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ABOUT THE LIBRARY
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The Br. Fidelis Leddy Learning Resource Center (LRC) is a place where students, faculty and researchers can stay for serious study. It houses multimedia resources—from conventional printed materials, to other forms of storage media, such as audio/video tapes, transparencies, compact discs, and electronic/online databases. The LRC provides informational, instructional, and recreational resources for the enhancement of teaching and learning experiences in the classrooms, as well as for other members of the Benildean community.
The Library currently has four separate facilities: two at the Taft campus (LRC-Main and the LRC-Extension), one at the AKIC campus, and another at the SDA campus. All these areas are also Wi-Fi accessible.
The LRC-Main on the second floor of Saint Mutien Marie Building houses the audiovisual services room, audio-video viewing area, periodical collection, photograph collection, map collection, thesis print/CD collection, microfilm collection, a special collection area (for AV materials), memorabilia collection and a faculty corner. The LRC has separate areas for the CD-Station and computer units for the use of its online databases.
The LRC-Extension is another reading area for library users. It houses the entire book collection with call numbers, a faculty corner, the circulation section, the computer units with online databases and OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog). There are also printers available.
The LRC at the 10th floor of Angelo King International Center (AKIC) accommodates the book collection for the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Institution Management (SHRIM). The facility has its own set of periodicals, AV materials and equipment, computer units with internet facilities to access online databases and OPAC.
Each year, the LRC acquires new resources and upgrades equipment for the use of students.
Students can avail of the following LRC collection:
- over 122,000 book titles (as of August 2009)
- more than 45,000 titles of electronic books
- about 300 periodical titles (in print/electronic/microfilm formats)
- 157 titles (19,138 vols.) of transparency-based library materials
- almost 7,000 CD-ROM titles
- about 6,000 VHS and audio tape titles
- 4,000 audio CD, DVD, LD, and VCD titles
These materials can be checked from the On-line Public Access Catalog (OPAC) whether at home or in school.
The College has been subscribing to an online electronic journal called ProQuest 5000 International since August 2001. It has more than 29 databases containing almost 16,000 journals. Articles in these journals are available in full text, text and graphics, page image, and abstract/summary format.
Other online databases/journals are:
- Global Market International Databases (GMID)
- Ovid SP Databases
- Emerald Databases
- Project MUSE
- Credo Reference
- HW Wilson Omnifile Full Text Select
- Virtual Learning Resource Centre - Ashridge
- ABC-CLIO History Reference Online
- Journal of The Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
- Ebrary (a database for eBook)
These educational research tools can be accessed through computers in the LRC, offices inside the College, and remotely for as long as the user is a bona fide member of the College and has an active DLS-CSB Intranet account.
The Library subscribes to Serials Solutions 360, a federated search engine to all the online databases and journals. It delivers the most powerful solution for e-resource access and management. For resource discovery, 360 is the proven starting point. One can query all available databases from a single Interface, and Results Clustering to help the user find the answers fast.
Library service hours are from 7:30am to 8:30pm on Mondays through Fridays, and on Saturdays from 8:00am to 4:00pm. One can check the availability of all materials through computers in the LRC, offices inside the College and at home through the DLS-CSB dial-up system.
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