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The Haribon Biodiversity Information Center

Can't find what you're looking for on the website? Need to do a more intensive research on biodiversity? Then come visit the Haribon Biodiversity Information Center!

Green libraries maybe new to some but the concept and the call for action has been around for quite some time. Majority of the libraries in the world right now are looking forward to greening. That is, developing a green library environment, enriching the green library collection and employing conservation techniques on library operations like recycling wastes and saving energy.

In the Philippines, the concept of a library as a conservation organization and the practice of green librarianship is being used by Haribon Foundation through its Biodiversity Information Center (BIC). BIC’s main objective is to meet the information needs on environmental awareness of Haribon as an organization, its members and the general public. The BIC makes Haribon’s wealth of information on Philippine biodiversity available to researchers, visiting academe, students and anyone curious about the unique natural wealth of the Philippines.

The Collection
The BIC houses print (Haribon publications, project studies, periodicals, etc.) and non-print (maps, posters, multimedia) materials on biological and physical sciences, agriculture, forestry, social sciences and the development sector with emphasis on biodiversity and the environment. These materials serve as a gateway of recorded information and knowledge to its own network’s partners and different communities in the Philippines and abroad.

Library Links
Although admittedly, the books, journals, papers, and digital media gathered in this center represents a mere fraction of the wealth of biodiversity in the country, the BIC is linked with partner academic institutions, Academic Centers of Excellence (ACEs), namely: De La Salle Dasmarinas, Camarines Sur State Agricultural College, Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology and Silliman University. Researchers can come to Haribon’s BIC and access information and materials that are available in the ACEs’ BIC’s. In connection to this, the BIC also accepts library donations, library exchange and interlibrary loan proposals from other institutions.