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Photo from CNN Philippines Marayum, an online dictionary and a collaborative platform where users may add words in their own languages, was launched early this year. This dictionary-making tool is focused on Philippine indigenous languages. According to its website, “Marayum was developed to allow interested language communities to create an online dictionary whose content would be owned by its members and peer-reviewed by language experts.” Their goal is to build a dictionary created by those who speak and use the language. Marayum is created and maintained by a research team in University of the Philippines Diliman, headed by Project Leader, Mario Carrion. The project was funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). Marayum started with four language dictionaries: Asi-English, Cebuano-English, Hiligaynon-English, and Kinaray-a-English. Currently being developed and added are dictionaries in the following languages: Bikol-Buhi’non-English, Bikol-Central-English, Bikol-...

I am starting a new Facebook page dedicated to news in Philippine librarianship: PH Library News . For the past few years, I have been posting more about library news in the country on Malditang Librarian and I felt there was a need for a source dedicated to news on Philippine librarianship. My vision is to highlight and promote Philippine libraries, LIS education, and research. This is also a collaborative page where people may submit news about their libraries or communities. I envision that someday, this may help librarians and libraries promote their services and resources to a larger audience. Submit your library news through this form: https://tiny.one/submitlibnews or message the page. People may also post on the page, subject for approval based on the page rules (to be posted soon). Malditang Librarian will remain a blog for my experiences and perspectives on librarianship. I hope you support this new project by sharing the page or submitting your news. Follow now: https://f...

Taking the Librarian Licensure Examination this 2022? This post is a guide to everything you need to know as a test-taker. 2022 Librarians Licensure Examination Schedule and Venues According to the PRC's schedule of the 2021 board exams , the Librarian Licensure Examination or the LLE will be on September 12-13, 2022 (Monday and Tuesday). The target dates for the release of exam results will be on September 16, 2022, Friday. Examination venues will be in NCR, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legaspi, Lucena, Rosales, Tacloban, Tuguegarao, and Zamboanga City. Please note that this schedule might be subject to change due to COVID-19 precautions and the different protocols followed by cities, provinces, and regions. If there are any changes, this post will be updated. Even with the pandemic, PRC has been conducting licensure examinations this year with health protocols being followed. Visit the PRC website and follow their social media pages for news and updates about ...

PLDT Home added new fiber customers faster than other providers in the first half of the year, outpacing its nearest competitor by 30%, sustaining its lead in the fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) space.   With 1.8 million PLDT fiber subscribers as of end-June, almost six out of every 10 fibered up homes in the Philippines are with PLDT, including the household of married couple Mark and Michelle Caintic, both schoolteachers in Cebu.   Mark Caintic shares that “the stable internet connection from PLDT helped our family to do our work and responsibilities in this time of pandemic. Especially, for us teachers that relied on internet for our online classes, online paper works, and webinars. Our kids are also dependent on the internet for their classes as none of them selected printed learning modality.”   Michelle also shares how internet connection has helped made work easier for them at the onset of the pandemic. “It’s like we’re having real classes, though it’s virtual but w...

More board exam tips: Pros and cons of review centers vs self review. For those who will be taking professional board exams in the Philippines, is it worth it to enroll in review centers? Let's talk about the benefits and disadvantages of enrolling in review centers. I also included some tips on how to self-review if you are not enrolling in a review center. I usually talk about board exam tips for the Librarians Licensure Examination in the Philippines but this can also apply to board exams for other professions.  Time stamps: 0:29 Advantages or pros of enrolling in a review center 1:50 Disadvantages of enrolling in a review center 3:39 Self-review tips for board exam takers From the blog: Review Center or Self-Review for the board exam? Pros and Cons: https://rotf.lol/nn7tzcak Subscribe to my channel at https://youtube.com/malditanglibrarian Follow/Like my page on Facebook: https://facebook.com/malditanglibrarian  

November 2021 is the 31st Library and Information Services Month in the Philippines. The annual event was officially launched online last September 6 on the official online pages of the National Library of the Philippines. For more information on this event, see their online page on the NLP website . The annual Library and Information Services (LIS) month every November started in 1991 with Presidential Proclamation No. 837. The LIS month was designed for "public awareness to the invaluable service that libraries and information centers render." The month-long activities, under the direction and auspices of the National Library of the Philippines (NLP) and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts - National Committee on Libraries and Information Services (NCCA-NCLIS), were designed to achieve the following objectives: Improve the level of awareness and attitudes of the library community towards their significant roles in the UN 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. Maximize the...

Let's talk about the next step after the board exam, whether you passed or failed. This was made for the Librarian Licensure Examination in mind but can be applicable to other board exams in the Philippines.  Time stamps: Failed? 1:08 Passed? 3:35 For those who failed, take some time off but keep going. For new professionals: try to join a librarians group or association, read the CPD law, join seminars and conferences, and keep learning! DOWNLOAD How to Study by George Fillmore Swain for free at Project Gutenberg Read related blog entries:  Failure is not the End Congrats, you passed the board exam! What's next? Join the Facebook Group: Webinars for Library and Information Specialists Subscribe to my Youtube channel for updates! https://youtube.com/malditanglibrarian Visit my website: https://www.malditanglibrarian.com Follow/Like my page on Facebook: https://facebook.com/malditanglibrarian Instagram: https://instagram.com/malditanglibrarian