LIBRARY DEPARTMENT A REPORT ON THE USE OF BOOKS DONATED BY PROJECT HOPE UGANDA
The school decided to use its 1.5 Million Shillings Annual grant from Project Hope Uganda to buy a total of 92 copies of books to add to 83 copies purchased last year.
Books purchased with the funds from Project Hope, in a period of two years now, have greatly improved the library stock. Before the intervention of Project Hope – Uganda, the school had a library bank that lacked syllabus related books, which are so crucial to the academic life of the school. With Project Hope’s intervention, we have so far acquired a total number of 175 textbooks, including other books necessary for the students academic needs.
With this intervention, the school was able to dedicate a room to serve as our library.
Library Opening sessions
The library works from morning up to evening in different sessions as shown below:
SESSION 1
The library opens at 7:30 -10:10am and students go for break.
SESSION II
Starts at 10:30am -01:10pm and the students go for lunch
SESSION III
Library opens at 2:00pm -4:40pm as day scholars leave the school and boarders go for co-culicular activities, prepare for supper and preps.
SESSION IV
Starts at 7:30pm -10:00pm and the students leave go sleep.
1. LIBRARY USE:
The library is beneficial to all members of Gayaza Cambridge community .It is used by students as a reading room due to its convenience.
Teachers also use this library for research work to be delivered to students using Teachers’ reference copies available. Students use the library books to supplement teacher’s work for example during Assignments, reading ahead of teachers to ease the teacher’s work. Students use the library mostly in optional subjects as they prepare for the coming lessons. Most of the students read their books from the library
2. BORROWING AND LENDING:
The library is controlled by the librarian who is responsible for lending books to students and specifies time for them. In borrowing books students leave their school identity cards behind. Student who borrow books from the library are given a period of 2 hours to 3 weeks depending on the number of copies available.
When a book gets lost from a student, that student is required to bring two copies and when a teacher loses it, his salary is deducted in order to buy that particular copy.
3. BENEFITS:
The library has been beneficial to both students and teachers. Students have found it convenient to use the optional time by reading books in the library. Teachers’ work has eased because some students are able to read ahead which helps teachers in teaching them. Books have helped students in supplementing teachers’ notes. Reading culture is seen to be improving among students because of inspiration from their fellow students.
Responsibility among students has improved especially those who retain books from the library.
4. CHALLENGES:
The library has some challenges, which affect the students and the school at large for example
• The some book titles have a few copies compared to students willing to use them.
• Teachers’ references copies are not enough.
• The library also lacks variety of books for students to read for pleasure. Even though the reading culture is seen to be improving, the improvement is impended by the fact that what we currently have in our library is almost exclusively limited to the national curriculum
5. POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS:
• There should be an increase in the number of copies to serve a big number of students. This will improve on the students reading culture.
• Teachers’ reference books should be increased in number. This will help to ease teachers’ work.
• Variety of books need to be increased to reduce monopoly of one variety.
• Also new editions need to be brought due to changes made by the authors.
6. CONCLUSION:
We would like to thank British Airways, A Ray of Hope and other supporters for the support extended to us through Project Hope – Uganda.
Yours,
Vincent Zziwa,
Head Teacher
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