National Library of the Philippines
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The facade of the library facing T.M. Kalaw Avenue
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| Country | Philippines |
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| Type | cultural agency |
| Established | 1901 (115 years ago) |
| Reference to legal mandate | Act No. 96 of the Philippine Commission (passed March 5, 1901) |
| Location | Rizal Park, T.M. Kalaw Avenue, Ermita, Manila |
| Coordinates | 14°34′55.37″N 120°58′51.73″E / 14.5820472°N 120.9810361°ECoordinates: 14°34′55.37″N 120°58′51.73″E / 14.5820472°N 120.9810361°E |
| Branches | none |
| Collection | |
| Items collected | books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, databases, maps, atlases, microforms, stamps, prints, drawings, manuscripts |
| Size | 1,678,950 items, including 291,672 volumes, 210,000 books, 880,000 manuscripts, 170,000 newspaper issues, 66,000 theses and dissertations, 104,000 government publications, 53,000 photographs and 3,800 maps (2008) |
| Criteria for collection | Filipino literary and scholarly works (Filipiniana) |
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| Access and use | |
| Circulation | library does not publicly circulate |
| Members | 34,500 (2007) |
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| Budget | ₱120.6 million (2013) |
| Director | Antonio M. Santos |
| Staff | 172 |
| Website | web.nlp.gov.ph |
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The National Library of the Philippines (Filipino: Pambansang Aklatan ng Pilipinas or Aklatang Pambansa ng Pilipinas, abbreviated NLP) is the official national library of the Philippines. The complex is located in Ermita on a portion of Rizal Park facing T.M. Kalaw Avenue, neighboring culturally significant buildings such as the Museum of Philippine Political History and the National Historical Commission. Like its neighbors, it is under the jurisdiction of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA).
The library is notable for being the home of the original copies of the defining works of José Rizal: Noli Me Tangere, El Filibusterismo and Mi último adiós.
The National Library of the Philippines can trace its history to the establishment of the Museo-Biblioteca de Filipinas (Museum-Library of the Philippines), established by a royal order of the Spanish government on August 12, 1887. It opened on October 24, 1891 at the Intendencia in Intramuros, then home of the Manila Mint (as the Casa de la Moneda), with around 100 volumes and with both Julian Romero and Benito Perdiguero as director and archivist-librarian, respectively.
Romero resigned in 1893 and was briefly replaced by Tomas Torres of the Escuela de Artes y Ofícios in Bacolor, Pampanga (now the Don Honorio Ventura Technological State University), who in turn was replaced by Don Pedro A. Paterno on March 31, 1894. By that time, the library had moved to a site in Quiapo near the present site of the Masjid Al-Dahab. Later on, Paterno published the first issue of the Boletin del Museo-Biblioteca de Filipinas (Bulletin of the Museum-Library of the Philippines) on January 15, 1895.
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