Academic libraries contain a variety of information resources to support student learning and research. These resources include primary sources like diaries and letters that are original works, secondary sources that analyze and interpret primary sources, and tertiary sources that synthesize various sources. Academic libraries also contain reference materials like dictionaries and encyclopedias, textbooks that provide overviews of topics, journals containing peer-reviewed research articles, databases that allow searching across articles, and newspapers for current information. The resources support student learning, research, personal interests, and supplementing classroom experiences.

1. Information Resources in
Academic Library
Mary Rose V. Navarro
Discussant

2. Library
 a collection of sources, resources, and services, and
the structure in which it is housed; it is organized for
use and maintained by a public body, an institution,
or a private individual.
 It can mean the collection itself, the building or room
that houses such a collection, or both.

3. Academic Library
 comprise of school libraries at the primary and secondary levels,
College libraries, and University libraries whose prime objective is to
meet the academic needs of the particular institution for which it is
created to serve.

4. Uses of Library Resources
assist in the work.
 to gain information about personal interests or to obtain
recreational materials such as films and novels.
for research purposes
 to supplement and enhance their classroom experiences,
to learn skills in locating sources of information, and to
develop good reading and study habits.
to research legislation and public policy issues

5. Types of Library Resources
PRIMARY INFORMATION
Original sources of information and material that has not
been interpreted by anyone other than its creator. They
include diaries, letters, autobiographies, interviews, speeches,
conference literature, stories, patents, poetry, photographs,
drama, sheet music, visual art material and statistics.

6. SECONDARY MATERIAL
Created from primary material, interpreting original
material. They are sources of information that analyze and
interpret primary sources. Always produced after the events
or primary sources they comment upon.
Types of Library Resources

7. TERTIARY MATERIAL
Types of Library Resources
Sources of information that analyze and interpret
primary sources. Always produced after the events or
primary sources they comment upon and act as a tool in
understanding and locating information.

8. REFERENCE MATERIALS
 Reference material includes dictionaries, encyclopedia,
bibliographies, maps and atlases, yearbooks, handbooks
and manuals, directories etc.
Types of Library Resources

9. TEXTBOOKS
provide you with a good general understanding of a topic.
They will often cover many areas of one more general
topic. Textbooks will provide you with a good overview
and will interpret relevant primary material.

10. JOURNAL
A periodical published by an institution or professional society
in which researchers write about the results of their work to their
peer community. It refers to scholarly publications as opposed to
magazines that are considered popular publications. Journal
articles are primary information resources. Journals are published
on a regular basis. Each journal title focuses on a specific area or
discipline. They describe research - the generation of new
knowledge - and focus on very specific topics.

11. DATABASES
A collection of information that can
be accessed and searched through
the internet. Databases allow you to
search across a range of journal
articles from different journals.

12. NEWSPAPERS
excellent source when looking for current
and up-to-date information.