CHAPTER 4


Materials Centers in Twelve-Grade Schools

C"I N EVERY SCHOOL BUILDING where elementary or high
 I school, or combination elementary and high school subjects
are taught, there shall be provision for minimum library facilities
to meet regulations that may from time to time be adopted by the
State Board." Section 235.26 (14) Florida Statutes. In planning
materials centers for twelve-grade schools, planners face nu-
merous and complex problems. The needs and interests of the
teachers and pupils to be served present a wide range of differ-
ences; materials needed and services expected will also cause
difficulties in designing a materials center satisfactory to all who
will use it. The following recommendations will serve as guides
in reaching decisions concerning some of these problems.

 I. Location
 A. In respect to high school and upper elementary classrooms
 and accessible to the primary classrooms
 B. Adjacent to the study hall if there is one
 C. Where there is a minimum of noise
 D. In an area suitably proportioned to accommodate functional
 and aesthetic quarters
 E. On the first floor with a double-door entrance into the main
 reading area and a single outside entrance (to the corridor
 or outside of building) to the work-storage area

 F. Where expansion is possible
 II. Space Allocations and Equipment Specifications
 A. Reading Area
 1. Purposes and Activities
 a. Reading and browsing
 b. Reference individual or group work