Library Operating Hours (During Semesters)
Mondays – Thursdays: 7:30 am – 7:00 pm
Fridays: 7:30 am – 5:00 pm
Saturdays: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Sundays: CLOSED
Intersession Breaks between Semesters
Mondays – Fridays: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturdays & Sundays: CLOSED
NATIONAL HOLIDAYS & SPECIAL CLOSINGS:
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 in Palau. 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 maintains an extensive Micronesia-Pacific Collection, which holds a unique mix of materials on the Pacific region and Micronesia, emphasizing Palau.
Various information access services are available in the Tan Siu Lin PCC Library: reference, circulation, course reserve, hold, access to special collections, photocopying, and scanning. The library staff provides individualized and group instruction on using both print and electronic library resources. There are 20 desktop PCs available to students and the general public for e-mail, word processing, and research needs. The library’s online public access catalog is available on two computer stations, one on the first floor and one on the second floor of the library, as well as on any computer with Internet access at http://library.palau.edu.
For questions and concerns, library staff may be contacted at palaucclib@gmail.com.