : Shakespearian Literature, English Fiction – Novels & Stories
• SHELF 13 : English Fiction – Novels & Stories
• SHELF 14 : English Fiction – Novels & Stories
• SHELF 15 : English Fiction – Collections, English Essays & Speeches, General World History, General Geography &
  Travel
• SHELF 16 : Maps, Atlases, General Biography, Indian History
• SHELF 17 : (HINDI SECTION) Religion & Philosophy, Education, Hindi Grammar, Children’s Literature, Hindi Literature &
  Poetry
• SHELF 18 : (HINDI SECTION) Hindi Drama, Hindi Fiction
• SHELF 19 : (HINDI SECTION) Hindi Fiction, Hindi Essays, Sanskrit Literature, Biographies
• SHELF 20 : (TEXTBOOKS) Social Science and Political Science, Environmental Problems, English Language Study, Hindi Language Study
• SHELF 21 : (TEXTBOOKS) Hindi Language Study, Pure Sciences, Mathematics
• SHELF 22 : (TEXTBOOKS) Chemistry, Biology, Accounting, Geography & History, Indian History
• SHELF R1 : (RERERENCE BOOKS) General Knowledge & Encyclopaedic Works
• SHELF R2 : (RERERENCE BOOKS) Quotations, Encyclopaedias for childrens
• SHELF R3 : (RERERENCE BOOKS) English Dictionaries, Hindi Dictionaries, Sanskrit Dictionaries, Malayalam
  Dicitionaries
• SHELF R4 : (RERERENCE BOOKS) Science Dictionaries, Mathematics & Science Refences, Art & Craft References, Sports Encyclopaedia, Maps & Atlases

d. Classwise arrangement of shelves is as follows:

GENERAL BOOKS:

• SHELF 1 – 001 – 001.076MT
• SHELF 2 – 001.076PH – 005.13VB
• SHELF 3 – 005.3 – 006.68
• SHELF 4 – 020 – 339.3
• SHELF 5 – 340 – 425
• SHELF 6 – 500 – 515.3
• SHELF 7 – 516 – 539.7
• SHELF 8 – 540 – 580
• SHELF 9 – 581.1 – 658
• SHELF 10 – 658.11 – 808.068
• SHELF 11 – 808.068 – 822
• SHELF 12 – 822.33 – 823
• SHELF 13 – 823 – 823
• SHELF 14 – 823 – 823
• SHELF 15 – 823.08 – 910
• SHELF 16 – 910.13 – 954.042

HINDI BOOKS:

• SHELF 17 – 001 – 8H1
• SHELF 18 – 8H1 – 8H3
• SHELF 19 – 8H3 – 954

TEXT BOOKS:

• SHELF 20 – 294.5923 – 4H0.7
• SHELF 21 – 4H0.7 – 510
• SHELF 22 – 530.07 – 954

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• SHELF R1 – 001 – 030
• SHELF R2 – 030 – 030
• SHELF R3 – 423 – 500
• SHELF R4 – 503 – 929.92

Students can search the library catalogue and locate their book in the shelves using the class number.

e. List of newspapers subscribed:

• The Hindu (English)
• The New Indian Express (English)
• Economic Times
• Navbharath times (Hindi)
• Malayalam Manorama (Malayalam)
• Mathrubhumi (Malayalam)

f. List of Periodicals subscribed (Total – 42):

Weeklies

• The week
• Out look
• Sport Star
• India Today
• Employment news
• Thozhil vartha
• Mathrubhumi
• Malayalam

Fortnightlies

• Magic pot
• Champak (Hindi)
• Champak (English)
• Woman’s era
• Sarita (Hindi)
• Vanitha
• Frontline

Monthlies

• Readers Digest
• Children’s Digest
• Children’s world
• PCM
• Chandamama
• Tinkle
• Tinkle digest
• Gokulam
• Wisdom

Educational magazines

• Resonance
• Education trend
• Electronics for you
• Competition success Review
• Competition Refresher
• Junior science refresher
• Dream 2047
• Indian Educational Review
• Prathamik shikshak (Hindi)
• Bharatiya Aadhunik shiksha (Hindi)
• School science
• Journal of Indian Education
• Physics for you
• Mathematics Today
• Biology Today
• Chemistry Today
• Yojana
• Kurukshetra

Library functioning: Circulation, automation and OPAC

• Books circulation: After Libray automation, books are circulated using a barcode reader. However, the previous card-system is also being maintained as back-up in case there is a power or system failure. Books are issued to students for 01 week and to teachers for a fortnight. Students of classes VI-IX can issue 01 book are a time and of higher classes can issue two books at a time (only 01 fiction book at a time). At any given time, on an average, one student is having one book issued.
• Library timing: Library is open on all working days from 8.30 am to 2.40 pm.
• Besides reading: Besides providing reading material to the students, the students are given assignments like
  writing book reviews, collecting facts, etc. Students are asked to maintain a library note-book which they should bring to the library during library periods.
• Library automation: Library automation is complete in all respects. The students can search the library
  catalogue in the PC provided for the purpose. Recently, a full-featured library OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) has
  been placed on the Web also and can be searched by anyone, anytime, anywhere.

