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Today’s school library whether it be called an instructional media center, a resource center or a learning center – is a source and force for educational excellence.

St. Bridget College SHS Library functions as an integral part of the total educational program. It strives to provide the types of instructional media essential for the support of the curricular programs, providing opportunities for each student to read ideas critically, while being guided in an environment conducive to maximal learning.

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VISION

The SBC SHS Library fosters a community of learning that leads to high academic achievement, productive individuals, independent reading and learning, and collaboration throughout the school and outside community.

MISSION

The SBC SHS Library is to ensure that students, faculty, staff and community have access to knowledge in both print and digital formats thus, promote life-long learners.

This mission directs the school library personnel to:

Provide a program that is fully integrated into the school’s curriculum and is central to the learning process.
Afford access to a variety of information representing a wide range of subjects and difficulty levels.
Impart learning experiences that encourage users to become discriminating consumers, skilled creators of information, and lifelong learners.
Promote the enjoyment of reading, listening, and viewing for users.
Facilitate leadership, instruction, and consulting assistance in the design of learning strategies and the use of information for effective teaching and learning.
Participate in partnerships, including network that provides access information outside the school.

environments, collections & services

I. THE LIBRARY ENVIRONMENT

It is located at the right wing of the 2nd floor of the SMAO building on the campus and accessible to students and faculty. The different sections are:

1. THE READING SECTION – The Circulation Desk and the Reserve Section of textbooks and materials are its main features. The card catalogue occupies a strategic place in the Reading Section to facilitate the circulation of materials as well as to train the students as independent users of library resources. The library space is arranged, lighted and ventilated for effective functioning. The seating arrangement in the Reading Section can easily accommodate the number of readers at all hours when the library is in service.

2. PERIODICAL SECTION – The core collection of Periodicals on current and relevant issues, together with the newspapers, are displayed for open-shelf system on the display counter and the racks of the Reading Section.

Bound and past issues of journals, magazines, and pamphlets – are in the Periodical Section. Students are free to browse; the open-shelf system is a practical way to help the uninitiated “researcher”.

3. INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA SERVICES (IMS) – An area with 15 units of computers; internet connected to be used for research, encoding and purely academic purposes.

4. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ROOM – This room can be utilized for small group discussion. The library materials in this room can be borrowed for classroom use during class hours.

5. WORK ROOM – for Student Assistants book repair of minor types like loose binding, torn or written pages etc. is handled by trained students.

II. THE COLLECTIONS

A. BOOKS

Our collections are appropriate and adequate for our readers’ instructional and recreational needs, and for general reference and research.

The basic collections over the years have been checked after consultations of standard bibliographies, book reviews and publishers’ notices.

Linkages with international publishers through friends and alumni abroad provide opportunities to keep abreast with current publications. Efforts are made to be updated with latest trends in teaching.

Book acquisition is done throughout the year, with the help of the dean, the Faculty, and the Library Advisory Committee. At times, the instructor of the course is asked to review or evaluate an “examination” copy of a new edition before it is adopted as basic text.

B. PERIODICALS

A Vertical File collection of clippings on controversial and current issues is in the Reading Section to supplement the book collections of teacher’s references. These clippings are borrowed at the Circulation Desk.

Current issues of magazines and journals are displayed on the magazine racks. Students and teachers are free to browse and read them.

C. NON-PRINT AND AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS

These are the materials which are not dependent on the printed words to transmit meaning. They may take the form of motion picture on films or magnetic storage devices, (video tapes); audio information on magnetic tapes or pressed into vinyl discs, computer generated data; and many other formats.

III. LIBRARY SERVICES

A. LIBRARY RULES AND REGULATIONS

1. Our College & SHS Library functions as an open-shelf library. In general, readers ask for the library materials at the Circulation Desk.

2. A student shall present his/her Library I.D. every time he/she borrows library materials whether for reading room use, for overnight, one-week or classroom loan. Lending the Library I.D. or the library materials borrowed on it is strictly prohibited.

3. Library services start from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mondays thru Friday.

4. A student shall deposit at the Check-in-shelf his/her personal belongings and shall log- in in the logging station upon entering the library. A student must wear his/her Gate Pass I.D. every time he/she enters the library. Don’t forget to log-out.

5. Fines and Sanctions. To encourage thoughtfulness of others and respect for rights of others, fines are imposed for unreturned books. A fine of five pesos per day is charged for overdue fiction. The fine for overdue reference book is twenty pesos per day. Deliberate marking, mutilating, and defacing of a book or periodical in any way is subject to penalties or recommendation for suspension.

