THE University of San Carlos’ Cebuano Studies Center under the sponsorship of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) will launch new materials for the Culture Archive: Enhancement of the Cebuano Studies Center Archive project.
The online archive is the result of the project with NCCA.
According to Dr. Hope Sabanpan-Yu, director of the Cebuano Studies Center, “this Culture Archive project was a planned cooperative project. Digitizing and continuing to provide an openly accessible collection of digital material widely representing Cebuano materials, to promote scholarly research and appreciation for the Cebuanos, is one of the priorities of the Center.”
The project continues an earlier project with the NCCA: the Shared Future project, which was completed in 2017. The materials digitized for this recent addition are the remaining years of the Bag-ong Kusog newspapers, very high-demand early twentieth century periodicals for local and foreign researchers. The project covers 11 years of Bag-ong Kusog.
Yu added that this is a timely project as the pandemic brought about by the coronavirus disease 2019 heavily limits the movement of scholars in accessing the archive.
Raphael Dean Polinar, project coordinator, said the digitized serial will be available on the internet next week.
One can visit the online archive at archive.cebuanostudiescenter.com. For more details, visit the Center website at www.cebuanostudiescenter.com.