Editing Engineering Library II (section)

== Advocacies and Programs ==

EnggLib strives to promote the values of excellence and leadership through various means. And through various advocacies and programs, EnggLib aims to inculcate values among its users, contribute to the library profession and society, and lend a hand in the development of engineering libraries in the country.

===== Bisita sa Kapwa Library Program =====

EnggLib initiated the '''Bisita sa Kapwa Library program''', a series of Library Orientation and Tour for librarians and library science students which aims to promote best practices among academic libraries. This was initiated not only to help strengthen linkages among libraries but also to promote excellence in the field of librarianship.<ref name="AR2012 19">{{cite book}}</ref>
===== I need. I value. I Love My Library Campaign =====

One of the most notable campaign is the '''“I need. I value. I Love My Library”''' Campaign. This simple library awareness campaign aggressively promotes student responsibility in the care of library materials and facilities, and in the maintenance of a library environment conducive to learning. The program instill the importance of library facilities and collections to new users, young students and even to loyal patrons, leading to the collective effort of preserving the library. The project is now one of the most well known campaigns being adopted by libraries all over the country and even by some international libraries.<ref>{{cite web|title=I need, I value, I love my library: library’s new adopted program unveiled|url=http://www.lipacitycolleges.net/newsite/show_news.php?id=48|work=Lipa City Colleges Website|publisher=Lipa City Colleges|accessdate=13 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=I Need. I Value. I Love My Library|url=http://iluvmylibrary.blogspot.com/|work=I Need. I Value. I Love My Library Blog|accessdate=13 March 2014}}</ref>  The campaign also inspires and motivates librarians all over the world, enabling them to show their love for their profession and institutions.<ref>{{cite book|title=UP College of Engineering Library Annual Report 2012|date=2013|publisher=UP College of Engineering Library|location=Diliman, Quezon City|pages=19,20,26}}</ref>
===== The Reading Zone =====

The library also promotes the values of discipline, honesty, and generosity through '''The Reading Zone''', an area of the library where students are free to read, discuss, share and swap materials, without direct supervision from library personnel. Highlighting the exercise of honesty among library users, since the library used to have a high number of library violations in the past, students are able to take any material from the shelf. as long as they replace it from one of their own.<ref name="AR2012 20">{{cite book|title=UP College of Engineering Library Annual Report 2012|date=2013|publisher=UP College of Engineering Library|location=Diliman, Quezon City|page=20}}</ref>
===== Greening the Library =====

EnggLib also actively promotes ecological responsibility among libraries, documented in a booklet entitled '''“101 Ways to [[Greening|Green]] the Library”'''. This publication is an attempt at sharing EnggLib’s collective efforts to improve productivity, efficiency, and sustainability of the workplace with other libraries and information centers. This is another exemplary gesture of library staff not only helping promote professionalism in their work area but another means to also contribute in reducing carbon footprints on earth. It is with high hope that the simple ways to help make the library environmentally friendly, bring about changes not only in the way EnggLib operates but also encourage other library to adapt these ways as their own thereby making all our libraries ecologically conducive.<ref>{{cite book|title=UP College of Engineering Library Annual Report 2012|date=2013|publisher=UP College of Engineering Library|location=Diliman, Quezon City|pages=18,30,61}}</ref>
===== Best Borrowers Award =====

Instilling good values to the students by ensuring that the library holdings are returned in due time and are taken cared for properly, EnggLib’s Circulation Section introduced and has successful implemented the '''Best Borrowers Award'''. This is given to students who have checked out and timely returned the most number of books within the semester. Additional library perks are given to them as prizes for their effort. This project created an awareness in the students to have a shared responsibility with the library in terms of maintenance of library collection.<ref name="AR2012 20">{{cite book}}</ref>
===== Shared Learning =====

Teamwork and shared learning is upheld and promoted through various facilities in EnggLib’s The Learning Commons. EnggLib also provides training and guidance for their very own librarians in these facilities. Through its own '''Staff Training and Development Committee''', EnggLib helps provide informative lectures and fresh new ideas for the librarians. The library strongly supports the career development of its own staff and information professionals so that not only do they become productive member of the library, but also contributing member of the bigger community of librarians.<ref name>{{cite book|title=UP College of Engineering Library Annual Report 2012|date=2013|publisher=UP College of Engineering Library|location=Diliman, Quezon City|page=46–47}}</ref>