MAHLAP Newsletter: April September 2009

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The Medical and Health Librarians Association of the Philippines in collaboration with Swetsand the Department of Health offered a symposium with 53 participants in attendance. The

symposiums title is Empowering Knowledge Through Network and CommunicationTechnologies in Libraries and was granted 3 CPE credit units by PRC and PLAI. It was heldlast August 14, 2009 at Francisco Q. Duque Hall, Health Information and Training Center,Department of Health, Manila.

The symposium aims to provide a platform for sharing information and lessons learned in theestablishment of projects using ICT tools in libraries and information centers, to facilitatediscussion for future project designs that should be developed by libraries and informationcenters, and to promote the use of current trends and technologies in the dissemination ofknowledge and information. The resource speakers were Mr. Moseley Scott of Swets, asubscription services company that offers medical and health information content and Prof.Johann Frederick Igor A. Cabbab of the UP School of Library and Information Studies.

The half-day symposium became an active environment because all participants responded to

the activity lead by Sir Igor. He showed how effective he is as a speaker and communicator tohis audience. He discussed the essence of knowledge, network and communication inmanaging a technologically inclined library shifting from a traditionallibrary. Most of the lectures concentrated on Web 2.0, SocialSoftwares and Social Web Technologies as used and adopted inlibraries and information centers. Mr. Scott Moseley presentedE-resources and management tools for medical and health libraries.He introduced to the participants the value of IOS e-journals andonline knowledge products available at Medicines Complete. Thesymposium was supported by IOS Press and Swets. Swets alsoprovided the symposium kits, pens and pad papers for this activity.MAHLAP wishes to thank all the institutions, schools and universitieswho attended this event. MAHLAP would also like to thank theNational Epidemiology Center for distributing free Field Health System

Information System 2006 and National Health Statistics 2004.

Empowering Knowledge to MAHLAP Participantsthrough a Symposium on Network and Communication

Technologies in Libraries

Inside this issue:

MAHLAPSymposiumheld at DOH

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Forum: 30thMIBF

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14th CONSAL 3

Ce-LogicConference /RCHSD

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Library Spotted:AUF

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IFLA-FAIFE 6

STIMULATE 97

UNESCO

PromotesMemory of the

World

Programme

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Medical and Health Librarians Association of the Philippines

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Prof. Igor Cabbab The symposium participants

Supported by

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Focusing on Librarians Health and Wellness: a MAHLAP Forum on the 30th

Manila International Book Fair

The 55 participants from NCR and its nearby areas attended

MAHLAPs forum during the 30th Manila International Book Fair

(MIBF). MIBF is one of the longest-running book fairs in Asia.

The forum was on Focusing on Our Health: Enhancing

Wellness in the Workplace held last September 16, 2009 from

8:00 11:00 AM at Room 6 of SMX Convention Center, Pasay

City.

The benefits of this forum were to:

1. understand the importance of wellness in the workplace;

2. recognize and know how to deal with common stressors that

may affect work productivity;

3. learn different tools and techniques in handling stress which

is essential in promoting a healthy working environment.

Our resource speaker was Dr. Josefina Santiago Isidro-Lapea,

MD, MFM, special assistant to the Dean of UP College of

Medicine; Officer-in-charge and Board, Foundation for FamilyMedicine Educators (FAME) and a member of Alay Kapwa

Kilusang Pangkalusugan (AKAP).

She received her Master of Family Medicine at Monash

University, Melbourne, Australia and has been awarded the

Most Outstanding Family Physician in Community Service in

2006.

She imparted her knowledge and expertise as a communityphysician.

To make the forum lively, she distributed metacards to the

audience and asked them to list their food intake and theirquantities for the last 24 hours. She gave an explanation of therelevance of diet to our health.

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She also discussed how to cope up with situations thatmake us stressful whether at home, outside environment oroffice. She advised everyone that the only way to have astress-free life is to engage ourselves in a happyatmosphere and not be affected by the external forces.Always think of pleasant thoughts and learn how to controlyourself to avoid being dragged by stressful events.

This forum has been granted 3 CPE credit units by PRC

and PLAI.

