CURRENT AWARENESS PROGRAM OF SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: AN ASSESSMENT BASED ON USERS? PERCEPTIONS

The study looked into the methods of current awareness services being employed in Saint Louis University Library as perceived by the library users composed of the non-teaching personnel, faculty members, and students. It also looked into the basic requirements of the different methods of current awareness services and the various perceptions of library users with regard to the availability of current awareness services as an alerting service. The following recommendations are proposed to further improve current awareness services in Saint Louis University Library: (a) Bulletin board should include recent news of interest to library users, calendar of events, summary of recent events, annotated lists of new books, table of contents, and abstracts of newly published and unpublished library materials; (b) Technological advances should be introduced and utilized in commencing methods to library users in order to encourage members to make use of recent information; and (c) Newsletter, organized and written by the University Library should exist to keep the library user?s readership up to date.

She works as the Director of Libraries of Saint Louis University (SLU) in Baguio City, Philippines. She holds a degree in Bachelor of Secondary Education and Master of Library and Information Science.. She is a recipient of the International Training Program on STIMULATE 6 and Library Development Training.