Accomplishment CY 2013
Our College Library is an integral contributor to the delivery of academic programs and in the pursuit of excellence. The library provides readily accessible resources, develops and preserves collections with emphasis on the college’ chosen area of focus, and offers a learning environment that pursues and creates knowledge.
Library strives to focus its efforts on providing instructional support for teaching, learning and research. The following reports present some highlights of its work and accomplishments in 2013.
Collection
Its collections development activities continue to focus on print, non-print, and multimedia resources. Library staff processed several e-books and other digital resources to ensure links to the library web page. Two hundred twenty nine (229) titles and four hundred twenty three (423) volumes of books, four (4) titles of journals and twelve (12) titles of magazines were acquired, processed, and used. The library also conducted an inventory count and weeded out twenty one (21) titles due to their physical condition and obsolescence.
Services
The Library remains to be one of the busiest and most vibrant facilities on the campus. It serves sixty five (65) hours a week during the regular periods and nine (9) hours a day during summer. It welcomes and serves almost sixty seven thousand (67,000) customers throughout a year. In‐house services such as circulation, reference, and computer-aided research continually evolve to meet the changing information needs of its clients.
Some of the key statistics describing the use of library facilities and services are as follows:
The Library circulated 28,472 items through its circulation desk record. The largest borrowing group again was undergraduates accounting for 94% of circulation activity. Graduates accounted for 2%, and faculty and staff for 4%.
Moreover, 9,848 availed the internet services (Wi-Fi and computer-aided access), 1,971 were logged using the photocopy services, and 188 graduate and undergraduate availed the inter-library loan services. Library staff gave on campus orientation sessions to 652 customers (new graduate and undergrad students, and faculty). Also 202 were given reference information services and 482 users received the volume 2 copy of the library annual newsletter “The InfoEdge”
Personnel
Together library staff are a hard‐working team of individuals who pool their skills and expertise and commitment to the Library to do the best they can in support of the teaching, research and learning needs of the College. On May 2013, two (2) new library clerks join our ranks.
Library staff attended 1 national, 1 regional, and 4 local seminars and trainings to continuously improve their professional and personal competency in the field of library science, office administration, and in rendering frontline services. Likewise, 1 group dynamic activity was conducted on comradeship and team building.
Facilities/Equipment
Procured 10 Computer Tables, 4 Book Shelves, 1 Binding machine, Orbit Fan, 2 Wall Fan, 1 Facsimile Transceiver, 3 UPS, 1 printer, 1 DVD player, 1 32” flat screen TV, 1 TV Rack, and 4 units of Computer