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\"The CoA, in its 2011 annual audit report on the agency, cited the project known as the \"Library on Wheels\" for being a \"vital approach to the campaign of literacy in the countryside\" and for carrying out the national policy of promoting moral intellectual and literacy of Filipinos by encouraging the establishment of public libraries in congressional district, localities, and even in barangay units.\n\"
\"We\'re a country without much public libraries (again, a column for a different day), and the book store tends to function as the sole physical link between books and their readers.\"
\"Appointed OIC of the Taguig City Public Library (TCPL) in October 2010, Carpena noted that out of the 34 public schools in the city, only six had their own libraries when he took the job.\"
After four fruitful decades of serving the city government of Davao City, librarian Nora Fe V. Alajar retires from service on her natal day on January 24.
The city\'s \'street librarian\', Hernando Guanlao, finds a sense of fulfilment in making sure that books are read and not confined to the shelves
Acts of Hope for the Nation (AHON) Foundation started the year right by opening its 55th adopted public elementary school library... [no mention of a librarian. who\'s going to run this?]
Students looking to be hired immediately upon graduation... would do well to go into the following fields: ...library science... [no explanation, however, is given. is the demand for librarians growing?]
Helpful Ms. Naomi Alejo, a librarian at the PNA, says nothing is permanent but the documents in the archives must be preserved just the same because they reflect our sense of history.
\"The OVFP is a system that allows online verification of the status of professionals.\"
The problem with OPAC is that we tend to believe everything that comes out of a machine and often forget that the catalogue is only as good as the material encoded there.
