Michelle Joy Lopez Miaque Crucero: A Young Librarian

Name : Michelle Joy L. Miaque Crucero
Nickname : "Mitch"
Address : Brgy. Sta. Rosa, Mandurriao, Iloilo City
Age : 24
Birthday : April 20, 1989
Birth place : Mandurriao
Gender : Female
Occupation : Librarian
Place of Work : John B.Lacson Foundation University, M.H. del Pilar St. Molo, Iloilo City

"If I were the director of a certain university library, I would make it a point that my staff would go home with a smile. I do not like that my staff would have experienced fear or pagkakainis when I am around. I want to treat them with dignity, respect, unlike those other library directors who sow fear to make their staff work. Library staff can be effective workers without using coercion."

These are words from a young librarian, Mrs. Michelle Joy Lopez Miague Crucero of Brgy. Sta. Rosa, Mandurriao, Iloilo City.

Mitch, as called by her friends, works as a librarian at John B.Lacson Foundation University.

She was born in Brgy. Sta. Rosa, Mandurriao, Iloilo City.

After graduation from college, Mith immediately took a board exam for librarian, and past it. Immediately after that, she was hired as a librarian at the John B. Lacson Foundation University.

I asked Mith of what she thinks of the present crop of librarians, and she told me: "Today's librarians are very much different from those librarians of some decades ago. Unlike the librarians of the yesteryears, today's librarians are young, approachable, charming, wide readers. In short they are  clientele friendly. 

Gone are those librarians who shouted at the noisy students in the library. Gone are those librarians who only sit in their chairs and point to their readers where to get the books. Gone are the days when the librarians did not take up any library subjects. Gone are the librarians who could not catalog books nor index their serial collections. Gone are those librarians who come to their libraries only to wait for the 15th and the 30th day of the month.

As for the present library science curriculum, it would be very beneficial if library science students take up a personnel management so that they will have enough background on how to manage their staff since registered library are usually assigned as supervisors.