October 13-15 “Theological Librarians Riding the Winds of Change Part 2”

PHILIPPINE THEOLOGICAL LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION
President: Elizabeth T. Pulanco
Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary
P.O. Box 7 or 19 Tacay Road , Baguio
City 2600, Philippines
Tel # (63) (74) 445-5968; 446-2208; Fax
(63) (74) 300-2863
Email: btpulanco@yahoo.com

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September 22, 2008

Dear Colleagues:

Greetings from the PTLA!

The PTLA is organizing the Seminar-Workshop on “Theological Librarians Riding the Winds of Change Part 2” to be held on October 13-15, 2008 at the Mindanao Training Resource Center of Davao Medical School Foundation, Bajada,Davao City.

We would like to invite you to attend a one-day seminar of LIBRO SYSTEM: LUNA EDITION (updated version of ICONIUM)Training on October 13, Monday from 8:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m.by Mr. Romy Sebastian.

Objectives:

1. Implement full library automation using Libro System: Luna edition;
2. Facilitate cataloguing with the help of its MARC utilities;
3. To ease indexing and abstracting of periodical literature and vertical files;
4. Develop an electronic libraries or organize retrieval system of electronic resources;
5. Generate various reports relative to the libraries;
6. Learn how to operate of the aforesaid library software;
7. Promote collaboration and resource sharing among Theological Libraries.

Who should attend: Library or resource center librarian/staff that do not have any library automation program yet. Participants who are tasked by their organizations to
develop their library system. This is a special offer to the Visayas and Mindanao
participants only.

Prerequisites: No prerequisite needed just a desire to automate their libraries.
Coverage: Plan, design and set-up a library into an automated one using Libro System: Luna edition, cataloguing, indexing, keyword generation, database migration, maintenance, etc.

This is NOT a programming course. Emphasis is on developing library automation using Libro System: Luna edition software. The course is a mixture of presentations and demonstrations with emphasis on hands-on practical experience.

All participants will engage in extensive hands-on training using the Mindanao Training Resource Center ’s advanced computing and networking facilities. The instructional tracks will be led by professional librarians, IT database developers and web developers who have extensive experience in running training workshops.

The seminar-workshop is open to all professional and non-professional library
personnel working in seminaries, church libraries, and Theological/Christian
schools.

The seminar fee is One thousand pesos (P1,000.00) inclusive of 1 lunch and 2 snacks, 1 night accommodation, seminar kit and certificates of participation and
appearance. Participants who are not staying in the center will pay Five
hundred pesos (P500.00). For those who would like to be a member of PTLA, please
bring four hundred pesos (Php400)for your institutional membership payment.

All participants of Track 2 – ICONIUM are requested to prepare Five Thousand Pesos
(P5,000.00) as payment for the copy of software. Please submit the application form on or before October 2,2008.

Payments may be made in cash, check or Postal Money Order payable to Philippine Theological Library Association or Cash/Check may be deposited to our SA:1955-0080-370, Crisanta P. Bustamante, BPI Congressional Ave. Branch. Send the application form ASAP.

For Further details/inquiries and reservations please call the following persons:

Elizabeth T. Pulanco, Librarian, Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary
Tel# (074) 445-6063; 445-5968; Mobile phone #09183398802; email:btpulanco@yahoo.com

Raquel Cruz, Adm. Librarian, Biblical Seminary of the Phils.
Tel # (632) 2926795, 2926798 Fax # (632)2926675 ; Mobile phone # 09209079577;
Email: loiyai_el@yahoo.com ; rdcruz@bsop.ph

Thank you very much.

