Villasis Municipal Library strives to deliver excellent services to respond to the needs of the community, provide relevant programs supporting literacy, lifelong learning, accessible place for information, and welcoming space for learning and recreation.
Villasis Municipal Library is committed to serve the community by providing free and relevant services and programs.
- Helps promote literacy, intellectual growth and the joy and love of reading to all ages especially children in the pursuit of lifelong learning.
- Desires to improve, strengthen public service and to provide opportunity and encouragement to the members of the community.
- Provides free services and events to the public.
- Provides free access to various resources, both print and digital and assists library users to meet their informational needs.
- Helps learners of all ages to build information and digital literacy to access and use technology and information successfully.
- Strives to render excellent services to all library users and to the community.
- Builds partnership with other institutions, groups and individuals to provide various services and programs that will benefit the community.
- Maintain a welcoming and comfortable space to attract more users and retain the existing ones.
- Continues to provide various programs and services that respond to the needs of the community in general.
- Continue to organize more outreach programs giving more priorities to the remote barangays.
The present Municipality of Villasis was a barrio of Malasiqui in the early part of the 17th century and was known by its former name, "Pandoyocan". The place had no fixed boundaries. It was simply a frontier settlement, a thickly forested region covering most of the southeastern parts of the present Pangasinan province. Few people lived in this place due to the unavailability of open space for farming. In this thick forest however, was a nesting ground of bees called "oyocan". The abundance of honey attracted Spaniards and inhabitants of neighboring places to settle in this village. Because of the presence of an apiary, the place was then called "Pandoyocan", meaning "colony of bees".
The village’s jurisdiction embraced in full or in parts the towns of Asingan, Sta. Maria, Urdaneta, Sto. Tomas and Alcala. Its features varied with the number of families temporarily or permanently settled within its environs. Its thick forest was a nesting ground of great hordes of bees they called oyocan which produces honey called allid. The honey provided good income for the residents and the bee wax, another bee product, were then traditionally used for cloth weaving. The thick forest was also the principal source of timber for domestic and commercial purposes. During the middle of the 19th century, its nearby forest still yielded wood used in constructions for civil as well as naval uses. One vessel of the Spanish navy was even constructed at Lingayen with timber coming from this area. Moreover, the banks of the great Agno River were another source of livelihood for the village residents with the abundance of gold dust called mocmoc.
Documents gathered provide evidence that Villasis Municipal Library has been operating since the 70’s. Formerly, Villasis Municipal Library (VML) was located at the second floor of the old town hall and it was under the direct supervision of the Office of the Mayor. But upon learning the Local Government Code that the library should be under the legislative branch, it was transferred to the legislative building. It was managed by designated librarians and/or appointed employees. Some of them were Ms. Helen Rebosa, Ms. Ofelia Racadio, Ms. Susan Q. Sison, Ms. Basilisa M. Padilla, Ms. Marilou Dacanay, Mr. Renz Fabro and Mr. Rhoderick Bascos.
In October 2014, for the first time in the town’s history, it was flooded due to Typhoon Pepeng. The strong current of water from the destroyed dikes along the Agno River caused devastation on properties, infrastructures, and roads. Even the library was not spared. Books, computer units and furniture were submerged in water that caused the temporary closure of the library.
In January 2012, there was a major renovation of the legislative. The fund came from the proceeds of the Villasis Town Fiesta Popularity Contest where Mrs. Beatriz De Vera-Olivar was crowned as the Queen. The building was named after her Beatriz De Vera-Olivar Legislative Building and it was inaugurated in 2014.
On October 8, 2014, the new Villasis Municipal Library was blessed and formally re-opened to the public. It has a wider space compared to the old library. It occupied the space where the Post Office was located before. Mrs. Merly S. Zambrano was designated to manage the library through an Executive Order signed by former Mayor Libradita G. Abrenica.
The library started providing basic services to its clients like loaning books, assisting researchers, and the like. Mrs. Zambrano also started promoting the library and its services to increase awareness in the community.
Providing internet connectivity to all clients
Using of computers for research and encoding
Providing free printing services to all researchers
Free access points to various e-goverment transactions
Virtual Reference Service
Maximum of 5 days
Meeting Venue, Makerspace
The National Library of the Philippines commended Villasis Municipal Library as Top 4, 2021 Most Diligent Public Library in the Philippines.
The Local Government Unit of Villasis purchased Three (3) Brand New Dumptrucks for municipal projects, road maintenance, and Hauling of garbage.
In pursuance of this guiding belief, the municipal government under Mayor Nato has purchased a brand new and modern mobile clinic to enhance the delivery of health services.
