Harrod’s (2000), characterized school library as a coordinated assortment of books put in a school for the utilization of instructors & students, however for the most part for understudies. It might contain books of reference or potentially books for home perusing & being taken care of by an expert custodian, or educator administrator. It is differently call “Educational Materials Center”, “Learning Center or Media focus.” The School library fills in as a help office which upholds the schools’ goals and gives materials to all subjects & all interest of students and instructors. The school library is a strong asset of the school educational plan, its arrangements, administrations, & improvement is aimed at helping school programs (Kinnel, 1994). Libraries for the most part have as their principle reason obtaining, handling, putting away and spreading data to which school library isn’t a special case. The school library has an essential task to carry out in the data administration. They give materials applicable to the curricular necessities of everyone with the school local area. The significance of giving such assets can’t be overemphasized if the school library is to be an agitator of & support for asset based learning in the school. Additionally, according to data abilities, the library and its custodian, make accessible materials & administrations in various assortments to permit the two students and the school local area to utilize these abilities in discovering the data they need.
The reason and theory of school library administration are quickly being perceived & acknowledged by school overseers and educators. The reality requires that the school administrator be completely acquainted with those reasons like direction, the understanding system and the advancement program for understudies & educators. Nonetheless, Albert Academy library has no prepared and qualified custodian, who comprehends and plays out those reasons to guarantee that the assistance arrangement is completely achieved. The Albert Academy was introduced on the fourth October 1904. It was until 1975 when the Albert Academy Alumni Association in their gathering thought it astute that a particularly trustworthy foundation should not abandon a library as the advancement of school libraries was at its most noteworthy top around then. A plan to raise a library building was brought into the world with the cooperation of the graduated class affiliation & the proprietors of the school that is the United Methodist Church. The library was set up determined to have where understudies could proceed to investigate novel plans to additionally reinforce their school educational program exercises and recreation also. The library was authoritatively opened to the whole school local area by His Excellency the late Dr. Siaka P. Stevens on fourth October 1976, then, at that point President of the Republic of Sierra Leone & furthermore an individual from the Albert Academy Alumni Association class of 1922. The library was named after him following the massive commitment he made towards building up the library for the school local area. The Albert Academy Library has a mission to “Backing school educational plan exercises by giving materials of importance in the school cycle and to present better than ever data sources to assist with making the school to be in accordance with current guidelines of training.”
