Vibrant Children\'s Library in Digital Era
Contents: Foreword. A Bird’s Eye view on book. Preface. Acknowledgement. . Introduction. 2. Education and learning. 3. Role of school libraries in quality education. 4. School library: a center of learning and a live workshop. 5. School library and continuous comprehensive evaluation (CCE). 6. A brief outline on children’s literature. 7. A good children’s book. 8. Fostering reading habit among children. 9. NCF 2005 and reading habit a study. 10. Introduction to E-books. 11. NCDL (National Children’s Digital Library): a survey. 12. Vibrant library for children in the digital era. Bibliography. Index.
The present book highlights the importance of learning during the process of education pre-school to higher secondary school. During the process of education in a school, school library plays a vital role as a center of learning, live workshop and ultimately in the quality education. It has also a major role in continuous comprehensive evaluation. The importance of reading habits can be fostered among children by organizing various book related activities are the central point of the book. The book also covers a brief outline on children’s literature and the salient features of a good children’s book. The final report of the work on Inculcating reading habit among Govt. School Children of West Delhi and NCF 2005 A study made by Ms. Sudesh Kumari is the highlight of this book.
In the age of information technology, the book provides a private chapter on introduction to E-Books. It contains a survey on the need of National Children’s Digital Library (NCDL) made by Mr. Batsa Chaudhary. Finally the author emphasizes on the importance of regional language and the children’s books published in regional languages and how all the good children’s books available in different regional languages can be available ion one platform after digitization National Collaborative Digital Library for Children (NCDLC). This idea, if implemented, would definitely act as a single window service provider and would be useful for children, stationed anywhere worldwide.
