With the University’s plan to hold the First International Conference on Climate Change come September 3-5, 2014, the University President, Dr. Edmundo A. Campoto ordered the Physical Plant Office to fast-track the completion of the painting and beautification of the surrounding area during the Executive Meeting he called recently.
The construction of the Main Library was done on a staggered bases owing to the very big budget requirement for its completion. In 1998 through the Congressional Development Fund of Congressman Rolando Andaya amounting to Php5,232,000.00 the first floor was started. Two years after in 2000 another One Million Peso budget was released through the GAA #8760 and in 2005-2006 President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo through her President’s Social Fund released another One Million Pesos. The accumulated funds completed half of the whole ground floor that now houses the reference and periodical sections, the library office and the Graduate and Law Library Sections.
In 2008, Congressman Teudulo M. Coquilla allocated Php5,988,000.00 of his Priority Development Assistance Fund to start up the construction of the portion of the second floor. It is now where the Filipiniana Section and the Audio-Visual Room are situated. All in all from 1998 to 2013, the Main Library received a total amount of Php20,920,000.00.
