LIS Unpublished Materials

Our database shows that the library of the Philippine Normal University has 111 unpublished materials in the area of Library & Information Science. 18% or 20 were obtained from the DECS with 4 special projects, 15 theses and 1 dissertation while 82% or 91 were graduate outputs of the LIS Department of the University with 47 special projects, 42 theses and 2 dissertations. These dissertations were written by PNU faculty members namely Wilhelmina G. Borjal, Evelyn A. Natividad and Maria A. Orendain in 2001, 1988 and 2000, respectively.

For a list of titles, please click, http://librarysciencealumniofpnu.blogspot.com/2008/07/special-publications.html

Flashback

ABS-CBN broadcast journalist Tintin Bersola-Babao, once promoted culture of reading in the University. On April 22, 2007, Babao talked about Reading for Children: A Parent’s Experience and introduced “Basura Monster”. This amazed and educated an enthusiastic audience of administrators, teachers, students, parents and kids as well. Her session ended with book-signing and picture-taking. She was guest to the library’s 2-day seminar on “People, Books and Libraries : Promoting the Culture of Reading” with other lecturers like Dr. Virgilio Almario (UP) and Dr. Ambeth Ocampo (NCCA).

EA prexy is a professional librarian

Helen Advincula leads PNU employees for two years now. She is the university library’s cataloger and handles both Education Section and Technical Services. Advincula is a graduate of the Philippine Normal University Class 1994 and holds an MEd LIS diploma. In her special project entitled “An Assessment of the Automated Services of the Philippine Normal University, she recommends the following: (1) proper maintenance and addition of computer terminals for online public access catalog; (2) online terminals in the library reading areas; (3) materials availability and location editing of the OPAC; (4) additional Athena model for WWW access; (5) feedbox box; (6) OPAC hands-on-tutoring. Advincula, also, assisted in the DOST-PNU funded project entitled “Improvement of the Information System of the PNU Library in 2003. She is married to Engineer Johnafrey N. Advincula with 4 incredible and beautiful kids.

For a directory of open access journals; free full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, click http://www.doaj.org/; and for Philippine Journal Online, http://journals.sfu.ca/philjol/index.php/index/index.

NEWSBITS

NEWSBITSReading sections namely Education and Theses Sections of the university library are now air-conditioned. This expectedly increases volumes of researchers visiting the two said sections. Many graduate students are happy with the gradual make-over the administration makes and expect better section management by librarians since room discipline and reader research practices change positively or unfavorably.


NEWSBITS Orendain and Ramos proposed literacy programs for users of our library. This came about when the library staff made a study on users’ utilization of the library and Internet. Results reveal that there is a need to formulate an information literacy package material while Ramos discovered that no respondent from another study has literacy over their choice of Education or L information sources. Both studies are valued for their attempt to find solutions to poor shelf-reading habits and research practices of our students.


NEWSBITS Torchlight issues were given away for free to graduates of the Philippine Normal School/Philippine Normal College specifically annual issues of 1963 to 1968; 1971 to 1978; 1983, 1985-1988. Mrs. Carmelita Del Valle, Librarian IV took charge of the distribution.


NEWSBITS Researchers’ fee for non-PNU library users is now 100 pesos as approved by the University Board of Regents recently. This is a measly amount of money obtained from outsiders who use our library resources that helps the university library in terms of book purchase.

Readers benefit from Philippine e-lib

Local research workers may now avail of the services Philippine e-lib can offer. The university library obtained two computers directly connected to the online union catalog of the National Library of the Philippines (NLP), University of the Philippines (UP), Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Department of Agriculture (DA), and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). Simply click: http://www.elib.gov.ph/ for digitized Filipiniana materials including theses and dissertations; special collection/researches of the 5 partners; online resources/subscription to electronic databases.

Downloading or viewing materials requires subscription fees for: 1 month, P1,200.00; 6 months, 6,000.00; 1 year, P12,000.00. Access to full text-materials as well as catalog information, either limited or unlimited; selected or pay-per-order.