Amomoy,+Susan+B.

=Susan B. Amomoy= I am just a simple librarian. I decided to become a librarian when I was in high school as a student libarian at St. Mary's School, Sagada, Mountain Province. We were lucky then because we had one of the biggest high school libraries in the Philippines as the library was funded by some institutions in the US. Very few knew that there is such a course as library science and I had to convince members of my family to accept my decision. After graduation from a Bachelor's of Arts, at the Saint Louis University in Baguio, I came to the Institute of Library Science to take up a Masters of Library Science.

I started my professional career as a cataloger at the U.P. College of Law Library, Diliman, Quezon City, but I had to train at the U.P. Main Library for one year working in the Acquisitions, Cataloging, Reference, Circulation, Serials and the Filipiniana Section. I transferred to the Asian Development Bank Law Library in 1978 after 5 years at the U.P. I taught cataloging at the then Philippine Normal College for three semesters, but had to stop because moonlighting in the ADB was not allowed then. I worked as a one-man librarian at the Law Library and then transferred to the ADB Main Library as head of the Collection Development Services, which is responsible for the Cataloging, Acquisition and Serials Section.

Cataloging is still my passion and I catalog whenever time permits me as this is the only way I can keep updated of new developments and so that I will not forget the trade.