Cavite Studies Center

The Cavite Studies Center pursues DLS-Dasmariñas’ vision-mission of “promoting a keen sense of history, arts and culture.” Through careful planning, it endeavors to produce quality research output and to provide the public a repository of materials relevant to the study of Cavite history and culture.

The CSC conducts and supervises studies on Cavite history and culture. To achieve this end, the center formulates relevant and responsive programs that help promote the Caviteño identity; coordinates with the different units of the university to involve faculty members in conducting studies on Cavite; collaborates with local and national agencies in promoting Cavite history and culture; and facilitates Cavite studies by building an extensive and reputable library collection that caters to the needs of students, researchers and scholars.


 

Research

The CSC conducts studies on local and oral history specifically by:

• gathering data from parish, municipal and/or provincial archives;
• collecting memoirs and other documents on local revolutionaries, heroes and outstanding citizens;
• photoduplicating documents pertaining to Cavite which are found in institutions with rare collections;
• videotaping presentations relevant to local folklore, customs and traditions;
• tape-recording recollections by people who have intimate knowledge and experiences about certain historical events;
• identifying and videotaping local historical spots;
• acquiring important historical documents, manuscripts, journals, and books through donations, exchange, and purchase.


Publication

In coordination with the Institutional Communication Office, CSC has published:

• Biographical Sketches of Cavite Revolutions and Other Prominent Caviteños
• Cavite’s Historical Calendar
• Cavite El Viejo: Kasaysayan, Lipunan at Kultura
• Cavite Historic Markers
• Sulyap sa Lumipas: Mga Tahanang Ansestral sa Kabite
• Liping Kabitenyo: Talambuhay ng mga Kilala at Di-kilalang Kabitenyo


Furthermore, the CSC coordinates with the different specialist departments and units of the University in printing and publishing research outputs of the faculty pertaining to Cavire history and culture.


Collection

To feature local history, CSC has permanent and occasional exhibits of documents and cultural properties and facsimiles related to Caviteños history. It also initiates the incorporation of the study on local history in existing subjects.

To date the CSC has:

• Identified 98 legajos as sources for Cavite local history at the Philippine National Archives
• Photo-duplicated and compiled archival documents from 1774-1900 Ereccion de Pueblos; Contribucioun Industrial of some towns from 1894-1896; Cabeza de Barangay from 1838-1896; Escuelas de Cavite from 1878-1888
• Photodocumented 50 of Cavite historic markers
• Photodocumented the ancestral houses of Cavite
• photocopied 32 articles about Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo
• framed 20 pictures of the Cavite revolutionary generals
• collected 43 photograph reproductions of historical events and places in the province mostly during the late 9th and 20th century
• framed 24 of Cavite’s patron saints
• compiled annual reports of the local government units from 1989 to 1995
• gathered articles on CALABARZON and secured the demographics and socio-economic, population and vegetation maps of Cavite
• gathered articles on Cavite revolutionary generals, heroes and significant personages.

Other collection:

• Cavite Baseline Survey
• El Cadiz Filipino: Colonial Cavite 1571-1896 by S.M. Borromeo
• The Philippine Navy by Regino Giagonia
• Ilang Talata Tungkol sa Paghihimagsik ng Cavite Noong 1896-1897 by I.R. Medina,
• Ladislao Diwa at ang Katipunan by Emmanuel F. Calairo
• Mga Anak ng Tagnway sa Rebolusyong Pilipino by Emmanuel F. Calairo
• The History of Dasmariñas by Aquino Garcia
• Oral history recollection of prominent Caviteños in politics and society
• 24 rare blown-up pictures of Emilio Aguinaldo, a donation from the National Historical Institute


Fast Fact

The idea of gathering materials on the history and culture of Cavite was conceptualized by Emilio Aguinaldo College under its president Dr. Paulo Campos.

It was Dominador del Rosario who was sent by then DLSU System President Br. Andrew Gonzalez, FSC, to Cebuano Studies Center to study its set-up and make recommendations on having a similar study center in Cavite.

CSC was initially housed at the second floor of the administration building (formerly records section).

CSC opened Museo Caviteño to house artifacts on Cavite which were collected and donated by faculty members and students.

Before the center became an independent unit of the university, it used to be under the Social Sciences Department.

Cavite Baseline Survey: 1989 by Celso R. Gutierrez is the first publication released by CSC.

Dominador del Rosario, Segundo Sim, Segismundo Añonuevo, Teresita Unabia and Bernard Esternon, all faculty members of the Social Sciences Department, have served as CSC coordinators.

In 1998, the title coordinator was changed to director during the appointment of Emmanuel Calairo, who currently heads CSC.


Services

Reading room .Open to the public.

Research Assistance. Indices, bibliographic information and guides on research are available.

Referral to other libraries and institutions.
Organization of Personal Collection on loan to the center.

Other services: seminars, exhibits, workshops and consultancy.

Service Hours
Monday-Friday 8:30 am-12:00 nn
1:00 – 4:30 pm
Saturday 8:30 -11:30 am


The Cavite Studies Center is located at the second floor of the Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo De La Salle Dasmariñas.

Emmanuel Calairo, PhD
Director

Mrs. Mylene B. Delatado
Secretary

Tel. Nos. 844-9116 (Manila Line)/ (046) 416-4531/4533 local 3141

Telefax: (046) 416-0338 416-3878 416-4531 4164542 4164554 TO 56 416-4566 (02) 741-9271

cavstud@dasma.dlsu.edu.ph

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