Sincerely yours,

Elizabeth T. Pulanco
PTLA Chair

November 2008: Library and Information Services Month (LIS)

Library and Information Services Month (LIS)
Theme: Philippine Libraries and Librarians in the Midst of Global Competitiveness

NOVEMEBR 2008
Sponsored by: National Committee on Library and Information Services (NCLIS); The National Library (TNL); Philippine Librarians Association, Inc. (PLAI)

SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES

I. Opening Ceremonies – November 3; Venue: The National Library (TNL)
- Motorcade
- Mass
- Program
- Award for “2008 Outstanding City Libraries in Metro Manila”

II. First Philippine Congress on Electronic Libraries – November 13-14; Venue: The National Library (TNL)

III. PLAI National Congress on the “Multicultural Landscape of Philippine Librarianship” – November 20-22; Venue: Grand Meng Seng Hotel, Davao City

IV. NCLIS Execon Regular Meeting – November 21; Venue: Grand Meng Seng Hotel, Davao City

V. PLAI House of Delegates and General Assembly – November 22; Venue: Grand Meng Seng Hotel, Davao City

VI. National Book Week (NBW) – November 24-28; Theme: Ang Batang Palabasa Dalubhasa sa Kultura”; Venue: The National Library (TNL)
- Opening/Book Parade
- Program
- Awarding of Contest Winners

VII. TNL-German Embassy Workshop on Paper Conservation and Restoration – November 26-27; Venue: The National Library (TNL)

VIII. Closing Ceremonies/Librarians Day – November 28; Venue: Shangri-la, West, Quezon City
- Lecture Forum on “Filipino Librarians: Today and Tomorrow”
- Fellowship Luncheon


For other PLAI Regional Council and Library Association Activities, separate announcements will be distributed.

For particulars, call the NCLIS Office c/o U.P. Law Library – 929-2180; PLAI Office – 525-9401; TNL – 525-1748

Steering Committee

Co-Chairpersons: Susima L. Gonzales (PLAI); Antonio M. Santos (NCLIS); Prudenciana C. Cruz (TNL)

Sub-Commitees

OPENING CEREMONIES

Honorary Chair: Prudenciana C. Cruz; Chair: Flora A. Valmonte

Motorcade
Chair: Rodolfo Y. Tarlit; Co-Chair: Sancho A. Domenden

Search for 2008 Outstanding City Libraries
Chair: Antonio M. Santos; Co-Chair: Sancho A. Domenden

PLAI NATIONAL CONGRESS/ANNUAL CONVENTION

Over-All Chair: Susima L. Gonzales; Co-Chair: Thelma S. Kim

Conference:
Chair: Thelma S. Kim; Co-Chair: Nora Fe H. Alajar

Ways and Means
Chair: Susima L. Gonzales; Co-Chair: Zoraida E. Bartolome

Physical Arrangement
Chair: Nora Fe H. Alajar; Co-Chair: Belen M. Vibar

Registration
Chair: Marlo C. Chavez; Co-Chair: Fe E. Abelardo

Food/Refreshment
Chair: Rebecca B. Napiere; Co-Chair: Lourdes V. Soriano

NATIONAL BOOK WEEK (NBW)

Chair: Fe A. Abelardo

Committee on Contest
Chair: Leonila Galvez; Co-Chair: Josefina Juare

Committee on Food/Refreshment
Chair: Helen Grace Cacho; Co-Chair: Nona Yonder

Committee on Finance/Ways and Means
Chair: Ceferina Andaya; Co-Chair: Marlo C. Chavez

Committee on Physical Arrangement/Reception
Chair: Melba A. Tablizo

Committee on Publicity
Chair: Jesusa C. Manhit

Committee on Souvenir Program
Chair: Lilia F. Echiverri

Committee on Invitation/Program
Chair: Emma M. Rey

CLOSING CEREMONIES

Committee on Lecture/Forum
Chair: Susima L. Gonzales; Co-Chair: Rodolfo Y. Tarlit

Committee on Fellowship
Chair: Mona Liza P. Leguiab; ; Co-Chair: Marlo C. Chavez

PROCLAMATION NO. 837

Declaring the Month of November 1991 and every year thereafter as “Library and Information Services Month”

WHEREAS, there is a need to focus public awareness to the invaluable service that libraries and information centers render, i.e., providing data and materials for life-long knowledge and learning for research and for leisure. NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare the month of November 1991 and every year thereafter as “Library and Information Services Month,” under the auspices of The National Library and The National Committee on Library Information Services of the Presidential Commission on Culture and Arts.

