Graduate Students Library Orientation Program

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Graduate Students Library Orientation
Program
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Vision/Mission

• The Saint Louis University Libraries envision
  themselves as a supportive service to the
  transformative educational process of SLU and are
  committed to providing expedient and effective
  access to high quality library services,
  collections in a variety of formats and
  information resources designed to meet the
  curriculum, research, professional, intellectual,
  creative and personal needs of the SLU community.

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Objectives

• Christian Spirit
• To provide facilities, technologies, and
  customer-oriented services that contribute to and
  foster a creative environment conducive to
  learning, research and scholarship, and cultural
  activities imbued with the Christian spirit.
• Creativity/Innovativeness
• To provide new and traditional academic
  discipline-based reference and consultation,
  research assistance, course support, document
  delivery, and an array of related library
  services to the Universitys academic support
  units.

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Objectives

• Competence
• To offer competent and multi-faceted
  instructional programs to users with life-long
  learning, informational skills and competencies
  in pursuit of transformative education.
• Social Involvement
• To promote communication and collaboration both
  within and outside the university.

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Schedule of Library Service

• READER SERVICES SECTIONS
• During School Days
• 730 AM - 700 PM no noon break (Monday to
  Saturday)
• 100 PM - 500 PM (Sunday)
• TECHNICAL SERVICES SECTIONS
• 730 AM - 1200 NN
• 130 PM - 500 PM
• Monday to Saturday

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Classification Scheme

• Books and bound periodicals are arranged on the
  shelves
• according to the Dewey Decimal Classification
  (DDC) Scheme.
• 000-099 Generalities
• 100-199 Philosophy and Psychology
• 200-299 Religion
• 300-399 Social Sciences
• 400-499 Language
• 500-599 Pure Sciences
• 600-699 Applied Sciences
• -799 Arts and Allied Sciences
• 800-899 Literature
• 900-999 History and Geography

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Available Information Resources in the SLU
Libraries

• print
• books
• serials
• maps and charts
• grey literature
• archived information
• non print
• Video tapes
• Slides
• Transparencies
• digital/online

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Grey Literature

• Theses and dissertations can be borrowed for room
  use only.
• A written permission from the author of the
  unpublished material should be secured by the
  graduate student, if he/she wishes to photocopy
  other contents aside from the abstract.
• The Library Working Scholar will accompany the
  graduate student in photocopying abstracts of
  theses/dissertations in any photocopying center
  in the library.

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Electronic Formats

• diskettes
• CD-ROM
• CBT or Computer Based Training
• E-books
• online databases
• EBSCO
• H.W. Wilson Omnifile
• Global Books in Print
• internet links
• Educational Resources in the Internet

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Requirements for Borrowing
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Kinds of Borrowers Card
Faculty
Undergraduate Student
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Library Borrowers Card

• Schedule of Issuance
• Any time during office hours
• A lost borrowers card should be reported
  immediately to the person-in-charge at the 5th
  floor of the library building
• A fee of Php40.00 is charged for the replacement
  of a lost borrowers card. A borrowers card is
  non-transferable.

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Access Services

• General Collection
• A graduate student may borrow three (3) books for
  a week and return the same anytime during the
  library hours
• Faculty on study leave is also entitled to this
  privilege and
• This privilege is available during regular
  semester or summer term.

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Access Services

• Textbook Collection
• A graduate student may avail of the service of
  this section according to his graduate
  subjects/loads.
• The graduate student should accomplish the form
  provided by the Textbook Section.
• The textbooks borrowed by the graduate students
  are charge in the same way as undergraduate
  students do.

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Access Services

• Multimedia Library
• Students must present his borrowers card and
  duly registered I.D. at the counter before
  entering the Multimedia Library
• Students must deposit all his personal belongings
  except valuables at the counter before using the
  Multimedia Library
• The library patron will choose a CD from the
  lists provided at the counter, then fill up the
  pink card attached to the CD, then the Library
  working scholar or the Library Staff will assign
  a computer station for the patron to view the
  borrowed CD.

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Borrowing Procedures

• For room use
• 1. Use the card catalog or the Online Public
  Access Catalog (OPAC) to locate the needed
  material
• 2. Copy accurately the call number, author and
  title of the material on a call slip. Call slips
  are provided at the library counters.
• 3. Present the call slip to the Library Working
  Scholar stationed at the counter.
• 4. Write Name I.D. No. on the book card (pink
  card) if the material is available.
• 5. Leave borrowers card and duly registered
  perpetual I.D. card before getting the book.
• 6. Return the book and get I.D and Borrowers card

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Borrowing Procedures

• For overnight use
• 1. Use the card catalog or the Online Public
  Access Catalog (OPAC) to locate the needed
  material
• 2. Copy accurately the call number, author and
  title of the material on a call slip. Call slips
  are provided at the library counters.
• 3. Present the call slip to the Library Working
  Scholar stationed at the counter.
• 4. Fill up the book card (pink card) with
  complete name and ID no.
• 5. Accomplish the logbook for books borrowed for
  overnight.

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Returning Procedures

• Library materials form the general circulating
  collection and reserved materials must be
  returned to the circulation desk. Patrons are
  encouraged to let their borrowers card be
  annotated with returned when library materials
  are returned. No claims regarding return of
  library materials will be honored without an
  annotated borrowers card.

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Charges

• Overdue materials are charged with overdue fines.
  Sundays and holidays are included in the
  computation of overdue fines.
• The library charges Php17.00 per day/per book for
  overdue book/s borrowed for a week.
• The library charges Php12.00 per hour for overdue
  books borrowed for photocopy and confiscation of
  borrowers card.

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Charges

• Lost books must be paid according to the value
  determined by the library or replaced with a copy
  of the same title.
• Processing fee and any accumulated fines will be
  charged.
• Library books damaged beyond repair must be
  replaced with the same title.

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SLU Libraries Staff
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Office of the Director of Libraries
Rina Hemedez Diaron Director of Libraries
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Technical Section
Elizabeth DC Gumanlaw Chief Cataloger
Ma. Teresa G. del Rosario OPAC Administrator
Lourdes L. Llanes Acquisition Librarian OIC,
Textbook Section
Repair and Binding Section
Agustin G. Kimmayong Binder
Abraham D. Robles Binder
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Reader Services
Aurelia L. Bang-otan Section Head Circulation4th
floor
Nimpha T. Valdez Section Head Filipiniana
Library Reference Library
Michelle D. Ambloza Section Head Academic
Research Clinic Multimedia Library
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Reader Services
Gerardo V. Claveria Section Head Circulation5th
floor
Emily S. Gumangan Section Head 000-499
Adelina B. del Rosario Section Head Law Library
(Gonzaga Building)
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Reader Services
Marilou L. Pasion Section Head 500-699
Joey K. Guanzo Section Head 700-999
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Museum and CICM Archives
Isikias T. Picpican Curator and Archivist
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Support Staff
Jovita C. Valena Clerk
Gloria E. Ibanez Secretary of the Director of
Libraries
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Office of the Academic Coordinators
Dr. Wilfried Maurice Albert Vanhoutte Chief
Academic Coordinator
Darwin F. Casuga Academic Coordinator
Engr. Ferdinand B. Itliong Academic Coordinator
Dorothy Joy G. Ireneo Academic Coordinator