The name Cynthia is a Greek baby name. In Greek the meaning of the name Cynthia is: Of Cynthus (Mount Cynthus on the island of Delos).

Famous bearer: Cynthia was one of the names of the mythological moon goddess Artemis, referring to her birth on Mount Cynthus.

Cynthia Paranal Cabria-NarraBuhi Camarines Sur

Are documents issued, published, or financed by local, state, federal, or international government agencies.

Government publications are documents and information produced by government and central government organizations.

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

Local documents are materials issued by local government agencies and their sub units, including municipalities, counties, township, villages, special district, school boards and the like.

Local records are materials that are primary sources of public records such as births, marriages and deaths, land deeds, and tax records.

  Local history is material written by, for, or about the citizen of

a community, or about the community itself.

Local information is a broader term that includes local documents, local history, and information relating to the area whether or not it is locally produced.

Yuri Nakata, Susan Smith and William Ernst (1979) gave some definition of terms used in managing

government documents

Government publications can cover virtually any subject, including Congressional laws and hearings, nutrition, crime, diseases, endangered species, and immigration. The U.S. federal government is the world's greatest collector and publisher of statistics.

They include parliamentary publications, legislation, policy documents, discussion documents, statistics and reports.

WHAT DOES GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION COVER?

Perhaps the most obvious reason is no one else is doing it.

Government agencies themselves do not organize or preserve their publication systematically to provide public access.

Public libraries, academic libraries, and school libraries are the most logical places to collect local government documents.

Libraries are designed to organize and to provide access to the materials.

People are more likely to ask for more information from libraries than from individual government offices.

Libraries can offer faster and more complete reference and information services to community officials.

WHY SHOUD LIBRARIES COLLECT GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS?

According to Nakata (1979)

Determine who the customers are and what their information needs are.

In the absence of empirical data on the needs of customers, the location of the library may give information about these needs.

WHAT AND HOW TO SELECT?

Contacts have to be made with department and agencies.

Explain what the library would like to receive from the agencies.

A visit to the agency may produce better results.

If the agency’s publications are for sale, place direct order for specific terms.

Maintain regular contacts with the documents producers.

METHODS OF ACQUIRING GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

Library staff members who live in the community and who are active in community affairs can be recruited.

Close contact with civic organizations can also be a fruitful methods to keep informed of local events.

The library can also acquire limited copies of an agency’s documents offering to pick up the document, to photocopy it at the library’s expense, and to return the original.

It may be necessary to schedule regular visits to the various agencies to pick up documents when multiple copies are available.

Gifts are valuable resources of local history materials. Newsletters and local newspapers received through donations are welcomed in the library.

Three possible method of organizing these materials:

Vertical file Integrated collection Separate collection

HOW TO ORGANIZE GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS?

Books Journals Newsletter Bulletin Pamphlets Brochures Kits Directories Etc.

TYPES OF PUBLICATIONS

Book a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.

Examples TYPES OF PUBLICATIONS

a newspaper or magazine that deals with a particular subject or professional activity.

a book in which you write down your personal experiences and thoughts

a magazine that reports on things of special interest to a particular group of people

Journal

a written report, issued periodically, typically by a business, institution, or other organization, that presents information and news to people with a specific interest in the organization or subject: our coop’s monthly newsletter;

an employee newsletter.

Newsletter

a written report and analysis of the news, often providing forecasts, typically directed at a special audience, as businesspeople, and distributed to subscribers:

a stock-market newsletter.

Bulletin a brief public notice issuing usually from an authoritative source; specifically:  a brief news item intended for immediate publication or broadcast

Pamphlets a small, thin book with no cover or only a paper cover that has information about a particular subject

Brochures: a small, thin book or magazine that usually has many pictures and information about a product, a place, etc.

Kit:   a collection of articles usually for personal use <a travel kit>

Directories : A book listing individuals or organizations alphabetically or thematically with details such as names, addresses, and telephone numbers

We can find government publications in different government office, agencies and bureaus, libraries and etc.

http://www.pcoo.gov.ph/government_directory.html

http://www.gov.ph/directory/

http://web.nlp.gov.ph/nlp/

http://www.gov.ph/

WHERE CAN I FIND GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS?

History March 9, 1900 - American Circulating Library Mr. Charles R. Greenleaf

Public Act No. 96 passed on March 5, 1901, accepted the Circulating Library as a donation of the American Circulating Library Association to the government.

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF THE PHILIPPINES (NLP)http://web.nlp.gov.ph/nlp/

Public Law Act No. 1935 "the consolidation of all libraries  belonging

to any branch of the Philippine government for the creation of the Philippine Library",

1916, The Philippine Library, Division of Archives, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks of the Executive Bureau and the Law Library of the Philippine assembly were merged into one entity, called the Philippine Library and Museum

Public Law No. 3477 (1928) and changed the name of the Philippine Library and Museum to The National Library.

