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On Starfish Island: the Philippine Group of Law Librarians Seminar of April 2008

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

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Abstract

Jules Winterton recounts his experiences attending a recent conference in the Philippines and also provides a history of the professional information organisations in the Philippines and their relationships with IALL.

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professional organisationslaw librariansPhilippines
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Legal Information Management , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 2009 , pp. 57 - 61
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Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2009

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Footnotes

1 ‘IALL Week in Manila’ by Adolf Sprudzs, 8 International Journal of Law Libraries 193 (1980).

2 http://www.geocities.com/pgllboard/blaws.htm

3 Republic Act no. 6966, “Act regulating the practice of librarianship and prescribing the qualifications of Librarians”. The regime is described in paper 134-E to the 69th IFLA General Conference 2003 in Berlin, ‘The professionalization of librarians in the Philippines: the role of library associations’ by Antonio M Santos at http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/papers/134e-Santos.pdf

4 Republic Act no. 9246

5 SLiS Newsletter – School of Library and Information Studies, University of the Philippines, Jan-Mar 2007, p.2.

6 The PGLL's website http://www.geocities.com/pgllboard/index.htm is a little out of date at the moment.

7 The membership directory at http://www.geocities.com/pgllboard/members.htm is dated 2005 and it is from this that the analysis by sector of membership is derived. The total membership figure is up to date.

8 ISSN 0117-0872. Four volumes appear to have been published so far, in 1990, 1991, 1992, and 2001.

9 http://www.lib.uum.edu.my/LLG/LawGroup.htm

10 The Supreme Court e-Library is at http://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/ and although mainly designed for the operation of the Court, parts are generally available; it has recent Opinions, Court Rules, Circulars and Orders back to 1973, as well as a copy of the 1987 Constitution and a list of licensed Philippine attorneys. The Chan Robles law firm has a virtual law library which is publicly available from http://www.chanrobles.com/ with an impressive selection of Philippine laws and Supreme Court opinions back to 1901.

11 http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/philippines1.htm latest version December 2007.

12 http://www.puerto-undergroundriver.com/

13 The film is available to view at http://www.puerto-undergroundriver.com/watch.php

14 The officers of the PGLL for 2007-09 are: President, Emma M. Rey of the Congressional Library Bureau (House of Representatives); Vice-President, Lilia F. Echiverri, University of the Philippines Law Library; Secretary, Corazon G. Tolentino, Senate of the Philippines Library; Treasurer, Sally C. Tuason, Jose Rizal University Library; Auditor, Nora P. Rey, Villaraza & Angangco Law Offices Library; Public Relations Officer, Nancy T. Tuason, Legislative Library Service (House of Representatives. The Directors are: Julia M. Romano, Office of the Govt. Corporate Counsel Library; Maria B. Tubid, Ombudsman Library; Margie C. Rogan, ACCRA Law Office Library; and Ex-Officio, Helen C. De Castro, Presidential Management Staff Library.