Filipino Librarian: November 2011

Librarians' Licensure Examination 2011: Results

Congratulations to the new librarians!

The passing rate for the Librarians' Licensure Examination is 28 percent (211 out of 764), up slightly from 27 percent in 2010.

Below are the list of the Top 11 and the list of all successful examinees. Both were taken from documents downloaded from the official website of the Professional Regulation Commission, which is now much more user-friendly, features all documents released to newspapers since 2009, and makes Verification of Professional Licenses possible. My only suggestion for improvement for the last one is that instead of just stating that a person is "listed in the LIBRARIAN Registry Books of PRC," the year of expiration of the person's license should also be indicated.

Academic Librarianship: A Crisis or Opportunity?

Labels: Conferences

UPDATE (2 Jan 2012): An article (PDF | HTML) about the conference has been published in Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research.

This post reproduces the notes taken by Harriet Sonne de Torrens, as well as some slides shown, at "Academic Librarianship: A Crisis or Opportunity?" held at University of Toronto on 18 November 2011. If you're wondering why this conference was convened, take a look at "McMastergate in chronological order, or, Do libraries need librarians?" and "UWO Librarian Strike Ends As Both Sides Ratify New Agreement." A pdf file showing most of the tweets (#futurelibs) posted during the event in chronological order may be downloaded here. A few photos are available here, and here.

Below are the notes for the first three sessions, slides, and links to a blog and statements that were posted after the conference. If you can't see the Scribd documents after clicking on "Read More...," click here.

"We have the most awesome library. EVER."

Labels: Libraries

The title of this post is from a tweet posted two days ago, after the photos above appeared on tumblr, along with the comment "This is just too funny. Good job Rizal Lib." The original post has been shared 285 times on tumblr as of this writing, and who-knows-how-many times on Twitter and Facebook (where Tin Lao, a friend, tagged me, and that's how I found out about the posters).

Awesome? Funny? What's going on? This is a library they're talking about, right? Well, it's not just any library. It's the Rizal Library, which apparently has figured out how to communicate with students in the language they use. And so, even though the messages on the posters are essentially the eat-your-vegetables kind, the manner in which these are conveyed has caught the attention—and aroused the interest—of the audience for which they were intended... something that not many library signs I've seen have ever done.

If you'd like to see the posters above—plus two more—up close, click on the images below.