We would like to thank all the participants who attendedthis forum, Dr. Lapea and all our sponsors who werealways there for MAHLAPC & E, Megatext and MindMovers. We would also like to thank the National Centerfor Health Promotion (NCHP) for providing stressmanagement brochures and the National EpidemiologyCenter (NEC) for distributing health information materials.

See you again on the next activity of MAHLAP.

The participants Dr. Josephine Lapea Meditating

Awarding ofCertificate of

Appreciation to

C&E andMegaTEXTS


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CONSAL XIV: the Hanoi ExperienceGina G. Canceran

College of Medicine Library, UP Manila

Mrs. Theresa Dugenia and Mrs. Gina Canceran, two MAHLAP ex-officios attended the Congress of SoutheastAsian Librarians (CONSAL XIV) with the theme Towards Dynamic Libraries and Information Services inSoutheast Asian Countries which was held at Melia Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam last April 20-24, 2009. Almost 800participants, including guest and exhibitors participated at the Congress. Fifty two (52) delegates attended from thePhilippines. There were five speakers from the Philippines who presented lectures on the following :

The CGIAR Virtual Library: Harnessing New Technologies for Scholarly Access to AgriculturalInformation Ms. Mila M. Ramos, International Rice Research Institute

Ensuring a continuing professional education among registered librarians in the PhilippinesMs. Elizabeth R. Peralejo, Educational Medical Center, Ateneo de Manila High School

The Philippine Association of Academic and Research Librarians [PAARL] in the Service of Library andInformation Professionals in the Country Ms. Elvira B. Lapuz, University of the Philippines Diliman

Southeast Asian Resources Online Mr. Vernon Totanes, PhD candidate, University of Toronto

The Democratisation Reading Among Mindanaoan Children Project Mr. FA Oclarit Koronadal, SouthCotabato

Mrs. Salvacion R. Arlante, University Librarian, UP Diliman received a Silver Award from CONSAL as one ofits Outstanding Librarians.

Part of the Congress was the Gala Night or the Cultural Presentation of each member countries. Culturalpresentation from the Philippines was performed by the group of ALBASA librarians. The Cultural presentation was

held at Hanoi Opera House. Other activities were the cultural visits or tour in Vietnam which we had the chance to visitthe Temple of Literature and explored the Ha Long Bay. Its been a knowledgeable and wonderful experience for allthe librarians.

CONSAL member countries are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines,Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The Next Congress or CONSAL XV will be held in Indonesia in 2012.

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CE-Logic National Conference on DigitalResources

Joenabie A. EncantoAteneo School of Medicine and Public Health

More than 200 librarians from all over the Philippinesattended the CE-Logic 1st National Conference onDigital Resources, on May 14-15, 2009 at the C & E

Information and Resource Center, Quezon City.

The conference theme was Technology and Beyond.It focused on topics regarding technology being usedand applied in the library, library marketing, andimproving its patronage and attendance. There were six

presentations from selected speakers. Detaileddiscussions were organized as follows:

Collection Development in the New Environment :Issues, Challenges, Trends and FutureDirections in Philippine Libraries by CorazonM. Nera

E-volution in Web 2.0 by Mila RamosSome Intellectual Property Issues in the Digital

Age by Atty. JJ Disini New Learnings on Fair Use: The use of

copyrighted works without need for licensefrom copyright owner is generally allowed solong as the use does not affect the commercialrights of the owner.

I s t he u s e c om m e r c i a l o r

non-commercial?Is it the entire work or just a part?Does it affect the present and future

market for the work?Marketing and Quality Management of Libraries

New Learnings on Marketing: TheLibrarys output or product is Good Library

ServiceLibrary Evolution : the challenge in e-generation

society by Iyra S. Buenrostro

Digitization in the 21st

century

The Resource Center for Health SystemDevelopment

*reprinted with permission from RCHSD

The Resource Center for Health System Developmentor RCHSD, the DOH's physical and virtual repositoryof knowledge on health system development and thefirst in the Department to provide multi mediaresources for better policy and decision-making

options. The center is open to all health researchers,people from the academe, from the private sector, fromother government agencies, NGOs, media and internalstaff. The center has been established and became fullyoperational through the financial and technicalassistance extended by their partners in GTZ, ADB and

WHO.

