Notice of Meeting - STRLC CBOT Officers

PLAI-STRLC Forum and Induction

January 7, 2015

Dear Colleagues:

Greetings from PLAI-STRLC!

Philippine Librarians Association, Inc.-Southern Tagalog Region Librarians Council cordially invites you to a “Forum on the Cataloguing Policy Statements and RDA Guidelines for Philippine Libraries on February 13, 2015 at LRC Annex, Sen. Jose Diokno Building, De La Salle Lipa, 1962 JP Laurel Highway, Lipa City.

The forum aims to provide an avenue to disseminate and discuss the salient points/features of the adopted Cataloguing Policy Statements and RDA Guidelines for Philippine Libraries. Likewise, it is an opportunity for the participants to clarify with our resource speaker Dr. Sonia M. Gementiza, Library Director of the De La Salle University-Dasmarinas during the open forum the changes in the new cataloguing policy in order to be fully cognizant of it prior to its implementation.

During the Opening program, the induction of the incoming CBOT officers of the PLAI-STRLC for 2015-2016 will be held with Br. Joaquin S. Martinez, FSC, De La Salle Lipa President and Chancellor as the inducting officer.

In view of this, we would like to invite you and your staff to attend the Forum and registration will starts at 8:00am. A minimal registration fee of PhP 500.00 will be collected to cover for the snacks & lunch, and other incidental expenses. Licensed librarians are also encouraged to pay / settle their PLAI annual dues of PhP 300.00.

For further inquiries, you may contact any of the following officers:

1.       Rosario A. Villamater / Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation Library - (042) 373-7542 | villamaterrose@yahoo.com

2.       Rene B. Manlangit / San Pablo Colleges – (049) 561-1586 | rbmanlangit@yahoo.com

3.      Lilian C. Rabino/De La Salle-Lipa - (043) 7561849 | lilianrabino@yahoo.com

Please send/fax to us the pre-registration form on/or before February 1, 2015. We look forward to seeing you at our initial activity for this year. Thank you for your continued support to PLAI-STRLC activities. God bless us all.

Warm regards,

(sgd) Rene B. Manlangit, RL

Outgoing Secretary 
Incoming Vice-President & Conference chair

(sgd) Rosario A. Villamater, RL

President

PLAI-STRLC@10 : Strengthening Ties, Regional Linkages and Cooperation

Photo Ops with DepEd Sec. Armin Luistro

One year ago, STRLC officers sat down for a meeting with  DepEd Sec. Armin Luistro via an invitation relayed thru Ms Ana Maria B. Fresnido of DLSU-Manila. Also in attendance is the Chair of National Book Development Board, Ms Neni Sta. Romana Cruz and Ms Beverly G. Berame of DepEd Library Hub Project.

PLAI-STRLC Notice of Meeting

PLAI-STRLC CBOT Meeting

Philippine Librarians Association Incorporated (PLAI)PLAI - Southern Tagalog Region Librarians Council
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STRLC-NRM-2014-02
March 28, 2014

Please be informed that our Council's Meeting is on 22 April 2014 (Friday) 9:00 am at San Sebastian College Recoletos de Cavite, (SSCR-Cavite) Cavite City.

Agenda:

1. PLAI-STRLC General Assembly @ July

2. Coffeetable Book (STRLC 10th Anniversary Docu)

3. PLAI Membership / STRLC Directory

4. Treasurer's Report c/o Ms Lourdes Soriano

5. PLAI Update

6. Provincial Chapter Update

7. Other Matters

Please confirm your attendance by sending an email to the secretariat: plaistrlc_secretariat(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)ph .   

Also please email other items you wish to include in the agenda for the other matters.

Hope to see you all. Thank you.

(sgd.) Dr. Rose A. Villamater, RL
President

Congratulations

Our Warmest Congratulations to the three officers of PLAI-STRLC for being elected as officers of HOD & NBOT for 2009-2010 at the Davao National Conference & GA of PLAI last November 20-22, 2008.


Mr. Marcial R. Batiancila - elected Board member of the National Board of Trustees (NBOT)

Mr. Rene B. Manlangit - elected Vice Chair of the House of Delegates (HOD)

Ms. Audrey G. Anday - appointed Secretary of the House of Delegates (HOD)


From the Officers and Members of the Librarians Association of Quezon Province-Lucena, Inc*.

*SEC registered and approved name of Quezon Librarians Association. QLA is the 2^nd Provincial Chapter (PC) organized and affiliated with PLAI-STRLC.

Proposed PLAI-STRLC NOMELEC Guidelines

The Council Officers during its 6th Regular Monthly Meeting "agreed in principles" to draft its own Nomination & Election Guidelines. The NOMELEC Chair was task to present the draft in the next council meeting. The need for an updated and simple guidelines arise from previous experiences of electing Council Officers during the Regional General Assembly (RGA).

The draft guidelines envision an orderly identification, prequalification, selection, and election of potential Council Officers while taking into consideration the new PLAI By-Laws approved last November 14, 2007 by the National General Assembly.

Using the 2007 Election Guidelines as template, Ms Charity Mahusay, NOMELEC Chair, presented last August 12, 2008 during the 7th Regular Monthly Meeting the draft PLAI-STRLC 2008 Election Guidelines for consideration/comments of every stakeholders in the Council.


