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Traditionally, until 2019 and since 2025, it marked the start of the school year and formerly the university academic year (until the move to August in 2015-17). The holiday marked the end of the school year for students of basic academic institutions from 2020 to 2024 and today serves as the end of the university and college academic year.
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 converted into a provincial library, and named after ...
The Main Library's location has been moved or reassigned several times throughout the history of the Quezon City Public Library. [3] The library is currently housed in a three-story building within the Quezon City Hall Complex which was inaugurated and opened by Mayor Herbert Bautista along with City Librarian Emelita Villanueva [ 4 ] on ...
The CPU Library is a depository of United Nations and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations; a recipient of library materials from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); the Population Council in New York City; the National Library of the Philippines in Manila, and Australian ...
Mrs. Estrella V. Manuel was designated Coordinator of Libraries. In 1978, the Philippine College of Commerce (PCC) was converted into a university and was consequently named Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP). The library was renamed Department of Library and Related Services. Between the periods 1979 and 1980, another wing of the ...
Philippine flags on display. Prior to 1964, June 12 was observed as Flag Day in the country. In 1965, President Diosdado Macapagal issued Proclamation No. 374, which moved National Flag Day to May 28 (the date the Philippine Flag was first flown in the victory by Filipino forces in the Battle of Alapan located in Imus, Cavite in 1898).
The newly renamed library was headed by James Alexander Robertson, an American scholar who, in collaboration with Emma Helen Blair, wrote The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898, and recognized today as both the first director of the modern National Library and the father of Philippine library science. Robertson would later abolish the library's ...
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]