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ReportsCUPERTINO LIBRARY MAY 2018 1 CUPERTINO LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT – MAY 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? Summer Reading 2018 kicks off June 1! We hope you will read this summer. For kids and teens, reading during the summer months is key to preventing learning loss. For adults, it is important to model positive reading habits for our kids and teens. And for everyone, reading is fun! Sign up in the library or at https://www.sccl.org/summer2018. There are programs and prizes for everyone! Cupertino Library thanks the Friends of the Cupertino Library for helping support our Summer Reading program. APRIL 2018 CIRCULATION STATISTICS 2018 2017 NEW PATRONS 599 519 VISITORS 73,677 70,503 ADULT & TEEN CIRCULATION 78,288 80,227 CHILDREN'S CIRCULATION 124,752 124,393 OVERDRIVE EBOOK CIRCULATION 5,663 4,316 TOTAL CIRCULATION 203,040 204,620 CUPERTINO LIBRARY MAY 2018 2 LIBRARY NEWS Cupertino Library will open six new hours starting June 1! New Friday to Sunday hours will be Fridays 10 am – 9:00 pm, and Saturdays and Sundays 10:00 am – 6:30 pm. We hope you will take the opportunity to visit the library during these new hours, and welcome you to join us Saturday, June 9 for a fun day of celebration events! MAY 2018 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS 2018 2017 ADULT PROGRAMS 13 23 TEEN PROGRAMS 8 4 PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS 18 18 SCHOOL AGE PROGRAMS 17 20 TOTAL LIBRARY PROGRAMS 56 65 ADULT PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 286 689 TEEN PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 410 416 PRESCHOOL PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 1,142 1,562 SCHOOL AGE PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 707 615 TOTAL PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 2,545 3,282 ADULT & TEEN PROGRAMS CUPERTINO LIBRARY MAY 2018 3 May 2018 featured not only gardening programs, but also a political offering, the first Courtyard Concert of the summer, and a program on digestion. The Master Gardeners offered a lecture on container gardening that attracted 35 green thumbs. On May 7, the League of Women Voters gave a Pro/Con talk on the upcoming June 5 ballot propositions. Our first Courtyard Concert, generously sponsored by the Friends of the Cupertino Library, was provided by Sangam Arts and featured two flautists, one specializing in Indian flute and the other in Western flute. 81 people dropped in for some lovely music on a warm spring day. Registered dietitian nutritionist Hema Kundargi gave a fun and informative lecture to 54 attendees on the ins and outs of digestion on May 27. Teens were treated to a free comic book on May 6, aptly named Free Comic Book Day. 250 teens dropped by to grab their free book and check out the library’s extensive anime, manga and graphic novel collection. The eight-month-long Girls Who Code class concluded with a graduation ceremony on May 24; 15 dedicated girls showed up every Thursday night October- May to learn Python coding. We also had 48 entries for the Teen Poetry contest. CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS Our Children’s Garden is in bloom! Children planted pole plant seeds including dinosaur gourds, rattlesnake beans, morning glories and scarlet runner beans. They also buried some seed potatoes and have been excitedly monitoring their rapid growth. Watering established plants in the Plant Petting Zoo is another favorite activity. We thank the Friends of the Cupertino Library for their generous support of our garden! MAY 2018 LIBRARY OUTREACH 2018 2017 OUTREACH EVENTS 8 13 OUTREACH ATTENDANCE 400 211 TOTAL VOLUNTEER HOURS 1,091 850 Adult librarian Lisa Taber attended the Cupertino Senior Center’s inaugural Health & Wellness Fair on Saturday, May 19 and spoke with 104 attendees, sharing information about library services with users and non- users alike. Children’s librarian Judith Blight “popped up” at Sedgwick Elementary School, bringing popular books to 110 students on campus. In addition, Judith and the outreach team provide new library cards to the students. CUPERTINO LIBRARY MAY 2018 4 UPCOMING JUNE 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. FRIDAY, June 1 to TUESDAY, July 31 – Summer Reading 2018 Registration – Sign up today! SATURDAY, June 2, 10:00am, Library Story Room – Teen App Design Workshop * FRIDAYS and SATURDAYS, June 8, 9, 15, 16, 2:00 pm, Library Story Room – Teen Entrepreneur Program * SATURDAY, June 9, 10:00 am, Community Hall – Python Ron’s Reptile Kingdom SATURDAY, June 9, 12:00 pm, Library Courtyard – Michelle Pollace Latin Jazz SATURDAY, June 9, 4:00 pm, Community Hall – Kahaani! South Asian Folktales, Myths and Stories THURSDAYS, June 14, 21, 28, 10:30 am, Library Courtyard – Children’s Garden Open Hours THURSDAY, June 14, 3:00 pm, Community Hall – Opera San Jose