Library

Operating Hours During Summer, Fall, and Spring Semesters

Mondays – Thursday: 7:30 am – 7:00 pm

Fridays: 7:30 am – 5:00 pm

Saturdays: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

Sundays: CLOSED

Operating Hours During Intersession Breaks

Mondays – Fridays: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Saturdays & Sundays: CLOSED

Special Closing Dates:

March 14, 2025: Youth Day

March 15, 2025: Library Special Closing
April 04, 2025: PCC Charter Day

May 3, 2025: Library Special Closing
May 05, 2025: Senior Citizens Day

May 16, 2025: Commencement Exercises
 June 02, 2025: ROP President’s Day
July 09, 2025: Palau Constitutional Day

August 30, 2025: Library Special Closing
September 01, 2025: Labor Day
October 01, 2025: Independence Day
October 24, 2025: United Nations Day

October 25, 2025: Library Special Closing

 November 27, 2025: Thanksgiving Day

November 28, 2025: Family Day

November 29, 2025: Library Special Closing

December 25, 2025: Christmas Day

January 01, 2026: New Year’s Day

The mission of the Tan Siu Lin Palau Community College Library is to support the academic programs of the college and to promote lifelong learning in the wider community with high-quality, accessible resources, information literacy training, and public outreach activities.

With over 47,000 volumes of collections, the Tan Siu Lin Palau Community College Library is the largest in the Republic of Palau.  As a learning resource for the college and the community, it is open to everyone. It offers many services to community members, including Education USA and the US Armed Forces Veterans Association of Palau.  It has books for all ages, periodicals, government documents, videos, maps, and vertical files. While most materials are in English, there are also materials in Palauan, as well as a growing International Collection with more than 2,500 volumes, mostly in Japanese, but also in Chinese, French, Hungarian, German, Filipino, Korean, Czech, Dutch, Hebrew, Italian, Hindi, Swedish, and Spanish.  The Tan Siu Lin PCC library is the Republic of Palau’s official depository library for all publications issued by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The Tan Siu Lin PCC library also maintains an extensive Micronesia-Pacific Collection, which holds a unique mix of materials about Micronesia, with an emphasis on Palau, and the Pacific region.

Various information access services are available at the Tan Siu Lin PCC Library: reference, circulation, course reserves, hold, access to special collections, printing, and scanning. The library staff provides individualized and group instruction on using both print and electronic library resources. There are 20 desktop PCs available for use by students and the general public. 

To access the library’s online catalog, click here. For questions and concerns, library staff may be contacted at library@palau.edu.