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CvSU Library Manual of Operations

RULE V
LIBRARY SECTIONS AND SERVICES OFFERED

Ladislao N. Diwa Memorial Library (LDML) is serving not only CvSU
students, faculty members, employees, alumnae and administrators but also
researchers from other institutions and agencies. The library is divided into
sections for easy access and retrieval of print and non-print materials. The
Reader’s or Public, Electronic Resources, Technical, and other library services
are provided by to meet the basic needs of its users.

Article 1. Reader’s Services or Public Services

Reader’s or Public Services shall refer to those library
activities where direct contact with the costumer occurs on a daily
basis. These services are provided for the use of library materials
in circulation, reference, interlibrary loan or borrowing,
photocopying, media services and maintenance of book stacks.

Section 1. Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC)

The Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) provides
access to the collections of the library. Users search a library
OPAC principally to locate books and other material
available at a library.

Section 2. Circulation Section

Housed in this section are books published in other
countries copyrighted from 1989 and below and duplicate
copies of books copyrighted from 1990 and up. It offers the
following services:

a. Charging and discharging of books (Figure 2);
b. Provides reference assistance to library users;
c. Validating and issuing of borrower’s card;
d. Clearance signing;
e. Issuance of requested referral letters;
f. Preparing and sending of recall notices to borrower/s
with overdue book/s;
g. Consolidating of statistics of users and materials
usage (daily, weekly, monthly); and
h. Maintenance of the stacks area (shelving and shelf
reading); and
i. Repairing of mutilated books.

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