The mission of the CatSU Library is to provide resources and instructional materials in support of evolving curriculum in the areas of instruction, research, extension and production consistent with the mission and goals of the institution and scholarly global community. 

The vision of the CatSU Library is to serve as a campus facility that is truly global in the academic and research culture, and to substantially contribute to the intellectual activities of the institution.  As more readers use state-of-the-art technology, the library assists the institution in achieving its commitment to the regional, national and international communities and ensures the colleges meet the complex information challenges of the 21st century. 

1. Support a library operations management system consisting of software and hardware to assist CatSU library operations in the most-effective manner.

2. Provide CatSU community access to more electronic information in the most cost effective manner.

3. Improve access to the content of the CatSU library collections by facilitating the digitization and archival storage of select works.

4. Carry out joint planning with colleges’ libraries can fit together into complementary plan of action.

5. Obtain the support and financial resources needed for all of the above goals.

For credentials needed to access our Online Databases you may directly message us through the Library’s Facebook Page.  

• ABC Chemistry (Free Chemical Information)

• Applied Math

• Bibliomania

• Bookboon (online textbooks for students in pdf format, which can be downloaded without registration)

• Collaborative Librarianship

• Directory of Open Access Books

• DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals

• Digital Theses and Dissertation

• E-Books Directory

• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)

• ERIC

• e-Scholarship Edition

• The-eBook Directory (the biggest directory of free downloadable  e- books online)

• Freeload Press (for free college e-Textbooks, books, manuals.etc.)

• International Children's Digital library (including children's books from the Philippines )

• Library Works 

• ManyBooks.net

• National Academic Press

• National Science Digital Library

• ODLIS (Online Dictionary for LIS) Ohio State University Press: Open Access Initiative

• The Online Books Page (over 30,000 online books free to the public, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries)

• Open Culture (free cultural and educational media, free courses, movies, e-books, audio books and more)

• Philippine E-Journals

• Project Gutenberg ("the first producer of free electronic books"}

• Questia

• Read Print (a free online library of books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast)

• Wikibooks ("a free library of educational textbooks")

• World Public Library (features "priceless reproductions of digitally re-mastered classic literature, photographs, movies, and music to raise the standards of excellence in the field of digital publishing'")