FILCOLS Publisher-Members at the 15th Philippine Academic Book Fair

Academic Booksellers Association of the Philippines presents 15th Philippine Academic Publishing Book Fair with the theme ABAP: 15 Years of Providing Quality Books to the Filipino People and Ready to Face the Challenge of Educational Reform. It was held at the Megatrade Hall 3, 5th Level, Mega B, SM Megamall, EDSA, Mandaluyong City last July 12-16, 2011.

On the first day of the event, a forum on expectations of administrators of their librarians was held. It was hosted by Philippine Librarians Association, Inc. (PLAI)-NCR. It was followed by a forum on Professional's Best: Library Service and Teaching Portfolios: Creating and Collecting hosted by Philippine Association of Academic and Research Librarians (PAARL) on the second day. A seminar-workshop for Christian Living teachers hosted by Asian Catholic Communicators, Inc. was held on the third day. It was about transforming education through understanding by design. And the last day featured a book launch-forum "Economics for the Filipinos" hosted by IBON Foundation, Inc.

FILCOLS Publisher-members A-Z Direct Marketing, Inc., Ateneo de Manila University Press, C & E Publishing, Inc., Claretian Communications Foundation, Inc., New Day Publishers, Shepherd's Voice Publications, Inc., and the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House joined the book fair as exhibitors.

Other exhibitors include Academic Book Sales, Inc., Academic Connection Library Services, Alexan Commercial (ACe Electronic Technology, Inc.), Asiatype Distribution, Inc., Book Trends Enterprises, CD Books International, Inc., Creative Mind Books Center, EDCA Publishing & Distributing Corporation, F&J de Jesus, Inc., Fastbooks Educational Supply, Inc., Forefront Book Co., Inc., Global Learning Media Corp., Golden Books Services, Inc., Manila Bulleting Publishing Corporation, Megatexts Phil., Inc., New Century Books, Paulines, Rarebook Enterprises, Readers' Knowledge Bookstore, St. Paul's, University of the Philippines Press, Cengage Learning-Philippine Branch, Emerald Headway Distributors, Inc., High Access Line Phils. Corp, John Wily & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd, Pearson and Phoenix Educational Systems, Inc.

The 15th Philippine Academic Book Fair is co-organized by Primetrade Asia, Inc., Department of Education and Commission on Higher Education, with Manila Bulletin, 105.1 Crossover, Energy FM and Mellow 94.7 FM as media partners.