ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIA CENTER

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 unit 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 and 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 a 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 in the EMC.
Media Instruction Program-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.

What is an educational media center? : 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.

It reflects and supports the philosophy of the school.
It shares and implements the school aims and objectives.
It is involved 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.
A coordinating agency.
A center for recreational reading, viewing and listening

Roles of EMC
center for resources.
laboratory for learning
agent of teaching
service agency
coordinating agency
recreational reading center
a stepping stone to the other recreational activities in school.

FUNCTIONS OF EMC
Media and instruction
the instructional media services
classroom facilities
media program

An EMC is a facility of the school system tasked to require, maintain, care and promote the
full effective used of educational media. It houses the both old new technologies meant to make learning
more efficient and effective. It facilitates and ensures the optimum use of all instructional media. It
organizes learning activities for students and teachers alike for them to upgrade and improve on their
technology manipulative skills all for the purpose of motivating them to keep on developing on their
communications, analytical, integrative creative and collaborative skills for meaningful lifelong learning.