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ReportsCUPERTINO LIBRARY FEBRUARY 2018 1 CUPERTINO LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT – FEBRUARY 2018 Our Cupertino Library monthly report highlights the diverse collections, programs, and outreach our staff provide to our Cupertino community. For more information, please contact me at 408.446.1677 or at cvaresio@sccl.org. – Clare Varesio, Community Librarian DID YOU KNOW? Santa Clara County Library District offers the 1000 Books Before Six program to help children develop essential early literacy skills. Talking, writing, playing, singing, and most importantly reading all help children on the road to school readiness. Parents may sign up children in the library at the Children’s Reference Desk or online at https://www.sccl.org/Kids/Early-Learning/1000-Books-Before-6, and can log books read and receive stickers and prizes along the road to 1000 books. Children learn and grow by listening and following along as we read with them, and are motivated to start reading by seeing their progress and earning rewards for meeting goals. JANUARY 2018 CIRCULATION STATISTICS 2018 2017 NEW PATRONS 595 583 VISITORS 72,314 63,901 ADULT & TEEN CIRCULATION 83,204 81,443 CHILDREN'S CIRCULATION 124,679 121,568 OVERDRIVE EBOOK CIRCULATION 5,287 4,577 TOTAL CIRCULATION 207,883 203,011 CUPERTINO LIBRARY FEBRUARY 2018 2 LIBRARY NEWS We are pleased to announce installation of new stack end signs has begun! This project will provide clear signage on our library stacks to help better direct patrons to items in our library collection. FEBRUARY 2018 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS 2018 2017 ADULT PROGRAMS 18 20 TEEN PROGRAMS 11 8 PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS 16 16 SCHOOL AGE PROGRAMS 13 18 TOTAL LIBRARY PROGRAMS 58 62 ADULT PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 474 598 TEEN PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 230 300 PRESCHOOL PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 1,067 1,130 SCHOOL AGE PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 461 830 TOTAL PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 2,232 2,858 ADULT & TEEN PROGRAMS The library celebrated Lunar New Year with two new programs. On February 8, Cupertino Poet Laureate Kaecey McCormick hosted a Community Poetry Night with a Lunar New Year theme. 24 attendees celebrated the Year of the Dog by reading original poems. Our “Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art” program presented by an Asian Art Museum docent on Wednesday, February 21, had 14 attendees. For teens, our Silicon Valley Reads event kicked off with a teen writing workshop hosted by SVR author Eric Lindstrom. Seven aspiring writers received critiques of their work and challenged themselves with writing exercises. A new program, the DiversiTea book club, kicked off on Wednesday, February 14 with a discussion of David Levithan’s Boy Meets Boy. CUPERTINO LIBRARY FEBRUARY 2018 3 CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS February was a time to celebrate holidays in our Children’s Room. Children in School Age Storytime celebrated the Lunar New Year with stories, a firecracker craft and a drum-making craft. At our Valentine’s Day craft on Wednesday, February 14 (Valentine’s Day!), children made dino-tastic valentines for their friends and family. Preschool Children participated in a special Silicon Valley Reads caring and compassion storytime featuring the picture book, Mango, Abuela, and Me. FEBRUARY 2018 LIBRARY OUTREACH 2018 2017 OUTREACH EVENTS 11 12 OUTREACH ATTENDANCE 355 343 TOTAL VOLUNTEER HOURS 1099 774 Cupertino Library hosted the Overdrive Digital Bookmobile on Saturday, February 17. 186 curious library patrons learned about downloading eBooks and eAudiobooks from an engaged group of library and Overdrive staff. CUPERTINO LIBRARY FEBRUARY 2018 4 UPCOMING MARCH 2018 PROGRAMS We thank the Friends of the Cupertino Library and the Cupertino Library Foundation for their generous support of our library programs! To view all upcoming events, visit https://www.sccl.org/Locations/Cupertino. THURSDAYS, March 1, 15, 29, 12:00 pm, Story Room – Poet Laureate Language Artist’s Series for Adults * SATURDAYS, March 3 & 10, 2:00 pm, Story Room – Teen Photography Workshop * SUNDAYS, March 4, 11, 18, 25, 2:00 – 5:00 pm, Story Room – VITA Volunteers Tax Prep FRIDAY, March 9, 11:00 am, Story Room – English/Mandarin Bilingual Storytime TUESDAY, March 13, 4:00 pm, Story Room – Silicon Valley Reads: Meet Author Wendelin Van Draanen TUESDAY, March 13, 7:00 pm, Story Room – Silicon Valley Reads: Children’s Literature for Adults Book Club Reads The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones by Wendelin Van Draanen WEDNESDAY, March 14, 7:00 pm, Story Room – Self Compassion Program