6. Books for overnight use are issued after 4:00 p.m. (M-F) and must be returned by 8:00 a.m. on the following school day. Fiction may be borrowed for a week, subject to renewal, if not in demand.

To discourage retention of books in great demand, a fine on overdue books is charged as follows:

a. Books for overnight use – P 5.00 for the first hour or a fraction thereof and P 2.50 for each succeeding hour. If the book is not returned at the end of the day, a fine of P 20.00 is charged per book.

b. Book for one-week loan – P5.00 per day.

7. Marking, clipping or other willful destruction and bringing out books or other printed matters from the library without permission are forbidden and subject to disciplinary actions.

8. SMOKING, EATING, RUNNING and SLEEPING are strictly prohibited inside the library.

9. SILENCE shall be maintained in the library and along the corridor at all times.

10. General references, pamphlets, newspapers and magazines should be used in the library only. Reserved books can be used for an hour, subject to renewal if not in demand.

11. After using the books in the Reading Room, students should return them to the librarian in the Circulation desk.

12. Students should handle books and other library materials with care. They are intended to serve many other users.

13. A student shall surrender his/her Library I.D. for validation every semester he/she enrolled in SBC. Failure to validate Library I.D. means community service in the library.

B. BORROWING AND RETURNING OF MATERIALS

Students are allowed to bring only notebooks and sheets of paper inside the Library. Their bags and big folders should be deposited in the outside shelf. Books and periodicals borrowed must be handled with care and be returned properly on the circulation desk, before leaving the library. Orderliness must be observed by keeping the chairs in their places and the library tables clean.

1. RESERVE BOOK SERVICE

Give the title and author of the books to the librarian on duty

Sign the book card properly

Leave the book card and your Library I.D. to the librarian on duty.

2. OVERNIGHT LOAN

Follow same procedure during specified time – 4:00 p.m. Monday to Friday; return the book before 8:00 a.m. the following day.

3. WEEK LOANS

Consult the OPAC/card catalog, copy the call number of the needed book

present your I.D. and get the book you want to borrow on the shelf

fill out the book card

let the librarian stamp date due on the slip

leave the book card but not your Library I.D.

4. PERIODICALS /MAGAZINES

browse over the magazines on the display counter

bring the issue of magazines & periodicals you want to read to the librarian at the Circulation Section

fill up the book card

leave the I.D. and book card with the librarian on duty

ALWAYS RETURN whatever you borrow at the Circulation Desk. Get back your I.D. upon the return of books borrowed.

5. FOR CLASSROOM ACTIVITY/ SEATWORK

There are books from the Instructional Materials Room that can be used in the classroom during class hours. The teacher should assign monitors to get the books from the library and sign the logbook for classroom loan. After the classes have used the books, monitors return them and arrange them properly inside the instructional materials room.

6. USE OF MAPS AND VISUAL MATERIALS

Maps and visual materials can be used in the classroom during class hours, with permission. Students are allowed to use maps and visual materials in the library.

7. USE OF GENERAL REFERENCE MATERIAL

Students are allowed to browse in the General Reference shelves and select the reference materials they are going to use. To borrow they need to sign the book card and leave it on the circulation desk with their Library I.D. After using, the students should present the book to the Librarian at the counter, get their I.D. and put the book back in the proper shelf.

8. FOR RECREATIONAL READING

These are classified as fiction, juvenile fiction, biographies, or essays for pleasure reading. The book counters and shelves are labeled and at free access for students’ browsing and selection. A student may borrow one book for one week, renewable for the following week, if it is not in demand.

9. SERVICES TO TEACHERS

1. As soon as the semester starts, the Librarian and Staff put in The Reserve Section the print materials listed in the Faculty Bibliographies submitted by each teacher. The Circulation Staff keeps a record of no. of copies of the book and the no. of students in the respective subjects. During the semester, the librarian informs the faculty of other sources available among the pamphlets, vertical file, and special collections to enrich the course.

2. The faculty may browse in the Instructional Materials Room and AV Equipment Room from time to time

3. Special privileges are extended to the Faculty and faculty of other departments – on load periods and renewals; however, in certain circumstances a book can be “recalled” at the end of a 2-week loan or even earlier.

IV. The ROLE of the library staff is to ensure that:

· The library is well managed and quality service is provided
· Clients needs are identified and addressed;
· Clients are provided with professional reference and information services;
· Clients have access to the learning resources they need, either from collections of materials or through electronic networks;
· Clients are taught how to access and use information effectively.