The Alfredo F. Tadiar Library assembles materials focused on the social and cultural history, literature and arts, and natural environments of Northern Philippine communities, with relevant materials in the humanities and social sciences, and natural sciences.
Our Special Collections include Ilocano literature, law, culture, and history; scholarly work on the communities of the Ilocos, Cordillera, and Cagayan Valley; women, religious and ethnic minorities, and marginalized sectors; natural history and precolonial histories of Northern Philippines; local arts and architecture, migration and diaspora studies of Northern Philippine communities abroad.
The Library houses archival collections that include private papers, reproduced rare books, literary and historical manuscripts, maps, drawings, photographs and music pertaining to our core areas of focus. The Library also houses named collections featuring materials in Philippine law and legal studies, and papers and materials related to the Philippine women’s sexual and reproductive rights movement.
