CHAPTER 2


Materials Centers In Elementary Schools

 I N EVERY SCHOOL BUILDING where elementary or high
 J school, or combination elementary and high school subjects
are taught, there shall be provision for minimum library facili-
ties to meet regulations that may from time to time be adopted
by the State Board." Section 235.26 (14) Florida Statutes. An
adequate instruction program requires for every child of school
age and his teacher ready access to instructional and develop-
mental materials. In studying these recommendations that fol-
low, planners should place foremost among their considerations
the desirable use to be made of materials center facilities. When
the school materials center is planned with this consideration in
mind, it will serve its purpose as a significant force in the school's
total educational program.

 I. Location
 A. Near the upper-grade classes or center of the building
 B. Where there is a minimum of noise
 C. In an area suitably proportioned to accommodate func-
 tional and aesthetic quarters
 D. On the first floor with a double-door entrance into the main
 reading area and a single outside entrance (to corridor or
 outside of building) to the work-storage area
 E. Where expansion is possible

 II. Space Allocations and Equipment Specifications
 Specifications are based on the assumption that the desirable
enrollment for an elementary school is not more than 750 pupils.
Schools with fewer than 300 pupils may find it necessary to com-
bine some of these areas.
 All elementary materials centers designed to be administered
by one librarian should be planned to accommodate the number