Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Hello SINGAPORE!

Dear Colleagues and Friends:

Greetings from PAARL!

The Philippine Association of Academic and Research Librarians (PAARL)is pleased to invite you to its 4-day educational tour in Asia’s renowned Garden City – Singapore. The activity, dubbed as “Benchmarking Tour in Singapore Libraries” will be conducted from October 21-24, 2010.

This year’s most awaited international exposure will bring together the excitement of visiting Singapore’s selected state-of-the-art libraries, a chance to learn in a seminar-orientation with Singapore’s high-profile information specialists, experience cultural immersion and warm hospitality of its people and a glimpse to Singapore’s top destinations and sceneries. Specifically, the tour aims to:

1. observe the latest technological progress and infrastructures in
selected Singapore libraries;

2. learn new trends and meaningful concepts of library services from
selected Singapore libraries;

3. foster professional and cultural exchange between Filipino and
Singaporean librarians;

4. establish a linkage among Singapore library associations for future
collaborative undertakings in the region.

For details and inquiries, please contact the undersigned or any member of the
Board of Directors. We will appreciate if you could help us disseminate this
information to our colleagues in the profession.

Thank you and we look forward to welcoming you to Singapore.

Very truly yours,

Teresita C. Moran
Chair, International Affairs Committee
Ateneo Professional Schools Library
Tel. Nos. (02) 899-4344 / (02) 899-4343

Noted by:

Christopher C. Paras
President