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BESTLINK COLLEGE OF THE PHILIPPINES LIBRARY DEPARTMENT HISTORY

Bestlink College of the Philippines is a non-stock, non-profit and non-sectarian institute founded in June 2002 in Quezon City. The emergence of the 4-Year CHED programs led to the change of its name from Institute with Computer TESDA-accredited courses to a College.

Although the school requires only minimal fees, it still meets and provides adequate facilities and services not to mention the competent and qualified instructors eagerly and enthusiastically extending and sharing their help for the welfare of the students. Its first site was not sufficient for the forecasted growth. It was started with one room and a one thousand total collection of books managed by a part-time librarian.

In 2004, Bestlink Institute of Information Technology, with its new Administration, decided to move to its new location at 1044 Brgy. Sta. Monica, Quirino Hi-way, Novaliches, Quezon City. On the first lot stood a two-storey building which used to be a bank. This was improved by Bestlink College of the Philippines, thus, the ground floor served as the Administration Office and the second floor housed the College Library.

In 2008, the library located on the second floor of the building was headed by Mrs. Susan Josafat, Librarian, two support staff, Leah Candido and Margarita Aquino, a group of student assistants and on-the-job trainee.

From one thousand books it grew to six thousand books to cope with the increasing number of students. Additional librarians were continuously hired. Additional courses, likewise brought in an increased numbers enrollees that reached its peak at approximately thirteen thousand students.

In 2012, the school opened another campus located at Lot 762 Cor. Topaz St. and Sapphire St., Millionaire's Village, San Agustin, Novaliches, Quezon City  with a land area of 9,305 sqm. A much bigger size Library located at the ground floor beside the Office of the President / Vice-President, started as the library of BCP in 2014. With the continued increase of enrollment, a modern state-of-the art library that focuses on collaborative modern series of Library was constructed. The Collaborative Learning Center as the new name of the library with modern facilities at Dr. Charlie I. Cariño Hall was inaugurated in 2016.

On July 03, 2019, Mr. John Pros B. Valencia was appointed as Library Director of the BCP Library. Ms. Marian Garcia was in charge of the College Department while Ms. Erika Fae Tanasas was in-charge of the Senior High School Department; both of them are registered librarians. Due to the increasing demand of library users, hours of services have, been extended from 8:00am- 7:00pm every Monday to Friday. On Saturdays library hours are from 8:00 am- 12:00 nn.

As of February 7, 2020, the library has 2008 volumes of senior high school books and 15,446 volumes of books for college. In terms of periodicals collections there are seventy one titles that are current and relevant to the program offered by the school. These titles of local and foreign publications are scholarly and refereed. The library collections are organized for efficient identification and retrieval. They are cataloged, classified and/ or indexed according to the accepted standard of bibliographic description and system of classification. The library has an Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) which is available for easy access of the collection.

The Library uses email and Facebook bestlinklibrary@gmail.com to be continuously involved in terms of collections and services and to cope with increasing demand for information.