-- SELECT SPEAKER HERE -- Rajendra Munoo Nora Agustero, Ph.D. Gerry McKiernan Reysa Alenzuela, Ph.D. Joseph Yap Nora J. Claravall, Ed.D. C.P. Ramasesh | A.N. Ramesh Placida Socorro Lim-Limpin Allan B. de Guzman, Ph.D. Audrey Gendrano Anday Ida F. Priyanto Rabinarayan Mishra, Ph.D. Fernan Dizon Lourdes T. David John Hickok

Joseph Yap

Technical  Competencies  of  Health  Librarians  in a Library 2.0 Environment: A Study

Joseph Yap has been the Information Resource Specialist of the Asian Collaborative Training Network for Malaria Information Resource Center from 2006-2009. Mr. Yap had his international training in information management in Brussels, Belgium last 2009. He had also been granted by the UNESCO to attend a seminar-workshop on preservation of digitized cultural heritage in Seoul, South Korea, also in 2009. Joseph finished his BLIS at the School of Library and Information Studies in University of the Philippines-Diliman (2006) and is currently pursuing his Masters in Library and Information Science at the same institution. He is now connected with the Technical Services of the De La Salle University Library.

Abstract

In the technologically-driven field of health librarians, there is always a need to upgrade their basic skills to add-up new skills to the performance of their work. In the recent times, librarians often hear Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and Medicine 2.0. Alpi (2007) stressed that one role of health librarians is to inform, educate and empower people about their health issues. With the proliferation of Library 2.0 tools and creations, collaboration among health sciences librarians and medical and healthcare practitioners are the future that we see. At the end of the presentation, the participants will learn about the progress of the draft technical competencies prepared for the medical and health librarian in the Philippines and its importance for a national and coordinated staff development program that is geared towards the improvement of their skills and knowledge that will be relevant to the current demands of the library users and services.