RCHSD supports the Knowledge Management Strategy

of DOH and helps address its quest towards availabilityof more relevant, appropriate, and timely information

on health system development. RCHSD will be a hugehelp to the entire health sector within and outside of the

Department of Health in terms of providing the latestinformation and knowledge on health system develop-ment issues, serving as conduit between the health

knowledge providers and health knowledge users.

RCHSD has an online portal where users can directly

search for the health information they need.

Visit: http://www.rchsd.doh.gov.ph/index.php?

option=com_eventing&catid=19&Itemid=87

Download International Congress on MedicalLibrarianship (ICML) 2009 presentations

31 August - 4 September 2009 in Brisbane, Australia

[Not yet available but will be published here]:

h t t p : / / w w w . i c m l 2 0 0 9 . c o m / i n s t r u c t i o n s /proceedings.html

Launching of RCHSD


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Library Spotted: Angeles University Foundation University LibraryRossana Sagun

AUF

Tell us something about your library.Contact us at [email protected] or visit www.mahlap.org.

The University Library in Lourdes Hall islocated right at the heart of the AUF MainCampus. It is a four-story air-conditionedbuilding housing the Main Library and theHealth Sciences Library. It has a total area of2,424.5 square meters and the capacity toaccommodate 387 users. Aside from thereading rooms and some offices, four (4)discussion rooms are also available at the 3rdfloor. Each room can accommodate 12

persons at a time. The rooms are for groupdiscussions, academic, instructional or libraryrelated activities. The training and viewingrooms are housed at the Computer andServices Section.

The Professional Schools Building housed thefollowing libraries: the College of Business andAccountancy Library and the ProfessionalSchools Library, which houses the collectionsfor the Graduate School and School of Law.These libraries are equipped with discussion

rooms and Internet facilities.

The Integrated School Library, located in theAUF-Integrated School site at the Marisol,Angeles City, have a seating capacity of 36and its own multimedia center.

Committed to its vision of becoming the leadinginformation center in Central Luzon, theUniversity Library started its automation projectlast April 2000. Today, it has almost reached itsgoal of fully computerizing its operations.

There are 12 professional librarians and 18library clerks who caters to the academic,research and extension needs of the variousuniversity constituents.

The Health Sciences Library which is located atthe 3

rdfloor of the Main Library keeps the

collections on its collections which coversinformation resources in medicine, nursing,physical therapy, medical technology,pharmacy and other materials in related areas.

Visit AUF Library Website

(http://library.auf.edu.ph/)
http://library.auf.edu.ph/http://library.auf.edu.ph/


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IFLA-FAIFE INTERNET MANIFESTOMa. Lindie D. Masalinto

UPH-DJGTMU

The Philippine Librarians Association, Inc.National Capital Region (PLAI-NCR) holds a two-dayseminar-workshop on IFLA-FAIFE (International Federation of Library Associations andInstitutionsCommittee on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression) InternetManifesto Trainers Workshop Project in the Philippines 2009 last July 30-31, 2009 at the C & EInformation & Resource Center, Quezon City. It was attended by more than 60 librarians andin fo rma t ion spec ia l i s t s f rom Me t ro Man i l a and nea rby p rov inces .

The conference theme is on "Internet: The Way to The Future." It aims to disseminate and trainlibrarians in the emerging role of the Internet in today's information revolution and also toi m p l e m e n t t h e I F L A - F A I F E I n t e r n e t M a n i f e s t o .

There were five presentations on the following:

- IFLA-FAIFE & Internet Manifesto: An Overview by Ms. Lilia F. Echiverri- Implementing the Internet Manifesto by Ms. Prudencia P.Cruz- The Current Role of Internet in Philippine Libraries: Scenarios and Trends by Prof. Edgardo

B. Quiros- Laws and Policies Regulating Internet Access in the Philippines by Prof. Antonio M. Santos- How to Write an Internet Use Policies by Dr. Nora Claravall

Happy Birthday!!!

