The Onomatopoeia and your School Libraries

Abstract

According to Article 5 in school library law in Japan, a teacher librarian should be posted to the school library. However most of teacher librarians are involved into the other tasks in school so much that they cannot afford to engage school library. The students, who take lesson on school librarianship at university, are less experienced in libraries in school days. Therefore at the beginning of lesson I always try to execute the activity of describing school libraries into onomatopoeias. This activity encourages them to study school librarianship. We will find out the condition, the problems and the challenges of school libraries in Japan.