A survey of the educational system of the Philippine islands by the Board of educational survey, created under acts 3162 and 3196 of the Philippine Legislature.

644 EDUCATIONAL SURVEY OF THE PHILIPPINES

TABLE 119.-COMPARATIVE LIBRARY STATISTICS
Expend- Salary exInstitution Enrollment Volumes iture forpenditure
books penditure
University of Missouri............................ 4,254 177,300 $12,000 $20,200
University of Western Reserve..................... 3,588 150,780 14,662 20,550
University of Kansas............................. 4,265 144,429 19,496 26,711
University of Indiana............................. 3,659 141,658 13,336 19,200
University of Washington......................... 3,100 104,776 13,500 24,695
University of the Philippines...................... 3,500 22,370 3,848 6,830

Were one to discount duplicates and count by individual titles, the
library of the University would not exceed 12,000 volumes including
those in all the colleges and schools. The University authorities have
been fairly successful in providing the necessary buildings, equipment,
and apparatus for instruction in the technical and scientific subjects;
they have failed utterly in doing so for the humanistic subjects, for the
library is the laboratory for these branches. Not only is there no
library building, but the main collection of books is housed in a building
constructed for chemical laboratory purposes and placed upon stacks
of poor-class wooden construction which increases the danger from fire
and destructive insects. The capacity of the main reading room is 180
in a university of 3,500 students! Pages of serviceable data might be
included in this report to illustrate the inadequacy of library facilities;
and it,must be emphasized that, serious as are conditions in the main
library, they are much more serious in the separate college libraries.
In fact some of the colleges have no libraries worth mentioning.
In excuse for the deplorable library facilities, the statement is sometimes made that the students are permitted and encouraged to use
the Philippine Library and the library of the Bureau of Science. The
latter is quite near the University campus and readily accessible; the
former is at a distance within the Walled City and requires a special
visit in order that a student make use of it. Moreover, these libraries
have been established to serve constituencies separate and distinct from a
university constituency and are increasing their resources on the basis of
the needs of their constituencies. The University cannot and should not
depend on them for its principal needs. The Commission recommends
that whatever plan of building construction is adopted for the near
future by the University authorities, it should provide for the erection of
a library building as a first desideratum. Then the granting to the
library of adequate funds to provide the necessary books, equipment,
and personnel to enable it to function efficiently will be imperative.
RESEARCH AND EXTENSION WORK.-The opportunities for productive research in the Philippines and particularly in fields removed