CIRCULATION SECTION
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CIRCULATION SECTION
MARIA GENNA M. CAMANCE
GENERAL CIRCULATION SECTION
Service Hours:
Monday - Friday
8:00 AM - 12:00 NN
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
This section houses and circulates the major library collection covering the different areas of discipline. This section adopts the “open shelf” system, where users can go directly to the shelf and choose the books they would like to browse or use. All books in this section may be borrowed for overnight use. The Circulation Section is the backbone of the Library. Faculty and students of the college usually come to borrow and returned books.
The Circulation Section performs the following functions:
Issues borrowers cards.
Issue and receipt of reading material, to and from students and faculty and client
Collects delay fines for overdue book
Sends reminders for overdue books.
Settles cases regarding the books lost or damaged by the members.
Issues the Library Clearance Certificates.
Helps the library users in finding the required material and guides them in the use of library catalogue.
Shelves the reading material on the racks that had been returned by the borrowers and taken from the shelves for reading.
Keeps statistics of daily transactions.
This unit is functioning on the second floor. Circulation counter is located near the entrance as you enter the second floor. The books have been arranged according to Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme (000 to 999).
To provide easy access to books and other reading materials, an Online Public Access Catalog is provided near the circulation section. Adjacent to it, is the Card catalog Cabinet where printed cards have been placed for use by the students, faculty in case of brown out.
*Users may loan out 2 books at a time for 2 day, except those marked “Library Use” Fiction Books may be borrowed for a week and are due every Wednesday.