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237 out of the 1,003 examinees passed Librarian Licensure Examination
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced that 237 out of the 1,003 examinees passed Librarian Licensure Examination given this November 2008.
The examinations were conducted by Board for Librarians in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cebu, Davao and Legazpi. The members of the Board for Librarians who gave the licensure examination are Corazon M. Nera, chairman; Elizabeth R. Peralejo and Elnora L. Conti, members.
PRC said the results were released in three (3) days after the last day of examination.
The successful examinees who garnered the ten (10) highest places are the following:
1
Elijah John Fernando Dar Juan
University of the Philippines – Diliman
2
Bernadette Dava Sueno
University of the Philippines – Diliman
3
Ruel Romarate Yu
University of San Jose-Recoletos
4
Kristine Yap Martinez
University of San Carlos
5
Nomer Albarando Alcazar
University of the Philippines – Diliman
6
Marion Jude Maristela Gorospe
Roosevelt College-Cainta
7
Jacquelyn Joy Latina Llave
Centro Escolar University-Manila
8
Lorraine Dawn Gamel Honrade
University of the Philippines – Diliman
9
Czarina Paola Pareja Dela Llarte
University of the Philippines – Diliman
10
Edward Hilado Puzon
University of Santo Tomas
TOP PERFORMING SCHOOLS
PRC said the top performing schools (with ten or more examinees that have at least 80% passing percentage) in the November 2008 Librarian Licensure Examination are as follows:
1
Saint Louis University
11
10
91.00%
2
University of the Philippines – Diliman
40
34
85.00%
PRC said that that registration for the issuance of Professional Identification Card (ID) and Certificate of Registration will start on Monday, November 24, 2008 but not later than December 10, 2008.
Those who will register are required to bring the following:
duly accomplished Oath Form or Panunumpa ng Propesyonal,
current Community Tax Certificate (cedula),
2 pieces passport size picture (colored with white background and complete nametag),
1 piece 1” x 1” picture (colored with white background and complete nametag),
2 sets of metered documentary stamps, and
1 short brown envelope with name and profession
They should also pay the Initial Registration Fee of P600 and Annual Registration Fee of P450 for 2008-2011. Successful examinees should personally register and sign in the Roster of Registered Professionals, said PRC.
The oathtaking ceremony of the successful examinees in the recent examinations as well as the previous ones who have not taken their Oath of Professional is set to be held before the Board on Sunday, December 16, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. at the Manila Pavillon Hotel, U.N. Avenue, Manila.
Registration for membership meanwhile with the Philippine Librarians Association, Inc. (PLAI) will start on Monday, November 24, 2008 .
Roll of Successful Examinees in the LIBRARIAN LICENSURE EXAMINATION Held in November 2008 and released on November 17, 2008:
1 Abasolo, Laarnie Sadile
2 Abdala, Maria Pretty Lay Tupay
3 Abelardo, Angeline Dela Cruz
4 Abunan, Inocencio Jevy Calip
5 Abuton, Gracia Caguiat
6 Acomular, Filipinas Asuncion Advento
7 Adriano, Mari Angeli Falcon
8 Agbanlog, Jesusa Salita
9 Agraan, Luzminda Ambroce
10 Aguilar, Analyn Francisco
11 Alayon, Stephen Biaco
12 Alcazar, Nomer Albarando
13 Alcid, Josephine Garcia
14 Alejandria, Maria Vanissa Paquiao
15 Alfiler, Ana Grace Parroco
16 Alonzo, Evangeline Amarado
17 Amistad, Georgina Naoe
18 Andal, Rowena Enaje
19 Antonio, Jenneth Batcagan
20 Aquino, Daniel Fausto Sornito
21 Arique, Fevie Mayol
22 Austria, Earl Ludwigvan Rebellon
23 Avila, Bella Yares
24 Baguilng, Jonnalyn Pulac
25 Bagwis, Jonathan Nisperos
26 Bajado, Jane Globio
27 Ballovar, Nikko Castillo
28 Balolao, Julie Suerte
29 Banawa, Suzette Cabungan
30 Banayat, Jennifer Paez
31 Barcelona, Emily Alcazar
32 Barnachea, Amante Cabilangan
33 Baro, Geraldine Tumulak
34 Barrientos, Arsenia Josol
35 Bastian, Ronda Pelchona
36 Bastida, Garry Leopoldo
37 Belen, Jennifer Delos Santos
38 Benalio, Marlon Tandas
39 Benlot, Emalyn Tepacia
40 Bersales, Nouva Daina Soriño
41 Biang, Abelyn Saingan
42 Biang, Lienden Bonuan
43 Bidaswa, Marian Toledo
44 Bolante, Jenelyn Borda
45 Borras, Marites Ruffy
46 Butcon, Aiza Joan Sanchez
47 Caballes, Anabel Hadap
48 Cabantog, Joanne Torida
49 Cali, Johaina Basar
50 Carreon, Lea Nuñez
51 Casandra, Janeria Joy Corcolla
52 Castro, Janice Cabuhat
53 Catalino, Deborah Ballagan
54 Cataylo, Neville Cabaraban
55 Cayabyab, Janice Alpajora
56 Ceniza, Honelynn Canono
57 Ceniza, Raymond Laguardia
58 Centeno, Richie Luz Susie
59 Comintan, Sheryl Atentar
60 Cortez, Chester Cristobal
61 Crescini, Paulina Santiaguel
62 Cuizon, Juanita Bulaong
63 Dacwayan, Geraldine Pacio
64 Daiz, Philip Mark De Pano
65 Dar Juan, Elijah John Fernando
66 De Guzman, Analea
67 De Guzman, Glenda Manalo
68 De Guzman, Herminia Mendoza
69 De Leon, Maria Teresa De Vera
70 De Venecia, Laarni Angcap
71 Degala, Meg Holasca
