David,+Lourdes+T.

= = =Lourdes T. David=

Lourdes T. David is the director of the Rizal Library, Ateneo de Manila University. Prior to her transfer to the Ateneo, she was connected with the University of the Philippines first as an instructor with the Department of Chemistry at Los Banos, then as a librarian and professor of library science in Diliman. She holds a bachelor’s degree in food technology and a master’s degree in Library and information science. Her specialization is in information technology for which she obtained training at IBM, Philippines and in various institutions here and abroad. She is a member of a number of national and international library associations including the Philippine Library Association where she was a one-time president, the American Library Association and the International Association of School Librarians. She has also been a consultant of various organizations such as WHO, FORD Foundation, DOST and UNESCO. She is presently coordinating the testing of an ODL module on Library Automation that she designed and wrote for UNESCO Bangkok.