The school library media standard, a component of the Philippine Library Standards that have been subject of numerous consultation with various stakeholders in the profession had been finally endorsed by the Department of Education via a DepEd Order no. 56 s.2011 released last July 19, 2011.
The DepEd Order enjoined all Regional Directors, School Division/City Superintendents to encourage their school librarians to adopt the standards in order to render quality [library] service to pupils/students.
