Big Warrior congratulations to UE Department of Libraries Director Venus Boyer Oruga for being elected as the President of Philippine Librarian Association Inc.–National Capital Region Librarians’ Council (PLAI-NCRLC) in the association’s regional election in October 2023!
In addition to being elected President of PLAI-NCRLC, Dir. Oruga was also elected as the Chairman for the House of Delegates of the PLAI-National.
As PLAI-NCRLC President, Dir. Oruga’s multitude of responsibilities include acting as the chief executive of the Regional Council; working with the Council’s Board of Trustees to make decisions aligned with the PLAI’s national goals and objectives; representing the PLAI-NCRLC’s interests at the local, national, and international
levels, and building strong relationships with other libraries/librarian’s associations within
the National Capital Region.
As concurrent Chairperson of the PLAI House of Delegates, she presides during the annual convention; checks and validates the Regional Council representatives; and deliberates and promulgates resolutions, rules, procedures, etc. that shall bind the Association, among other responsibilities.
Prior to her election to these positions, she was PLAI’s Vice President for Luzon and the Vice President of PLAI-NCRLC, both from 2022 to 2023.
Dir. Oruga is a 2010 graduate of the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree program of the UE Graduate School (GS), where she is also taking up Doctor of Education major in Educational Leadership and Management.
She has been a part-time faculty member of the Library and Information Science Program of the UE GS since 2018, and of the Department of Library and Information Science of the UE College of Arts and Sciences-Manila (CAS Manila) since 2020. In 2021, she was appointed as the new Director for the UE Department of Libraries, after the fruitful stint of former UE Libraries Director Loreto T. Garcia.
Three other UE graduates were elected to the PLAI-NCRLC Board of Trustees: April 2016 Bachelor of Library and Information Science graduate Kevin Conrad T. Tansiongco as Vice President; April 2008 MLIS graduate Juan Martin D. Guasch as Auditor; and April 2001 Bachelor of Science, major in Library and Information Science, graduate Melanie Abad Ramirez as Chair of the Nomination and Election Committee.
Congratulations, Warrior Libraries Director Venus Oruga and fellow Warrior Librarian-Officers!
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