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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]
Short stories also gained popularity during this period with many serials and stories published independently or through newspapers. The most well-known was Manuel Arguilla and his anthology How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife and Other Short Stories (1940), which won first prize in the Commonwealth Literary Contest.
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
The following year, this division was consolidated with the Philippine Library and Museum. In 1928, it became the Division of Archives under the renamed National Library. [3] During the post-war period, the Archive transferred from the National Library to the Department of General Services.
The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898, often referred to as Blair and Robertson after its two authors, was a 55-volume series of Philippine historical documents. [1] They were translated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson, a director of the National Library of the Philippines from 1910 to 1916.
It was abolished in 1933 by Act No. 4007. The Division of Fine Arts was placed under the Philippine Library and Museum (now National Library of the Philippines) while the Division of Ethnology was placed under the Bureau of Science. The National Museum Division was created from the merger of the Division of Ethnology and the Natural History ...
It was written and illustrated by the national hero of the Philippines Dr. Jose Rizal in 1885 while he was on Paris. The Mythology Class [ 93 ] by Arnold Arre [ 94 ] Tiny Tony [ 95 ] by Mars Ravelo and Jim Fernandez (artist)