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WATCH: TOP 10 TIPS on passing the board exam for Librarians These are my recommended studying techniques for the board exam, the licensure exams for professionals in the Philippines. I topped the exam for librarians last 2015, but these tips can also apply to other professional licensure exams. How to be good at studying boils down to this: finding the method that works best for you and using that. In my opinion, most successful students don’t work ‘hard’ at studying, they work ’smart’ - they find the style most efficient for them, thus they don’t have to spend a lot of time studying. But don’t feel bad or compare your studying style to others if you are a bit slower - you can overcome these by effort. Your studying style is unique, and you must experiment with what works for you. I learn best by writing, so this method served me well in college: listen to lectures and take notes, read books and take notes. When there are readings to study, I read them first from beginning to e...

Are you becoming a social media zombie? [Source ] Most of the time I'm just talking to myself here, okay? Because I am as addicted to social media as any millennial but after spending so many hours in  a day in these networked platforms more than I talk to real people, it feels strangely draining. But now we can't live without social media, just as we can't live without mobile phones. Social media was made for us to check it every few minutes. But those few minutes will eventually add up to hours wasted in your life. It is useful, but like all tools we must learn to use it in moderation. Think of other things to do! How many hours have you wasted in front of the computer? You could have written a novel, sang a song, took a walk around the neighborhood, learned Chinese, had a 10-minute meditation session. Think about this: can you think of anything very memorable from all the hours you spent browsing social media and comparing your lives to others? Me neither. I rea...

Every time I tell people I'm a librarian, its expected that they are surprised that librarians still exist. They look at me with confused stares, saying that 'there's the internet now anyway', but this reaction is common among students who never went in the library and discovered its treasures. So if you are a student or a professional who looks at your local library with disdain, please hear me out. You're lucky you have a library so you might as well use it! I won't write an essay about how books and information and librarians are important, but its enormously practical and can help you with your everyday life. 1. It will help you save money on books, magazines, and newspapers. Libraries have a lot of unused, interesting books that not many people read. So if you're interested in a topic or would like to read fiction books, its better to hit up and search the catalog than go to a bookstore to buy books. Why? Because at least, in libraries, you can...

Hello guys. Welcome to Malditang Librarian. Here I will post about books, librarianship, and studying. Thank you! I hope to grow and make this blog big.