Cognizant of its role in promoting, protecting, and providing access to information on the history, rich culture and other vital information regarding the City, the Public Library and Information Center strives to develop its collection through aggressively collecting materials in print and non-print form. While continuous effort is being undertaken to acquire Dabawenana materials, it is equally of paramount importance that management and organization of its collection be undertaken to achieve maximum utilization of recorded information. The aim of this paper is to present the usefulness and importance of a syndetic structure for Dabawenana subject and authority records for the benefit of both its local and foreign users. Authority files generate cross references that promote used rather than the unused headings, direct users to related terms, enhance collocation, provide faster and accurate retrieval capability, and save a great deal of time to catalogers once the system becomes operational.

Librarians. Information specialists.

English.