Presents What Is Opera? MONDAY, June 18, 7:00 pm, Library Story Room – The Amazon River with Wildlife Photographer Joan Sparks WEDNESDAY, June 20, 3:00 pm, Community Hall – The Great Jonathan, Magician Extraordinaire THURSDAY, June 21, 7:00 pm, Library Story Room – Adult Book Discussion Group Reads The Girl With Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story WEDNESDAY, June 27, 3:00 pm, Community Hall – Musician Bonnie Lockhart * 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 June 2018 Commission Report Nancy Howe, County Librarian Summer Reading has Arrived! This summer at SCCLD, Reading Takes You Everywhere with great books, amazing programs, fun prizes and new sponsors. From June 1-July 31, SCCLD will encourage patrons of all ages to join in the 100,000 book challenge. If 10% of all SCCLD cardholders enroll in Summer Reading and read at least 5 books, we’ll achieve our community goal. We want to encourage people of all ages to read and enjoy the adventure stories offers. This year, our sponsors include The Tech Museum, Gilroy Gardens, Monster Jam and the SF 49ers! As a new sponsor, the 49ers have partnered with SCCLD to support Summer Reading. They are providing prizes including tickets to training camp practice, autographed memorabilia, and for the GRAND PRIZE, four tickets, plus four pre-game field passes, plus a parking pass to the Aug 30 pre-season game against the Los Angeles Chargers. In addition, we have the opportunity to encourage reading by having a player visit one of our libraries this summer and Sourdough Sam, the 49ers mascot, visit during Lunch at the Library. This will be a special treat for the kids to meet a professional athlete and take their picture with the mascot at the library. By partnering with the 49ers, we also hope to encourage more boys and adults to take part in Summer Reading. At SCCLD, our Summer Reading program targets early learners 0-5, children 6-12, teens and adults alike. We offer programs, events and more to encourage life-long learning and avoid the ‘summer slide’. We have a summer planned that is sure to keep our patrons engaged with learning at all levels and the kids ready to start the next school year, ready to learn. Check out our website for more details at www.sccl.org/summerreading2018. 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 Lunch at the Library After a successful first year of introduction in 2017, SCCLD is offering Lunch at the Library for our second summer. Did you know, of those children who receive a subsidized meal during the school year, only 1 in 6 children receive that meal during the summer months? SCCLD has partnered with Second Harvest and Silicon Valley YMCA to provide a healthy, nutritious, free lunch to children 2-18 at the Gilroy Library, Morgan Hill Library and through a partnership with San Martin Gwinn Elementary School and our bookmobile, we’ll be able to provide Lunch at the Library in San Martin as well. Lunch at the Library offers a safe and positive environment that provides not only a nutritional meal, but also access to books, interactive learning resources, and engaging educational activities throughout the summer. With Lunch at the Library, we are able to feed the body and the mind. San Martin Gwinn Elementary/SCCLD Bookmobile 100 North Street, San Martin Tuesday & Thursday June 19- August 9 11:00am-1:00pm Doors open at 10:30am Kids’ activities begin at 11:00am Lunch served from 12:00pm-1:00pm Morgan Hill Library 660 West Main Ave, Morgan Hill Monday through Friday June 11- August 3 12:00pm- 1:00pm Gilroy Library 350 W. Sixth Street, Gilroy Monday through Friday June 18-July 27 12:00pm-1:00pm 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 Acorn TV at SCCLD?—Brilliant! Newly added to the SCCLD online library, Acorn TV offers 5,000 hours of world-class mysteries, dramas and comedies from Britain and beyond; 2,800+ episodes in all. Stream the latest seasons of popular shows such as Doc Martin and Inspector George Gently as well as Acorn TV original programming like Loch Ness and Agatha Raisin. Enjoy 80+ exclusive shows such as A Place to Call Home and The Brokenwood Mysteries. New shows are added weekly. Discover Acorn TV at https://scclca.rbdigital.com/ or https://www.sccl.org/emovies under RBdigital. Joint Powers Authority Board Meeting- June 7 The next JPA board meeting will be held on June 7, 1:30pm at the Services and Support Center in Campbell. New business will include final approval on the FY18/19 budget as well as reviewing the official audit of FY16/17. Library Trends: On May 30, 2108, California moved one step closer to establishing its own net neutrality law in the wake of the FCC's decision to kill federal measures. The state Senate passed a bill that would not only institute rules like those the FCC implemented in 2015, but would forbid the practice of zero-rating services to give them advantages over competitors. The bill still has to clear the state Assembly before it can be signed into law. In light of the movement and discussion around net neutrality, it is important to think of this in context to how it can affect our public libraries. 