UE Department of Libraries longtime employee, Mrs. Helen Punsalan Jamin, who most recently served as Assistant Libraries Director, passed away on October 13, 2009 due to complications of an illness. She was 61 years old; born in 1947, she would have marked her 62nd birthday this October 21st.
Mrs. Jamin’s professional career began in 1968 as a librarian of the Marikina School of Arts and Trades, a post she held up to 1970. She then became a teacher librarian for four schools in Manila: E. Aguinaldo High School (1970-1985), Division of City Schools (1970-1988), C. Arellano High School (1985-1986) and R. Magsaysay High School (1986-1988). From 1988 to 1992, she was the Supervisor of Libraries for the High School department of the said Division of City Schools in Manila.
Mrs. Jamin first came to UE in 1972, when she enrolled at the UE Graduate School. A 1968 alumna of the University of Santo Tomas with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education, Major in Library Science, she took up Master of Arts in Teaching, Major in Library Science at the UE Graduate School, eventually completing all of the academic requirements.
She “returned” to UE as a faculty member of the College of Arts and Sciences-Manila, working as such from 1990 to 2004. Within that period, she became the Chairperson of the CAS Manila’s Department of Library Science, from 1995 to 2003 and, moreover, was the Assistant Director of the Department of Libraries based in UE Manila, at the main library at the P. O. Domingo Center for Information Technology. Still as Assistant Director, she was assigned to UE Caloocan, specifically to the Benjamin G. Chua Jr. Library at the Tan Yan Kee Academic Building, which serves as the main library on the Caloocan Campus.
Mrs. Jamin dedicated her professional life to the pursuit of excellence in the library profession, having attended over 30 conferences, seminars or forums that were mostly about enhancing competency in library work. She was also a member of seven associations in line with her profession: the Philippine Librarians Association Inc. (of which she was a lifetime member), the Children’s Literature Association of the Philippines, the Manila Public Secondary School Library Association, Philippine Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science, the Philippine Association of Academic and Research Libraries, the Philippine Association of School Librarians, and the UST Library Science Alumni Association.
A native of Victoria, Tarlac, Mrs. Jamin was the first of two children of Federico A. Punsalan and the late Luz G. Ancheta-Punsalan. Mrs. Jamin is survived by her husband Ramon, their son Raymond, her father Federico and her younger sister Zenaida P. Badavi. Mrs. Jamin’s remains laid in state at the La Funeraria Paz on Araneta Avenue, Quezon City, before interment last October 17, 2009, 10 a.m., at the Eternal Gardens Memorial Park in Balintawak, Quezon City.
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