PNULISAA Unconference for Library Professionals (PULP) is a participant-driven activity that aims to provide a casual and laidback avenue for discussion, sharing of experiences, and exchange of ideas among LIS professionals. Adapting this year’s Library and Information Services (LIS) Month’s theme, "Mga Aklatan Bilang Kanlungan ng Karunungan: Tagapangalaga ng Kultura at Pamanang Lokal'' seeks to discuss and elaborate how the different types of libraries in the Philippines are protecting and promoting our diverse culture. 

 

Through sharing of experiences and best practices with fellow library professionals, it is hoped that the participants will be able to do the ff.:

1) Share insights and experiences on their current library practices intended to support the culture and creative sector;

2) Identify and potentially adopt best practices applied by different types of libraries that evidently, support cultural participation of its community;

3) Envision and foster libraries’ increased involvement in advocating for the culture and creative sector; 

4) Expand knowledge of the culturally diverse communities libraries serve and their needs, and;

5) Form increased communication opportunities among information professionals

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Unconference Guidelines

• It is a participant-driven activity. Facilitators are only a guide.

• The Facilitator shall start the conversation then let the participants come on their own.

• Everyone in the breakout room is encouraged to engage and share their ideas with the group. Breakout rooms are only given thirty (40) minutes per session to discuss and synthesize their lightning talk presentation aligned to the event’s theme.

• There should only be one (1) presenter assigned by the group in each breakout room. That presenter shall be the leader; present the synthesized version of their ideas aligned to the event’s theme during the lightning talk strictly for five (5) minutes only.

• A presenter shall only have one (1) chance to present.

• The presenter may assign his/her Scribe to take down notes or prepare the presentation.

• Each breakout room can use any user-friendly interface software/application as a working and presentation tool, i.e. Google (Docs, Slides, Jamboard, etc.), MS (Word, Powerpoint, Whiteboard, etc.), Miro Board, etc. They can also use any presentation supplementary, i.e. graphics, motion picture, etc. -- if necessary -- provided with corresponding credits/reference.

• This unconference follows the “Law of Two Feet”: if participants get to a room and do not feel like they are not learning nor contributing, they are free to move to another one. 

• All of the participants must still be present and productively listening during the lightning talks portion of the unconference.