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 What public libraries will lose without net neutrality A Q&A with NYPL president Tony Marx and associate director of information policy Greg Cram By Kaitlyn Tiffany Dec 14, 2017, 8:00am EST The FCC will vote on a measure today that would repeal net neutrality and pave the way for the end of the free, open internet as we’ve always known it. Librarians aren't happy about it. Yesterday, The Verge published an op-ed written by the heads of the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Library, and the Queens Library systems, which called the measure “appalling,” and argued that the end of an open internet would contribute to inequality of education and opportunity, widening “the already yawning digital divide.” Later, in a phone call, the New York Public Library’s CEO and president Anthony Marx and associate director of information policy Greg Cram broke the issue down further, explaining exactly which library resources an open internet protects, who would be hurt the most by net neutrality’s rollback, and why handing the internet to ISPs could threaten the basic foundation of American democracy. What stake do public libraries have in this issue? Greg Cram: So, for fiscal year 2017 [the New York Public Library] provided 3.1 million computer sessions — and that’s sessions across all of the branches — using 4,700 computers. And in addition to that, we provided 3 million wireless sessions. For the first quarter of fiscal year 2018 we had 16.2 million pageviews on our digital collections. Anthony Marx: That gives us a little bit of the sense of the scale of how much of the library goes across wires, and the simple fact is that the poorest of New York rely on the library as the only place they can go and get free use of computers and free Wi-Fi. It’s one of the reasons why the library is the most visited civic institution in New York. We have also, in recent years, been lending people what we call hot spots, which are Wi-Fi boxes they can take home, typically for a year. That gives them digital access at home — broadband access — which something like 2 million New Yorkers can’t afford and don’t have. We’re still doing thousands of those. We’d like to do more and we’re exploring how to do more, because in this day and age, if you don’t have internet access that works and goes fast enough, you can’t do your homework, you can’t do research, you can’t apply for jobs, you can’t find jobs. “IF YOU DON’T HAVE INTERNET ACCESS THAT WORKS AND GOES FAST ENOUGH, YOU CAN’T DO YOUR HOMEWORK, YOU CAN’T DO RESEARCH, YOU CAN’T APPLY FOR JOBS.” We live in a world where access to information is essential for opportunity, for learning, for success, for civic life, for checking facts. Anything that reduces that, particularly for people who can’t afford alternatives, is a body blow to the basic democratic principles that the library 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 stands for. Whether people or the library are shoved to the slow lane, and / or forced to pay to be in the fast lane with resources that are already stretched thin, is really sort of shocking. To put it sort of bluntly, the Federal Communications Commission should be defending communications. More broadly speaking then, what you’re saying would also apply to other public libraries, as well as libraries in publicly funded educational settings. High schools, community colleges, etc. AM: There are libraries in pretty much every community in this country. We happen to be the biggest one. And they are a vital resource. Libraries have never been used more. It’s partly because of internet access that people are coming in and benefiting from them, and all of this gets seriously whacked [without net neutrality guarantees]. That’s true not just for us but, as you say, across the country. NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARIES: THE PROPOSAL TO KILL NET NEUTRALITY IS 'APPALLING' What exactly, as far as resources that libraries provide, would be affected by killing net neutrality? GC: Our users depend on the library, and libraries in general, for things like completing homework assignments, locating e-government resources, e-government services, accessing oral histories and primary source materials. Things that are resource-intensive like video and audio and image collections are dependent on a free and open internet. Also things like applying and interviewing for jobs. More and more jobs involve a first round of interviews that are done over the internet. If we have to put things in the slow lane, we’re worried about those interview services being downgraded. In a research library capacity, we’re thinking about large datasets, the use of high-power broadband is needed to access those large datasets. [Places] like the National Library of Medicine have huge data sources that need resource- intensive access to be able to use that data. Even things like interactive broadband classrooms, where there’s high-speed access to that classroom so the teacher or professor can use the classroom as a window into the world. All of those things, all of those uses, require high-speed access that’s dependent on a free and open internet. 