New Member of CHED Technical Committee for LIS

Asst. Prof. Ma. Pri-Ann M. Tinipunan, Coordinator of the Bachelor of Library and Information Science (BLIS) Program of the UST College of Education, was appointed Member of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Technical Committee for Library and Information Science (effective January 12, 2015 to December 31, 2016).

The Members of the Technical Committee are as follows: Hon. Yolanda C. Granda, current Chairman of the Board for Librarians (BFL), Corazon M. Nera, former BFL Chairman, and Elizabeth R. Peralejo, former BFL Member.

One of the tasks of the Technical Committee is to provide technical expertise to CHED in conceptualizing, and developing plans, policies, standards, guidelines, rules and regulations concerning the operation of higher education programs.

National Public Hearing on the Proposed Requirements for Academic Libraries

Source: CHED

362 out of 2,180 HEIs

According to CHED, there are 2,180 HEIs in the country today and 362 of it comes from Region IV. Among the 16 regional councils of PLAI, STRLC has the most number of provinces and from the table distribution of HEIs below, we ranked number first as having the most number of HEIs. Hopefully, CHED will also post/publish a breakdown of the table distribution by provinces per region.

source: CHED

Whats is the significance of the data as far as librarians in the STRLC are concerned? Initially, we have now an attainable number to reach to be able to finally identify who are the librarians employed or working in this 362 HEIs within our region. It is safe to presumed that the number of licensed librarians are far more than the 362 if there is at least one license librarian per institution. As per our membership database in the Council is concerned, only 1/3 of these 362 HEIs are known to us having an active members, while the rest of the 2/3 are unknown.

Finally, there is a need to generate a working knowledge of the total number of librarians employed, size of library collection, manpower, and other related information regarding the practice of librarianship in Region IV. A census type of research study will be an appropriate methodology to gather, collect, collate and interpret the gathered data which could be useful for any decision making or strategic planning.

Maybe a student enrolled in a MLIS program could pursue this inquiry as his/her thesis and apply for a CHED thesis grant or perhaps submit a funding proposal in NCCA-NCLIS. Any takers?

Click here for a pdf copy of Registered HEI.

PLAI-STRLC Summer Conference Endorsement -- CHED

As of today, endorsement letters from CHED, DepEd and CSC of the PLAI-STRLC Summer Conference on 28-30 April 2010 at the St. Ezekiel Moreno Spirituality and Development Center, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan are available for viewing/download.

The number of CPE credit units for attending the conference is still unavailable. It will be posted/disseminated as soon it is made available by the PRC-CPEC for Librarians.