Location and Facilities
RESOURCE COLLECTION AND ARCHIVE
The UP Center for International Studies in located on the 1st floor of Benton Hall, Roxas Ave., University of the Philippines Diliman Quezon City.
It has a Resource Collection, a repository of books and other reference materials from domestic and foreign partner institutions.
The Naomi “Shoko” Matsumoto Technical Theater Library and Archive is also housed in Benton Hall which is a collection of information and knowledge about Technical Theatre
and the intercultural ties between Japan and the Philippines in the said field.
Access to the resource collection is currently by-appointment only that can be made by sending an email to cis.upd@up.edu.ph
Benton Hall
The UPCIS is located inside the Benton Hall, along Roxas Ave. in the University of the Philippines Diliman.
Benton Hall was named after the University of the Philippines’ third President, Dr. Guy Potter Benton (1921-1923). The building is designed by Filipino architect Juan F. Nakpil. It was constructed in a mid-century modern style and is celebrated decades on for its distinctive brise soleil or sunshade panels against its facades.
It was originally constructed in the 1960s through a Rockefeller Foundation Grant to house the libraries and resource collections of the old UP School of Economics and UP Virata School of Business. It was later turned into the University’s Registrar building, and today it is the current home of the UPCIS.