(11 Aug 2024) The “mother of all Philippine maps,” which played a key role in the country’s landmark arbitral victory over China, has found a permanent home at the National Library of the Philippines (NLP) and will soon be available for free public viewing. The original Murillo Velarde 1734 map—the first scientific map of the Philippines—will…
(8 May 2024) Asia-Pacific Member States newly inscribed 20 items during the 2024 cycle of the Memory of the World Regional Register at the 10th General Meeting of the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP), which was convened from 7 to 8 May, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Genealogical records were…
(4 Mar 2024) “A good book is easy to find” reads the sign on Hernando Guanlao’s two-storey home located on the outskirts of the Philippines’ main financial district which he has turned into a public library where anyone can borrow books for free. Called the Reading Club 2000, Guanlao’s library showcases a wide variety of books…
(31 Aug 2023) THE Davao City Library and Information Center (CLIC) won two awards from the National Library of the Philippines (NLP) and The Asia Foundation (TAF) on Friday, August 25, 2023. The awarding of the CLIC for the Public Library of the Year Award for the year 2022 and the Most Innovative Public Library…
(31 Mar 2023) A few collections are added to the Library of Congress’ digital collections, including: Africana Historic Postcard Collection: 1,200 postcards documenting representations of African life from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Gisella Selden-Goth collection: Musicologist and collector Gisella Selden-Goth’s holograph manuscripts collection, personal Autographen album and a chronological register of her manuscript…
(2 Dec 2022) Several book collections from Malacañan’s Presidential Museum and Library can now be accessed at the National Library of the Philippines (NLP) building in Ermita, Manila. This, after First Lady Louise “Liza” Araneta-Marcos led the launching of the Presidential Library at the second floor mezzanine of the NLP building. Find out more…
(1 Dec 2022) This absence of a reading culture among Filipinos was challenged even more by the Covid pandemic. How have our libraries coped in the last three years? How have our librarians adjusted to widespread digitalization? What is the future of our libraries after the pandemic? These questions were all discussed at the roundtable…
(26 Nov 2022) The country is celebrating National Book Week from November 24 to 30 amid the struggle to arrest Filipino learners’ dwindling reading proficiency. Even before the pandemic struck, international large-scale assessments showed that learners were already struggling to meet the minimum required proficiency in reading, according to Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chair of the…
(28 Sep 2022) The Lyceum of the Philippines University (LPU) in Manila formally inaugurated a new academic resource center in celebration of its 70th founding anniversary. In an interview, Paolo Sotero Laurel, assistant vice president for non-academic operations, said the new center was inspired by the hit Korean drama “Start Up.” “The LPU…
(11 Oct 2022) Calling all LIS undergraduate students and recent graduates! The 32nd Library and Information Services Month Search for Best Paper Award has a separate category specifically for your research papers and recently submitted theses. Check the guidelines at https://tinyurl.com/LISM2022CFP or visit the 32nd LIS Month microsite at http://web.nlp.gov.ph/lis/ for details of other activities.…