University of the Philippines Center for EthnomusicologyThe core collection of the Center is the Jose Maceda Collection, consisting of library and archive materials including about 2500 hours of recorded music in open reel and cassette tapes, field notes, music transcriptions, song texts, photographs, musical instruments, music compositions, personal files, and about 2000 books and journals that were put together by Dr. Maceda, his research staff, and other scholars since 1953. Together with Dr. Maceda’s personal collections which were officially transferred and deposited at the U.P. Center for Ethnomusicology in September 22, 2005, the collection has been inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register in August 2007, as an item of documentary heritage of exceptional value.