library

West Negros University has three existing libraries; the College Main Library and the Graduate Studies Library which is located at the Main Campus along Burgos Street, Bacolod City and the Integrated School Library which is found in Eroreco Campus where the Integrated School is located.

The College Main Library is found in the 2nd floor of the Engineering building at the Main Campus. The Library housed the Office of the Director of Libraries and all sections of the library such as Periodical Section, Filipiniana Section, General Reference, Circulation, Engineering/Maritime, Reserve and Technical Section while the Graduate Studies Library is found at the first floor of the College of Information and Communication Technology. The Main Library has a total floor area of 1,826 square meters and a seating capacity of 1,110 students at one time, the Integrated School Library has a total floor area 131.6 square meters and a seating capacity of 56 students at one time and the Graduate Studies Library has a total floor area of 207.94 square meters and a total sitting capacity of 150 students at one time.

The library has eight (8) full time professional librarians, one (1) secretary, one (1) technician who is assigned at GGA-AV Center, one (1) encoder, one (1) Internet Service In-charge and forty (40) student assistants.

The library has a total book collection of 65,511 titles and 79,282 volumes and 91 titles of subscribed local and foreign journals and magazines both general interests and technical titles. The collection include print and non-print as well as electronic materials ready to use for students. It provides basic and current books in all subject fields. Aside from the basic book collection, it has periodicals, audio-visual (AV) materials, thesis and dissertations and others. Other collections available are the Filipiniana and Negrosiana collections.

As a center of the educative process, the library needs to be continually improved to carry out the goals and objectives of the institution it serves. And, in order to provide best services to its clientele, the library not just limits their collections to print formats but also to electronic resources found in the Internet.

The Library has 17 computer units that can be found inside the main library and 95 computer units with Internet connections at the Internet Service Center to cater the needs of the student population. The Internet Service Center has a total floor area of 351.14 square meters and it is situated at the third floor of the College of Information and Communication Technology.

To provide better services to its clientele, the library is open from 8:00AM to 7:00PM from Mondays to Fridays with no noon-break. It is also open on Saturdays from 8:00AM to 5:00PM and Sundays 8:00 - 12:00NN, 1:00 - 5:00PM to serve the Graduate students when there scheduled classes and also for the Nursing Students who have their classes.

The library uses an open shelf access to serve the educational and informational needs of its clientele and uses Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system in organizing and classifying its collections. The library sees to it that it can meet the needs and demands of the students in their choice of resource materials for learning and can offer quality service.

With the all-out support from the administration, the library reiterates its commitment to be responsive to the needs of the members of the academic community.

With the present technological advancement of libraries and the emerging and evolving library technologies, the library is starting to computerize/automate its operation in order to provide better services to its clientele through an in house library program.
 

MISSION 

The West Negros University Library is committed to its purpose of enabling student, faculty and staff achieve the goals of intellectual growth and academic excellence through scholarship, study, research and information science. 

LIBRARY OBJECTIVES

The services of West Negros University Library are geared to supplement and enrich the curricular needs of the university and support its general program and objectives. Specially, these services aim

• to support the general program and enrich the curricular needs of the university by securing, organizing and acquiring books, periodicals, audio-visual and other library materials used for instructional and research program of the institution.
   

• to provide resources, facilities and services to the whole academic community to achieve its goals and objectives.
   

• to develop, update, enrich and maintain the library collections to support the needs of the course offerings and programs of the university.