September 7 September 17

We wish you all the best

Download IFLA 2009 presentations here:

No. 145Health and Biosciences Libraries

Consumer health: health literacy, patient empow-erment and health promotion

23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy

http://www.ifla.org/annual-conference/ifla75/programme2009-en.php


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MAHLAP P.R.O. participated in STIMULATE-9Joseph Yap

ACTMalaria

Mr. Joseph Yap had the opportunity to study, travel and visit the capital of Europe for a three-month (May-July 2009)training on information management. VLIR-UOS (Vlaamse Interuniversitaire Raad/ University Development

Co-operation) and the government of Belgium funded this training for 15 scholars from Africa and Asia. STIMULATE 9stands for Scientific and Technological Information Management for Universities and Libraries: an Active TrainingEnvironment edition 9. This training offers a stimulating learning environment to information experts in the area ofscience and technology, who are in the early phase of their career. The aims are to sharpen skills in collecting, storing,retrieving, presenting and managing information (STIMULATE, 2009). More information about the objectives of thetraining program can be read at their website: http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/stimulate9/stimulate9-announcement.htm.VLIR is the scholarship giving body for international training programs [ITP] for STIMULATE, AV Learning Materials Production and Management and four other ITPs. It also offers international course programs [ICP] for two years in theareas of aquaculture, biostatistics, environmental sanitation, molecular biology, human ecology, food technology andmany others.

Four modules were successfully organized and taught to the 19students (4 students were non-scholars) participating in this training oninformation management. The four modules were:

1. Information and communication technology for information centersand libraries2. Information sources3. Information architecture4. Management in information centers and libraries

These modules were lectured by well-known professors in the field of library and information science in Belgium. Prof.Ronald Rousseau lectured on library networks, graph theory, scientometrics and informetrics. We have used Web ofScience as the main tool for our research. Dr. Rousseau is the current President of International Society forScientometrics and Informetrics. Prof. Leo Egghe lectured on library statistics and introduced the Journal of Informetricswherein he is the editor-in-chief. Prof. Marc Nyssen lectured on using HTML and XML. Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen is theSTIMULATE coordinator and is in-charge of STIMULATE management. Prof. Egbert de Smet introduced us to the use ofGreenstone and ABCD, an ISIS family. Prof. Raf Dekeyser is in-charge of library visits and library visit evaluation. Prof.Frederik Questier lectured on free and open source softwares. Prof. Julien Van Borm lectured on copyright in libraries

while Prof. Ard Prasad (from India) taught us harvesting services and federated search. Prof. Piet Dekeyser introducedindexing non-text materials in the social web. Prof. Ludo Holans introduced LibQual.

We also visited technologically innovated academic and special libraries, information centers and museums. Among thelibraries we visited were Katholieke Universitiet Leuven, Universit Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), University of Antwerp,University of Ghent, Vrije Universitiet Brussel, UNESCO IOC IODE, and African Museum in Tervuren. On my spare time,I visited the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp to see how they were different from any of the libraries in thePhilippines or even how they were the same in other Belgian libraries. One difference is that they use Barnard as theirclassification system. It is more simplified and appropriate for their medical collection. They are also using DSpace fortheir institutional repository. We had the chance to participate and listen to renowned experts in library technology during the30th conference of International Association of Technological and University Libraries in Leuven, Belgium. Ms. Elvira Lapuzof UP SLIS was there to present her paper on Teaching Web 2.0 Applications in the Planning and Development of Informa-tion Literacy Programs: Reaching Out to Librarians and Information Professionals. Our institutions were also privileged to bea member of IATUL for a period of one-year.

It was a very fruitful learning experience from a multi-cultural and diverse environment. We did learn not only how librarieswere managed in Belgium but also shared experiences on how African and Asian libraries were being managed throughposter presentations. We were trained on the value of presenting information in a scientific environment. A big part on theevaluation of the training is for us to run a library software like Greenstone for digital libraries and ABCD as a bibliographicdatabase. Truly, it was a great experience professionally and personally. As one of my colleagues in Bangladesh Ms.Momena Khatun had said, that this program both theory and practical aspects of librarianship would make me [us] a better professional in my [our] area of specialization in my [our] organization. I hope more Filipino librarians will be given thechance to advance their knowledge and gain expertise in the same training that we get in this kind of international training.This is one opportunity a participant will not forget. Aside from learning, one will also enjoy travelling the neighboring countries ofBelgium like France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands and Luxembourg. Fellow Filipino colleagues in this edition were Mr. StephenAlayon from SEAFDEC, Iloilo and Ms. Nhyrma Fe Cab from St. Joseph Institute of Technology, Butuan City.

