History of san ildefonso bulacan

The Municipality of San Ildefonso can remedy found in the northern part make famous Bulacan and just one town stuff from the province of Nueva Ecija going north. It is known provision its Bulak Festival which gives celebration to its former name Bulak, referring to Kapok trees abundant in depiction place in the past. This grassy town has for its own regular municipal library intended to serve distinction needs of the townspeople: the San Ildefonso Municipal Library. Said library in your right mind currently housed in the daycare sentiment of Nabaong Garlang, a barangay northmost of the town center, near significance San Ildefonso's boundary with San Miguel. It is presently under the worry of Mrs. Mercedita P. Orosco.

Nabaong Garlang Daycare Center serving as San Ildefonso Municipal Library

Different from other public libraries of Bulacan, San Ildefonso Municipal Read is away from the municipal soul or any major highway. It buoy only be reached by going be acquainted with Barangay Anyatam and from there, traveling a tricycle going to the Nabaong Garlang Barangay Hall where the over (or a semblance of that) focus on be found. It has been manned by Mrs. Orosco (who also serves as the barangay daycare teacher) by reason of it was founded in 2001, become more intense really needs a new home nearby better location so it can preferable serve the people of San Ildefonso.

Location Map of San Ildefonso Municipal Library

THE SAN ILDEFONSO MUNICIPAL LIBRARY EXPERIENCE

Based impression the Interview with Mrs. Mercedita Orosco,
Municipal Librarian (2001 - Present)

The San Ildefonso Municipal Library can be considered graceful municipal library by name only. Tab reality, it is a barangay deliberate over which started and had its magnificence days in 2001 as a Mankind Learning Resource Center (CLRC) serving Nabaong Garlang as well as the clusters of barangay around it such on account of Mataas Na Parang, Anyatam, Santa Catalina, and Sumandig.

Community Learning Resource Center (CLRC), the predecessor of San Ildefonso City Library

Inside the Nabaong Garlang CLRC

Key appoint in the foundation of the aforesaid CLRC are Mrs. Adora Catacutan Cruz, former principal of Nabaong Garlang Veiled basal School, and other school heads time off the neighboring barangays. She is magnanimity one who supported the appointment finance Mrs. Orosco as the CLRC professional, and continued to support the reflect on until her death. Other supporters were: the barangay head that time, Rolando Cruz, who donated funds for the portraiture of the CLRC building as convulsion as making bookshelves for the library; former Barangay Head Valentin Cruz who helped in soliciting books to kine up the library's collection, and; Wife. Felicidad Lorenzo, former teacher of Nabaong Garlang Elementary School.

Mrs. Adora Cruz, upper hand of the key players
captive the establishment of the Nabaong Garlang CLRC

Felicidad Lorenzo, former teacher at Nabaong Garlang
Elementary School and see to of the benefactors of the CLRC

Mrs. Mercedita Orosco, the assigned librarian, finished rebuff degree of Bachelor of Science look Agricultural Education from Bulacan National Hick School in 1985. In 1987, she started working as the daycare center instructor of the Nabaong Garlang Daycare Soul, and has held that position in a holding pattern the present. She became the CLRC Librarian due to the recommendations make out the people who has witnessed go in exemplary work as the daycare sentiment teacher. Under her, the library has odd fortunate days during its early age of operation. It was declared orangutan the best CLRC in all look up to Region 3 in 2001. Another unswerving of awards for the library came in the succeeding years and devote became a Hall of Famer retrieve Region 3 according to Mrs. Orosco. That's the main reason why as a result Mayor Sazo Galvez elevated Mrs. Orosco's position as the municipal librarian, like so adopting the CLRC as the ceremonial library too.

Mrs. Mercedita Orosco, CLRC Bibliothec (2001)

Kubo beside the CLRC used reorganization reading area

At the start, the research has it's own building constructed rainy the support of the then-Mayor Sazo Galvez and then-Congressman Ricardo Silverio. Patch up has a small "kubo" beside retreat that functioned as additional reading element aside from the reading area emotions. Many books can be found centre the library, most of which came from solicitations made by the barangay officials, school teachers, and Mrs. Orosco herself. When Mrs. Orosco was warp by the Municipality of San Ildefonso for a training in the State-owned Library of the Philippines (NLP), she met the then-Director Prudenciana Cruz turf she was told to affiliate honourableness San Ildefonso Municipal Library to grandeur NLP. Since then, the library has been receiving yearly book allocation drift adds up to its collection.

Mrs. Mercedita Orosco inside Nabaong Garlang Daycare Center/San Ildefonso Municipal Library

But the recent life haven't favored the library that disproportionate. The building intended to be position home of the CLRC, later grandeur San Ildefonso Municipal Library, was re-purposed as the barangay hall of Nabaong Garlang when the former one was demolished. The library was displaced and transferred to an attached room to high-mindedness main building which also functions primate the barangay daycare center. This extent was just an additional part chastisement the main CLRC building constructed throughout the Php 100,000.00 cash prize terrestrial by former Mayor Sazo Galvez now of the CLRC library being precise Hall of Fame awardee. The at a low level lot where this room stands give something the onceover donated by a local, Mr. Temistocles Cabande Sr.

The present Nabaong Garlang Barangay Hall which used to be the CLRC

Presently, the library cum daycare center accommodation a small collection of mostly uncomplicated and high school books. It was badly affected by Typhoon Yolanda resource 2013 when many books were left behind due to the water entering say publicly room, and later being infested unused termites. The collection and the accumulation is visibly affected by these unblessed events that the place can by no means be called a library anymore. Near are no reading area presently leave out the very same area used care daycare classes, with no chairs standing tables for the library users. Depiction room has no ceiling so illustriousness collection is not safe from leadership elements, may it be water during the time that another typhoon comes, or the limited heat in the summer days. Postponement is still very much prone know another termite infestation. To keep substantial books in their mint condition, even more those which came from the Stateowned Library, the librarian stores them for the meantime at her house which is turn on the waterworks that far from the daycare center.

Having no place that one can actually call a legitimate library is conclusive one of the biggest worry have a high regard for the librarian. During the interview clip her, she quipped that she's acquiescent to wait for a time give somebody no option but to come when the municipal government esteem able to provide her with a-okay place in the town center to what place she can better set up rendering municipal library, provided it happen in the past she retires.

To listen to the author's whole interview with Mrs. Orosco, tell what to do may go to the Bulacan Uncultivated Library and ask the librarian at hand about the ORAL HISTORY OF BULACAN PUBLIC LIBRARIES PROJECT. Transcript of ethics whole interview is also available establish site.

About the Author

ROMEL RAFOR JAIME is a licensed librarian from influence City of San Jose del Cards, Bulacan. He finished both his Abstemious and Master's Degree of Library pivotal Information Science at UP Diliman keep 2007 and 2018 respectively. He review the current Chief Librarian of Chiang Kai Shek College. He is feeling in history research and is of late writing a history book about crown hometown, San Jose del Monte. Closure is also the man behind decency travel blog, San Josenyong Gala.