The Misamis Oriental State College of Agriculture and Technology Library remains in the great spot of the campus— whose prime objective is to meet the academic needs, cultivate ideas, develop capacities, and create knowledge. It is committed to provide timely access to information sources, optimize the use of all available resources, create physical environment and collections conducive to learning and research and provide meaningful learning experience to users.

The quest for knowledge knows no bounds and limits and is never satisfied. The library aspires to transform the way our users experience knowledge. Thus, collection development activities continue to focus on the acquisition of updated prints and digital resources and meet the changing information needs of our clients. A total of four hundred seventy six (476) volumes books, eBooks, theses and dissertations, journals and magazines were added to collection.

Library services likewise, continue to evolve to supplement and enhance classroom experiences, ignite user’s curiosity and sense of possibility of locating information, and stimulate their creative intellectual endeavors.

The use of technology in the access of information remains to be a challenge especially with limited budget. However, the Library constantly strives to give the best service possible. Presently, the library uses free software such as ANILAG Library System, for the charging and discharging of materials, Follet System, for On-line Catalog, INFOLib System for gate count statistics and Calibre for e-book management. These systems were harmonized in order to computerize the basic operations and improve the delivery of services to clients without so much worrying on financial obligations. Internet connections is always monitored to ensure continues connectivity and to provide clients with greater access to information in the World Wide Web.

At present, MOSCAT (Library) is an active member of the Philippine Association of Academic and Research Libraries (PAARL), ALINET and MASTLinet .

Library resources includes the collections of various learning materials related to agriculture environment and food. In 2015, three hundred twenty eight (328) titles with five hundred thirteen (513) volumes of learning resources were added to collections.

At present, the library houses 6,808 title with 13, 803 volumes of books, journals, magazines, , audio-visual resources, and other electronic resources fully utilized by the students, faculty, alumni and other visiting clients. Student—book ratio is (see Table 1).

A. Accreditation 0n Center of Development

The library had prepared and submitted pertinent documents for accreditation for the Center of Development of the Bachelor in Agroforestry under the Institute of Agriculture, in October 2015

B. On Technical Services.

3,548 volumes of books were encoded in the ANILAG System, provided with BAR Code and ready for use..
Produced brochure of new acquisition and distributed to the different institutes

C. Readers Services

Produced 400 I Love my MOSCAT Library bookmarks distributed to freshmen after the orientation program.
100% of the Library Borrower’s card issued were provided with Bar code.

Others:

Repainted the second floor reading area, Fil/Circ section and Special Collection section of the library.
One library staff participated in the enrollment campaign of the college

We strive to improve our services and to offer the best we can to our users. It is our work with students, as they become more skilled information seekers and users, that provides the greatest reward. The limited volumes of our resources did not hinder us from giving our clients the access to information sources. The Library circulated 3,090 items through its main circulation desk, and 7,896 items were in -house used . Overall, a total 10,986 items were utilized from January to December 2015.

B. Audio-visual Services

Audio visual services continues to support room activities includes film showing, lectures, seminars, culmination programs, meetings, etc. AVR services starts from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., from Monday to Friday and on Saturdays for Dairy Training Course. Its services were sometimes extended until 6:30 in some days of the week upon request of the faculty. It was able to serve 8,010 users served from January to December 2015. An average of 50 users were serves daily within 160 days of actual use. (Figure 6)

D. STARBOOK Usage

Access to DOST materials through STARBOOKS helped students in their research activities. Students had less interest in using the STARBOOKS because the copyright dates of the materials stored in the kiosk were obsolete. In summer 2015, it was updated by DOST RX, Cagayan De Oro resulting to the deletion of the previous data (Users utilization). Table 2 shows only the utilization from May to December 2015. On-Line Britannica 2010 was installed in the kiosk to augment its resources. Statistic on the access to this resources is not includes in the data of STARBOOKS.