With the Internet as an instant source of information, the De La Salle University-Manila Library‘s marketing and promotion of online services takes account in providing its users with its patron centered library homepage. Links to searching tools for basic library online services are provided, particularly those considered as solid collection of Internet bibliographies called webliographies.

This paper explores what webliographies are, and why their creation is important in a particular university or college library. Included in the paper are the related studies regarding the first theoretical text on webliographies. It presents the steps on how to create them following a set of criteria in selecting the best websites and web pages available freely on the net. It includes discussion of the different search tools/ search engines necessary to figure out which are the best tools in searching for particular topic/s or which search tools are most likely will provide relevant hits on the topic/s. It also contains how webliographies are being presented and organized. Finally, a short discussion on the issues and concerns regarding the maintenance of webliographies is provided.

To illustrate the effectiveness of the service, a brief summary of a study entitled ―An Assessment of the De La Salle University Library Webliography Service‖ is included in this paper.

 

Marita G. Valerio
Marita G. Valerio De La Salle University

Former Library Director of the De La Salle-College of St. Benilde Learning Resource Centre, Marita G. Valerio is one of the professional librarians at De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines.

She is a member of the De La Salle University Library Management Committee, responsible for planning, organizing and leading the various services and activities of the university library. Prior to her assignment as one of the Catalogue librarians at the Technical Services Unit, she was the Bibliographic Control librarian handling the creation of pathfinders and webliographies at the Information-Reference Section. She is responsible in training the new librarians in conducting the library‘s information literacy program. To help out in carrying the university library‘s outreach program, she is occasionally invited in conducting lectures to selected public school and university librarians in the country and at present involve in cataloguing school library books of St. La Salle Preschool for free.

She holds a B.S.E. in Library Science and an M.A. in Library Science both from the University of Santo Tomas, Philippines.

She has been a professor at the Bulacan State University, Philippines where she was designated as library accreditor of the Accrediting Agency of Chartered Colleges and Universities in the Philippines (AACCUP). She has been invited as resource speaker by various organizations locally. She also serves frequently as lecturer at the University of Santo Tomas and at the Philippine Normal University.