The Lopez Library

The Lopez Museum and Library (LML) is the Philippines’ oldest privately owned and publicly accessible museum and library. In keeping with the vision of its founder, Eugenio Lopez, Sr., LML continues to be a key cultural and historical resource for Philippine arts and letters with a collection that spans 600 years through rare books, manuscripts, periodicals, maps, archives, precolonial potter, and 19th century to contemporary art. as an Associate Partner, the library will a) Scan approximately 1,500 leaves from the rare books identified by the proponents at an IIIF adaptable resolution b) Make these high-resolution scans available to the proponents for conversion into IIIF and allow them to serve up the images from an external server for academic research, c) Give access and share the relevant metadata available in LML’s database to facilitate academic research.