COLLEGE LIBRARY
VISION
Excellence in the provision of physical bibliographic and accessible collection of information resources.
MISSION
- Provide the technological structure needed to meet the ever changing information and school community’s needs.
- To function as a teaching instrument, stimulus to independent intellectual development and essential contributor to a well-rounded liberal education.
OBJECTIVES
- The CEFI Library provides an organized and readily accessible collection of print and non-print information materials and equipment to meet the increasing instructional and individual needs of students and staff.
- To support institutional research of teachers and students that relates to the present and future issues in education such as:
- to gather, provide and organize various relevant and updated resources such as print and non-print, book and non-book instructional materials that support the different program-offerings of the school with emphasis on the para-medical courses.
- to provide global access to various information via the internet and other information technology services to its clients.
- to provide library equipment’s, furnishings and collections adequate for the fulfillment of the various educational programs of the institution.
- to uphold the mission and vision statements of the school and be instrumental in the ultimate realization of its goals.
Contact us at
Facebook Page
@CEFILibraryDepartment
facebook.com/CEFILibraryDepartment
Email Address:
Official Email Address: library@cefi.edu.ph
Library Assistant: kristine.tan@cefi.edu.ph
SERVICE HOURS
LOCATION
LIBRARY ANNOUNCEMENTS
Library Advisory
Hello, Cefizens!
Upon enrollment, kindly secure the application for your library account.
✅ Use your institutional email (e.g., 025-0000@cefi.edu.ph) issued by the ICT Department when
filling out the forms. For more details regarding your institutional email, kindly visit the ICT Main
Office for assistance.
Forms to Accomplish:
1. CEFI Library Account Application (College Students)
https://forms.gle/ApExNGKRR3rLWPdGA
2.CEFI Library Online Resources Account Application
https://forms.gle/jP2xjKVqanGaoAU67
Always check your institutional email inbox for updates and library notifications.
LIBRARY SERVICES
Guidelines for Borrowing/Returning/Renewal of Library Materials
1. Transactions for borrowing, returning and renewal of books in the library must be
done either online and on-campus appointment.Â
Go and visit the following for online appointment:
- Â Facebook pageÂ
- Â @CEFILibraryDepartment
- Â https://www.facebook.com/CEFILibraryDepartment
- Messenger: CEFI College Library Department
- Visit website: https://cefi.website/
- Email account: library@cefi.edu.ph
2. BORROWING REGULATIONS FOR CIRCULATION BOOKS
a. Students and faculty members are required to apply for the library card before they can use the library facilities and services.
b. The library card has to be presented at the control/ charging desk upon entering the library. Only what is needed for research work must be brought inside the library. Students and faculty members are required to register their names in the logbook or scan their library card in the library log-in system.
c. Check from the Card Catalog/ OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) if the book/ material is available at the shelves.
d. In a piece of paper provided by the library, copy the call number and proceed to the shelves to locate the book. Ask for help if necessary.
e. If the book is found, write your name legibly on the book card at the back of the book then present your library card at the charging/control desk.
f. Any book or periodical on loan may be recalled before the due date if the book is heavily demanded by other users or the library conducting the mandated periodic inventory.
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ONLINE RESOURCES (SUBSCRIPTION)
OPEN RESOURCES (NON-SUBCRIPTION)
This open access online resources is free to everyone as recommended by the library for the researches. It consists of e-books, e-journals, articles, magazines and newspapers.
E-BOOKS, SCHOLARLY JOURNALS, ARTICLES, AND MAGAZINES.
- https://www.saylor.org/books/
- https://www.doabooks.org/
- https://archive.org/
- https://www.hathitrust.org/
- https://www.gutenberg.org/
- https://www.oercommons.org/
- https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
- https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/
- https://lyryx.com/subjects/how-it-works/open-textbooks/
THESIS AND DISSERTATION
- https://biblioboard.com/opendissertations/
- https://thesiscommons.org/
- https://doaj.org/
- https://ejournals.ph/index.php
NEWSPAPER (ONLINE BROWSE)
ACTIVITIES
CEFI 47th FOUNDATION DAY
Congratulations CEFI LIBRARY DEPARTMENT for winning the 1st PLACE on BOOTH COMPETITION!
DOCUMENT DELIVERY SERVICES
- Email Services
All transactions in the Library are distributed through email accounts. - Scan/Photocopy document services
Guidelines and limitations in distributing Scanned and Photocopied sources from the materials/books in the Library:- All transactions in scanning/photocopying have watermark and properly cited for the information of the sources.
- This special service is for those client/students who are not in the vicinity of Lucena City.
- Process of Sending a file to client/student:
ORGANIZATIONAL CHART S.Y. 2025-2026
COLLEGE LIBRARY - HISTORY
DR. EMETERIO CALAYAN JR. LIBRARY
Brief History
The goal of the Dr. Emeterio Calayan Jr. Library named after one of the school’s founders; Dr. Emeterio Calayan Jr. is to provide access to information resources to the numbers of academic community for their intellectual growth, lifelong learning and enlightenment. It endeavors to keep abreast with the ever-changing demand of quality education, technological advances and more importantly the growing number of enrollees.
From a small wooden room in 1973, today, the Dr. Emeterio Calayan Jr. Library is located at the 4th floor of the Katatagan Building in order to house the increasing number of library collection and keeps pace with the development of technology. The new library facilitates the retrieval of materials and has addressed CEFI’s burgeoning student population.
The Dr. Emeterio Calayan Jr. Library is a learning environment for the tertiary department that upholds the school’s mission to develop holistic, self-fulfilling, and productive citizens, actively engaged in national and international development via its library services by providing up-to-date information resources, instruction and technological services that promotes and enriches intellectual and personal growth to produce globally competitive professionals.