COMPOSITION OF THE PLAI-STRLC BOARD

The governing body of the PLAI-STRLC shall be the Council Board of Trustees (CBOT) hereinafter referred to as Council Officers which shall be composed of a) an Executive Officers consisting of seven (7) directors directly elected by the General Assembly, b) One (1) Ex-Officio (the immediate past President of PLAI-STRLC), c) the elected NBOT representative(s) of the Council and d) the Presidents of organized Provincial Chapter of the Council (or an adhoc representative of soon to be organized PC) as automatic member. The seven (7) elected directors and NBOT representative(s) shall served the Council for two years without re-election.


OFFICERS OF THE CBOT

The topmost seven (7) voted directors by the General Assembly shall elect among themselves the Executive Officers of the Council, namely: President, Vice President, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor, and Public Relations Officer.

The Executive Officers, Ex-Officio, the elected NBOT representative(s) and the President of PC's acting as automatic chapter representative (or its Vice-President in case the President is elected as one of the seven (7) directors) shall composed the CBOT and hereinafter referred to as the Council Officers.

Three of the Executive Officers of the Council are automatic member of the National House of Delegates namely: The President, Vice President and a third member duly agreed upon by the Executive Officers and will served for two years on a concurrent capacity as PLAI-STRLC officers without re-election.


NOMINATION

The regular and/or active members of the PLAI-STRLC are encouraged to nominate colleagues to be one of the potential seven (7) directors to be directly elected by the General Assembly and NBOT nominee(s) to the PLAI-National. PROVIDED that the nominee(s) is: an active member of PLAI-STRLC for two years (2), attended at least two (2) activities conducted by PLAI-STRLC or its Provincial Chapter (Seminars, Conferences, Fora, General Assembly).


PRE-QUALIFICATION

Nominees will be pre-screened by the NOMELEC if they attained the minimum requirement set for the candidacy and will be required to sign a Certificate of Undertaking stating among others that he/she will faithfully attend regular meetings, uphold the highest degree of professionalism, and served the Council voluntarily without mental reservation or evasion of expected duties and responsibilities as Executive Officers and member of CBOT or National HOD or NBOT as the case may be.

Only those nominees who meet the minimum requirement and a signed certificate of undertaking received by the NOMELEC will be included in the final list of nominees eligible to be elected/voted by the General Assembly.


ELECTION

Voting shall be by secret ballot. The top seven (7) nominees who received the highest number of votes cast during the Regional General Assembly shall be deemed elected as member of the Executive Officers.

The President of the Council is an automatic NBOT nominee(s).

The immediate past President of the Council is an automatic member of CBOT in an ex-Officio capacity.

President of PC (or the vice Pres/chair) shall be an automatic member of CBOT. President of PC shall be elected during their own PC General Assembly. Resigned or removed for cause PC President ceased to be a member of CBOT the moment they resigned/removed for cause as PC President. The newly elected (or by succession rule) PC President shall sit in the CBOT.


VACANCIES

Whenever any vacancy occur in the Executive Officers, a regular or special meeting shall be called for that purpose to fill-in the vacancy PROVIDED it is still more than one year left in the term. The elected officer(s) that fill-in the vacancy shall served only for the unexpired portion of the term. He/She shall be eligible for re-election. In case the PLAI-STRLC elected President resign/remove for cause, the vice-president shall automatically take over as president. The other executive officers shall determine among themselves the position to be filled-in after observing the succession rule.

In case the vacancy occurs less than six (6) months before the next scheduled election, the CBOT shall select and elect from among the PC Presidents who will fill-in the vacant Executive Officer position(s). He/She shall be eligible for re-election.

Vacancy in the Ex-officio position shall not be filled. Vacancy in the PC representative shall be fill-in by the concerned PC following their own constitution & bylaws and PLAI-STRLC guidelines of who are qualified to be President and Vice President of PC.

PLAI-STRLC Elected Officers for 2008-2009

The following were the elected officers of the association during the PLAI-STRLC 4th General Assembly held at La Vista Pansol Resort, Brgy. Pansol, Calamba City, Laguna last October 10, 2007.

Chair	Marcial R. Batiancila San Sebastian College Recoletos de Cavite Sta. Cruz, Cavite City
Vice Chair	Audrey G. Anday UP Open University Los Baños, Laguna
Secretary	Rene B. Manlangit San Pablo Colleges San Pablo City, Laguna
Treasurer	Rosario Villamater Manuel S. Enverga University Lucena City
Auditor	Rosita Masangkay Batangas Provincial Library Capitol Site, Batangas City
Member, BOD	Frea Faye Perez Colegio de San Juan de Letran-Calamba Calamba City, Laguna
	Jocelyn Haling St. Michael's College of Laguna Biñan, Laguna
House of Delegates	Jhenny Encina Colegio de San Juan de Letran-Calamba Calamba City, Laguna
	Michael John M. Tolentino Imus Institute Nueno Ave., Imus, Cavite
NOMELEC	Charity Mahusay (Chair) San Sebastian College Recoletos de Cavite Sta. Cruz, Cavite City
	Rowena Andaya IRRI Library Los Baños, Laguna
	Joyce Pascua Olivares College - Tagaytay San Jose, Tagaytay
	Louella Baguis Colegio de San Juan de Letran-Calamba Calamba City, Laguna
	Jennalyn A. Pancho Quezon Provincial Library Capitol Compound, Lucena City
Nominees to NBOT	Jane Lantaca-Bebeng Colegio de San Juan de Letran-Calamba Calamba City, Laguna
	Lourdes Soriano Laguna Provincial Library Sta. Cruz, Laguna

Oath taking of the new officers will be announce later.