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Blog Bells and Whistles

This blog has a new look. Comments and suggestions are welcome. But if you're also a blogger (using Blogger.com) and are wondering how I did certain things, take a look at the following:

Three Column Minima (Layout Version)

I always thought 3-column layouts were not possible on Blogger. This blog offers clear instructions for doing so for just about all the free themes offered on Blogger.
Blogger hack: Expandable posts with Peekaboo view
If you've seen "Read More..." at the end of some of my posts, you can read more about how it's done in this post.

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Katas ng "Kapamilya Deal or No Deal"

I finally got around to fulfilling the biggest part of the plans I detailed in "Filipino Librarian Wins 165K on 'Kapamilya Deal or No Deal'." The photo above shows the first patient who received her chemotherapy treatment within minutes of delivery of the three recliners and thirty IV stands that were on the wish list of the doctors at the oncology ward of Veterans Memorial Medical Center. It seemed appropriate that the patient was someone who saw me play =) Next step: distribute the smaller amounts...

PageRank 6

This isn't going to matter to many of this blog's readers, but I just thought I'd note that this blog's PageRank went up from 5 to 6 while I wasn't looking. All this means, of course, is that Google thinks this blog is more credible—according to its algorithm—than others with lower PageRanks, and not that it has more readers. It's also worth noting that though this blog began only in February 2005, its PageRank was already at 5 within six months (23 August 2005, to be exact).

Just to put all this in perspective, Inquirer.net and librarian.net—two of the sites visited most by Filipinos and librarians, respectively—each has a PageRank of 7, and most blogs will be lucky to have a PageRank of 5 after several years. If you'd like to know more about PageRank, see "How Google's PageRank Works."

FO: Philippine Studies, 1953-2006

There's no need to be alarmed. The title of this post refers not to the demise of Philippine Studies (PS), but to the fact that more than five decades of its issues—from the first one published in 1953 to the last issue in 2006 not covered by the embargo mentioned in "FO: Philippine Studies"—are now available online.

In addition, subscribers inside and outside the Philippines now have other options for renewing subscriptions. Full-text searching is not possible, but an index for the 1993-2007 issues (pdf) may be downloaded. Here's hoping the indexes for the older issues will also be made available.

“How to improve performance
in the licensure examination”

That's the title of the forum for which I'll be one of the panelists at the National Conference on Library and Information Science Education at the Ortigas Foundation Library on 13 and 14 April 2009. The event is sponsored by the Philippine Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (PATLS), but the intended audience is not limited to teachers. Students and graduates of library schools, as well as librarians and library support staff, are encouraged to participate. The conference fee (P2,500) might be a bit steep for students, but maybe the powers that be can still be persuaded to charge a lower fee for students =)

Anyway, I hope some of the readers of this blog will be there, so we can take a group photo. It's the last time I'll be a speaker at a conference in the Philippines this year...

Contest: Write About Blogs and Blogging

Zarah is running a "Write An Essay & Get A Gift Check Contest":

I want to know what you think of blogs, blogging librarians and their impact to the Library and Information Science (LIS) profession.

For the details and context of the contest, read the post about the LIBSpeak 2009 highlights. Blogs of the "featured" blograrians can be checked using the link.
This should be perfect for LIS students who want to earn some recognition and a gift check =)

Presentation: The Road Less Taken

The Road Less Taken: The Future of LIS Graduates
Because Zarah and a commenter asked for it, what follows is most of the text—plus slides and videos—that I read at UP FLIPP's LibSpeak ’09.

The title of this presentation is “The Road Less Taken: The Future of LIS Graduates.” The title was just given to me, and since I thought it was intriguing, I didn’t change it at all. I think the title begs reflection. Why was it necessary, for instance, to mention “The Road Less Taken,” when “The Future of LIS Graduates” probably would have been sufficient to guarantee the attendance of prospective or current LIS students, and recent graduates wondering about their job prospects? Why was it necessary to juxtapose the word “less” with “future”?

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