Garcia,+Perla

= = =Perla T. Garcia=

Former Chairman of the Board for Librarians of the Professional Regulation Commission and Library Director of De La Salle University, Ms. Garcia was 6th placer in the 1996 licensure exams and since then has been frequently invited to speak in various seminars and fora sponsored by library organizations such as PAARL, PLAI, ASLP, USTLSSA, MAHLAP, and the Bicol Librarians Association. Not too long ago, she was awarded by PAARL as Outstanding Academic Librarian for the year 2000, in recognition of her quiet involvement in Philippine librarianship. A graduate of the UP Institute of Library Science (1993), Ms. Garcia is well-known as PAASCU accreditor since 1990. She was consultant of West Mindanao State University Library (1994), the Asian Institute of Management Library (1994), FEU Library (1999), FAPE Library (2000), and MV Gallego Foundation Colleges Library (2000). She was FAPE trainor in its 1995 series of Management Development Program on Library System Management, and in 1993, was trainor for Associated Resources for Management and Development Inc. Construction of Test Materials. She was an active member of the NCCA-NCLIS, representing DLSU Library before her BFL appointment. Her international exposure included a Bibliographic Information on Southeast Asia (BISA) training scholarship at the University of Sydney in 1984 for six months, an Asia Foundation fellowship grant in 1988 which enabled her to attend the ALA Conference held at New Orleans, Lousiana, USA and to visit selected libraries and academic institutions in the United States. She also attended the Second Pacific Conference on New Information Technology in 1989 held in Singapore, and the 11th CONSAL held in April 2000 also in Singapore. Before she joined DLSU-Manila, Ms. Garcia was an elementary math teacher from 1966 to 1980 at St. Scholastica’s College, and finished her first master’s degree in teaching Math at UP in 1978. Her initial writing involved An Analysis of a Criterion Referenced Test in Elementary Math.