Feasibility Study

this study was conducted to determine the students’ access to information resources, information seeking behavior, and level of satisfaction with library services, the impact of their personal characteristics as well as their parent’s educational attainment on their access to information resources, information seeking behavior, and level of satisfaction with library services, and if significant relationship exists among these variables. The study adapted a descriptive-relational survey design and data were collected using a questionnaire to three hundred sixty-seven(367) students randomly selected from the four campuses of Carlos Hilado Memorial State College on January 26-February 9, 2011. The questionnaire was content-validated and was pretested for reliability. Data were encoded and processed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software for MS Windows Version 16.0 and were analyzed using frequency count, percentages, mean, Phi, Cramers’ V, Gamma and Chi-square. Students assessed the library information resources as “readily accessible” and that the information they found or accessed were “very reliable” in terms usefulness, suitability, and adequacy to their needs. Their information seeking behavior differs in terms of the resources they use. The library resources are not the first or on top for them, since they prefer to access the information they need through Internet cafés outside school premises. Library services likewise meet the expectations and needs of the students therefore exhibited a high satisfactory rating. Furthermore, the college and campus where the students belong to has something to do with access to information resources, information seeking behavior, and level of satisfaction with library services. Access to information resources, information seeking behavior, and level of satisfaction with library services were significant interrelated. Accordingly, it is suggested that the library policies and services regardless of where they are physically based. Also, the library user instruction program should be enhanced to empower students with the benefit of using library information resources in all formats and be proficient in library use. Improvement of Internet services by providing users with adequate computers, greater speed, longer hour/time of use, user-oriented rules must be undertaken to entice them on using the services inside the campus rather than to pay for access from internet cafes’. Likewise, librarians must continually participate in technology-base trainings to enhance knowledge and skills in order to be capable of handling the current information needs of the present generation of students.

The seminar was conducted due to alarming phenomenon of workplace abuses and the complacency of human resource and employers who are aware of the abuses taking place in their workplace . The seminars aimed to provide comprehensive information about the different abuses in the workplace, its cause and effects to the target victim and organization. Included are the remedies of preventing and stopping the abuse are also included. The information was presented through seminar which includes power point, testimonial and role playing video presentation of people going through different abuses in their workplace. It was also made interesting through the questionings and interactions made by the panels of evaluators and were participated by the audience specifically by the business owner who gave his mind on the issue of abuses in the workplace between employer and employee. One of the reasons for this seminar is to bring awareness of the possible occurrences of the abuse in the workplace. I feel I have succeeded in this goal because as I talked to the participants tha day most of them had identified with the examples of abuses I presented during seminar. One of the responses from this seminar was expressed through a motion from the panel of evaluator member to come up with a manual about the different abuses in the workplace to be used by different agencies. The seminar indeed served as an eye opener and awareness campaign to all the participants that day.

This study generally aimed to assess the needs of tricycle operation in the southern part of Negros Occidental which will serve as basis for the proposed microfinancing program for the City of Kabankalan and the Municipality of Himamaylan. It established the data related to their profile, extent of needs for tricycle operation, microfinance programs and services and innovative collection strategies to ensure the success of the programs and services. The respondents of the study were the 400 tricycle operators and drivers in the southern part of Negros Occidental, namely Binalbagan, Himamaylan and the City of Kabankalan during the Academic Year 2010-2011. The data gathered were interpreted according to the statistical analysis and procedures, tabulations of frequencies, percentage and mean were used to analyze and interpret the descriptive data based on the problems cited. The results generally revealed that majority of the respondents in the southern part of Negros Occidental have availed of microfinance programs and services from Banks, Cooperatives and LGU’s through mortgage and installment basis for the normal operation of the tricycle units to enable the operators and drivers raise their income levels and improve their quality of life. It is recommended that a proposed microfinance program for the City of Kabankalan and the Municipality of Himamaylan should be formulated to address issues, problems and concerns related to a sustainable tricycle operation in the Southern part of Negros Occidental.