The De La Salle University Library or the DLSU Library was originally established in 1921 and was re-established after World War II when the collection of the combined high school and college libraries were transferred on July 1956 initially to the second floor of the newly built 6-storey St. Joseph Hall with barely 10,000 books and a reading area able to seat 100. The library stayed there until 1985. The De La Salle Grade School Library was then located on the second floor of St. La Salle Hall until the Grade School was phased out after the 1983-1984 school year.
In the years since De La Salle College transferred to the Taft Campus in 1921 from its Nozaleda campus, the original De La Salle College Library was located in the St. La Salle Hall. However, almost all its book collections were burned by the retreating Japanese during the Liberation of Manila in February 1945.
In 1985, the library was moved in a fully air-conditioned, four-storey building located behind the St. Joseph Hall, built through a donation from the Office of American Schools and Hospitals Abroad of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), under the sponsorship of the Christian Brothers Conference of Illinois, and through donations from the University's alumni and benefactors. In 2006, the library opened an extension at the second floor of the Br. Andrew Gonzalez Hall.
It has over 6,800 square meters accommodating its collection of approximately 290,000 books, 10,000 periodical titles, 1,000 CD-ROM volumes, 10,000 audio-visual materials, 1,200 units of media equipment, 30,000 theses and dissertations, 25,000 volumes of other print materials, 772 maps, and 161 pieces of artwork.
The University Library was named as the Outstanding Library of 2003 by the Philippine Academic and Research Libraries (PAARL), the first library to be such honored.
The library is under the Office of the Assistant Vice-President for Academic Services and is headed by a Director.
Collections
American Studies Resource Center
The American Studies Resource Center (ASRC) was established when the Embassy of the United States in Manila donated the library collection of the Thomas Jefferson Library Manila to the De La Salle University Library in May 2000.
The center was formally opened in a ceremony held on October 18, 2000 through the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement between Deputy Chief of Mission Michael E. Malinowski and DLSU President Br. Rolando Dizon FSC, marking the continuous collaboration of the two institutions in furthering the development of the American Studies Resource Center.
The European Documentation and Research Centre
The European Documentation and Research Centre (EDRC) is currently located at the ground floor of the University Library and was conceived as a project of the European Commission in collaboration with the European Studies Consortium of the Philippines. The European Studies Consortium composed of De La Salle University, the Ateneo de Manila University, and the University of the Philippines, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the European Commission (EC) to promote European studies among a number of high level academic institutions in the Philippines, and to reach out to the Philippine business community in creating an improved awareness of the European Union (EU) as a business partner. It commenced its operations in June 1997 and formally inaugurated the following year on June 25, 1998.
Filipiniana
The Filipiniana Collection includes all materials or publications about the Philippines, its peoples and culture, regardless of author, imprint and language. The Filipiniana Section collection is located at the 4th floor of the University Library although Filipiniana periodical materials are integrated with the periodical collection at the Periodical Section. In the same manner, duplicates of selected current Filipiniana reference titles that are sources of demographic and statistical data are kept at the Information-Reference Section.
The Filipiniana also includes the Ambeth Ocampo Collection, the Rizaliana Collection, and the Philippine English Data, a database of an extensive corpus of oral and written samples of Philippine English. The family memorabilia of Elsa Bitanga-Valeros is also displayed in the Filipinana Room, showcasing Philippine culture in the forms of antique furnishings and furniture.
Instructional Media Services
The Instructional Media Services (IMS) unit provides the De La Salle University academic community with multimedia and audiovisual resources and services to meet their instructional and research needs.
The IMS houses and circulates more than 2,000 video tapes and assorted resources such as audio tapes, slides, and multimedia sources in CD-ROMs and a wide array of audio-visual and projection equipment and devices.
The IMS also provides services such as the scanning of graphic materials, transparencies, slide production, and video and photo coverage. The IMS also issues referrals for users who wish to borrow films and other multimedia materials from external lending institutions.
Special Collections
The Special Collections include the Center for English for Specific Purposes Collection, the Philippine Oral and Local History Collection, the Japan Studies Collection, and the La Salliana Collection.
The La Salliana Collection is a basic reference collection of print, non-print, published and unpublished material on St. John Baptist de La Salle and of the Christian Brothers Schools. The collection is available online in the Library's Millennium OPAC.
Under the administration of the Archives are special collections donated/deposited by some members of the faculty, namely Dr. Efren R. Abueg Ph.D., Dr. Aurelio B. Calderon Ph.D., Dr. Isagani R. Cruz Ph.D., Dr. Clodualdo B. del Mundo, Jr. Ph.D., Br. Rafael Donato FSC, Ph.D., Marcelino A. Foronda, Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC, Ph.D., Alfredo E. Litiatco, Don Francisco Ortigas Jr., Dr. Emerita S. Quito Ph.D., Jose Javier Reyes, Robert Salazar, Sen. Lorenzo Tañada Sr., Elsa Bitanga-Valeros, and Dr. Wilfrido V. Villacorta Ph.D..
Also included in the Special Collections are donations from three illustrious alumni of the school, namely, Sen. Lorenzo M. Tañada Sr., Don Francisco Ortigas Jr., and Sen. Jose W. Diokno.
The Tañada collection includes 576 volumes belonging to his personal library and eleven (11) manuscript boxes of his personal papers. Housed in a room on the ground floor of the Library, the Tañada Collection is surrounded by a motley of mementos (pictures, diplomas, plaques, medals, awards and certificates, scrapbooks of clippings and many other memorabilia items). Opened on August 10, 1993, the collection became the subject of an electronic scrapbook in the form of a multimedia Web-CD, which was launched in September 1998.
At the Ortigas Seminar Room on the ground floor are found 2,266 volumes of his personal library and 157 manuscript boxes of his personal papers. Also on display are his tektite collection and other mementos, such as trophies, medals, plaques, awards and certificates. The Ortigas Room was opened on December 7, 1994 and serves as a function room for small seminars and conferences.
Regarded as one of the best pre-war writers the school has produced is Alfredo Elfren Litiatco, whose tiny collection of 143 volumes is rich in English literature. About 298 volumes of film scripts comprise the Jose Javier Reyes Collection. The Local Oral History Collection consists of 766 audio tapes and 66 videotapes, and 1,009 volumes of transcripts. The Teresa Bitanga Valeros Collection consists of 1,205 volumes on health and nutrition.
New additions to the Special Collections include: Dr. Renato Agustin Q. Sibayan Collection (195 volumes of books and 855 issues of journals on neurology, neurosurgery and related fields), and Agustin "Hammy" Sotto Collection (12,283 books). Books in the Special Collections are accessible via the Library's Millennium OPAC.
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