Through its Filipiniana collection development project, the Philippine Studies Group (PSG) at York University acquired 107 titles for donation to York University Libraries (YUL). This project was part of a grant from the Philippine government to enhance academic and research collaborations between York and Philippine universities.
A full list of titles acquired is available here.
“We focused on titles that fell outside YUL’s usual acquisition channels: titles older than five years, from presses without Canadian distribution channels,” said Kenneth Cardenas, a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Program in Geography who coordinated the project.
Some highlights include 31 titles from the University of the Philippines Press, 11 from Ateneo de Manila University Press, and 5 from Anvil Publishing. We acquired a full set of the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Philippine Arts: its final print run before it shifted to an online-only model.
“We sought to reflect the strengths and interests of York’s Philippine Studies community: performing arts, gender, sexuality, and women’s studies, economic history and geography, and environmental studies and climate change. We also tried to fill some gaps in York’s current collection with titles on social movements, Mindanao, and conflict and reconciliation,” said Cardenas.
Finally, there was an attempt to reflect in acquisitions the unique conditions of knowledge production in the Philippines after the 1986 Edsa Revolution, a series of popular demonstrations in the Philippines also known as the People Power Revolution.
Read more about the collection at this link.