By
Franklin P. Gumapon
PAGADIAN
CITY - Four personnel assigned at the Local Governance Regional
Resource Center (LGRRC) of the Department of Interior and Local Government
(DILG)-9 have attended the two-day coaching on Integrated Library Resource
Management System (ILMS) held here on April 4-5 at the DILG-9 conference room.
Aimed
at making the LGRRC systematically organized, the participants were trained on basic
library operations such as acknowledging and accessioning of library materials,
cataloguing, shelving, uploading of available materials to ILMS database and
many others.
DILG-9
information officer Lemuel Mejares told the Philippine Information Agency (PIA)
that the training was conducted singlehandedly by Local Government National
Resource Center (LGNRC) librarian Arturo O. Morales III.
Morales
said “making the LGRRC-9 systematically organized from the physical set-up to
management assistance is not far closer than the value proposition to improve
local governance in the knowledge sharing and utilization.”
He
also inspected and assessed the physical features and management of the LGRRC
library to enhance its operations and services.
For
his part, DILG-9 Assistant Regional Director and LGRRC Manager Pedro G. Cuevas
Jr. has been grateful for the initiative in helping improve the operations and
services of the center.
Attending
the workshop were librarian-designate Dihsie Lauron, ITO/multi-media focal
person Ard C. Catalino, linkage focal person Anang Lia I. Sahi and multi-media
and linkage member Lemuel C. Mejares.
The
center has acquired three copies of the Local Government Code Annotated
authored by Miriam Defensor Santiago and other related books which are now
accessible for its clients.
Morales
emphasized that as a special library, it is crucial to have copies of these
books as they are “the most widely read references for local governance.”
A
tour to the city library was also made to acquaint the trainees with its
features and operations that can be adopted at the LGRRC.
Both
the city library and LGRRC agreed for information/knowledge sharing especially
on local governance.
“With
this knowledge sharing, we will recommend to our readers to also visit your
library,” City Librarian Samuela Oceña said.