for Teens THURSDAY, March 15, 7:00 pm, Community Hall – Sing, Play, Learn: Family Concert Featuring Jim Gill SATURDAY, March 17, 10:00 am, Community Hall – SAT/ACT Practice Test * SATURDAY, March 17, 10:30 am (Mandarin) & 11:30 am (English), Story Room – Maximize Your Memory SUNDAYS, March 18 & 25, 11:00 am (Mandarin) & 2:00 pm (English), Community Hall – Pain Relief Workshops with Li Yang TUESDAYS, March 20 & 27, 3:30 – 4:30 pm, Library Courtyard – Children’s Garden Open Hours WEDNESDAY, March 21, 7:00 pm – UC vs. Private College Admissions Seminar * SATURDAY, March 24, 1:00 pm, Story Room – Teen Photography Contest Gallery and Judging * * Registration required. FOLLOW THE LIBRARY! Cupertino Library Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CupertinoLibrary SCCLD Newsletter – https://www.sccl.org/About/Library-News/Newsletter Serving the unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County and the cities of Campbell | Cupertino | Gilroy | Los Altos | Los Altos Hills | Milpitas | Monte Sereno | Morgan Hill | Saratoga March 2018 Commission Report Nancy Howe, County Librarian Early Literacy Concerts featuring Jim Gill Santa Clara County Library District is committed to providing quality early learning initiatives and programming, as well as providing training in early literacy best practices for our librarians. The early literacy concerts with musician, author and child development specialist, Jim Gill, is a current example of how we are bringing quality early learning initiatives to our Library District. Come into the library this month for lots of joyful hand clapping, foot stomping, dancing and singing! Jim Gill’s Family Concerts teach young children the fundamentals of early literacy—the kids only know they’re having fun! Talking, singing, reading, writing and playing are key to building pre-reading skills in children 0-5 years old. Our family early literacy concerts are a great way for the whole family to have fun together while the little ones build important skills that will help them become better readers. March 15th at the Saratoga and Morgan Hill Libraries and March 16th at the Campbell and Los Altos Libraries. New Passport Service at the Library- Coming in April The library has a robust collection of travel books, Rosetta Stone, information on different countries, cultures, international foods, etc. To enhance our patron experience, as well as bring in new visitors from the community, we will soon be piloting a new, service at two of our libraries--passports. Based on the valuable experience we gain from this pilot, if successful, we will consider expanding this service to additional libraries. Beginning in April, SCCLD will be offering passport services as an official Passport Acceptance Facility. We will be opening the doors at our official passport offices on April 2, at Serving the unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County and the cities of Campbell | Cupertino | Gilroy | Los Altos | Los Altos Hills | Milpitas | Monte Sereno | Morgan Hill | Saratoga the Milpitas Library and April 3 at the Cupertino Library. Early appointments, website launch and our official public announcement will take place around the week of Mar 12 to generate awareness. All appointments must be reserved at least 12 hours in advance online. No walk- in appointments will be accepted Milpitas Passport Office Hours: Cupertino Passport Office Hours: Sun 11am – 4pm Tue 1 – 7pm Mon 1 - 7pm Wed 11am – 4pm Tues 11am – 4pm Thur 1 – 7pm Wed 1 – 7pm Fri 11am – 4pm Thur 11am – 4pm Sat 11am- 4pm We will provide the following services: • First-time passports • Renewals for passports issued before the applicant was 16 years of age • Renewals for expired passports issued more than 15 years ago • Replacements for lost, stolen, or damaged passports. • Passport photo service ($12 for a set of two photos) With our extended hours and welcoming environment, we expect this will be a popular and heavily used service. Silicon Valley Reads 2018 Kicking off the second official month of Silicon Valley Reads events, more than 75 free public events are scheduled in March throughout Santa Clara County. Author talks, panel discussions, films, art exhibit, workshops for caregivers, story times and activities for children and teens are coming up in the next few weeks, including: Thur, March 8, 6:30 p.m., Tech Museum of Innovation Panel discussion on “Using Technology, Innovations and Data To Create A New Future for Caregiving” with Rajiv Mehta, CEO and Founder of Atlas of Caregiving, Dawn Nafus, Anthropologist, Senior Research Scientist, Intel, and Gary Wolf, Co-Founder, Quantified Self, and Contributing Editor, Wired. Moderated by former Mercury News Editorial Page Editor Barbara Marshman. Serving the unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County and the cities of