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The National Library of the Philippines (Filipino: Pambansang Aklatan ng Pilipinas or Aklatang Pambansa ng Pilipinas, abbreviated NLP, Spanish: Biblioteca Nacional de Filipinas) is the Philippines' official repository of information on cultural heritage and other literary resources.
About 1.2 million volumes of reference and reading materials are available at the National Library, in which the Filipiniana and Asia Division alone own more than 100,000 Filipiniana books. The Diliman portion of the library of the University of the Philippines is composed of 1,132,483 volumes. [1]
The Cebu City Public Library and Information Center traces its roots to the Cebu Branch Library of the Philippine Library and Museum, now the National Library of the Philippines. It was organized and opened to the public on April 13, 1919, by Guillermo Restun, the chief librarian from the Ilo-ilo branch.
Established in 1919, [10] it began as the Philippine Library's branch in Cebu and Museum (presently National Library of the Philippines). [14] It has free Wi-Fi internet connection available to users, offers dedicated services for LGBTQIA members and the hearing-impaired, [15] and is the first public library in the country that is open 24/7. [16]
From 2013-2015, entrance became free in museums administered by the National Museum in cooperation with the Aquino government. [10] The free entrance policy became permanent in 2016. [11] In 2019, President Rodrigo Duterte changed the agency's name from "National Museum" to "National Museum of the Philippines" through Republic Act No. 11333. [12]
National historical marker installed in 1949. Before becoming a library, its building served as Vigan's jail in 1657, and became Ilocos Sur's provincial jail complex in 1855. [2] In 1890, Philippine president Elpidio Quirino was born inside the jail complex when his father served as jail warden. In 1948, a section of the jail complex was ...
Korean Cultural Center in the Philippines (KCC) Library Bayani Road, Fort Bonifacio , Taguig About 3,000 titles which include collection of printed materials (e.g. books, journals, magazines, etc.) and multimedia materials (e.g. K-pop CDs and K-movies and drama DVDs spanning the areas of social sciences, history, literature, language, culture ...
Plan of a first class public school in Mati, Mindanao Spanish document section of the National Archives of the Philippines: National Library of the Philippines, Ermita, Manila: 18 million original pages of documentation from the Spanish colonial period dating as far as the 16th century [15] [15] [16] Feeding the Chicken Painting by Simon Flores