LIBRARY NEWSETTE

The De La Salle University (DLSU) Learning Commons is proud to have two of its librarians,   Ms. Marian S. Ramos-Eclevia   (Associate Librarian, Information Reference Section) and   Mr. Jorge Erwin A. Rada   (Librarian, Periodicals Section), to have been elected as Board members and officers of  Philippine Association of Academic and Research Librarians (PAARL). They were inducted Vice-President and Board of Director of the Association, respectively.   The induction of elected officers   coincided with the   40 th   General Assembly of PAARL which was   held last 25 January 2013, at the Technological Institute of the Philippines, Aurora Blvd., Quezon City. PAARL  is an association of librarians from different schools that supports scholarly researches and/or formal education on the collegiate level and above. The objective of the association is to encourage and promote the collection, organization and dissemination of infor...

The DLSU Library and the DLSU-Dasmariñas Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo have partnered with the  Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP),  a human rights organization, advocating and supporting social structures and actions that promote human rights nationally and globally, on the digitization of its primary sources of information (mostly Martial Law documents). Through this, the two libraries will be allowed to keep copies and provide access to the digitized documents. The MOA signing is scheduled on January 29, 2013 at exactly 10:00 AM, to be held at Multi-Purpose Room of the European Documentation Centre, 13th floor of the Henry Sy, Sr. Hall.  The invitation and the program to the said event can be viewed below:

The Learning Commons is happy to announce access to Osiris Database through this link: http://osiris.bvdep.com/ip . Osiris is a compilation of financial information on more than 70,000 listed, delisted, and unlisted companies worldwide. Below are the data sets that can be displayed and extracted from the database for academic research: Contact Information – Trading address, telephone number, website etc. Business Description – Detailed, textual overview of the company covering topics such as history, activities, countries the company operates in, main products and services Industry Classification – Internationally recognized classifications such as US SIC, NAICS, NACE, and NACE Rev. 2 Detailed Financial Data – Comparable financial information on companies Income Statement Balance Sheet Cash Flow Statement Pre-calculated ratios Stock Data Security & Price Information Current and Annual Stock Data Current and An...

Printed materials with this logo have AR T he Learning Commons now uses Augmented Reality (AR), which provides easy and interactive access to information concerning the library and its resources. AR is a type of virtual reality that combines a view of the real world with computer generated objects to augment the scene with additional information. Initially, AR is being used with The Learning Commons’ printed subject guides/pathfinders. What it does is to link users to the online version of the subject guides/pathfinders as well as to the web videos included in the list of sources. AR also allows posting and sharing of comments and suggestions through Twitter and Facebook.

Participants display their nature-inspired artworks In celebration of the Environment Week, the Academic Services Group headed by Mr. Edwin P. Santiago, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Services, in partnership with the American Corner-Manila, organized an on-the-spot poster making contest on 19 January 2013, held at the 13 th floor of the Learning Commons. Themed as Befriend Nature for A Bright Future: Kaibiganin ang Kalikasan para sa Magandang Kinabukasan , the contest aimed to impress in the minds of Filipino children the love for Mother Nature and the important role they play in nurturing nature.

(L-R) Hon. Corazon M. Nera, Chair, BFL; Mr. Joseph Yap, ASLP President; Ms. Elizabeth R. Peralejo, President, PLAI; Ms. Alicia S. Paraiso, Ex-officio, ASLP 16 January 2013, De La Salle University (DLSU), Learning Commons  - The new set of officers of the Association of Special Libraries of the Philippines (ASLP) for 2013 was inducted.  The Learning Commons takes pride as this year's president elect is a librarian from DLSU, Mr. Joseph Yap, who is currently assigned at the DLSU Makati Extension Campus (MEC). The event was graced by Ms. Corazon Nera, Chairman, Board for Librarians (BFL), and was attended by members of ASLP and librarians from DLSU. The inducting officer was no less than Ms. Elizabeth Peralejo, Philippine Librarians Association, Inc. (PLAI) President.   In her inspirational message, she challenged library professionals to become more proactive by learning the language of the new generation-- “ digital natives ” or “ millennials ,” -- the ones wh...

Ms. Yani Ramos-Eclevia Marian Ramos Eclevia (aka Yani) is back to where she first started her career as a licensed librarian about twelve years ago- De La Salle University Library. She is now one of the associate librarians at the Information-Reference of The Learning Commons. Same with many other librarians in the field, Library and Information Science is not Yani's first choice. During her younger years, she dreamt of becoming a bank manager, a farmer, or a Math teacher. But fate has taken its course to make this resilient person into an innovative and proactive reference librarian of her generation. It was during her stint in DLSU Archives when she finally decided to fall in love with librarianship as she placed 7th in the Librarians Licensure Examination 2000. Since then, she has committed herself to excellence with a personal motto of "just love every little thing you do and give your best shot." Yani, who has more than one decade of extensive expe...

The U.S. Department of State, as a part of its public diplomacy strategy, manages a wide network of American Spaces across the globe, which now sums up to about 850 diverse spaces (i.e., in terms of sizes, audience, partners and quality of collections, services, programs and physical set-up). These spaces allow people to come together to learn about the United States, explore opportunities, take classes, and develop and observe social experiences.  The State Department, as it tries to embark upon a strategic process of improving and standardizing the quality of the spaces and their core programs (which focuses on English language learning, Education USA advising, alumni activities, cultural programs, and provision of information about the United States), has partnered with the Smithsonian Institution to get the help of the experts specifically in the fields of architecture, space design, exhibitions, programmatic strategies (i.e. how to best use spaces for specific types of...

With an eventful three year-career at DLSU and having been speaker to various seminars and trainings for librarians, the Permanency Board approved the permanent position of Joseph Yap beginning Term 2 of AY 2012-2013.  In 2010, Joseph joined De La Salle University as a Catalog Librarian. July of the same year, he was assigned at the Graduate School of Business, Makati Extension Campus (MEC). The MEC Library caters to the graduate students and faculty members of program Masters in Business Administration, Juris-Doctor Degree (MBA/JD). The collection of the library spans from management, economics, marketing, finance, accounting, statistics and law.   Early in his career, he served as the Information Resource Officer of the Asian Collaborative Training Network for Malaria (ACTMalaria) in 2006.  He was in-charge of the ACTMalaria Information Resource Center (AIRC) and was an active member of Medical and Health Librarians Association of the Philippines (MAHLA...