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Tangina. Napakahirap ng homework namin dito. Talagang nangangapa ako. Hindi ko alam kung tama ba yung nilagay kong sagot kasi hindi ko naman masyado magets. Hays. Naknangbuhay ito. Pero thankful parin ako kasi kung hindi dahil dito di ko mapupuntahan yung magandang library ng ust. Talagang napahanga ako. Talaga naman kasi nakakahanga kumpara sa mga napuntahan ko na library nung grade school at high school ako. Di pero ang hirap talaga ng homework! First pa naman eh. Pwede pa naman siguro magkamali? Haha

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The Complete Guide to Digital Type

The Complete Guide to Digital Type | Andy Ellison | Humanities | Z 250.7 EL59 2006

Have you ever wonder about the type you use on your screen? How did they made it and the standards every font digital font went through?

Well, I was curious about typography in the last weeks so I looked for a type book that deals with the basics and found this. It was a goldmine. Everything I need to know about type itself is here: from parts of fonts to generating a digital type. The descriptions are really easy to understand and if you will not skip chapter one, you will understand the font jargons on the other chapters.

It has four parts: Typography and fonts, using typography, manipulating type and creating type.

The typography and fonts chapter tackles about the jargons of typography. The pictures and examples are really helpful.

The 2nd chapter on the other hand is about position type on lay-out softwares and some of its features to help you art direct.

Manipulating fonts are a series of tutorials you can do with in photoshop and illustrator.

The last chapter's contents are about how to generate your own typeface.

What I like about this book is it visualizes what it says and how to do it. Descriptions are really short and straight; easy to understand and the lay-out easy to read.

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Blueberry Cheesecake sa cafe ng Ust Library.......di ko alam ng pangalan ng cafe eh~

waha cellphone camera palang ....

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UST Library: Lumina Pandit (Spreading the Light)

After our last exams for this 3rd shift, which I really didn't get a satisfactory score, me and my sister Mae decided to have lunch together... After we had eaten, we decided to visit the Quadricentennial Fair at the drive beside the field... Then we also went to the UST museum (its been such a long time since I visited the museum)... After that, we went next to tour inside the UST Library exhibition, the LUMINA PANDIT.

This exhibition commemorates the extraordinary survival of a 400-year-old institution: the Library of the University of Santo Tomas. Now known as the Miguel de Benavides Library, this rarest of treasuries of Southeast Asia welcomes the coming centuries with thoughtful hindsight and hopeful foresight. the exhibition is curated to merge the celebration, reflection, and dialouge.

There are Six (6) Sections inside the exhibit, each section has a different story on how the library evolved into what it is today.

SECTION ONE: THRESHOLD 400

Four centuries old, the UST Library arrives at the threshold of the Age of Information. this milestone of the early 21st century digital era evokes the period that began on 17 September 1581, when the first two missionaries of the Order of St. Dominic arrived in the archipelago that was already known as Las Islas Filipinas.

Old rosaries, located at Section One of Lumina Pandit exhibit.

SECTION TWO: REALM OF PRINT

Literacy was transacted right from the beginning of the encounter between local peoples and the ardent teams from the Iberian peninsula. Then as now, the printed word was the pivotal instrument for ensuring the passage of ideas between cultures. The power inherent in mastering print technology was well-understood by all; notably, by the Dominican Missionaries who pioneered the use of both the xylographic and movable type presses in the new colony, almost immediately upon their arival.

La Guerra Judaica, 1492 by Flavius Iosephus: The oldest book which is over 500 years old. When I asked "manong" how do they maintain this book that old, he said that the pages of this book are very sturdy and he even cleans the book per page. So much durability for a 500 year old book.

Books printed by the Patriarch of Filipino Printing; Tomas Pinpin.

Baybayin: The Filipino's first alphabet. According to my sister who already toured last year, the tourism students said that our native alphabet is not really alibata but baybayin.

UST first university seal. Located at the old UST site in Intramuros, Manila.

SECTION THREE: SPHERES OF CHANGE

Printed materials from Europe and the Americas conveyed extraordinarily different views of reality to an archipelagic people whose sun, moon, earth, and celestial vault were somewhat lke ancestral spirits. Some communities wrote in local scripts - all employed powerfully intricate oral traditions. Unlike them, the newcomers from the West grasped reality through the written word. And indeed there were books with the power to change the very perception of the cosmos.

De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, 1543: Nicholaus Copernicus.

Biblia Sacra, 1569-1573.

Musurgia Universalis sive ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni in X Libros Digesta. Tomus I, 1650 Athanasius Kircher, S.J. This was the same kind of anatomy book our national hero, Jose Rizal, used during his Medicine years in UST.

SECTION FOUR: ROUTES OF GLOBALIZATION

The earth, conceptually rounded-out and literally circumnavigated in the 16th century, was henceforth grasped as an infinitude of travel possibilities. To the European's "discovered" alter ego - that is, the erstwhile native of newly possesed lands - the very definition of space and community can be suddenly taken over or taken away. The chasm separating colonizer from colonixed would now have to be closed by religious conversion, settled rather than nomadic life, and new language skills. All these transformations were made possible by literacy.

The replica of old wood block printing machine used.

Printing blocks made in copper, zinc and wood.

Old Map of Philippine Archipelago.

Opera Omnia, 1737 Coi Hippocratis.

SECTION FIVE: NASCENT NATION

Competing intellectual camps variously articulate teh genesis of the desire fro political self-determination in the PHilippines. In the 21st century, a complex narrative incorporating these many strands of ideas and perspectives may come to pass.

Original academic records of Dr. Jose Rizal

Original Diploma of Apolinario Mabini.

Diploma of Marcelo H. Del Pilar.

SECTION SIX: CURVE OF NATIONALISM

The UST library met up with the 20th century at exactly the end of the Spanish Empire and the commencement of what was to be the American Century. Filipino citizenship would henceforth be reckoned via an education with the American accent. At this juncture, the uninterrupted existence of the vast UST librarycame to represent all that was long-lasting, time-honored, but redolent of the Old World. The library nonetheless renewed itself gradually. It connected securely with an American educational system that facilitated the entree of greater numbers of English-speaking citizens into the middle class. Nationalism was to curve into ew trajectories.

Old newspaper containing news about the terrible flood that devastated Alcala, Cagayan.

I enjoyed the tour even though I haven't watched the video presentation that was supposed to be part of the tour. It was great that UST made an exhibit like this to which all of us can look into how the Philippine evolution in printing, publishing and even literacy. 

* Per section description of this blog is taken from the Lumina Pandit brochure that was given at the tour.

Admission

UST Students: Free

Non-UST Students: 50php each

Group of 10 non-UST students: 25php each

Dominican Network Schools: 25php each

Hours

Tuesday-Saturday 8:00am-12:00pm/1:00pm-5:00-pm

Exhibit is closed on University holidays

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ACE GERONIMO, RPh

Miguel de Benavides Library

España, Manila 1015 Philippines

Tel: [phone] and 406-1611 loc. 8234;

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