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900 – 999 – GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY – (Geography, History, Biography, etc.)

 Significance of subject matter to support different areas of the curriculum
 Current and/ or permanent value
 Validity, currency and appropriateness of materials.
 Recommendations based on the preview and examination of materials by professional personnel and
students.
 Reputation and significance of author, producer and publisher
 Integrity and Moral Values
 Timeliness or performance (lasting value of material)
B.SPECIFIC TYPE OF MATERIALS

1. FICTION – The Library will not buy fiction that is anticipated to have only short-term
interest among readers but will attempt to select, established literary works and new works of
promise in the literary field, especially works which would support leisure reading. Evaluation
will be based on author‘s earlier writing and current reader’s interest.
2. NON-PRINT MATERIALS – Non-print materials (such as electronic products:
videotapes, compact discs, transparencies, and audio cassettes, and other media
are considered special or intuitional materials. Request for non-print will be
evaluated on the same basis as book materials. The primary criteria will be the
availability of storage space.
3. FILIPINIANA – a heritage collection of historical works and new works in the field of governing social
issues and problems, laws, geography, history, biographies, culture and traditions of the Philippines and
its people. Materials will be purchased as needed to support nationality and the curricular programs.

4. TEXTBOOKS AND LAB. MANUALS – Titles in these Categories are not normally purchased. Exceptions
are those which are only the best sources of information on a particular topic. Such titles will be
evaluated and added to the collections based on guidelines and policies, and only allows to a maximum
of 5 copies per title.

5. SERIALS AND PERIODICALS – The relatively high and continuing cost of serials and periodicals requires
that duplication of these may occur only in unusual circumstances.
THE SELECTION TOOLS The Library provides a number of services to assist the library coordinators
in the proper selection of library materials. There are a lot of catalogues and price lists of the book
jobbers and publishers available at the library.

A. PROMOTION MATERIALS
Publishers’ catalogues, fliers and leaflets are received by the librarians and distributed to the
Deans/ Library coordinators of every College or programs for reference and recommendations for
the following purposes:
New Title information or Notification Slips – These are printed forms, which are received from the
Library’s major book suppliers and match a subject profile which the library has established contacts
with three or more suppliers. The slips are usually sent directly to the library coordinator for their
evaluation.