The Physical Library Is Your First, Not Your Best Library – Which Is A Non-Library! This is The Editor In Chief Speaking, But Thanks Anyway Ms Mary Ann!

Here comes honor to Mary Ann Ingua, PhD,

Librarian of UP Los Baños, as she receives the “Satimder Kaur Ramdev Memorial Trust for Advancement of librarianship (SATKAL) 12 March 2025 at the India International Centre in new delhi; MIKAELA Rhinoa A Delos Reyes says:

“The (SATKAL) Woman Librarian Award honors Ingua for her dedication and outstanding contributions to her profession. It also highlights Filipino excellence and the impact of women in librarianship and information science.”

“Under Ingua’s leadership, the University Library continues to cater to each individual student, staff member, and researcher who steps through the campus halls. It thrives and has become a home for intellectual growth through inclusive and culturally diverse library services.”

Thanks, Ms Mary Ann Ingua! But, UPLB, as one of your graduates, I reader & writer am saying, “The physical library is your important library, but not your best library – which is a Library In The Mind! This is The Editor In Chief & alumnus speaking.

Elsewhere, In Asingan, Pangasinan, at the Rizal Junior College (RJC) where I took up my high school, we were lucky, nay blessed, to have a 1-room but excellent library – full of books and magazines, and I never had a full week without bringing home 2 or 3 books (fiction & non-fiction) to read Saturdays and Sundays. I was savoring my Saturdays and Sundays as an RJC Reader. Loner and Learner: I did not know this, but if you want to become a writer, along with that you would have to become a reader! Professional Writing is actually Advanced Reading & Writing.

As a self-proclaimed The Editor In Chief, I am after 3 kinds of library users: Reader, Researcher, Writer. And since the UPLB Library (also known as the “SEARCA Library” as it was SEARCA that donated the building) is not that huge, it must encourage readership by other means except providing individual spaces. (image from r.search.yahoo.com).

I am now encouraging Ms Mary Ann to roll out within UPLB, in each individual college, a Reader’s Delight Program where everyone learns and masters how to tap the vast resources of the iniversal library called the “Internet.” (This calls for a great number of personal computers, PCs, purchase funds for which SEARCA will have to solicit.)

I am hereby advocating “the advancement of librarianship” beyond its “borders” (walls of the library) into the whole, wide world of knowledge that includes the Internet!

Because the Internet is the biggest library of all, and it’s within the intellectual reach of all – sadly, we hardly go there (surf)! That is because we don’t have enough personal computers (PCs) available and affordable for hire.

Yes, we should now be thinking of PCs as libraries of whatever intellectual or personal field one is interested in.

In other words, I am looking at Ms Mary Ann Ingual, beyond the UPLB Library, working tirelessly around the UPLB campus pushing for the internalization of more/better knowledge beyond books & theses!@517