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ALA ASEAN "Best Practices" Sister Library Partnership Project: Philippines

ACADEMIC library participant: College of St. Benilde Library

The College of Saint Benilde Library is part of the De La Salle private university network. Left: outside the CSB main entrance.  Right: with Anna Sajona, the project participating librarian, in front of the CSB library entrance.

John at College of Saint Benilde, Philippines  John with Philippine librarian in front of library

 

PUBLIC library participant: Quezon City Public Library

The Quezon City Public Library, outside of Manila, is very proactive in outreach to their community: children's puppet shows and story times, senior citizen workshops, youth programming, and more.  The library's staff, below, will be participants in this project as a team.

John with staff at the Quezon City Public Library, Philippines 

Exterior of Quezon City Public Library Bookmobile of the Quezon City Public Library

SCHOOL library participant: Beacon Academy School Library

The Beacon Academy School Library is on the outskirts of Manila.  Below: with Zarah Gagatiga, the library director and project participating librarian. Zarah is well-known advocate for school libraries, hosting a school library blog, School Librarian in Action, for over a decade.  

John at school library in the Philippines John with school librarian in the Philippines