2 Ifugao schools win tilt for best libraries

By Dan B. Codamon

MAYOYAO, Ifugao--Two elementary schools of this municipality won awards  in the recent “2001-2012 Regional Search for Functional Libraries” in the Cordillera Administrative Region.

           

The Guinihon Elementary School won first place for functional library in the non-central school category besting other schools in the region while the  Mayoyao Central School won second place in the Central School category next to Celo Haight Elementary School of Benguet.

           

Department of Education-CAR director Ellen Donato awarded the  trophies, certificates and  prizes to winners during the awarding ceremony at the DepEd  Regional Office in La Trinidad, Benguet.

           

GES principal Vicente BuyuccanJ r. who received the award and prizes in behalf of the school, said they won the search for garnering a total average of 90 percent from criteria of vision, mission and goals, administration, human resources, collection management, services and utilization, physical facilities, information technology, financial resources and linkages and networking.

           

In his speech during the awarding ceremony, he dedicated the victory and honor to the  support and sincere commitment of the stakeholders in Barangay Guinihon  such as  the members and officers of the Parents Teachers Community Association and the barangay  officials led by Barangay Captain PacitoBandao, who is at the same time the PTCA president.

           

Buyuccan commended the PTCA and barangay council for providing the furniture, chairs and cabinets of their library including the hiring of a school librarian to administer the school library.

           

He thanked Dr. Jose Mainggang, executive director of Lorma Colleges of La Union Province for adopting their school and donated various reading materials, supplies, encyclopedia, magazines, two computers and other materials necessary for the Guinihon Elementary School Library that made it completely and truly functional.

           

For  said feat, the school was awarded an Almanac one year subscription of Readers Digest and English-Tagalog dictionary for their library, a trophy and plaque of merits to the librarian, principal and school.