Rzl10/Extra Curricular

RZL10/B8

MWF 3:00-4:30pm

Cabudsan, Arren Charmaine S. June 23, 2010

Extra Curricular Activity

Last June 22, 2010, I had a chance to visit an exhibit at University of Santo Tomas specifically at their library. The library is named after Miguel de Benavidez, the third Archbishop of Manila and the founder of the University of Santo Tomas. He donated his private collections of books for a future college of priesthood which became UST, making the library older than the University itself.

Lumina Pandit: An Exhibition of Historical Treasures is open to Thomasians and the public at large from June 17 to January 2011 at the Miguel de Benavidez Library ground floor.

The first highlight of UST’s quadricentennial celebration has officially opened. The library’s contribution finally realized after years of preparation. Through this exhibit, the library and the university asserts that it has been a witness to the growth of the Philippines as a nation. All those who are a part of this project are commendable: the administrators and managers who headed this project; the library staff participation; and the guides who volunteered. We were all given a chance to be part of a grand project done only maybe once every century.

The international exhibit worth more than P10 million is presented in three different languages — Filipino, English and Spanish. Some sections is also translated in Ilocano, Waray, Kapampangan and Bicolano. It employs new media technology for an interactive feel.

The exhibit, curated by Marian Pastor-Roces, consists of six sections — “Threshold 400,” “Realm of Print,” “Spheres of Change,” “Routes of Globalization,” “Nascent Nation,” and “Curve of Nationalism.”

“Threshold 400” features the Doctrina Christiana and the Shih-Lu, the Catechism in Chinese, which are the first books printed in the Philippines by the Dominicans in 1593, copies of the Act of Foundation of the University, the royal decree given to...