Roco Library Resource Sharing Launched

Raul S. Roco Library's“Interlibrary loan project” is based on mutual partnership to increase the quality of book collection between and among libraries. Partnering schools in the project are the HOLY ROSARY MINOR SEMINARY and the Naga campuses of AMA COMPUTER COLLEGE, COMPUTER COMMUNICATION DEV. INSTITUTE and PHIL. COMP. FOUNDATION COLLEGE .Both partnering libraries uphold the importance of making information available and accessible to every resident of the city. Under a Memorandum of Agreement, partnering libraries can be both the lending library and the borrowing library. The project will allow a partnering library to share and request resource materials with other libraries partnering in the project.

As a lending library, the Raul S. Roco Library will lend books on Bicol culture and other circulation materials that are essential and required readings for college curricular subjects at AMA Computer College, Comp. Comm. Dev. Institute, Phil. Comp. Foundation College and Holy Rosary Minor Seminary.
As a borrowing library, the Raul S. Roco Library will avail of Philosophy books from the Holy Rosary Minor Seminary, and Computer Books from computer colleges.

The agreement allows the borrowing library to avail of its entire collection for one-in-a-half months. Thus, library collection are increased and the quality of materials that are being used by readers are boosted, and extra cost for for duplicate resources are minimized or prevented.The ceremonial signing of the Memorandum of Agreement was conducted last December 8, 2005 during simple ceremonies at the Ground Floor of the Raul S. Roco Library with Mayor Jesse M. Robredo, HRMS Rector Fr Peter C. Beriña, AMA School Director Enrique Villamor, and CCDI and PCFC Schools Administrators Erwin Nacianceno and Zenaida Llorin, RESPECTIVELY, as guests.