I call upon all residents, regardless of race or creed, and the public and the private sectors to extend their full support to the observance of “Library and Information Services Month.”

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 19th of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-one.

By the President.

(SGD.) CORAZON C. AQUINO
President of the Philippines

(SGD.) FRANKLIN DRILON
Executive Secretary

Source: http://www.stii.dost.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50&Itemid=32

NOTE: Ramos attended a PLAI Meeting with Presidents last September 17 (Wednesday) at the PLAI Office, 1 p.m. and obtained a copy of the invitation for PNU-LISAA, Inc., A Caring Alumni Group.

October 17 “Managing the Human Side of Change”

MENDIOLA CONSORTIUM
CENTRO ESCOLAR UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
LA CONSOLACION COLLEGE
SAN BEDA COLLEGE
MANILA

September 16, 2008

Dear Colleague:

Greetings!

One of the approved activities of the Committee on Libraries is a forum entitled “Managing the Human Side of Change” which is scheduled on October 17, 2008 8:00am-12:00 nn at the Plenary Hall Kamalayan Bldg., La Consolacion College, Manila

On behalf of the Library Committee, may, we then invite you to attend this activity.
The objectives of the forum are:

• To improve ability to influence the best work of your library and;

• To enhance the work quality towards a systematic skill to the changing research demands of the library users.

Forum fee is P200.00 inclusive of snacks and certificates.

We look forward to being with you on this important event. For inquiries and other details you may contact Ms. Lourdes Roman of San Beda College at 7356011 loc 2550 or the undersigned at 7356021 loc 210.

Thank you.

ROSETTE E. NUERA
Chairman, MC Committee on Libraries, 2008

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To: paarl@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 8:50:06 AM
Subject: [PAARL] "Managing the Human Side of Change"

PROGRAMME: The Multicultural Landscape of Philippine Librarianship

P R O G R A M M E

November 20, 2008 (Day 1)

7:30am – 9:00am Registration
9:00am OPENING CEREMONIES

Invocation – Ms. Belen M. Vibar (Auditor, PLAI)
National Anthem – Ms. Donabella P. Marilag (Trustee, PLAI)
Opening Remarks – Mrs. Thelma S. Kim (Vice-President, PLAI)

Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Keynote Address – Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte (City Mayor, Davao City)

10:00am-10:15am Tea Break
10:15am-11:30am SESSION 1

INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM
Fr. Albert E. Alejo, SJ
Executive Director, Research & Publications Office, Ateneo de Davao University

11:30am-12:00nn Open Forum
12:00nn-1:30pm Lunch Break
1:30pm-2:30pm SESSION 2

MANAGING MULTICULTURAL RESOURCES: NATIONAL COMMISSION ON CULTURE AND ARTS (NCCA) PERSPECTIVE
Atty. Antonio M. Santos
Chair, National Committee on Library & Information Services (NCLIS)

2:30pm-3:00pm Open Forum
3:00pm-3:15pm Tea Break
3:15pm-4:15pm

MANAGING MULTICULTURAL RESOURCES: THE NATIONAL LIBRARY (TNL) PERSPECTIVE
Mrs. Prudenciana C. Cruz
Director, The National Library

4:15pm-4:30pm Open Forum

Emcee/Facilitator: Mrs. Nora Fe H. Alajar (Trustee, PLAI)

November 21, 2008 (Day 2)

7:30am – 8:00am Registration
8:00am - 9:00am SESSION 3

REDESIGNING LIBRARIES FOR MULTICULTURAL POPULATION: SERVICES
Mrs. Lourdes T. David
Director, Rizal Library, Ateneo de Manila University

9:00am – 10:00am

REDESIGNING LIBRARIES FOR MULTICULTURAL POPULATION: COLLECTIONS
Dr. Resil B. Mojares
Professor Emeritus, University of San Carlos