72 Del Castillo, Elizabeth Tabuena
73 Del Rosario, Graziella Mahicon
74 Dela Cruz, Mary Ann Francisco
75 Dela Llarte, Czarina Paola Pareja
76 Dela Peña, Rizza Marquez
77 Dela Rosa, Jenna Joy Bugarin
78 Dela Rosa, Rodora Abanilla
79 Delos Santos O P, Sr Myra Debarbo
80 Dilidili, Analiza Pellos
81 Dogillo, Julie Domalaon
82 Ducas, Andrew Gabino
83 Duerme, Rezia Lozada
84 Durolfo, Jeana Rose Talatala
85 Eballe, Rebecca Estrada
86 Eliver, Roque Jr Abuan
87 Enriquez, Lorebelle Quiliza
88 Escote, Noriette Cubita
89 Evalle, Jossa Esmores
90 Evangelista, Dia Marie Paña
91 Fajardo, Marites Auyong
92 Fajardo, Michelle Oliquino
93 Faura, Barbara Pepito
94 Fermin, Christian Lindbergh Macaslam
95 Fernando, Ma Sheila Cedro
96 Ferrando, Gresiel Esquadra
97 Florendo, Roel Balonzo
98 Flores, Merlie Paz
99 Flores, Rhodora Ermac
100 Flororita, Babylyn Garcia
101 Fontanos, Cleofe Madriaga
102 Forteza, Cristine Correa
103 Franco, Merliza Tenorio
104 Fuertes, Yvette Toraneo
105 Gaceta, Catherine Ursula Laron
106 Gador, Roxenne Villar
107 Garibay, Allyn Castillo
108 Geconcillo, Genevieve Calunsag
109 Gelloani, Roma Cawad
110 Generao, Christian Arne Bautista
111 Godeloson, Cyryl Mendoza
112 Gomez, Pio Sandino Calalang
113 Gorospe, Marion Jude Maristela
114 Gragasin, Eljean Desamito
115 Grigana, Maylene Flores
116 Guimba, Alessandra Agan
117 H Solaiman, Sohailah Darap
118 Hirang, Ana Dominguez
119 Historillo, Jesalyn Mayo
120 Honrade, Lorraine Dawn Gamel
121 Hufalar, Oliver Bergonia
122 Implica, Maggie May Salvador
123 Insas, Jessica Campana
124 Jimenez, Ma Ruchiella Tobias
125 Labajo, Zheryll Mae Razonable
126 Laban, Alvin Divina
127 Lacasandile, Juby Lacasandile
128 Lagar, Clifford Seco
129 Lagda, Rhymerryzxiamikko Flores
130 Lalic, Rosita Santiago
131 Langcay, Digna Turingan
132 Laroza, Gerry Ona
133 Lascano, Elizabeth Allan
134 Leyco, Lucia Gumpal
135 Lim, Joane Orel
136 Lizada, Rosario Alberto
137 Llave, Jacquelyn Joy Latina
138 Llave, Michael Cervantes
139 Lunar, Alexander Tiaga
140 Mabanto, Ivy Basalan
141 Mabuloc, Joanne Jocson
142 Macabeo, Nikki Tom-Oken
143 Macainan, Rosaly Gramatica
144 Madalang, Novie Graile Baliang
145 Magsayo, Rhodora Mae Tumlad
146 Malana, Jenny Dolado
147 Mallo, Geraldine Garay
148 Manabat, April Ramos
149 Mangubat, Felicidad Quimpo
150 Maranan, Charlie Barbado
151 Mariano, Jimson Napoleon Dela Peña
152 Martinez, Kristine Yap
153 Mateo, Rosa Marikit Montero
154 Memoria, Greta Tribulete
155 Mendoza, Adeo Cyrus Ramos
156 Mercado, Norady Dinglas
157 Molina, Aimee Micubo
158 Montecillo, Nilda Pilar Santos
159 Morales, Teresita Conde
160 Mores, Nestor Jr Daiz
161 Motilla, Alicia Erfe
162 Munar, Benedicta Bayas
163 Mupas, Christine Febie Mifa
164 Muñez, Janize April So
165 Natividad, Arlene Diamansil
166 Nicol, Ruby Ann Vibar
167 Odoño, Ma Melissa Naval
168 Ong-Ongawan, Elsa Martin
169 Osorio, Wendyrica Ocampo
170 Padlan, Jody James Simpao
171 Padoginog, Liezle Elverio
172 Palattao, Teodina Tarcena
173 Palay, Grace Mondragon
174 Palo, Maricris Galvez
175 Pamittan, Venancio Jr Saladino
176 Pangilinan, Judith Mag-Isa
177 Paz, Maria Cristina Taguibao
178 Postre, Marife Guiriva
179 Prado, Lowella Gonato
180 Puzon, Edward Hilado
181 Quevada, Jennifer Ultado
182 Rairata, Isabel Noreen Rodriguez
183 Ramo, Maria Buntag
184 Ramos, Albi Rabe
185 Ramos, Farinmae Fernan
186 Rapa, Maria Victoria Boncales
187 Rebadulla, Sirk August Colangan
188 Regalado, Marites Graza
189 Revecho, Mareneil Merino
190 Reyes, Leonila Cuevas
191 Rubiato, Joannalyn De Leon
192 Ruiz, Teresita Castillo
193 Sainz, Mary Jean Siamen
194 Salas, Catherine Calledo
195 Salas, Jessa France Caminade
196 Samonte, Jenie Rafols
197 Sandoy, Maria Fe Abairo
198 Sangil, Katherine Cruz
199 Santiago, Bernardo Labao
200 Santiago, Ginalyn Matias
201 Santos, John Reginald Laurente
202 Sarabello, Miselisa Basilisco
203 Sebil, Rialene Red
204 Serrano, Farrah Lyn Palce
205 Siacor, Mona Lisa Pardilla
206 Siboa, Mary Claire Libaton
207 Silagpo, Ma Veronica Antoinette Herrera
208 Silverio, Reagan Bien
209 Sioco, Aimee Joloro
210 Sobreviñas, Mary Grace Carcellar
211 Somosa, Cecilia Rada
212 Soriano, Michelle Trifonia Valente
213 Sotelo, Werribee Victoria Crisostomo
214 Suanque, Rovie Elisan
215 Sueno, Bernadette Dava
216 Sumampong, Narmie Comandante
217 Surmieda, Janny Somblingo
218 Suñega, Rowena Virtudez
219 Tabamo, Mina Tuban
220 Tagacay, Santiago III Antolin
221 Tagtag, Jefferson Matsu
222 Tamayao, Manuel Siapno
223 Tomas, Roselyn De Castro
224 Tubig, Joafrica Gozun
225 Tumbali, Corazon Pasicolan
226 Tuyor, Leah Mar
227 Valdez, Jeny Catong
228 Valencia, John Pros Balantac
229 Vellejo, Richard Tianson
230 Verula, Ailyn Dizon
231 Verutiao, Jerica Jocson
232 Villanueva, Henry Nemesio Aspra
233 Viloria, Elena Mojeca
234 Vitos, Krista Kamille Gacrama
235 Ynclino, Ma Fe Leal
236 Yu, Ruel Romarate
237 Zafe, Mark Venice Magarro
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Library Jokes
Chickens in Libraries
A chicken walks into the library. It goes up to the circulation desk and says: “book, bok, bok, boook”.
