Dayrit,+Marina+G.

=** Marina G. Dayrit**=

Head of the University Library of UP from 1962-1981. Founding member of the Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians in 1970 Founding President of PAARL from 1973-1976 Editor of //Directory of Librarians in Southeast Asia//, 1980. Received the Professional Achievement Award from the UP Alumni Association in the field of Librarianship in 1981
 * Philippine Library Association recognized her valuable contributions to library science by given her the Hall of Fame Award in 1983
 * Chairman for the revision of 1977 PAARL Standards in 1988
 * Recipient of the PAARL Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002 on January 2008 (posthumous)
 * The last CONSAL she attended was the 11th General Conference held in Singapore in April 2000

She funded the PAARL Mary Polk Memorial Award. This is in honor of Mary Polk, the first librarian of the University of the Philippines who started the first formal library science training program in the same university.

Ms. Dayrit was also one of the nominees for the Most Outstanding Kapampangan Award (MOKA). She died at the age of 87 in December 2002.