Sison,+Josephine

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Dr. Josephine C. Sison holds a Master’s degree in Library Science and a doctorate in Development Communication from the University of the Philippines, with Information Science as a co-major, which she took at the University of Pittsburgh (United States). For eighteen years, she managed the Agricultural Information Bank for Asia (AIBA), a computer-based regional resource centre for agriculture and related fields. As a member of the graduate faculty of the University of the Philippines, she handled courses on information systems planning and management and scientific and technical information processing, on a part-time basis since 1989. She joined the university as a professor on a full-time basis for the academic year 1996–97, and became Dean of the UP Institute of Library Science. She has undertaken numerous consultancies since the 1980s, on assignment in such countries as Indonesia, China, the Philippines and Fiji, as well as short-term assignments in other South-East Asian countries. She has served as a member of the Executive Board of the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) since 1990. She was PAARL's Oustanding Academic/Research Library of the Year in 2002, and PRC's Outstanding Professional of the Year in 1997.