The librarian hands the chicken a book. It tucks it under his wing and runs out. A while later, the chicken runs back in, throws the first book into the return bin and goes back to the librarian saying: “book, bok, bok, bok, boook”. Again the librarian gives it a book, and the chicken runs out. The librarian shakes her head.
Within a few minutes, the chicken is back, returns the book and starts all over again: “boook, book, bok bok boook”. The librarian gives him yet a third book, but this time as the chicken is running out the door, she follows it.
The chicken runs down the street, through the park and down to the riverbank. There, sitting on a lily pad is a big, green frog. The chicken holds up the book and shows it to the frog, saying: “Book, bok, bok, boook”. The frog blinks, and croaks: “read-it, read-it, read-it”. Light Bulb Jokes:
How many academic librarians does it take to change a light bulb? Just five. One changes the light bulb while the other four form a committee and write a letter of protest to the Dean, because after all, changing light bulbs IS NOT professional work! How many catalogers does it take to screw in a light bulb? Just one, but they have to wait to see how LC does it first. How many cataloguers does it take to change a lightbulb? Only one provided it is in AACR2. How many reference librarians does it take to change a light-bulb? (with a perky smile) “Well, I don’t know right off-hand, but I know where we can look it up!” How many reference librarians does it take to change a lightbulb? None if it has a LCSH heading. How many library system managers does it take to change a lightbulb? All of them as the manual was lost in the last move (or flood). How many library managers does it take to change a lightbulb? At least one committee and a light bulb strategy focus meeting and plan. How many library technicians does it take to change a lightbulb? Seven. One to follow approved procedure, and six to review the procedure. (8 if you count the librarian they all report to)
Q: What happens when you cross a librarian and a lawyer?
A: You get all the information you want, but you can’t understand it.
There was a young couple from Delhi
Who went around belly to belly,
Because, in their haste,
They used library paste
Instead of petroleum jelly.
What did one math book say to the other math book?
” Do you want to hear my problems?”
What does the librarian say when she has to leave?
Time to book!
What did the book called “Chills” say to the other book?
” I feel chills running down my spine!”
What is a book’s favorite food?
A bookworm
What’s the difference between an accountant and a dectective solving the Case of the Stolen Book?
One’s a bookkeeper and one’s a bookcaper
Why did the librarian slip and fall on the library floor?
Because she was in the non-friction section.
What does a library book wear whenever it leaves the building?
A pager.
Where was the librarian when the lights went out?
In the dark!
Librarians and Tigers
Librarians and Tigers
By Paul Ford
A hypothesis regarding portrayals of librarians, intermixed with images of tigers in libraries. A fiction, sort of.
I had a dream of tigers in a library. They prowled the stacks. I was alone in the library but for the tigers. They yawned and curled up in the children’s section. I looked up tigers in the card catalog, thumbing the dented cards, finally finding the right typewritten card, with the call number crossed out and a new number written above in ink. The book was called Tigers Climb the Himalayas to the Sun.
Where does the stereotype of librarian as dour spinster come from? Authors, screenwriters, librettists. And where did they come into their vocations? Lonely Saturday afternoons at the library. Take each portrait of the undersexed spinster or the pale shh-ing crank in film, play, novel, or musical. The artists who draw librarians this way may have the confidence of success in their craft today, but spin the world counterclockwise a dozen years or more and you’ll see them as an under- or over-fed boy or girl, sitting among the old oak desks of the closest library accessible by bicycle, cultivating a love of words when their fingers could reach no other love.
Their 12-speeds chained safely outside, these nascent creatives piled five or six books before them, dipping in and out of each volume. The oak desks were donated by some monstrish stockholding benefactor, the prodigal son of the library’s namesake. One of the books might be profane, laden with complex, adult interactions and lust. One might be about science, impenetrable but filled with thrilling equations. The stories of the operas might sit next to them, and next to that a history of Western Literature, or a textbook in psychology, or The Life of Johnson, all half-understood, to feed the reader’s self-conscious and compensatory pride in intellect. The point of going to the library is not to read, but to swim in words.
Around these lonely children moved the librarian; it was she or he who kept the refuge in order, who worked, humble before overflowing filing cabinets and surly liars refusing to pay fines, to bring the patrons with narrative and facts. Why did they punish her, make her undersexed?
This is my idea: the screenwriters, authors, and librettists were ashamed that they needed the library. Those of them – us – who spent our youths among books, the dust, silverfish, hiding in a bathroom stall with a racy novel too embarrassing to check out, developed a perverse need to mock the librarian, to punish her (so rarely him in the idiom) for providing a place of silence and peace.
And why? Because who knew more than the librarian how vulnerable we were? She – let me fall into the idiom as well – must have seen dozens of us over her career, the lonely but self-important boy or girl drawn to a certain section of the stacks – math, or biology, or poetry – the call letters on the edge of the shelves like a lighthouse. And of course we would, at some level, hate the library for being the witness to our loneliness, our strangeness or intellects banishing us to the stacks. From their books authors, who were not human but published, part of the history of the world, would speak to us without patronizing, would challenge us to think like adults by the nature of their prose, assuming we were adults. Wrapping my mind around the prose of strangers I realized some of what it would mean to be an adult, some of the workings of the the strange world of handshakes and mixed drinks neckties, always in awe at the quantities of footnotes at the back of any serious work, sometimes more books than I’d read in my lifetime.
