Joseph+M.+Yap

= Yap, Joseph M. =

Joseph M. Yap is a licensed librarian and has worked as the Information Resource Officer of the Asian Collaborative Training Network for Malaria [ACTMalaria]. ACTMalaria is a regional network of National Malaria Control Programs of 11 member countries in Asia. It maintains a communication and information exchange program and services including the ACTMalaria Information Resource Center [AIRC]. AIRC is an online bibliographic database of malaria documents which has partnered with seven health libraries of its member institutions.He is presently an Associate Librarian of De La Salle University-Manila Library.

Joseph also served as an officer of the Medical and Health Librarians Association of the Philippines {MAHLAP] and is also a member of national library associations such as PLAI, PAARL and ASLP. Joseph has recently graduated from UP with his MLIS degree.

His library interests focus on : Indexing and Abstracting, Cataloging and Classification, Selection and Acquisition, Webliography and Digital Libraries, Archives and Records Management, Information Organization including Subject/Term Building, and Content Management System - Joomla.

Among his PAPERS / RESEARCHES / LECTURES/ SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS are: Paper presentation, Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting: Tropical Medicine in the –omics Era, “Digital Malaria Information Sharing in Asia”, October 13-14, 2008, Bangkok, Thailand. Resource Person, Strengthening Training in Malaria Microscopy and Quality Assurance, “Networking and Resource Sharing: the ACTMalaria Information Resource Center Initiative”, September 8-20, 2008, Davao, Philippines. Resource Person, “ACTMalaria Information Resource Center: Current Updates”, August 21, 2008, Bureau of Vector Borne Disease, Nonthaburi, Thailand. Resource Person, Archiving and Digitization: Dreams and Nightmares, “Collective Digital Collaboration in Asia: on-going experience of ACTMalaria,” June 23, 2008, Manila, Philippines. Resource Person, Malaria control in the Mekong Region: challenges and opportunities, “Resource sharing and communication: serving the needs of the malaria clientele,” December 5, 2007, Hanoi, Vietnam. Presentor, “Transfer of Training Technology,” Re-introducing AIRC to TTT Participants, August 14, 2007, Pearl International Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Trainor, Torch of Life Academy. Assisted and helped the TLA Library re-organize their library system (cataloging and classification and other library-related system requirements). June 2007, Diliman, Quezon City. Presentor, “National Training for Mid-Level Public Health Managers,” the “ACTMalaria Information Resource Center,” April 25, 2007, Bayview Park Hotel, Manila. Resource Person, “On-site Visits and Pre-testing of AIRC to Mekong Libraries,” March 2007 [CNM Library, Phnom Penh, Cambodia – NIMPE Library, Hanoi, Vietnam – DDC Library, Nonthaburi, Thailand]

PUBLICATIONS Author 2008 “Resource Sharing and Communication: Serving the Needs of the Malaria Clientele” Journal of Malaria and Parasite Diseases Control. ISSN 0868-3735 Writer 2007 “The ACTMalaria RRDS : a proposal (for review)” ACTMalaria. Co-author 2007. “AIRC database: user’s guide” Manila : ACTMalaria. ISBN 978-971-93526-2-4 Co-author 2007. “ACTMalaria forum online: user’s guide” Manila : ACTMalaria. ISBN 978-971-93526-3-1 Layout “StrateGems against malaria in Asia: harmonizing malaria control among and beyond borders: souvenir program on the regional symposium on malaria”, November

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