presented at PAARL’s seminar outreach program on “The Essence of the Library as the Heart of an Educational Institution,” held at St. Augustine School, Iba, Zambales, Philippines on 2006 Sep 28

1. The Library then and now: it s importance and relevance to the present-day generation by Fe Angela M. Verzosa

10. Managing our collection faces a crisis... * reduction in expenditures due to price increases *diminished resources *aging of the collection *digital formats are not less expensive *resource-sharing may not solve the problem

13. Collection Development : recent developments emphasis is on intellectual content , rather than the traditional format

17. Interest in resource- sharing, collaborative purchasing, and cooperative collection has replaced the competitive instinct of librarians… Collection Development: recent developments

25. Resource-sharing, collaborative purchasing, and cooperative collection present alternatives to enhance collections, reduce not only acquisition costs. Enhancing with shared collections...

31. Upgrade librarian’s professionalism *delegating non-professional work to support staff increasing pay scale *continuing education *self-renewal

32. Improve recruiting *HIRE PROFESSIONALS: systems managers, media specialists, programmers, archivists, documentalists *REQUIRE MLS as entry point, and * HIRE ONLY LICENSED LIBRARIANS

33. UPDATE CURRICULUM Of GRADUATE EDUCATION ...to produce management-minded librarians with special skills in computing, multimedia, and archival documentation work .

34. RESTRUCTURE library management *developing participatory management style *evolving semi-autonomous workgroups *reducing the number/ level of supervisors

35. redesign library work * create semiautonomous depts *review job functions with emphasis on flexibility *adopt flexitime schedules

36. reinvent the library wall-less hi-tech people- centered proactive