Transcript Rina Hemedez Diaron Director of Libraries Office of the

Rina Hemedez Diaron
Director of Libraries
Office of the Director of Libraries
Msgr. Charles Vath Building
Saint Louis University
2600 Baguio City, Philippines
E-mail Address: [email protected]
Summary of the contents of the
program
1. Management in libraries and information
centers
2. Information and communication
technology for libraries and information
centers
3. Information retrieval/searching
4. Information architecture
Suggestions to improve the
organization of the program
1. The training program partially reflects a
stimulated and active environment
Reassess and implement the strategic
context of the program
2. The training should be augmented with an
assessment and monitoring evaluation tools
Provide an excellent set of learning
evaluation and follow-up tools
Strong points of the organization of
the program
1. Exposure trips to other scientific and
library institutions/organizations which
allows the participants to develop plans
on “best practice benchmarking”
2. Applaudable efforts were done to make
electronic and multimedia resources
available to the participants
Best components of the program
academic contents
1.
Management in libraries and information centers
a. Statistics to support decision making for
information science and for library management
b. Citation analysis
c. Informetric aspects of the Internet
d. Libraries involvement in scientific publishing
e. ISBD and Thesaurus
2. Information Retrieval and Searching
3. Open Source Software
Not so good components of the
program academic contents
1. The academic contents were not in
conformity with the approach and the
organization of the sessions
2. Some lectures lack depth and impact
in analyzing libraries’ actual and
potential problems
Recommendations for the
management in my home institution
1. Maximize the utilization of free information
resources to create electronic library
initiatives on working practices and on
traditional forms of service delivery
2. A continuing reassessment of services that
may be strengthened or diminished
according to changing user needs in order
to improve organizational productivity