Then the writer, the librettist, the screenwriter leaves the library, and resents the librarian for staying behind, and punishes her. He puts her hair in a bun, makes her stubborn, makes her every utterance follow a shush. He then confounds, or deflowers, her. Punishment for his own lonely library days, and so unfair, when you consider how smart and well-read most librarians are, their awareness of categories.
“He was a big fan of tigers,” he said.
“Detroit Tigers?” I asked.
“Just tigers. The cats. Liked reading about them. Read all the books we had on them.” I didn’t press my luck any farther. He looked uncomfortable, guilty telling me about a patron. Even a dead patron. I folded another $20 into his hand and thanked him. I went to the card catalog. Subject. Ta-Tu. Tigers, Detroit. Baseball Team. Tigers. The Story of Tigers. Tigers in the Wild. Tigers Climb the Himalayas to the Sun.
This last one, someone had crossed out the call number, written in a phone number instead. Local number. I wrote it in my notebook, then went upstairs and got the book, rifling through the pages. An envelope fell out, and I pocketed it before anyone saw me. Not that anyone would have made much of it. It was almost sundown. I had no time to read what was inside. I sprinted to the pay phone by the bathrooms, kept my voice low, and dialed the number from the card catalog.
“Will Greener there?”
“Heh,” said the rough North Brooklyn accent on the other side. “Not available. Ever again. Wrong number.” He hung up. I turned back to see the librarian towering over me.
“Library’s closing,” he said. “We close early on Fridays.” The windows were almost dark. Which meant a 4-mile walk home.
Categorization is one of the most difficult endeavors that a human might undertake. Sit down and try it – try, for instance, to put this essay into a system. Is it about librarians? Yes, so far. But it’s also about tigers. It is about epistemology, and it is about my memories of libraries, and my dreams of tigers. File it under libraries-memories-tigers. File it under tigers, in libraries. Or hook it to my name, under “essay” or “autobiography,” but I am often lying making it fiction, or quasi-fiction, Schrodinger’s fiction that may or may not be true. And of course it’s not printed out, this piece, so it’s even more ephemeral, and it will likely never be categorized, unless I chose to categorize it.
There is a great push by the people who engineer the standards beneath the Internet to have web content developers include metadata in their documents, so that categorization might be automated, so that the entire Web might connect itself, become a great self-assembling card catalog, the cards flying in virtual space. There are a great number of acronyms and terms – RDF, XML, XHTML, Ontologies, Schemas, N3. From their syntactic statements, it is hoped, a Semantic Web might emerge, a Web of meaning. I find all of this hard to understand, in my work as a web developer and information architect for a large music and media conglomerate, and my attempts to fiddle with it have led to little so far – save that my efforts have been used as a “bad example” in one software developer’s documentation, a way not to do it. But I want to categorize stories, make them more like machines that churn inside themselves, sort the characters and settings into a database, make the world explicit and clickable. I don’t know why I want to do this, or if I can succeed.
I imagine categorization makes librarians stare at their ceilings at night, listening to their lovers breathe in the bed beside them, thinking of ways to navigate through the great spheres of knowledge. I don’t envy them, having to paddle through a sea of words with only LOC classification, MARC records, Google, a Master’s Degree in Information Science, to guide them. A person should be careful about loving a librarian; if your systems of classification collide, you might be plucked out of the “lover” subject heading and dropped into “ex-.”
I wanted to be a librarian like Samantha. Among the many things I wanted to be, it was maybe the second or third option. I wanted to work in the music industry, I wanted to build Web sites, and I wanted to be a librarian. I have done two of those things, but the third – I am too scatterbrained. Still, I dream of stacks, of cubicles and books.
The opening words of Tigers Climb the Himalayas to the Sun, written by myself, are “I had a dream of tigers in a library.” It continues:
I woke from my dream of tigers. Samantha was asleep on the floor. Sometimes she rolled off her bed in the night and stretched on the floor, without blanket or pillow. I could see her teeth, the top slightly bucked out and the bottom dented; she’d been a thumbsucker. We had a day of driving. It was to be mostly her day, and I would navigate. She was snoring. Samantha is my stepsister. We were making up a story as we drove. It was a detective story about Hiram “Crash” Lenkenheimer, an Orthodox Jewish detective from Crown Heights, and his assistant, Percy, the Shabbas Goy who provided the muscle and did the detecting on Saturdays.
We drove out of the hotel, connecting to the right exits, and were back on the highway. “What happened next,” Samantha asked.
I put on my Shadow voice, the road flashing past. “When we last left our hero, he had just found a mysterious phone number connected to the Will Greener case.”
Samantha cried last night, sitting in a deep hotel chair.
“What the fuck am I doing?” she asked.
We were in a Best Western. I was lying on the bed. I turned to look at her. “You’re taking a trip. When you get out west you’re going to stay with your friends.”
“I had an entire life, you know, all set.”
“I wouldn’t know what that’s like.”
“I miss it.” Two fat tears went down her face, then she smiled and said, “Let’s have a shot and swim in the pool.”
I got up, my legs still numb after the day in the car, and went to a duffel bag, pulling out a bottle of whiskey. I left her and walked down the hall to get some ice, and came back. She was switching into her swimsuit, and I saw a brief flash of breast. There was nothing tense, no potential, but of course I noticed it; it was smooth and comforting and reminded me of home.
“I walked home,” I said, as Hiram. “Percy was waiting on the corner with the key already out. He let me into the apartment and turned on the light of the living room. As always I looked to Rebecca’s portrait over the mantle, her serious face and bright eyes looking back. ‘You want me to stick around, Hi?’ asked Percy. I wanted to talk the case, wanted to pull out the envelope in my pocket and read what was inside. But not for another 24 hours. Who knew what would happen in 24 hours? Well, Greener wouldn’t come back from the dead, I thought. ‘No, Percy, you might as well go home. Come back tomorrow, though, ready to work.’”