About Faculty-led 360

A new book helps universities and their faculty develop, market, and lead successful study abroad programs. Bill Holmes, Director of International Education at Campbellsville University, and Melanie McCallon, Associate Director for Education Abroad at Murray State University, are the authors. They discuss the challenges, opportunities for personal and professional advancement, university incentives and advancement, how to put it all together, faculty responsibilities, responsible study abroad seminar, the student-faculty relationship, fostering student learning abroad, the role of the study abroad office in faculty-led programs, and more.

Melanie and Bill conduct workshops for university and college faculty who take students abroad. Their participants are mostly faculty who teach at smaller institutions where there is little to no support for study abroad. These faculty are either managing individual programs in addition to their regular jobs or have been appointed to be a one-person study abroad operation. In their book, Melanie and Bill offer faculty and study abroad offices with insight, advice, and the necessary components of faculty training and preparation for traveling with students on study abroad programs. From idea to conception, Faculty-led 360 is a fantastic work and valuable contribution to the field.

——-Excerpt from Faculty-led360: Guide to Successful Study Abroad——-

Chapter One: Why Should I Do This?
Why do we take students abroad? Why should we take students abroad? Really, why should we? Why should universities support study abroad staff, insert international education into mission statements and strategic goals, and promote the idea of global citizenship? Why should faculty consider getting on a plane with 10 (or 50) students to teach a course abroad? What can students learn abroad that they can’t learn at home? It’s not hard to find a faculty leader who has been dealt a challenging program abroad—one fraught with lost luggage, delayed flights, and ill students. So, then, why keep going? Many of us have pondered these very questions and come back with the same answer: the reward is far greater than the sacrifice.

Assuming you have picked up this book, you probably don’t need to be convinced of why you should lead a study abroad program, but instead need some guidance on how. Spending time, then, convincing you to lead a study abroad program is beside the point. You have likely gone through the preliminary questions of why study abroad is important, why you should take students abroad, how to work it around your personal and family life, and how to take on the added professional responsibilities of leading a faculty-led program with or without support from your institution. However, it may not have occurred to you how leading study abroad programs can advance your career, profession, department, university, and individual students—hence, the reason for this chapter.

1.1 Study Abroad Challenges you as a Teacher
Teaching on a study abroad program develops your ability to be innovative and creative. Striking a balance between the academics of the structured classroom and the academics of experiential learning can be challenging, but worthwhile. On the home campus, you have your classroom. When you are abroad, you have the entire city, culture, people, and more. Whether or not you have actual meeting space, you are forced to think outside the box when formulating the next ‘lecture.’ The city becomes the classroom and you recognize teachable moments throughout the program. The experiential component of learning allows your students to have their hands on the culture and learn from a fresh perspective. Sitting in a US classroom looking at slides of Monet’s work is hardly the same as strolling through the Musee D’Orsay to see the real thing.

For the professor who is accustomed to classroom lecture, however, the study abroad format can be difficult to manage. How do you teach your students everything they need to know when so much time is spent on activities and excursions? Do you need to lecture for three hours each day beforehand? Well, do you? Think about it. How can you reconfigure your course, your syllabus, and even your teaching style to match what can be learned on-site without an accompanying lecture? What alternative learning can take place to augment your syllabus and traditional text?

Faculty-led study abroad is about challenging yourself to explore new teaching methods and learning styles. Not to worry, students participating in your program will find plenty of ways to discover and learn, and you will find yourself growing, too. You are with your students daily; you have greater flexibility to teach throughout the experience, and the group will read what you have assigned before they even get on the plane. In short, your students will step up to the plate to learn the material and will get more than a textbook out of your class.

There is nothing like being there…light bulbs turning on in students’ heads, and fireworks going off, when their academics and experience converge.
Continual inner-processing is vital to the study abroad experience. When teaching abroad, it becomes your responsibility to coach students through the ‘weird’ and into the ‘a-ha.’ You are challenged as the faculty leader to help students reflect on and compare the many differences they experience, but not necessarily to be a know-it-all. Admit what you do not know and commit to discovering together with your students. They will enjoy seeing your a-ha moments as much as you will enjoy seeing theirs.

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