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CPU's Prof. Cynthia Peleña engages in library exchange visitor program in Georgia, USA

Disclaimer: This is news from the Weekly Centralian Link August 27, 2017 issue. Prof. Peleña has been my LIS teacher since 2011 and she's now in a library internship in Georgia.

At John Bulow Campbell Library, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia.

Mrs. Cynthia T. Peleña is on a two-month library exchange visitor program in John Bulow Campbell Library, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. This library internship course from August 1, 2017 – October 1, 2017 is part of the Professional Enhancement and Training Program of Central Philippine University (CPU). It aims to provide training and exposure in administering quality theological library education especially to students of diverse nationalities. 

CPU offers Master of Library and Information Science with Specialization in Theological Librarianship (MLIS-TL). As academic coordinator of the MLIS-TL program, Mrs. Peleña engages mostly with international students. Last April 2016, 12 scholars from Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines have graduated from this course. This academic year 2017-2018, another 12 librarians from Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan and Philippines have enrolled in the program.

This internship program is in partnership with the Association for Theological Education in South East Asia (ATESEA) and the Foundation for Theological Education for South East Asia (FTESEA).

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