Senate Office of the Philippines: Archives + Libraries (Part 3)

The Legislative Records and Archives Services or LRAS  is tasked to preserve, maintain and make available for reference and research the legislative records of the Philippines Senate. They are the Archivists.


According to Wikipedia:

An archivist is a professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to information determined to have long-term value. The information maintained by an archivist can be any form of media (photographs, video or sound recordings, letters, documents, electronic records, etc.). As Richard Pearce-Moses wrote, "Archivists keep records that have enduring value as reliable memories of the past, and they help people find and understand the information they need in those records."
Determining what records have enduring value can be challenging. Archivists must also select records valuable enough to justify the costs of storage and preservation, plus the labor intensive expenses of arrangement, description, and reference service. The theory and scholarly work underpinning archives practices is called archival science.

So this is the Archives section of the Senate Office:

Aya, my muse

Sorted

Sorted by topic / category

Sorted by issue

The Legislative Records and Archives Services

Room 301, GSIS building, Financial center, Pasay City

Trunk line: 552-6601, Locals: 3329-3332

Direct Line: 552-6857

The next part is for the Senate Library:

What the Senate Library looks like:

These should be kept in a glass, see how vintage they are?

More books

Records of Batasan

Journal of the Senate

Law Books

The Senate Library is open to the public but only those who are part of the Senator's secretariat team are allowed to take home the books. Outsiders can borrow for photocopying purposes, and the photocopy machine is also inside the library.