Learning and Information Center

Supports the University and Library mission through the provision of a range of activities including: budget planning and execution, human resource management, facility maintenance, space planning, supply ordering, outreach and communications, and attends to internal and external administrative matters.

Library operations concerned with the acquisition, organization and maintenance of the library collection.

Oversees the operations of all the programs, services, and facilities that concern the information needs of UM faculty and students.

1. CIRCULATION SERVICES

Responsible for the checking out (borrowing), checking in (returning), renewal, recall and overdue fines computation of library 

materials through the circulation desk.

2. REFERENCE AND RESEARCH ASSISTANCE SERVICES

Provide assistance, guidance, and instructions to users in accessing and retrieving information.

• Literature Search and Assistance (LiSA)

This service provides assistance to help users find key literature related to their research topic. 

• Library Chat and Reference Assistance (LibCRA)

Online library service intended to accommodate and cater the information and research queries of the students 

and faculty remotely.

• Online Selective Dissemination of Information (OSDI)

Provide scanned copy of the table of contents of new issues of periodicals to keep the user abreast with the latest 

developments in a specified topic. This is send via email to the different colleges.

3. PERIODICAL SERVICES

Provide local and foreign journals, magazines, newspapers; and, clippings from newspapers and ephemeral materials. 

Periodical materials with completed issues are bound and indexed for easy access.

4. PROVISION OF FILIPINIANA MATERIALS

LIC provides books on various subjects or topics in Philippine setting, or any topic related to the Philippines 

regardless of author and imprint.

5. PROVISION OF UMIANA MATERIALS

Provide information about the University of Mindanao, its founder, achievements and publications.

6. MINDANAOAN CORNER

Features various materials about the cultural heritage of Mindanao.

7. BANGKO SENTRAL NG PILIPINAS KNOWLEDGE RESOURCE NETWORK (BSP-KRN)

A program promoting the understanding of essential economic and financial concepts and issues through the 

exchange of information resources between the BSP library and UM Learning and Information Center. This 

collaboration offers publications from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas for the utilization of students of the University 

of Mindanao.

8. PROVISION OF UN/ADB/WB COLLECTIONS

Provides publications of United Nations, Asian Development Bank and World Bank.

9. DONATION CORNER

Provides area for the display of books donated by the Friends of the Library.

10. HYFLEX INFORMATION LITERACY PROGRAM

A face-to-face and online instructional program aimed to teach users on the use of library resources and services

• General Library Instruction

Instructional program that aims to teach patrons on how to locate the information they need quickly and 

effectively thru the use of Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC).

• Online Database Instruction

Teach students how to access the subscribed online databases namely: Proquest E-book Central, ACM Digital 

Library, Proquest Central, Philippine E-journals, and Gale Reference Complete.

• Bibliography Making

Teach students how to write a bibliography for a research paper.

11. RESOURCE SHARING SERVICE

Provide referral letters for students planning to use the library facilities of other institutions. Likewise, the LIC caters 

users from other institutions with referral letters from their respective heads of libraries.

12. CURRENT AWARENESS SERVICE

Provides updates on new acquisitions and events of the LIC through the library website, FB page and bulletin board 

display.