Finally the doors of the Josef Baumgartner Learning Resource Center at Talamban Campus have officially been opened to the community last August 24, 2012. It started providing services last July 2, 2012 even if it was not yet formally opened. It is the aim of the library system to ensure that the USC community’s information needs are responded to upon the start of classes.

Yes we have a functional structure, but to be a Learning Resource Center it has to be a dynamic and responsive system/center. The library system accepts the challenges through the creation of innovative programs, maximizing the spaces by embedding the concept of information commons, and ensuring the sustainability of the LRC as an one-stop-shop information hub of the university.

The University has officially opened the gates to its wealth of information resources as the country prepares for the educational reform stipulated in the CHED Memorandum on the POLICY-STANDARD TO ENHANCE QUALITY ASSURANCE (QA) IN PHILIPPINE HIGHER EDUCATION THROUGH AN OUTCOMES-BASED AND TYPOLOGY-BASED QA. Library System with your cooperation and support is “Owning Its Challenges”.

Maxie Doreen Leva-Cabarron, MSLS
Director of Libraries

As an information resource center, the USC Library System provides information resources and services responsive to the curricular and research needs of all sectors. It supports the goal-directed thrusts of the University of San Carlos.

In the system are 15 libraries, 5 AV Centers, central acquisitions and cataloging units supervised by professional and PRC licensed librarians located in the four campuses of the University. The computer room in the office of the Director of Libraries is the technology nerve center of the Library System. The Library System operates on the concept of participative and values-based management reflective of the University’s Mission and Vision, guided by its Slogan: Customer First and Always.

Efficient, effective and cohesive work performance of all units in the system is anchored on its main function as provider of information resources and services responsive to the needs of all the university sectors relative to curriculum and research. Specifically, the System’s main function is carried out through an efficient system of selection, procurement, organization and dissemination of library resources to end-users by competent, committed library information professionals and staff.