The Law & Business Graduate Library occupies the 5th floor of the Dotterweich Building located within the Law school community building. This Library is exclusive to the students, faculty, and staff of the Law School community and the Graduate School of Business and Governance.

SERVICE HOURS

Regular Semester

Monday – Friday       9:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Saturday                    8:00 AM – 12:00 NOON

Summer

Monday – Friday       8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday                    8:00 AM – 12:00 NOON

CONTROL POLICY

Faculty and students should wear and scan their valid university I.D. upon entering the Library.

COLLECTIONS

The law collections are properly cataloged and indexed, provisioned with an Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC).

1. General law reference books
   • • Law Dictionary
     • Law thesaurus
     • Legal encyclopedia
     • Legal forms
     • Legal maxims
     • Manual of legal citations
     • General dictionary
     • Spanish dictionary
2. Textbooks (Law, Business and Governance)
3. Journals (Law, Business and Governance)
4. Legal Databases
   • • eSCRA
     • My Legal Whiz
5. Theses and Dissertations (MBA/MPA)

CIRCULATION POLICIES and GUIDELINES

Loan Periods (Law and Graduate)

Students may borrow twelve (15) books at a time for a loan period of 7 – 14 days and may renew them if no one has placed a reservation. A circulation book can only be renewed once, to give others the opportunity to borrow the same book.

For details, kindly refer to the following:

Fines and Penalties

Students (Law and Graduate)

• Php 5.00/day for overdue General Circulation books.
• Php 2.00/hr or Php 24.00/day for overdue Reserved books.
• A lost book must be reported immediately and replaced or paid by the borrower.
• An exact replacement copy of the book is required, plus one hundred pesos (Php 100.00) processing cost. In the event that the reported lost book is found, only the usual fine is charged.
• The charge for a lost and damaged book shall be computed at the current effective exchange rate of the book trade multiplied by three (3x) for foreign publication, and by two (2x) for local publication, and one hundred pesos (Php 100.00) for processing cost.
• Any damages on the borrowed book will be charged to the last borrower with a corresponding minimum fee of Php150.00.

Guidelines

• All library materials should be checked out at the Circulation counter.
• Only library users with valid university I.D. are allowed to check out the library materials.
• Borrowing by proxy and authorization letter is not allowed. Students, Faculty members, and staff should borrow the books personally at the counter.
• Each borrower is responsible for all the books drawn on his name.
• Borrowers should inspect or collate the library materials they borrow before leaving the counter. Any damage on returned books is charged to the last borrower.
• Borrowed library materials are subject to “recall” upon expiration of the loan period if the book is needed in the class.
• Students with “overdue books or outstanding accounts” will not be allowed to borrow until the overdue books are “returned or renewed” or the accounts are “settled”.
• Overdue books are not allowed to be brought outside the library premises.
• The Library will not be held responsible for any loss or damage of personal property or belongings left “unattended”.
• General reference books and materials (encyclopedias, dictionaries, SCRA (Supreme Court Reports Annotated), Philippine Reports, Garchiterena special collections, theses, dissertations, periodicals and “books in sets” shall be for library use only.