Tuesday, July 22, 2008

September 24-26, 2008 “Regional Conference on Empowering Librarians in the 21st Century”

ThePhilippine Librarians Association Inc - Southern Tagalog RegionLibrarians Council (PLAI-STRLC) will hold its Regional Conference and General Assembly on September 24-26, 2008 at the Queen Margarette Hotel, Domoit Diversion Road, Lucena City, Quezon Province.

The theme for this year activity is “Regional Conference on Empowering Librarians in the 21st Century.” It aims to stress the importance of the involvement of librarians in enabling students and its community to become critical thinkers andeffective users of information in all formats and media; strengthenlibrarian's understanding of the library’s basic functions and how technology has changed these basic functions; and to empower the administrators, librarians, information professionals andteacher-librarians in conquering successfully the library challenges ofthe 21st century.

The topics include: ABC’sof Librarians’ Success in the Workplace; Personal and ProfessionalCompetencies; Library Administration and Management; Basic LibraryFunctions and Services; Current Trends in Information Technology asApplied to Libraries.

The conference fees are as follows: Live – out: PHP 3000.00 for member*; PhP3300.00 for non-member; (to include lunches/snacks, conference kits and certificate) ; Live-in:PhP3900.00 for member; PhP 4200.00 for non-member (to include 3days and2 nights accommodation, with breakfast/dinner, in addition to seminarmeals). Accompanying person: PhP 2800.00. General Assembly: PhP 500.00 (to include lunch and snacks).

Forparticulars and reservations please contact the following: Audrey G.Anday / U.P. Open University; tel.: (049) 536-5998 ; e-mailaudreyanday[ at]yahoo[ dot]com; Marcial R. Batiancila / San SebastianCollege-Recoletos de Cavite; tel.: (046) 431-0861; fax: (046) 431-1461local 740; e-mail: m_batiancila[at]yahoo[dot] com: Rene B, Manlangit/ San Pablo Colleges; tel.: (049) 561-1586; e-mail: rbmanlangit[at]yahoo[dot] com; Rosario A. Villamater / Manuel S. Enverga university Foundation Library tel.:(042) 373-7542; e-mail: rosevillamater[at]yahoo[dot] com; Aurora A. Navela / Sacred Heart College Library tel.: (042) 710-3888 loc 222 email: aunavela012[at]yahoo[dot] com.

Please send/fax to us the Pre-Registration form on or before August 21, 2008*Memberis defined here as registered librarian who has paid his/her PLAI 2007and 2008 annual membership fee or is an active member of any of thefollowing Provincial Chapters: Cavite Librarians Association (CLASS), Quezon Librarians Association (QLA), Association of Laguna Librarians (ALL), Librarians Association of Batangas (LAB), Oriental/Occidental Mindoro Librarians Association (OMLA) and Rizal Librarians Association (RLA)

Also posted at the PLAI-STRLC Blog <http://plaistrlc. blogspot. com>

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Ramos, also supervised a memorial library, came to PNU from barrio library work, where he managed three libraries and adult classes for Trinity College of Quezon City-Sagada Special Academic Program for 3 years. He started as a teacher-librarian (E. Abada High School, DCS, Manila) in 1992, became an instructor-librarian for six years (St. Louis College of Valenzuela City), and previously college librarian of the Education & Periodicals Section of PNU, 2008 president to PNU-LISAA, Inc., now conference chair to Every Librarian's Association, PAARL, Inc He earned academic units both for Master in Public Administration and Master in Educational Management. Presently, he is enrolled in MAED with Library Science as specialization at PNU and used to work in the IRS of DLSU-Manila and now associate librarian to its Archives services.