This training was already in its 9 th edition and the 10th edition is expected on October-December 2010. For details on how to applyfor STIMULATE trainings, you may access: http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/.

Other international training/ graduate studies opportunities include IFLA-ALP training on Information Literacy in Wellington, NewZealand; IFLA-Jay Jordan Fellowship in Amsterdam, Netherlands/OCLC in USA and Erasmus Mundus Digital Library Learning in

Norway, Estonia and Italy.
http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/stimulate9/stimulate9-announcement.htmhttp://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/stimulate9/stimulate9-announcement.htm


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UNESCO Promotes Memory of the World (MOW) ProgrammeJoseph Yap

ACTMalaria

Interested to Contribute?

If you participated in any local or international conference, congress or seminar, received a scholarship or study grant, promoted or

received an award, please send your articles to us and we will publish them for you. The articles could also be reviews of software

packages, journal publications or commentary regarding the state of health practices in general. We are also calling all medical and

health libraries to feature the four corners of their institution. We are also seeking focal persons in all provinces.

This is open to all medical and health librarians in the Philippines. For more inquiries email us at [email protected]

Want to become a MAHLAP member?

Just contact any of our officers nearest you. Membership forms are also available online.www.mahlap.org

The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization National Commission of Korea selected 11participants from the Asia and Pacific to promote the Memory of the World (MOW) Programme and its goals. This is the4th Regional Training Workshop on the Preservation of and Access to Documentary Heritage in Asia and the Pacificthat happened in Cheongju, Seongnam and Seoul, South Korea last September 4-7, 2009. Its main theme is thepreservation and utilization of digital heritage. The UNESCO National Commission of Korea greatly supports strategiesto preserve digital heritage and ensure access to them.

The objectives of this programme are:1. to publicize the MOW Programme and its goals;

2. to provide the participants with an understanding of and the need forpreservation and utilization of digitized documentary heritage;

3. to impart practical skills and knowledge regarding digital preservation of documentary heritage and accessingthem;

4. to provide a forum for participants to share concerns and possible schemes on preservation of and access todigital heritage in their country.

The UNESCO National Commission in the Philippines invited me to participate in this prestigious gathering to replaceMs. Emma Rey of Legislative Archives who cannot attend due to prior commitments. Participants eagerly listened to

the lectures by the renowned experts in the field of digitization. Ms. Joie Springer delivered the keynote presentation onUNESCOs activities on preservation and utilization of digital heritage. Mr. Adrian Cunningham of National Archives ofAustralia provided an overview of current activities on preservation and utilization of digital heritage in Asia and thePacific. Mr. Johannes Spitzbart from the Austrian Phonomogrammarchiv had a lecture on contemporary issues andinternational trends on digital preservation and utilization of audio-visual materials. Experts from Korea also discussedtheir experiences and challenges in the preservation and utilization of digital heritage. Country papers were expectedfrom each invited participant and the Philippines discussed the current and on-going digitization projects and itsutilization from the National Library, National Archives and other government-funded projects. Projects from privateinstitutions were also discussed. A round-table discussion before the end of the programme gave an opportunity to thecountries as to what they can achieve and expect in the future in terms of international networking and knowledge-sharing. The participants were able to visit the best national digital library in the region which is the National DigitalLibrary of Korea. We also visited the National Archives of Korea, National Film Archives of Korea and Cheongju EarlyPrinting Museum wherein you can find the famous Jikjia 1377 metal-print and is registered in the UNESCOsMemory of the World. We also attended the 3rd Jikji Prize Ceremony to witness the award given to the NationalArchives of Malaysia for its dedicated efforts to preserve its national heritage. They were awarded 30,000 USD.Previous awardees were Czech National Library and Viennas Phonomogrammarchiv. The Phonomogrammarchiv

donated its money to the Jose Maceda collection based in the University of the Philippines.


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MAHLAP Newsletter is a quarterly publication of the Medical and Health LibrariansAssociation of the Philippines

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BOARD MEMBERS

Joenabie A. Encanto

Ateneo School of Medicine andPublic Health706-3179, [email protected]

Ma. Lindie D. Masalinto

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Treasurer, [email protected]

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Joenabie A. Encanto

Gina G. GanceranMa. Lindie D. Masalinto

Rossana SagunJoseph M. Yap

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