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Will the 2021 Librarian Licensure Examination be postponed? Most likely not, as IATF has 'provisionally approved' that board exams for July to September will go on. This means that unless there is another announcement, the LLE will push through. Always visit the PRC website for any announcement about the exam. According to Malacañang, licensure examinations scheduled for July to September 2021 by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) has been provisionally approved. This covers the Librarian Licensure Examination 2021 scheduled for September 8-9, 2021. In a press statement by Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) approved PRC's request for the scheduled exams to push through. Roque stated that the conduct of exams are subject to conditions. Health and safety protocols should be observed. Quarantine classifications should also be considered. The PRC has postponed several boar...

Launching the all-gender restroom in Quezon City Public Library Just in time for Pride Month, the Quezon City Public Library launched an all-gender restroom last June 8, 2021. This initiative is part of the library's campaign to be a more inclusive environment, especially for the LGBTQA+ community. This is also in support of the Quezon City Ordinance No. 2357, series of 2014, or the "Gender Fair Ordinance" which provides for a comprehensive anti-discrimination policy on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression (SOGIE). According to the Quezon City Public Library, they believe that having an all-gender restroom can serve as an instrument to cater to the personal needs of members of the LGBT community. In Quezon City, there have been past incidents where transgender women experienced harassment from simply entering women's restrooms. This is one of the incidents that led to the passing of the anti-discrimination ordinance. The Quezon Cit...

This review might be all over the place as I'm just writing about my first impressions. It's been quite awhile since I posted any movie or TV series review here, but this one was worth of attention. Netflix just dropped their latest animated series, Trese. This is the first Filipino-made series on the streaming platform. Trese is based on the Filipino comic series of the same name, written by Budjette Tan and illustrated by Kajo Baldisimo. I've been aware of this series before, been meaning to read it but I didn't get around to that. This reaction is more on the series and I'm writing this without reading the comics. If I get a chance, I would also read the comics. I am also writing this without watching the behind-the-scenes Netflix special as it might affect my reaction here. Season 1 has six episodes and the storyline alternates between the present day and flashbacks through Alexandra's youth. The series follows a 'monster of the week' format wh...

Forester Glenn Estudillo working on wood samples, photo from DOST-FPRDI The Department of Science and Technology - Forest Products Research and Development Institute’s (DOST-FPRDI) is preparing to launch a digital repository of their Herbarium and Xylarium (Wood Library) collection. Their herbarium contains around 20,000 samples of local and foreign wood specimens, with 4,000 tree species from 108 countries. This serves as a research source for archaeologists, researchers, and students to for identification of species. It has the most comprehensive collection of wood specimens in the country. Their oldest sample is a 117-year-old specimen of a Yakal tree collected in Tayabas, Quezon , by W.H. Wade. The sample was first collected in 1903. The herbarium and xylarium also has a rich history. According to DOST FPRDI Material Science Division Forester Glenn B. Estudillo, American experts during the American occupation in the 1900s donated their collection of speciments to the Bureau of Fo...

The Benguet State University University Library and Information Services is offering a FREE download of their Librarians Licensure Examination Reviewer 2021 edition. Request the reviewer: https://tinyurl.com/anbxyptv Please note that the reviewer will be sent to the e-mail you provided in the form. The reviewer is compiled by BSU faculty and LIS graduates who have entered the top 10 in the Librarian Licensure examination. The book contains over 250+ pages of notes and practice exams for the six subjects in the board exam: Organization and Management, Reference and Bibliography, Cataloging and Classification, Selection and Acquisition, Indexing and Abstracting, and Information Technology. According to the authors, the free reviewer was "...Initiated from our desire to provide affordable and accessible options to LLE takers during this pandemic. We opted to collate all available LIS resources to augment existing available LLE reviewers. The questions were adapted and extracted...