Ramos,+Mila+M.

= ** Mila M. ** Ramos=

Mila Medina Ramos is a Filipina Librarian, who holds a Bachelor and a Master’s degree in Library Science obtained from the University of the Philippines. She underwent special training at the US National Agricultural Library in Maryland, USA and the Deakin University, Victoria, Australia. She also took up distance education courses from the University of Cincinnati. Mrs. Ramos is currently the Chief Librarian and gives direction to the Library and Documentation Service of the International Rice Research Institute, based in Los Baños, Laguna, the Philippines. The IRRI Library has the world’s most comprehensive collection of technical rice literature and caters to the information needs of worldwide clients. She has participated in many local and international conferences, as an attendee or as a resource person. She has written more than 10 published and unpublished papers, mostly those presented in international fora. The latest one, entitled Sharing digital knowledge with end-users: the case of the IRRI Library, is a chapter in a book published by Information Science Publishing in 2005 (Design and usability of digital libaries : case studies in the Asia Pacific). She is a recipient of travel grants from IRRI, CONSAL, the UNESCO, and IAALD.