An adventure in applied science - IRRI books - International Rice ...

Developing and staffing the program 69IRRI's capable librarian,Lina Manalo Vergara,ponders a problem ather desk.Jersey, to see if he would be willing to accept a graduate student from thePhilippines on a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship. He answered that hewould be glad to do so but that he already had a graduate student from thePhilippines, Lina D. Manalo, who would be receiving her master’s degree inSeptember of 1960. He added that she was the brightest student he had everhad from all of South and Southeast Asia and that he was certain she wouldbecome an excellent librarian.Parker and I invited Manalo to New York for an interview on 13 June. Theinterview went so well that she was invited back a week later to have lunchwith Harrar, Parker, and me and to discuss the details of her appointment. Itwas agreed that Manalo would receive a Rockefeller Foundation traininggrant when she finished her degree requirements in September. Under thegrant, she would devote the first 4 to 6 months as an in-service trainee at theNational Agricultural Library in Washington, D.C. She would then spend theremainder of the period working in the New York office of the RockefellerFoundation under the guidance of Parker, ordering the basic materials neededto start IRRI’s library. After that, she would go to the Philippines and start herappointment as IRRI’s librarian.