“’I’m always ready to work, Hi,’ he said. True enough, I thought. It had been a long night. I went into the bedroom and fell asleep.”
“Wouldn’t he pray or something?” Samantha asked.
“Probably. I don’t know.”
“Tell me more about Rebecca.”
“In the story, or in my life?”
“In your life.”
I told Samantha a story about Rebecca Dravos and Scott Rahin and Rebecca’s dog Elephant and her cat Rockstar.
“Maybe what I need is a nice librarian like Rebecca for myself,” Samantha said. “Being a lesbian would make things much easier.”
“Being a lesbian hasn’t made a single thing easier in Rebecca’s life. It’s made most things harder.”
“I know I’m being stupid. Don’t tell me about it.”
“Okay,” I said, apologetically.
I had work-study ($4.25 an hour) at the college library my senior year of college. I opened on Sunday mornings, crawling out of my too-short dorm bed at 8am, and walking over to pull open the heavy wooden doors and turn on the lights, then take a seat behind the counter, ready to check out books and interpret magazine request slips.
No one would come in until 9. It was me, and a quarter-million books, and for a few moments before some local came in (it was too early for students) for the Sunday New York Times, I could run my fingers over ten thousand spines, read Rolling Stone and The Nation and 100-year-old copies of Harper’s.
As a gift, I snuck in a steel carousel to hold the rubber stamps they used at checkout, and no one knew where it came from. I’d found it at a thrift store in Philadelphia. Later, when the library put up a large board of suggestions with the official library response, I stole a pad of suggestion forms, and, with my roommate, wrote up both the suggestions and the library’s “official” response.
As filled out, the suggestion form, in cramped hand, would ask the librarians to hire an exorcist to get the three-eyed monster out from under the east stairwell. The response would insist that an exorcist came in twice a month already. Another suggestion asked the library to get the “uncensored” version of Seymour Cray’s classic video What’s all this about Gallium Arsenide?, the one with bare bosoms. And my roommate and I wrote asking why we (as our pseudonyms Wilfred Smicket and Warren Teufel) were never invited to the cool library parties with crank and smack.
The librarians loved them – even the one from the local Methodist preacher who asked for private microfilm room to review Playboy – and left them up for months. I was suspected – especially when I made a joke about Gallium Arsenide while riding in a car with a librarian and her boyfriend, another librarian. She said, “Gallium arsenide? It was you” and I turned the color of karo syrup, but I insisted that it wasn’t me, and my guilt as the secret library suggestor was never proved.
Hiram was in a cliffhanger. It was Friday afternoon and he had three hours to stop a bomb from exploding in the country courthouse. The person who’d set the bomb was the same one who’d shot his wife Rebecca. Samantha stopped me as the action began. I was driving.
“You know, this was good for me. This trip.”
“I think so too. I’ve never known you to be less than a ray of sunshine. I was getting a little worried.”
“Should I call him?”
“I don’t know. It’s always easy to go back, I know. Sometimes it’s the right thing. Depends what you want.”
“I want to swim in the Pacific. I want to hear how Hiram saves the courthouse and avenges his wife before sundown.”
“I want to swim in the Pacific, too. I’m a little sick of Hiram. He might have to die to save the courthouse.”
“No sequels then.”
“We’re going to Portland, not Los Angeles.”
“I’m glad we did this. You were a real shithead once, you know. I’m amazed at how we ended up like one another.”
“Well, you’ve become much less of a rank bitch.”
“I had my reasons.”
“You did.”
“We turned out okay.”
“We turned out. We learned to drive. We found ways to make a living. One of us became a librarian. The other worked for a record company promoting the music of idiots using both print and electronic means. He was the good-looking one. She was the smart one.”
“No, it’s the other way around. I’m the good looking one and the smart one.” I didn’t reply, just rolled my eyes. She said, “Because I like you, and because you are going to stop at the next rest stop, I forgive you for stealing my Nancy Drew novels and getting peanut butter on them.”
“I read one. I was curious. You said I was a faggot when you found me reading them. You told Chrissy Chamber. I loved her. I was 12. You told her I was a butt-packing faggot. You came up at lunch when I was trying to tell her a joke and said, Chrissy, my brother is a butt-packing faggot. He reads Nancy Drew books. Keep away or he’ll get his faggotness all over you.”
“I would have said that, huh. I’m sorry. I guess I forgot.”
“I didn’t. And you now offer me your forgiveness. After tormenting me over my totally unambiguous sexuality, now you’re lusting for my friend Rebecca.”
“I’m allowed.” She looked out the window. “I am sorry I did that.”
“It’s okay. We worked it out in group.”
“I still want you to find me a restroom. Would you stay in Portland if you found work?”
“I don’t know. I’d hate to give up New York.”
“Yeah, I understand. I’m not going to miss Upper Darby, see. So it’s much less of a problem.”
“I’m sure they need a lot of good reference librarians in Portland. As long as you can answer questions like, ‘what is the tensile strength of a corncob? Because I want to build an addition on my house’ or ‘do you have any books on the Goddess?’ Can you shush dirty hippies, or is that a violation of their rights? Do you want to practice your shushing?”
“Yes.” She punched my shoulder, hard, and said, “Shut the fuck up. How’s that?”
“I hope you will punch hippies like that.”
“I’ll punch hippies for sure.”
“And the pixie cut has to go. How can you craft a bun out of that?”
“I’ll never have a bun.”
“We’ll get you a false one. Nice and tight-looking.”
I wish for tigers to enter the library and protect the books, and the librarians, and Samantha, from those who could damage the books or cut the budget. With tigers at their behest, no library budget would be cut again; a simple appearance by a librarian with a tiger would encourage the most ferocious finance committee to temper their zeal for cutting funds.
In my dream, librarians are safe under the auspices of tigris foruli, what the Romans called “bookshelf tigers.” Among the stacks there is a place of order and comfort, open to all, knowledge and contemplation protected by the savage and beautiful beast, all shoulders and snarl.