Campbell | Cupertino | Gilroy | Los Altos | Los Altos Hills | Milpitas | Monte Sereno | Morgan Hill | Saratoga Author Wendelin Van Draanen In addition to visiting public schools, the author of The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones (grades 4- 7) will meet with teens at Cupertino Library on Tue, March 13, 4 p.m. and adults interested in children’s literature on Tue, March 13, 7 p.m. Maximize your Memory Presented in English and Mandarin, this program covers how memory works, the difference between normal and abnormal memory loss, tips for increasing your memory and three keys to maintaining brain health. Fri, March 16, 10:30 a.m. at the Saratoga Library Final appearances by Rachel Khong The author of Goodbye, Vitamin will be at Gilroy Library on Sat, March 24, 11 a.m., Morgan Hill Library on Sat, March 24, 3 p.m. To see the full calendar of free public events in March throughout Santa Clara County Library District, visit www.sccl.org/svr. LIBRARY TRENDS: The current trend to expand library open hours is not unique to SCCLD. As a result of the data from the 2016 customer survey about the open hours most desired by our patrons, Los Altos, Milpitas, Woodland and Saratoga have all expanded their open hours over the past year. At the January Joint Powers Authority Board meeting, the JPA asked SCCLD to prioritize expanding open hours in the next fiscal year’s budget. The desire and need to offer open hours that match the current lifestyles in our district, including weekends and evening hours extending beyond peak commute times, is a trend that other library systems are also experiencing. Serving the unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County and the cities of Campbell | Cupertino | Gilroy | Los Altos | Los Altos Hills | Milpitas | Monte Sereno | Morgan Hill | Saratoga Report finds strong demand for more hours at SF libraries By Joshua Sabatini on February 25, 2018 San Francisco’s 28 library locations offer patrons 1,460 open hours weekly, 21 percent more than city law and voters require — but a new study shows there is demand for even more. A report recently completed for the San Francisco Public Library by the City Controller’s Office recommends that the library should consider adding hours to “reduce gaps in system-wide coverage and alleviate high demand on some days and times at specific libraries.” The report, a voter-mandated library hour study that must be completed every five years, recommends adding hours on Sundays and Fridays. “Visitor traffic is consistently high from opening to closing at most libraries on these days, likely due to a combination of high demand and libraries being open fewer hours in the day, and extending opening and closing times on these days would likely benefit the largest number of patrons,” the report said. The report also recommends extending opening and closing times on other days “at locations demonstrating latent demand.” “Usage is consistently high at the existing 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. closing hours, and many libraries are busy in the opening hour,” the report said. Deric Licko, the City Controller’s project analyst, cited one example when presenting the report to the Library Commission in early February. “On Mondays at 1 p.m., when the [Mission] branch doesn’t open until 1 p.m., is one of the Mission Branch’s busiest times,” Licko said. “Similarly, Mondays at 5 p.m., Mission branch is much busier than Tuesdays at 5 p.m. when it’s open until 9 p.m., which suggests to us that a lot of patrons are trying to get to the Mission library before it closes at 6 p.m. [on Mondays].” The Library did add 85 open hours in June 2017 to ensure all locations were open seven days a week. At the time, 18 branches were open seven days a week but nine were not. The decision came before the 5- year analysis released earlier this year. Serving the unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County and the cities of Campbell | Cupertino | Gilroy | Los Altos | Los Altos Hills | Milpitas | Monte Sereno | Morgan Hill | Saratoga “The Main Library and most of the busiest branches received no additional open hours in June 2017, and the Library should consider re-allocating some open hours to these libraries to alleviate high demand and potentially expand the coverage footprint,” the report said. In response to the report, Library Commissioner and head Librarian Luis Herrera said there were budget constraints on adding more hours, but the library would likely re-examine the hours offered at a later date. The library’s current budget of $137.85 million is proposed to grow to $163.64 million next fiscal year. The report also suggests piloting longer hours to see how they impact usage. Of the patrons surveyed as part of a study, 59 percent said they would use additional hours if provided.