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 Can you speak to how this would affect resources for people with disabilities? The American Library Association has pointed out that people with hearing loss, for example, have a particular need for videos with captioning. AM: An obvious example is that the New York Public Library runs the Andrew Heiskell Library for the visually impaired. I believe it is a three-state depository, so it plays a role in getting access in all the ways you described — not just in New York City but way beyond. A lot of that now happens online and it could simply stop working, which means they’re gonna cut people off completely. Can you explain exactly how the rolling back of net neutrality would threaten these resources, as simply as possible? GC: I should say, the rollback of net neutrality opens the possibility for ISPs to start to play with how we pay for the internet, but because [it hasn’t] been rolled back yet, we don’t have evidence that they will in fact do those things. It’s a little speculative at this point. I think everyone is speculating a little bit in this. But the indications we got from the ISPs are that there will be paid prioritization and for us, there are specific things that would likely end up in the slow lane. In the war on fake news, school librarians have a huge role to play From the content side, the NYPL serves a lot of content through its networks. We serve a lot of video content, audio and image content, both from kind of a cloud server to our meeting rooms and also to the general public when they access the collections off-site. We know that if there is paid prioritization, we’ll have to pay to have that content delivered at a similar rate that the larger media companies will be able to. That for us, means slower and worse access to our collections. We don’t know exactly what it will cost to stay in the fast lane or be in the fast lane if paid prioritization is implemented by the ISPs, but it seems like that’s the way the ISPs are gonna go once this rollback happens. Is that something libraries have to plan for preemptively, as far as worst-case scenarios in budget planning? GC: We don’t know what the timeline would be, what the fees would be, but it’s something we’re starting to keep in mind as we’re thinking about the budget. We suspect that if this rollback happens and it’s not blocked by the courts, then it will mean increases or requests from ISPs to put our content in the fast lane. The other side of that is from the user standpoint. [We’re] also worried about the ISPs instituting an à la carte menu that would either block access to certain content, move it to lower service tiers, or charge users more on that menu of options. 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 “WE ARE A FOUNDATIONAL PART OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT. ALL LIBRARIES ARE.” All users should be able to access, to seek, and receive information from all points of view, without any kind of restriction. I think both of those aspects are worrisome and troublesome to us. We don’t know yet how the ISPs are gonna react once these rules go away, but we’re certainly worried about it in terms of planning. That brings us to the more fundamental idea of information access, where, theoretically, ISPs might be able to block or downgrade publishers or content providers they don’t agree with. AM: Well, we happen to believe in the First Amendment. We are a foundational part of the First Amendment. All libraries are. And you know, if you curtail people’s access to information, not only will they not be able to do their homework or look for a job or use our collections, they will not be able to inform themselves as citizens. And in this day and age, when accusations of false news are flying every day, the citizens need to be able to check facts and gather facts and argue about facts. And they do that online, from the library. If we don’t continue to ensure that, our democracy is at risk. Not just the First Amendment. Are you seeing library patrons expressing concern about this vote? AM: I fear, as is often the case, people don’t really focus on what’s at risk until they’ve lost it. And that would be a tragedy. I’m sure there are many of the library’s users who are aware and have joined us, but I fear there will also be some number who will wake up one day and realize that something essential has been lost.