UP Diliman Libraries Help Ondoy Victims

UP Library Staff packing relief goods for Ondoy victims

Members of the UP Community were not spared from the havoc Ondoy wreaked. In response to this disaster, the Office for the Vice-Chancellor for Community Affairs (OVCCA) headed by Dr. Cynthia Grace Gregorio instructed colleges and units to form a task force to identify and help university staff and personnel affected by Ondoy. The Library wasted no time in mobilizing the Task Force; while some members identified library staff that needed help, other members solicited and gathered donations from organizations and individuals. Donations in kind were sorted and bagged for distribution while cash donations were used to buy groceries, cleaning materials, bottled water and toiletries to further augment the relief packages for Ondoy victims. – – ERLagrama

 

August 2009 events at the UP College of Music

 

Message of Sympathy for the family of PRESIDENT CORAZON AQUINO from the UP System

Saturday, August 1, 2009
UP President Emerlinda R. Roman

The Board of Regents, officials, faculty, students, and administrative staff of the University of the Philippines, the National University, send their deepest sympathies to the family of President Corazon C. Aquino. She will always be remembered by a grateful people as a symbol of strength and courage, having stood up to the forces of tyranny, restored democracy, and served the nation honestly, faithfully and well. Other public servants, as well as ordinary Filipinos, would do well to follow her example of simplicity, sincerity, humility, and steadfast commitment. In these trying times, she will be most sorely missed as a unifying force and the nation’s moral compass till the very end.

EMERLINDA R. ROMAN
President
University of the Philippines System

(repost from the UP website)

 

Library of America Series titles donated to the UPD Library

Prof. Salvacion M. Arlante, University Librarian receiving donations from Prof. John Vincent Nye

The University Library of UP Diliman would like to thank PROF. JOHN VINCENT C. NYE for donating to the Library through the Thomas Jefferson Information Center (TJIC) 100 volumes of Library of America series titles. This is a rather long overdue acknowledgment and the Library sincerely appreciates this display of generosity and concern for the UP. Prof. Nye is the holder of the Frederic Bastiat Chair in Political Economy at the Mercatus Center of the George Mason University at Arlington, VA. He specializes in British and French economic history, and the new institutional economics. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the UP School of Economics.

From left: Elvira Lapuz, Rosemarie Rosali, Prof. John Nye, Ms. Salvacion Arlante and Dean Emmanuel de Dios

Some of the titles donated include these works by Madison and Jefferson

The formal turnover was held at the Conference Room of the Main Library last 22 July 2009. University Librarian Ms. Salvacion M. Arlante received the materials in behalf of the Library. Also present during the turnover were Dean Emmanuel De Dios of the School of Economics and Ms. Rose Rosali, head librarian of the School. These donated titles now formed part of the collection of the CSSP and CAL Libraries. – EBLapuz