Background (Foreign) The The Universit Cattolica del Sacro Cuore original inspiration finds its full accomplishment

in the university Library, the very heart of knowledge, furthering research and teaching activities within UCSC. The integrated UCSC Library system was established in 1921 by the university's founder Father Agostino Gemelli, who based its design and organisation on that of highly prestigious foreign libraries. It reflects the national dimensions of the University with its five campus libraries in Milan, Brescia, Piacenza-Cremona, Rome and Campobasso providing effective support to both teaching and research activities of the Universit Cattolica. Keeping pace with the rapidly changing world of information is one of the main objectives of our Library System, providing essential support to the University's most important and prestigious activities and to the whole Scientific Community. These full-service campus libraries serve the disciplines of individual faculties and are provided with a multiplicity of facilities aimed at assuring the fastest access to all documentation and information available through a single OPAC shared by each of them. The entire UCSC library's collection consists of over 2 million volumes, more than 32,000 print titles journals and 12,000 electronic journals. Information Literacy courses are offered to UCSC students, in order to give them support and guidance in searching the OPAC, as well as bibliographic and full text resources. The faculties of Economics are located in Milan, Piacenza and Rome, so are the subject-specific collections of paper-based resources, while electronic journals and databases are accessible from all campuses. The Economics Branch of the UCSC Library holds documents relating to political economics, business administration (accounting, marketing, management, strategy), finance, mathematics and statistics. The collections cover a period from the late nineteenth century to the present, and include tens of thousands of monographs, about 1,000 periodicals in print, thousands of electronic journals and about 50 bibliographic and statistical databases, including EconLit , Business Source Premier (EBSCO), Bankscope and Orbis (Bureau van Dijk), Datastream, as well as the databases of the World Bank, IMF and OECD and the official United Nations publications. (Ellis Sada, 1921)

(National) Library automation at DLSU-Manila had undergone a gradual but steady development. It started in 1985 when it implemented the MINISIS software/Hewlett Packard 3000 hardware package. The system was able to create 11,000 bibliographic records for Filipiniana and Reference collections. The massive hardware maintenance problem led to a management

decision to phase out the system in 1988. At the later part of the same year MINISIS was replaced by its micro version known as CDS-ISIS. The software with one stand-alone XT computer facility automated the indexing of articles from more than 100 locally published periodicals including newspapers, magazines, and journals. Additional databases were created as the number of computers increased. The index became searchable simultaneously by several users when the computer facilities were networked in 1992. In the same year the CD-ROM technology was introduced for information retrieval of selected indexes and abstracts. In October 1990, the DIALOG Information Retrieval Service allowing remote access to more than 400 databases of indexes and abstracts from a broad scope of disciplines was introduced to the academic community. The dial-up ordering and the conventional delivery mode of full text articles and documents were made possible through this service. DIALOG online service ceased in 1998 and was replaced by First Search OCLC. In 1993 the University Library subscribed to the countrys first online remote service, HERDIN (Health Research and Development Information Network) that provided access to about 8 databases that cover ASEAN and Asia-Pacific documents and hosted by PCHRD of DOST. The following year the INTERNET, a global information facility, became available in the university enabling the library users to avail the E-mail facility. The same year the ISIS OPAC was mounted in the local area network providing access to book catalog and articles index. During the early part of school year 1994-1995 a needs assessment survey was conducted. The results confirmed the need to establish an integrated library system including the automated circulation. It was timely that in 1995, the University Library received a grant from the Department of Science and Technology Engineering and Science Education Project (DOSTESEP) for the library system software called TINLIB with the end view of networking the library resources of seven (7) universities. Despite the struggle the DLSU Library encountered in running the system during the first two years the circulation module was successfully implemented in February 1997. Toward the end of the decade the system was upgraded incorporating the suggestions made by the participating libraries. The new version was renamed T-Series which enhanced the loan process and improved the other information management functions of the earlier edition. The upgraded version of the system has become an inevitable feature at DLSU Library. However, when it was established that the vendor of the system has closed shop and has merged with another company, the University Library started to work on the future of the library system that can be considered to replace T-Series. (Perla T. Garcia, 1985)

(Local) The Pangasinan Provincial Library in this capital town implemented the KOHA-Integrated Library System Online Public Access Catalogue to fully automate its library services in the coming months.

KOHA is a Maori term which means gift or donation and is believed to be the first open source integrated library system (ILS) in the world. The ILS, which can be operational even without internet connection, was derived from KOHA. It was developed by Katipo Communications for the Horrowhenua Library in New Zealand and was funded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The automation project aims to further implement a more versatile library system. Through KOHA, books will be made easier to locate and research studies will be made simpler, as well. We have to embrace modern technology, said Rafael Baraan, the provincial administrator, during the launching ceremony held last March 9. This project is another milestone undertaken by the province that will make life easier, putting Pangasinan in pace and in cadence with the entire world. Going global using cyberspace as the medium of communication is highly commendable. Edgardo Quiros, National Library of the Philippines (NLP) Information Technology Division Chief, hailed the provincial government for fully embracing modern technology that will serve as a pivotal bridge towards further developing and improving library services in the country. Quiros mentioned that as of December 2011, the Philippines has the most number of KOHA system being adapted in local libraries with Pangasinan Provincial Library as one of the leading provincial libraries in terms of modernization followed by the Cavite Library. With the advent of modern technology in the library system, youth will benefit in utilizing its services for their research and study. In just a click of a finger, information is made accessible to them. It is also useful to those who wisely spend their parents hard-earned money. Instead of going in computer shops, they could just visit the library for their educational needs. (ANL/AMM-PIA 1 Pangasinan with reports from PIO). (April Montes, 2012)