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- To develop competitive staff to be able to guide students and other researchers
toward lifelong education.
Services
- Technical Services. This service area is concerned with the acquisition,
organization (classification and cataloging, etc) preparation and preservation of
materials.
- Readers Services. The Readers Services is being supervised by a unit head and
is directly involved in serving library clientele through its five main sections and
branch libraries namely:
- Circulation Section - follows the semi-open shelf system. It houses and circulates
the major collection/holding of the library covering the different areas of discipline.
Fiction books are also found in this section.
- Reserve Section - This section houses-in process books usually newly acquired
books. It also houses the professional books of newly opened courses or programs
like nursing, midwifery and criminology. Audio visual materials and books of
limited copies that are very much in demand are shelved in this section.
- Reference Section - Materials found in this section are for room use only. Books
found in this section comprise different kinds of dictionaries, encyclopedias,
directories, manuals, atlases, yearbooks, almanacs, bibliographies,, and non-book
materials that include maps, globes, vertical files of clippings, pamphlets, leaflets
and ephemeral materials. Books in this section give vital information on the field of
research.
- Filipiniana Section - This section houses a collection of publications written by
Filipino or foreign authors about Philippine society, people, culture, etc.
- Periodical Section- This section houses current and back issues of journals,
magazines, newspapers and other serial literatures.
- Graduate Section - This library houses and circulates materials for advance
studies in support of the curricular offerings of the Graduate School. Thesis,
dissertations, or research compilations of the different graduate courses are
available in this library.
- High School Library- This library houses holdings/ collection usually textbooks and
other materials that support the curriculum offerings in the Laboratory High School.
Other Services
- Internet/multimedia Services. Internet services are made available to all students
not only in the main library and graduate library but also in the Computer Science
Internet café.
- For printing services subject to existing charges/fees.
