Local Public Library

1.Filipinas Heritage Library

Location: Makati Avenue, Ayala Triangle, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Architect: Leandro V Locsin & Partners.

Established in 1996, the Filipinas Heritage Library (FHL) is the other half of Ayala Foundation’s
Arts and Culture Division. As a one-stop digital research center in the Philippines, its mission is
to spark and stoke interest in the visual, aural, and printed story of the Filipino. It is home to
various collections with over 10,000 Filipiniana volumes, rare publications, archival photos, and
other materials focused on Philippine history and culture. This Library provides access to wealth
of Filipino heritage through the latest in information technology and telecommunications.

They collaborate with individuals and institutions in preserving documentary heritage with a
focus on the formative period of Philippine nationhood (1930-1950s). Filipiniana collections are
shared with the public onsite (on the sixth floor of the Ayala Museum complex), virtually (through
our online public access catalog), and through public programs (exhibitions, lectures, and
educational activities).

2. Quezon City Public library

Located: Quezon City Parks Department Plant Nursery, Metro Manila, Philippines
Architect:

The Quezon City Public Library started as a small unit, a joint venture of the National Library
and Quezon City government during the incumbency of the late Mayor Ponciano Bernardo and
the first City Superintendent of Libraries, Atty. Felicidad Peralta by virtue of Public Law No. 1935
which provided for the “consolidation of all libraries belonging to any branch of the Philippine
Government for the creation of the Philippine Library”, and for the maintenance of the same.

The Quezon City Public Library takes charge of the acquisition, collection, organization,
distribution, and preservation of books and non-book materials to meet the needs of the reading
public. QCLP manages the dissemination of information through books and non-book materials
that promote the educational, economic, moral, social, and cultural well-being of the city
populace. QCLP also facilitates the use of the library as a venue for audio-visual presentations
and other kinds of exhibitions and activities.

Foreign library

1.Brooklyn Public Library

Located: Brooklyn, New York City, USA

Architect: Raymond F. Almirall’s

The Brooklyn Public Library is the public library system of the New York City

borough of Brooklyn. It is the sixteenth largest public library system in the United States by
holding and the seventh by number of visitors. Like the two other public library systems in New
York City, it is an independent nonprofit organization that is funded by
the city and state governments, the federal government, and private donors. The library
currently promotes itself as Bklyn Public Library
Brooklyn Public Library's founding dates to an 1892 act of the state legislature “to establish and
to maintain a public library and reading room” in the independent city of Brooklyn. Following the
consolidation of Greater New York, the library system grew along with the borough it served.

2. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Located: New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Architect: Gordon Bunshaft

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is the rare book library and literary archive of the Yale
University Library in New Haven, Connecticut. It is one of the largest buildings in the world dedicated
to rare books and manuscripts. Established by a gift of the Beinecke family and given its
own financial funding, the library is financially independent from the university and is co-governed by
the University Library and Yale Corporation.
he building was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and completed in
1963. From 2015 to 2016 the library building was closed for 18 months for major renovations, which
included replacing the building's HVAC system and expanding teaching and exhibition capabilities.