2006 Librarians Licensure Examination Board Passers
Roll of Successful Examinees in the
LIBRARIAN LICENSURE EXAMINATION
Held in NOVEMBER 2006 Page: 2 of 8
Released on NOVEMBER 30, 2006
Seq. No. N a m e
1 ABRIGO, VINCENT MIRANDA
2 ACUZAR, LORLYN SANDOVAL
3 AGREDA, RUBY LYN LEAL
4 ALCAYDE, ANGELINE GILERA
5 ALEGRE, VALERIE FAYE ESCOTO
6 ALIS, IRENE SACPA
7 AMMUGAUAN, JANICE GUMIRAN
8 AMOROSO, MARITES DELCO
9 AMURAO, NINDA FERRANCULLO
10 ANDAO, RHEA ANN PARANGUE
11 ANG, AILEEN MONSERATE
12 ANITO, MARY EILEEN LIMBAGA
13 ANUD, MARIO JR ALIVIO
14 APACIBLE, ROY DELA ROSA
15 AQUINO, DINA DELA CRUZ
16 ARAOJO, ABIGAEL MANIEGO
17 ARMENDEZ, NENITA NONAY
18 ARRIESGADO, JELICO ANGELO VERGARA
19 ASPREC, MARY ANN SISON
20 ATAYAN, DOROTHY JUANICO
21 AUMAN, DELIA EMENIDO
22 AUSTRIA, ROSEMARIE HERMANO
23 AYALA, ANNA RUTH ADRIANO
24 AYLES, ERLINDA GABON
25 BACATAN, JULIUS TRASES
26 BACUD, EVELYN OSTONAL
27 BADILLO, NIELS IAN CASTILLO
28 BAJENTING, MABELL RESNERA
29 BALARES, ALMYRA BISUÑA
30 BALIDOY, ROSEMARIE DOROTAYO
31 BALLESTEROS, GLOUDETTE BITAGUN
32 BALUCAN, SANDY TUMALA
33 BANERA, MELINDA TORRES
34 BANGA, LYN IDJAO
35 BANGENG, SANITA TUNDAGUI
36 BANSIG, ANN GRACE BAGACAY
37 BARRANCO, LORENA INGADA
38 BASALIO, MARITA RUFINO
39 BATUCAN, AILEN ALMAJOSE
40 BAUTISTA, DENNIS MANGILA
41 BAYLON, JENNIFER BANES
42 BELIRAN, JOAN MONTERO
43 BERLANDINO, ANN MARIE PERALTA
44 BERMAS, RODOLFO LASCANO
45 BERNALDEZ, GRACE BUENAVENTURA
46 BERNALES, JAN-ERROL CUADRO
47 BERNARDO, JULIE ANN IGNACIO
48 BERUNIO, MINA FLOR LOQUEZ
49 BERZO, DORANA GAYACAO
50 BIALEN, DIANESA TAPAR
51 BITAYAN, LUNCIA TINGBAWEN
52 BITOS, JENIPHER CABARDO
53 BONALOS, MARICHU MALABO
54 BONGALOS, FLORBELLA SEDILLO
55 BORRO, RIZALYN LIAGOSO
56 BRANDES, MAY ANN NATOR
57 BUCAO, DALIA CERA
58 BUENAFLOR, ROLELYN JASTILLANO
59 BULAGAO, JINGLE PAGSUGUIRON
60 CAB, NHYRMA FE ARANGCON
61 CABANDO, JUNE CARMILLE TEJAM
62 CABAÑA, MAE ANN MENDOZA
63 CABRIA, JEAN BORAIS
64 CAGAS, RAFAEL JR JUSON
65 CALBAR, GEONALYN SALUTA
66 CALI, HANAH BASAR
67 CALINGASAN, LOURDES FATIMA CHUNSIM
68 CALLEJA, CATHERINE HATCHAZO
69 CALUNSAG, ISAVAL MAE ITAO
70 CAMBA, RICELINA MAMUCOD
71 CAMPOSO, JOAN SIRICA VALERO
72 CANANG, CINDY MARCOS
73 CANLAS, NENITA MERCADO
74 CANSANCIO, JANETTE BARBACENA
75 CAPARROS, MARIA GRACE ODOÑO
76 CARIAGA, HAZEL PIA AGARAN
77 CATAMORA, MARY CRISTY MELANIO
78 CAÑA, MERCY BRONSAL
79 CELERIO, MA RONA ALIMON
80 COBALLES, BRIAN ALJER BRAVO
81 COBARIA, EVELYN BUNAG
82 COLBONGAN, IMACULADA CADDI
83 COLINIO, JEAN CAYAT
84 CONSTANTINO, IRVIN MERRILL GASPAR
85 CORDOVA, GLORY JEAN NIÑAL
86 CORPUZ, EDUARDO QUIJANO
87 CORTES, RONALYN AVILA
88 CORTEZ, JHAYSON SIMBULAN
89 CORTEZ, MYLENE GALLEON
90 CRUZ, DENISE MARIE FLORES
91 CRUZ, FLOCERFINA SAMSON
92 CRUZ, JENNIFER UMBAN
93 CRUZ, MARY DANIELLE FAJARDO
94 CRUZ, RUBY LYN GAVARAN
95 CUBITA, RICEL CUBITA
96 CUETO, QUIZA LYNN GRACE GENOBATEN
97 DACANAY, JANNET BARTOLEN
98 DAJORAY, SHIELA REYES
99 DANGUILAN, CATHERINE SORIANO
100 DAVID, JOSE ENRICO MIGUEL BONUS
101 DAWAL, BASILISA ACEBRON
102 DE CASTRO, YOLANDA ICACA
103 DE LEON, ERMINA MANIO
104 DE MESA, JANINE MARCELO
105 DEL MUNDO, EVELYN RECALDE
106 DEL MUNDO, RAFAEL JOSEPH CUADRA
107 DELA CRUZ, JEFFREY GUTIEREZ
108 DELGADO, EMELORNA ESTEBAN
109 DELOS REYES, SHERYL ALVAREZ
110 DIAZ, ANTONINO PUNSALAN
111 DOMASIG, ALVIN VILLAR
112 DOMINGUEZ, CLARIVIC PEÑA
113 DUEÑAS, MARIGOLD JESSICA CAÑELAS
114 DUQUE, RIZZA GARCIA
115 EJEM, CHANDRANI YVES ASUNCION
116 ELIARDA, DELIA PADILLA
117 EMPEMANO, JENIFER SANTOS
118 ENOC, ANALYN REGIDOR
119 ENTICO, GLADYS JOY ENRIQUEZ
