The Plight of BulSUans to Access E-library

 The Plight of BulSUans to Access E-library

By: James Rusia



Some BulSUans seek to have full and easy access to the E-library. On October 13, 2022, Bulacan State University formally inaugurated its newest seven-story E-Library. It was headed by the Senate Majority Floor Leader, Joel Villanueva alongside Bulacan Governor Daniel Fernando and former University President Dr. Cecilia Navasero-Gascon. 


According to BulSU’s official website, some of the E-library’s goals are to "encourage students to use library resources to further their academic pursuits" and “to be a center for access to technology and a knowledge navigator, promoting patrons' information literacy by helping them sift and evaluate information from many different sources,”  but it seems like these goals are nothing more than false promises. 









According to some BulSUans, they find it hard to access or enter the 7-story building since it is not always open to students. 


Most of the time, BulSUans can only access the building during midterm and final exam week. But how about during the normal days when they also need a comfortable place to study? Besides, the fully air-conditioned building also has a theater, function halls, audio-visual rooms, discussion rooms, teleconference rooms, study rooms, and cyber halls, and yet none of these welcome the BulSUans. 


According to Crishel Ticane, a 2nd-year student from the College of Education, in her two years at BSU, she only entered the E-Library twice since she also found it hard to access the building. “Sana mas mag karoon pa tayo nang mas maluwag na access sa E-lib especially kapag mainit yung panahon or kaya maulan para syempre komportable tayong makapag-aral,” (I just hope that we could have more free access to E-Lib especially during summer season and rainy season so that we can study comfortably.) Ticane added. 


BulSUans are asking for complete easy access to the E-Library because first of all it was built for them so that they could have a place to study and to do other extracurricular activities such as film viewing. 


The seven-story building costs over 600 million pesos funded by the National budget, which means that it is from the tax of our countrymen therefore it is just right that scholars of BSU must have full access to it. This is one of the issues inside the BulSU that must be addressed because it reflects the national issue of inaccessible public facilities. 



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