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These are interesting facts you probably didn't know about the UP Manila University Library.
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1 | Philippine Medical School
The University Library traces its roots in the department libraries of the Philippine Medical School, the precursor of the UP College of Medicine and very first academic unit of UP.
Source: UPMARD [2022]. UP Manila, The University Library: a timeline. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
Image source: UP College of Medicine [2019-2020]. Philippine Medical School. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
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2 | Library Science Pensionados at the University of Wisconsin
Who would have thought that library science profession, now dominated by women, originated with five young men? According to Rachel K. Shenk, Director of Wisconsin Library School in 1964, "It is interesting to note that practically all library activities in the Philippines today stem from the work of five young men who attended the University of Wisconsin Library School in the 1920s, and who returned to their homes to the start the first libraries in their native land."
Source: Shenk, R. K. (1964). "The Library School" in School of Library and Information Studies, page 180-181. Retrieved 13 May 2022 from https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/CPJANA57LIJ2I8L
Image source: UP SLIS (2022). The University of Wisconsin and the Development of Philippine Librarianship [video]. Available at <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo8jOIOWvIk> [Accessed 15 May 2022].
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Source: Brazzeal, Bradley. "Science Librarianship in Colonial Philippines: Mary Polk and the Philippine Bureau of Science Library, 1903-1924" (2021). University Libraries Publications and Scholarship. 27. https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/ul-publications/27
Image source: UP SLIS (2022). The University of Wisconsin and the Development of Philippine Librarianship [video]. Available at <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo8jOIOWvIk> [Accessed 15 May 2022].
3 | Philippine Bureau of Science Library
Mary Polk, prior to serving the University of the Philippines as University Librarian and Professor of Library Science, was appointed Librarian of the Philippine Bureau of Science Library. Her lengthy career with the library would leave a mark in the history of Philippine libraries.
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4 | Library Science Education
The image shows the University of the Philippines in Padre Faura Street in Ermita, Manila where library science education was first offered in 1914 under the College of Liberal Arts. However, classes were held at Philippine Library and the Bureau of Science Library.
Source: UP Library Science Alumni Association [2022]. History of the Association. Retrieved 14 May 2022 from https://sites.google.com/site/uplsaa60/about
Image source: John Tewell Collection in Manila 5 Flickr Album. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
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5 | The Library Mirror
The article "Development of Libraries in the Philippines" by Solomon V. Arnaldo, the Chief of Research and Reference, Commonwealth of the Philippines mentioned that there was a "Library Club" at the University of the Philippines, organized during or sometime after the first World War and, that their official organ was named "The Library Mirror."
Source: Special Libraries Association, Development of Libraries in the Philippines in "Special Libraries, October 1944" (1944). Special Libraries, 1944. 8. Retrieved 17 May 2022 from https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1944/8
Image source: The Library Mirror, volume 2 1931. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
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6 | Inauguration of the University Library
The UP Board of Regents at its 223rd meeting on March 9, 1922 recorded: “It is recommended that the Library of the University be designated as the Department of Library Science to be placed on a level of equality with other departments of instruction for the service of all colleges of the university system” (Abstracts on Library Matters...1922, p. 29).
In March 17, 1931 the University Library was inaugurated.
This is a vintage photo of Gonzales Hall in UP Diliman that has been home to the University Library for years.
Source: UP Library Science Alumni Association [2022]. History of the Association. Retrieved 14 May 2022 from https://sites.google.com/site/uplsaa60/about
Image source: UP College of Architecture [2022]. A vintage Gonzales Hall in Moments, Memories & History: Over 50 years of Vanguard Architectural Education in the Philippines. Retrieved 17 May 2022 from https://upca.upd.edu.ph/history.html
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7 | The Philippine Index Medicus
This is the cover page of The Philippine Index Medicus, the first and only index of Filipino medical journals. It is considered to be the greatest contribution of Aquilino Y. Argosino to the Philippine Medical Literature.
There is also an introduction to the medical bibliography prepared by Gabriel A. Bernando, a well-known librarian, bibliographer and scholar.
Source: Acquilino Y. Argosino January 4, 1896 - July 16, 1962. (1962, December). The U.P. Medic's Newsette vol. XII no. 4, p. 27
Image source: F.B. Herrera Jr. Medical Library
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8 | University Hall
The site where the Library Building will be located at that time, was on the East side, next to the University Hall (now the Department of Justice occupies this building) and Rizal Hall.
The University Hall, was the first building built by W. Parson in the UP- Manila Campus in 1914.
Source: UP Manila, The University Library: a timeline. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
Image source: John Tewell Collection in University of the Philippines, Manila. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
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9 | Provided library service from the Philippine General Hospital
The library resumed service for students in January 1946 in a room at the Philippine General Hospital for students of Law, Liberal Arts and Education. Another room at the dispensary for Medicine and Pharmacy students.
Source: UP Manila, The University Library: a timeline. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
Image source: John Tewell Collection in Manila, Philipines. Historical buildings and places in the city Flickr Album. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
Image source: Tewell, J. (1947). University of the Philippines Manila - Palma Hall November 13, 1947 (back). Retrieved 17 May 2022.
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10 | Transfer of University Library to UP Diliman
Along with other units of the university, the University Library officially transferred to the new campus at Diliman in 1949. It stayed there for a time at the College of Law building (Malcolm Hall) before finally settling in its very own building at the heart of the Academic Oval.
Source: UP Manila, The University Library: a timeline. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
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