120 ESCUDERO, YSOBEL COLUMBRES
121 ESPINOZA, EUGENE JOSE TOLEDO
122 ESTRADA, RACQUEL SIMON
123 FADEROGAYA, JENN MIÑANO
124 FARILLAS, MA CECILIA VILLASENOR
125 FERNANDEZ, ANGELO ERES
126 FERNANDEZ, JOSEFINA GALLAMOS
127 FLORES, MEGUMI SOL MANIQUIS
128 FLORO, RAMIL FELARCA
129 FRANCISCO, WEILYN GREGORIO
130 FRANCO, FILOTEO JR BALEJADO
131 FRANCO, MELANIE TENORIO
132 FUCHIGAMI, KAORI BUGTAI
133 FUENTES, TERESITA CALLANG
134 GABRIEL, JOCELYN ARCEO
135 GABRIEL, ROXANNE JIMENEZ
136 GALANG, MANUEL-LEANDRO JR MARCAIDA
137 GALVE, JENNY TANATE
138 GAMBITO, MARICAR FINANGAD
139 GANANCIAL, ZHENELE FAYE CAMPOS
140 GARCIA, VIRGINIA MEDRANO
141 GASINGAN, CYNTHIA DENESIA
142 GASPAR, YONIE BALLABA
143 GAVIEREZ, SHIELA MIE MACASANTOS
144 GEDULIAN, ARLENE TORREVERDE
145 GELMO, MUSTIOLA RESOMADERO
146 GO, NANCY OLORGA
147 GOKONG, JENIFFER ESEO
148 GOROSPE, BERNICE PANTALEON
149 GRAVITO, YOLANDA MAQUINIANA
150 GRIPO, ANALOU DUCLAN
151 GUADALQUIVER, MA CHRISTINA ANTERO
152 GUERRERO, FREDERICK MANGGA
153 GUTIERREZ, FLORENCE VENERANDA ORTIZ
154 GUTIERREZ, PAULINE STEPHANIE PASCUA
155 GUZON, ARLENE MORANO
156 HALCON, HAZEL AQUINO
157 HALIL, PARISA SAHID
158 HEMEDES, MARIA ELINOR FALLARIA
159 HERNANDO, MARIE JOY MUAÑA
160 HUPA, ALICIA ORBETA
161 IBARRA, VENUS PAGUIRIGAN
162 INFANTE, SHEENA MARIE MAGBANUA
163 IRINCO, REILA ANASOL ROBIS
164 ISRAEL, MARILYN CLAVERIA
165 JABICAN, JONALE ANN MANLAUNAN
166 JAROMAHUM, NIDA ALVEZO
167 JAURIGUE, RENECYNTH BABAN
168 JIMENEZ, ERYL DE LOS SANTOS
169 JOSON, CARMINA GADDI
170 JUAN, MARK CHRISTIAN ABEL
171 JUGADOR, CHESTER JETHRO CLINT PANES
172 JURIAL, SHENIEL BANAAG
173 LABESORES, JEAN DUYAN
174 LADAO, GENEVIE DIVINAGRACIA
175 LAGBO, EREZ JAMES ESCAYDE
176 LAMBAYAN, RUCHELL OLOR
177 LAMOSTE, MERAB AMPARO
178 LASTRA, MARIA GERALDINE GARCIA
179 LATURGO, FE MANO
180 LAZONA, MARITES REGALADO
181 LETRAN, ABIGAEL AMOR BACUD
182 LIBO, JOSIRYL GABAYERON
183 LUBIANO, LEAH CARILLO
184 LUDAN, CHIMINE GOLWINGON
185 LUMABAN, MA MAISHEL NAPOLITANO
186 MACABABAT, LANIE RADAZA
187 MACAUMBOS, JUMALYN CUIZON
188 MACAWILI, MELISSA ABIGAIL PILAR
189 MADEJA, MARIA LYN DE LUNA
190 MAGUDDAYAO, MA RIZALINA PELOVELLO
191 MAINIT, MELANY POTESTAS
192 MALENAB, JEANNE MARTINNE GOMEZ
193 MALIMAS, BRITZ TABIGUE
194 MANALILI, MARK CEL MAPA
195 MANALO, LEONA RICA TONGSON
196 MANUEL, LARRA SALONGA
197 MAPA, DELILAH MENDONES
198 MARIANO, MARLON LOPEZ
199 MATRIMONIO, ANNA LIZA HUELAR
200 MELODIAS, LORD KNOWELL DUMAYAS
201 MENDEZ, NELFA RODINAS
202 MILITANTE, JEANITH DELFIN
203 MILLARE, JOHN NIGEL CORPUZ
204 MISLANG, MARY ANN JACINTA RAMOS
205 MOGOL, ARIEL SINGSING
206 MOLINA, JANICE CARIÑO
207 MONTEALTO, SHARON ANG
208 MONTEMAYOR, BRAZIL LAGMAY
209 MONTERO, FREDERIC VILLAR
210 MONTES, CHONA CASTILLO
211 MONTILLA, MICHELLE ANN TOLOSA
212 MUNAR, NYSIE BUYON
213 NABAUNAG, MARIA CRISTINA TOMBOC
214 NAVARRETE, DAN MARIE FABICON
215 NICDAO, SIENA BLANCA ALVAREZ
216 NICOLAS, MELVIN ASTROLOGO
217 NOGRALES, JAPHETT JUMAWAS
218 NUESCA, NIDA NACIS
219 OBLEFIAS, CHANTELLE MANCENIDO
220 OBUT, MECHEL DAGAPIOSO
221 OLEDAN, JOAN MALACA
222 OLENDO, RUDILYN ALEGRE
223 ONG, MANIELYN REYNES
224 ONG-ONGOWAN, FE MARTIN
225 OPINA, LEAN JOHN ALMAZAN
226 PADIOS, JEANETTE ONARIO
227 PAGAT, JANET PAGALA
228 PAJAC, MARIANNE DESCALLAR
229 PALACPAC, JOY MARICRIS CAYBOT
230 PANSACALA, RICHIE JACABAN
231 PASCUA, LAUREN ANN BARENG
232 PATAYAN, BERNADETTE BACDAY
233 PATRIARCA, MAIDIE APOSAGA
234 PAUYA, GENEVIVE REBURCIO
235 PELIT, RACHEL ANDRENO
236 PEREZ, MARIA AURORA CARDONA
237 PEREZ, MARIE GRACE BLANCO
238 PINOS, GINA LYN DIEGO
239 PINTO, MICHAEL ADDUN
