The Philippine Journal of Librarianship and Information Studies released Vol. 44 No. 2 (2024).

For the editorial, editor-in-chief Prof. Kathleen Lourdes Obille ponders on the Philippine Librarianship Act of 2003 (RA 9246) with slants towards adding subjects on research, philosophy, critical theory, and ethics. Bradley Brazzeal traces the development of the Library Science Program of the University of the Philippines during the period 1914-1929. Assistant Professor Dridge Paul Reyes made a comparative study of academic librarians in the Philippines, comparing these to non-librarian faculty (NLFs) within private higher education institutions. Anna Espiritu explored the cultural and religious significance of the Kuraldal festival, a long-standing celebration in Sasmuan, Pampanga. Maria Ana Gabriela Lising examines three active archives in the Philippines dedicated to preserving records pertinent to Philippine Art History: the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Library and Archive, the Ateneo Library of Women’s Writings, and the Roberto Chabet Archive. Using methods in library, information & archival studies, her article explores how women who founded and cultivated these repositories became memory-keepers of Philippine art history. Lastly, Sylvan Dan Moldes and Kevin Cuevas explored factors affecting Wikipedia notability of Filipino athletes.

The issue can be downloaded from http://phjlis.org