Executive Order No. 94, series 1947 the President of the Philippines changed the name of The National Library to Bureau of Public Libraries

Republic Act No. 411 otherwise known as the Municipal Libraries Law, authored by the then Senator Geronima T. Pecson

Republic Act No. 3873 passed in 1964 brought back to the Bureau of Public Libraries its old name,

Republic Act No. 10087 enacted in May 13, 2010 Currently, the library is known as the National Library of the Philippines (NLP)

The Government Publication Section houses the publications of different government agencies in the Philippines including national government offices (i.e. Departments, Bureaus, and other attached agencies), local government offices, government-owned and controlled corporations (i.e. GSIS), state universities and colleges, judicial offices (i.e. Supreme Court, Department of Justice, Regional Trial Court, etc.), legislative offices (i.e. House of Representatives and The Senate) other independent offices and special agencies. 

Government Publications Section

One of the resources of the NLP are the Featured titles, under that is the Government Publication, Filipiniana section

Contents limited to On-Site Access

To Access, Visit Us at:

4rth Floor, West WingNational Library of the PhilippinesT.M. Kalaw St., Ermita, Manila

WHERE ARE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION LOCATED IN NATIONAL LIBRARY OF THE PHILIPPINES?

Access to the Government Publications collection is open and free to students, faculty, and staff, as well as the general public.

WHO CAN USE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS COLLECTION?

Bibliography of Materials in Philippine Vernacular Languages (1973)

Biblioteca Nacional Filipina Revista Historica

A Britisher in the Philippines or the letter of Nicholas Loney

Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1964-1968 Volume 1

Checklist of publications of the Government of Philippine Islands September 1, 1900 to December 31, 1917

WHAT GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION ARE AVAILABLE AT NLP?

Cinco reglas de nuestra moral antigua Disquisiciones historico-bibliiograficas

por Jose Lopez Del Castillo y Kabangis Five Fairy Tales of Andersen, Translate

d in Tagalog by Jose Rizal

Guide to Creation of Provinces, Cities, Municipalities and Barangays

Guide to the 1971 Constitutional Convention Papers: Resolutions 1-2000, Vol. 1 part 1

Guide to the 1971 Constitutional Convention Papers: Resolutions 2001-5800, Vol. 1 part 2

Guide to the 1971 Constitutional Convention Papers: Vol. 2

History of The National Library Ignacio Villamor

: the Savant and the man On Librarianship and scholarship: Colle

ction of speeches and writings Medina en la historia de Filipinas

NLP Newsletter Pres. Carlos P. Garcia: Speeches, Messa

ges and other Pronouncements vol. 1 March 1957 to April 1959

Pres. Carlos P. Garcia: Speeches, Messages and other Pronouncements vol. 2 May 1959 to December 1961

Public library legislation: A compilation of laws and orders pertaining to public libraries (1964)

TOYM 1959-1969: A Register

The Official Gazette print edition is published every Monday

. Inquiries regarding publication in, subscription to, circulation, and claims may be forwarded to the National Printing Office.

Learn the history of the Official Gazette and more about the Official Gazette print edition

The Official Gazette is the official journal of the Republic of the Philippines.

The Official Gazette was created by decree of Act No. 453, “An Act providing for the publication by the Insular Government of an Official Gazette, under the general direction of the Department of Public Instruction.” It was enacted by the Philippine Commission on September 2, 1902, by authority of the United States of America. Vol. 1, No. 1 came out on September 10, 1902.

In March 5, 1903, Act No. 664 amended the earlier Act No. 453 to provide for further distribution of the Official Gazette:

The Official Gazette shall be published weekly in two parts, one part in English and the other in Spanish

Each part shall be issued separately and shall contain all legislative Acts and all resolutions of a public nature of the Insular Legislature

, all executive orders, such as decisions or abstracts of decisions of the Supreme Court, the Court of Customs Appeals, and the Court of Land Registration, as may be deemed by said courts of sufficient importance to be printed and published,

SECTION 3.

Gaceta Oficial, circa 1906. (Upper left) Gaceta Oficial, circa 1925. (Upper right) The wartime Official Gazette, circa 1943. (Lower left) Official Gazette circa 1946. (Lower right)

“An Act to provide for the uniform publication and distribution of the Official Gazette,”

May 22, 1941 -- June 10, 1941 President Manuel L. Quezon

Commonwealth Act No. 638

SECTION 24.

Official Gazette circa 1960. (Upper left) Official Gazette circa 2006. (Upper right) Official Gazette circa 2009. (Lower left) Current design of the Official Gazette circa 2012. (Lower right)

SECTION 1

Executive Order No. 200, s. 1987, “Providing for the publication of laws either in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation in the Philippines as a requirement for their effectivity,”

SECTION 25. Editing and Publications

Executive Order No. 4, s. 2010 was signed by President Benigno S. Aquino

III in keeping with “the avowed policy of this administration to ensure transparency and full and appropriate disclosure of policies, programs, official activities, and achievement of the Office of the President and Executive which are of public concern.”

EO 200, s. 1987

Sample of government publications. Humanities Diliman: A Journal on Philippine Humanities. Philippine Humanities Review Plaridel

: A Journal of Communication, Media and Society

Science Diliman: A Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences.

Social Science Diliman

The Official Gazette print edition

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