Abstract
The Spanish-American War of 1898 ushered in decades of American rule in the Philippines. American colonial administrators established a bureaucracy that included the Bureau of Government Laboratories, later known as the Bureau of Science, which would serve as a central laboratory and also conduct research in the biological sciences, chemical sciences, ethnology, and more. A crucial component of the work of the Bureau was its library, which was headed from 1903 to 1924 by Mary Polk. This article is a study of Polk, the environment in which she worked, and her lasting impact on Philippine librarianship.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
First Page
154
Last Page
171
Publication Date
1-20-2021
Spatial Coverage
Philippines
Temporal Coverage
1903-1924
College
University Libraries
Keywords
library history, Mary Polk, Philippine Bureau of Science
Disciplines
Library and Information Science
Recommended Citation
Brazzeal, Bradley, "Science Librarianship in Colonial Philippines: Mary Polk and the Philippine Bureau of Science Library, 1903-1924" (2021). UL Publications. 27.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/ul-publications/27
