Officials from the Embassy of the People's Republic of China, headed by Mr. Pan Feng, the embassy's Cultural Counsellor, visited the NLP on August 23, 2012. The delegation donated more than 400 books on various aspects of Chinese history, language, literature, arts and culture as well as some children's books. They also paid a courtesy call to NLP Director Antonio M. Santos.
Distinguished librarians and/or catalogers from various institutions participated in a salon discussion on “What Now for RDA in the Philippines?” last July 23rd, 2012, at the Conference Room of the National Library of the Philippines (NLP). The meeting was hosted by the NLP Catalog Division and attended by selected experts on the topic.
National Library of the Philippines celebrates its 125th anniversary on August 12, 2012. The following activities are lined-up for employees and the general public during the 3-day celebration scheduled on August 22-24, 2012:
Ensuring quality over quantity, addressing the lack of space and inadequate funding as well as the level of support available, questions on jurisdiction and supervision, and exploring possible means of income generation such as the collection fees are merely the tip of the veritable iceberg of issues facing the public libraries and public librarians in the Philippines.
In one year time a total of 247 units of koha servers were deployed to 44 city, 2 congressional, 180 municipal, 20 provincial and 1 regional affiliated public libraries in 25 provinces of the country. Starting from the last quarter of 2010 deployment of Koha Integrated Library System (Koha ILS) was made possible under the 2009-2011 Information System Strategic Plan (ISSP) of the Information Technology Division (ITD) of the National Library of the Philippines (NLP).
In one year time a total of 247 units of koha servers were deployed to 44 city, 2 congressional, 180 municipal, 20 provincial and 1 regional affiliated public libraries in 25 provinces of the country. Starting from the last quarter of 2010 deployment of Koha Integrated Library System (Koha ILS) was made possible under the 2009-2011 Information System Strategic Plan (ISSP) of the Information Technology Division (ITD) of the National Library of the Philippines (NLP).
