MAHLAP News January - March 2010

The Medical and Health Librarian's Association of the Philippines is pleased to release Vol 23, Issue 1 of MAHLAP News. It reports the 2010 Congress held last March 3-5, 2010 in Tagaytay including the congress abstracts, president's report, financial report and the inaugural address of the 23rd president of MAHLAP. It also shares information about health informatics and features St. Luke's Medical Library and Museum.

You may access it here: http://mahlap.org/images/fbfiles/files/2010v23n1.pdf

MAHLAP News October-December 2009

Hi readers, this post should have been done last December ^^ Sorry for the delay. The Medical and Health Librarians Association of the Philippines (MAHLAP) is pleased to release the 4th installment of their 2009 newsletter. The contents include: the Western Pacific Region Index Medicus and the Global Health Library by the World Health Organization, 75th National Book Week, ICML Proceedings update, MAHLAP as an accredited library association of the Board for Librarians, CPE Council of the Professional Regulation Commission and many more.

To read the newsletter, visit: http://mahlap.org/images/fbfiles/files/2009v22n4.pdf.

MAHLAP News Vol 22 Issue 2-3: April-September 2009

The Medical and Health Librarian's Association of the Philippines (MAHLAP) Newsletter Volume 22 Issue 2-3 (April - September 2009) is finally out. This will be uploaded at www.mahlap.org. For the meantime, you can start reading it at my Scribd account: http://www.scribd.com/doc/20200205/MAHLAP-Newsletter-April-September-2009.

Enjoy reading!

Principles and Trends of Managing Records Towards Digitization

In celebration of the 29^th Manila International Book Fair, the Medical and Health Librarian’s Association of the Philippines (MAHLAP) cordially invites you to a forum entitled “Principles and Trends of Managing Records towards Digitization”.

It will be held on September 12, 2008, 8:30 -10:30 AM at the 2^nd floor room no. 4, SMX Convention Center, Sea Shell Drive, Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City. We invited Ms. Gensela Lacambacal, Head of Medical Records Division from the Philippine General Hospital as our resource speaker and Ms. Emma Rey, Executive Director of Legislative Library and Archives from the House of Representatives as our forum reactor.

This forum aims to share the knowledge and skills necessary to maintain effective programs on records management improvement. It will help us gain understanding on how to regulate the recording, classification and indexing of active records, improve methods of managing the files, and systematize retention and disposal of records, adoption of logical systems of converting documents and computerizing records management procedures. At the end, the participants would learn the framework to be actually involved in initiating standard records management procedures in their own concerned agencies/ institutions.

The forum fee is P150 for members, P200 for non-members and P75 for students that includes a Certificate of Attendance.

Please confirm your attendance by sending back attached form to any of our officers.

We look forward to seeing you in this exciting and informative event.

Using Joomla

MAHLAP members attended the WCMS - Web Content Management System Training last May 19-23, 2008 at the Department of Health.

Joomla was taught in the entire training. Joomla is an end-user friendly tool for the beginners.
This will help the team in maintaining and developing their website.

Photos of the training can be located here.

MAHLAP Officers 2008

To all the MAHLAP Members and all Library Organizations. Here are your new MAHLAP Officers for 2008:

President: Santos, Gilbert D.
Vice-President: Prosperoso, Alma Mila D.
Secretary: Landicho, Jeniffer M.
Treasurer: Dorado, Maria Lutgarda M.
Auditor: Bendo, Mark Gil A.
P.R.O.: Yap, Joseph M.
Board Members: Castro, Maria Nimfa V.
Estrada, Evangeline Q.
Lopez, Rosario F.
Ex-Officio: Canceran, Gina G.

Congratulations! It is the officers duty to serve the members and the whole community.

Rosvida R. Rosal: MAHLAP First President

Prof. Rosal was the first president of MAHLAP way back 1988. She was the University of the Philippines (UP) Manila University Librarian and Medical Librarian. She is now teaching BLIS courses on Health and Medical Librarianship at the UP School of Library and Information Studies. A photo can be linked here.

IPR for Medical and Health Librarians

In celebration of the 28th Manila International Book Fair (MIBF), MAHLAP conducted a half-day forum on “Intellectual Property Rights: Issues and Concerns in Health and Sciences Libraries ”. The Forum happened last August 30, 2007 at 10:00-12:00 noon at the Function Room B, World Trade Center, Financial Center Area, Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. Corner Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City. Atty. ELIZABETH R. PULUMBARIT, from the University of the Philippines-Manila was the resource speaker. The photo above are 2008 MAHLAP President Gina Canceran, Atty. Pulumbarit and MAHLAP VP Gilbert Santos.

MAHLAP's new website

Watch out for the new website of MAHLAP to be launched on its 20th Anniversary. For the meantime, access this link: http://www.pchrd.dost.gov.ph/mahlap

20 Year's of MAHLAP and counting

First of all, let me congratulate MAHLAP or the Medical and Health Librarian's Association of the Philippines for celebrating its 20th year anniversary.

MAHLAP was born from a seminar-workshop on ""Current Management Trends for Health Care Libraries," Cebu, 3-7 November 1986. This seminar was sponsored by the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD) under DOST and the British Council (BC). The participants from the said seminar suggested to have a national group for medical and health librarians. In 1988, it was official and registered as a non-stock non-profit organization.

This year marks the 20th year of MAHLAP's anniversary and everybody is encouraged to participate in its annual conference.

Theme: “The Expanding Knowledgebase Competencies of Health Sciences Libraries and Librarians”

When: February 28-29, 2008

Where: Hotel Kimberly, Pedro Gil street, Manila, Philippines http://www.hotelkimberly.com/

Fee: Php 3,500 live-in and Php 2,500 live-out

They are also in need of sponsorships. For more information, please contact: Ms. Gina Canceran at 02-526-5851 or email her at gina@mail.upm.edu.ph or ginacanceran@yahoo.com.