Abstract

The Marinduque State College (MSC) Library and Learning Resource Center has inaugurated a museum in commemoration of the 70th foundation in June 12, 2022. Based on the deliberation of its Historical Collection and Preservation Committee composed of Sentro ng Wika at Kultura, Business Affairs Office, LRC, Office of Media and Internationalization Affairs with the respective campuses of Santa Cruz, Gasan and Torrijos in coordination with the campus Land Use Development and Infrastructure Plan (LUDIP) committee. Considering two themes, museum and gallery studies and cultural roles of public libraries, this preliminary investigations seeks to document certain innovation and outcomes for building further the collection of MSC for the succeeding milestones of the institution. Borrowing and distilling some salient features of the TIPPING Guide: The Innovation Program’s Perspective for the New Governance of Islands, MSC LRC would be documenting both existing innovation and new innovation ecosystems. To date, since the platinum anniversary of MSC it has produced a microsite and a heritage collection catalogue. The MSC Heritage Collection Microsites constitute the existing innovation system along with the MSC Heritage Collection Catalogue. This would serve as a guide for selecting the most appropriate strategies from the TIPPING guide from working with the creative sector, long-term cooperation with Small-Medium Enterprise and Non-Government Organizations, stimulating the network of young entrepreneurs, foster the import and export of knowledge, community involvement, crowd co-design, special institutional arrangements or innovation policy fitness. Meanwhile, there are some more new innovation since the opening of the museum, there was a screening of vlog series about the MSC Heritage Museum vis-à-vis the Regional Science Centrum which was the renovated Research and Extension Building.

Keywords: heritage, institutional museum, curatorial, memory, tipping