10:00am – 10:15am Tea Break
10:15am – 11:15am

REDESIGNING LIBRARIES FOR MULTICULTURAL POPULATION: USER’S POINT OF VIEW
Dr. Marcelino P. Escalada, Jr.
Head of Operations, Human Resource Management, City Government of Davao

11:15am-12:00nn Open Forum
12:00nn-1:30pm Lunch Break
1:30pm-2:30pm SESSION 4

RECONFIGURING MULTIPLE MINDSET OF LIBRARIANS & INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS: PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES
Mrs. Agnes D. Padilla
Director IV, Human Resource Development, Civil Service Commission

2:30pm-3:00pm Open Forum
3:00pm-3:15pm Tea Break
3:15pm-4:30pm

RECONFIGURING MULTIPLE MINDSET OF LIBRARIANS & INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS: CORE VALUES
Mrs. Ruth R. Padilla
Commissioner, Professional Regulation Commission

4:30pm-5:00pm Open Forum

Emcee/Facilitator: Dr. Enrique T. Cayaban (Trustee, PLAI)

November 22, 2008 (Day 3)

8:00am – 8:30am Registration
8:30am - 9:30am SESSION 5

RELEVANT PROMOTERS OF MULTICULTURAL LIBRARIANSHIP: BOARD FOR LIBRARIANS (BFL)
Mrs. Corazon M. Nera
Chair, BFL

9:30am – 10:00am Open Forum]
10:00am – 10:15am Tea Break
10:15am – 11:15am

RELEVANT PROMOTERS OF MULTICULTURAL LIBRARIANSHIP: PHILIPPINE LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION, INC. (PLAI)
Mrs. Susima L. Gonzales
President, PLAI

11:15am-12:00nn Open Forum
12:00nn-1:00pm Lunch Break
1:00pm-4:00pm GENERAL ASSEMBLY
4:00pm-5:00pm Closing Ceremonies

Closing Remarks Mrs. Mrs. Susima L. Gonzales (President, PLAI)
Emcee/Facilitator: Dr. Marianita D. Dablio (Trustee, PLAI)

November 20-22 “The Multicultural Landscape of Philippine Librarianship.”

The PLAI in cooperation with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Davao Regional Librarians Council (DLRC) and Davao City Government is pleased to invite you to attend its National Conference on November 20-22, 2008 at the Grand Men Seng Hotel, Davao City. This year’s theme is “The Multicultural Landscape of Philippine Librarianship.”

Conference Objectives:

1. Re-examine libraries position in a multicultural community;
2. Be enthusiastic in building and rebuilding their collection to reflect the cultural groupings of the libraries they serve;
3. Reprogram libraries’ activities and services toward all cultural groups.

Conference Fee: P3,600.00 (inclusive of kit, conference papers, certificate of participation/appearance and snacks/lunches for 3 days.

Make cheque payable to PLAI.

For details/inquiries/reservation, please visit PLAI Website www.nlp.gov.ph/plai or get in touch with:

FE E. ABELARDO, feabelardo@yahoo.com; 525-0926; 09194948178
BING H. ALAJAR, binggot24@yahoo.com; 09177213280
BELEN M. VIBAR, belen@uap.edu.ph; 637-0912 to 26 local 229; 09272201725
MARLO C. CHAVEZ, marlochavez_capricorn@yahoo.com; 822-7653; 09273027474
SUSIMA L. GONZALES, 742-5612/525-9401
ASTER B. GEROLAGA, aster.gerolaga@yahoo.com; 525-9401; 09283419962

Based on the invitation, PLAI has requested Civil Service Commission (CSC) for attendance on official time. The invitation, also, has attached documents like DepEd and CHED memos.

The General Assembly and House of Delegates (HOD will be on November 22, 2008, 1 p.m

NOTE: Ramos attended a PLAI Meeting with Presidents last September 17 (Wednesday) at the PLAI Office, 1 p.m. and obtained a copy the invitation for PNU-LISAA, Inc., A Caring Alumni Group.