QUEZON CITY -- National Library of the Philippines (NLP) celebrates the 31st Library and Information Services Month through a virtual opening ceremony Wednesday, November 3.
This year's theme, “Libraries Building ROADS: Readers, Opportunities, Advocacies, Development, and Sustainability,” focuses on capturing the essence of the libraries’ role in attaining the SDGs promulgated in the UN 2030 Agenda and integrated into our Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017-2022.
“Libraries partook in achieving sustainable development goals or the global goals. Libraries encourage consciousness among readers, develop the medium of learning opportunities, assist in educational advocacies, support intellectual development and maintain information sustainability,” said NLP Director Cesar Gilbert Q. Adriano.
Meanwhile, National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA) Chairman Arsenio Nick Lizaso also said that by “recognizing the importance of passing down our culture, libraries perform one of the most vital functions by ensuring that our historical and cultural knowledge remain.”
However, libraries are not just static repositories; they are gateways to knowledge and culture, Lizaso added.
The NLP invites the public to join the following activities:
1. November 3-15, 2021
Posting of Best Online Activity by LIS Association
2. November 6, 2021
Let’s Pop It!: Poems of Peace to Write, Read and Jam Along facilitated by Philippine Association of School Librarian Inc.
The Introduction to Libraries Webinar by Rizal Library Ambassadors
3. November 8-11, 2021
Posting of Book Spine Poetry Contest Entries
4. November 8-12, 2021
Posting of Maki-Vlog Na! Libre Lang, May Papremyo Pa! Contest Entries
5. November 9-10, 2021
3rd Convention of Provincial Libraries in the Philippines hosted by NLP-Public Libraries Division
6. November 9-11, 2021
Librarians as Agents of Change in Legal Education: Reinventing the Culture of Service through Information Technology by Network of Academic Law Librarians, Inc.
7. November 10, 2021
PNULISAA Unconference for Library Professionals (PULP) on Libraries Paving Roads towards Global Goals
8. November 10 & 13, 2021
LIS AVANTE-GARDE by BLISS and UA-FLIPP
9. November 11, 2021
Paligsahan sa Online Balagtasan by Association of Librarians & Paraprofessionals of Zamboanga Peninsula, Inc.
10. November 12, 2021
Share-A-Book Deliberation (1:30pm)
Deadline of Submission: Book Face and Cutest Photo Contest
Virtual Storytelling on Facebook Live by City of Ilagan Tourism Office
11. November 13, 2021
Metamorpho-lis: Transforming Perceptions of Librarianship (Online Open Forum) hosted by PUP Library and Information Science Student Organization
Booklat (Webinar Series) by UP Library and Information Science Students Association
12. November 15, 2021
Maki-Vlog Na! Libre Lang, May Papremyo Pa! Deliberation (10:00am)
13. November 16-17, 2021
Webinar on Public Speaking and Personality Development – Key to Career Excellence (1:00-3:00 pm)
14. November 17-19, 2021
Capacity Building in Library Services: Re-framing Libraries, Setting the New Normal by NLP-Reference Division
15. November 18, 2021
Book Face and Cutest Photo Contest Deliberation (10:00am and 1:00pm)
16. November 19, 2021
Best Online Activities by LIS Association Deliberation (1:00pm)
Posting of Book Face and Cutest Photo Contest Entries
17. November 20, 2021
Libsynergy: Yielding Positive Outcomes through Library Partnerships by UP Library Science Alumni Association, Inc.
18. November 22, 2021
Women Writing on the Margins: The Fictional Works of Grazia Deledda and Magdalena Jalandoni hosted by NLP-Public Libraries Division
19. November 23, 2021
Orientation of Newly Affiliated Public Libraries and Online Learning on Essential Skills for Public Library Personnel (OLESPLP) hosted by NLP-Public Libraries Division
20. November 24-30, 2021
National Book Week Celebration
Outcomes, Outreach, Outstanding: Libraries Beyond Boundaries
21. November 30, 2021
LISM Virtual Awarding and Closing Ceremonies (1:30pm)
National Library of the Philippines encourages everyone to use hashtags #31stLISM, #LISMonth2021, and #LibrariesBuildingROADS in promoting and advertising the activities on various social media platforms. (MCDS/PIA-IDPD with information from NLP)
