The Development of Information Service of School Library for Children
with Special needs in Mainstreaming to Enhance 21^st Century Learning Skills

Titiya Netwong¹

¹titiya_net@dusit.ac.th

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1. to study the condition and need of information service of school library for children with special needs, 2. to develop information service, 3. to study the opinions on the development of information service, and 4. to study the effect of information service of school library for children with special needs in mainstreaming to enhance 21st century learning skills. The results of the study were as follows: 1. the condition of information service of school library for children with special needs was at the level of "average", and the need of information service was at the level of "high". 2. The information service of school library for children with special needs composed of 5 components; 1) management of information service of school library for children with special needs, 2) personnel and staff of information service of school library for children with special needs, 3) information resources, 4) instructional strategy and activity, 5) evaluation and feedback. The activity composed of 6 steps; 1) breaking the ice to get ready, 2) reading digital for learning, 3) information literacy, 4) media literacy, 5) technology literacy, 6) presentation, summarization, and feedback. 3. The opinion on information service was at the level of "high". 4. The satisfaction on the information service of school library for children with special needs found that the overall opinions were at a high level, the average score of 6.84, which gained the 60% criteria.

Keywords: Information Service, School Library, Children with Special needs in
Mainstreaming, 21st Century Learning Skills