240 RAMIREZ, MARY JANET MIGUEL
241 RAMOS, ALANA PURIFICACION GOROSPE
242 RAPADA, CELIAFLOR COSTUNA
243 REBADULLA, EVA COLANGAN
244 REYES, ADELA GARCIA
245 REYES, AUREA UNDAN
246 REYES, EMIE TENIZO
247 RILLON, JULIETA REYES
248 RIMANDO, VENESSA LEDESMA
249 RIVERA, TERESA MARRON
250 RIÑO, HELEN CAY
251 ROMERO, MARIA ROWENA SAPON
252 SABELINO, JOAN RESCALLAR
253 SACE, RITZ LAZARO
254 SAGADAL, ELENA LAS-AY
255 SALAZAR, MARICEL BESIN
256 SALEM, LUCY PAGHARI ON
257 SALUD, ANTONETTE SALVADOR
258 SALUDARES, LEILA BEZ
259 SAMSON, ANGELICA LIM
260 SANTOS, EFER JHAN MARGARETT CORILLA
261 SARILAMA, SINAB MACARIMBANG
262 SAYO, XAVIERA LYN GONZALES
263 SELGA, ARLYN CAMPOS
264 SEMION, NARIZA MERA
265 SERRANO, ROSITA PALANCA
266 SERVAÑEZ, MERLYN GATCHALIAN
267 SICAT, RUBIROSA VILANO
268 SILAWAN, GLENDA HIYAS
269 SITOY, WENELYN CALIMBO
270 SOLAS, MYLA BIONSON
271 SOLIVEN, ANIVEL LAURETA
272 SUHAYON, MAY GOMEZ
273 SUMALINOG, LEONITA CAIÑA
274 SUPERABLE, SUSAN LAGADO
275 TABANIAG, LORELIE TAPIA
276 TABLIZO, NOEME CAYABYAB
277 TABUGA, RENATO LEE
278 TAPAYA, ELMER LAGARIZA
279 TEJADA, ELOISA MARIANO
280 TENMATAY, TYRAN REX FERNANDEZ
281 TEOPE, VEVERLY SINAMBAN
282 TOLENTINO, MICHAEL JOHN MANUIT
283 TRINIDAD, SHIRLEY ESTEBAN
284 TUBIS, MAMERTO JR RAMOS
285 TUMULAC, MYRA CAMAGOS
286 UMALI, ASUNCION MERCADO
287 UY, ROSITA NOBLE
288 VALENCIA, EDNA CATIPON
289 VERGARA, MARVIN MENDOZA
290 VERIÑO, GINALYN ABELLO
291 VILLAFUERTE, JESSA NADELA
292 VILLANUEVA, CINDY SEBALDA
293 VILLANUEVA, MYRA ENTONA
294 VILLANUEVA, PILAR LIMEN
295 VILOAN, IRENE MILLENA
296 VISITACION, VANESSA BISMONTE
297 VISTAN, ALEJANDRO PANLILIO
298 VITANZOS, CHARLINE BALBOA
299 WOODEN, PRINCESS GRACE CABLOY
300 YAP, JOSEPH MARMOL
301 YAP, MARILYN BEQUIO
302 YU, JAKE CATHLEEN UY
303 YU, ROSE IMELDA GAPUZ
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Manila, Philippines
NOVEMBER 30, 2006
RECOMMENDING APPROVAL:
CORAZON M. NERA
Chairman
Board for Librarians
APPROVED:
LEONOR TRIPON-ROSERO
Chairperson
List of Registered Librarians in Zamboanga City
(In no particular order and incomplete, pls. email me @ filoteofrancojr@gmail.com/filoteofrancojr@yahoo.com.ph for additional name…)
NAME – INSTITUTION CONNECTED
1. ASID, Benhur A. -Southern City Colleges
2. TAALA, William D. – Universidad de Zamboanga
3. HALIL, Parisa S. – Universidad de Zamboanga
4. MANICAP, Girlie A.-Zamboanga City Regional Trial Court
5. HANDUMON, Shirley T. – Universidad de Zamboanga
6. CANDIDO, Madelyn C. – Universidad de Zamboanga
7. SOTITO, Emma S. – Universidad de Zamboanga
8. ALINAS, Ethel-Pilar College
9. MALINDOG, Josefina B.-Pilar College
10. NATIVIDAD, Emilia R.-Zamboanga City Library
11. AGUSTIN, Carmelita T.-Zamboanga City Library
12. YAP, Illuminada Y.-Ateneo de Zamboanga University
13. LACSON, Mila G.-Ateneo de Zamboanga University
14. PONOLLERA, Virginia S.-Zamboanga City High School, Main
15. CHAVEZ, Geraldine C.-Zamboanga City High School, Main
16. RIVERA, Marivic-Regional Science High School
17. CAPITANEA, Liezel R.-Kabasalan National High School
18. BAGONA, Evelyn R.-Ebenezer Bible College Seminary
19. LEPALAM, Veronica-STI College
20. TABANAO, Flor-Ateneo de Zamboanga University
21. ASCURA, Sally-Ateneo de Zamboanga University
22. TUBOG, Pilar V.
-Univesidad de Zamboanga
23. MADROÑAL, Helen B.
24. HAMID, Rufaida A.-Universidad de Zamboanga
25. FRANCO, Filoteo, Jr. B.-Universidad de Zamboanga
26. APAO, Florefe-Zamboanga State College of Marine Sciences & Technology
27. SAMONTE, Jenie R. -AMA Computer Colleges (NEW PASSER)
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