ReportsCUPERTINO LIBRARY OCTOBER 2018
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CUPERTINO LIBRARY
MONTHLY REPORT – OCTOBER 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?
Just in time for the holidays, SCCLD has launched Creativebug. Enjoy
unlimited access to over 1,000 online art and craft video classes, plus
patterns, templates, and recipes. Topics include art & design,
sewing, quilting, paper, knitting, crochet, food & home, jewelry,
holiday & party, and classes for kids. Watch videos anytime,
anywhere. Since classes never expire, you can start and stop
projects at your own pace. Access Creativebug at
https://creativebug.com/lib/sccl or https://www.sccl.org/emovies.
Get your creative juices flowing!
SEPTEMBER 2018 CIRCULATION STATISTICS
2018 2017
NEW PATRONS 18,285 1,187
VISITORS 75,577 73,746
PASSPORT APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED 165 - - -
ADULT & TEEN CIRCULATION 85,538 78,492
CHILDREN'S CIRCULATION 131,776 118,746
OVERDRIVE EBOOK CIRCULATION 7,653 4,250
TOTAL CIRCULATION 217,314 197,238
Note: The increase in New Patrons for September 2018 is a result of the student card intiative done
in cooperation with Cupertino Union School District. Student eAccounts with the Santa Clara
County Library District are free accounts providing students access to all the online resources the
library has to offer.
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LIBRARY NEWS
Children’s librarian Peggy Harris will be retiring from Cupertino Library on
November 1 after more than 28 years of service. Countless children have
gotten their start on the road to reading by attending her wonderful storytimes,
and she has brought the love of nursery rhymes to numerous preschool
classrooms in our community with her special “Mother Goose” storytime
program. Her contributions have been many, and Peggy will be greatly missed
by staff and patrons alike!
OCTOBER 2018 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
2018 2017
ADULT PROGRAMS 19 29
TEEN PROGRAMS 5 9
PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS 17 22
SCHOOL AGE PROGRAMS 16 23
TOTAL LIBRARY PROGRAMS 57 83
ADULT PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 946 1,507
TEEN PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 101 241
PRESCHOOL PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 1,131 1,259
SCHOOL AGE PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 829 1,265
TOTAL PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 3,007 4,272
CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS
The Cupertino Library was in the Halloween spirit this year with a variety of
programs for kids. The Spookmobile stopped by to showcase strange and
mysterious artifacts, spooky crafts, and bone-chilling activities. Almost 200
families climbed aboard to explore. Our Halloween Dance Party saw over
100 families doing the monster mash and showing off their Halloween
costumes in our costume parade. Families learned how to make easy
costumes at home in a program with author Holly Cleeland. We thank the
Friends of the Cupertino Library for sponsoring our programs!
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ADULT & TEEN PROGRAMS
Major events included our annual Diwali Music & Dance
Showcase, which attracted an estimated 400 people over
three hours of performances. Smaller children were able to
paint diyas or color Diwali-related pictures. October also saw
the start of our annual Start Your Small Business series,
averaging 16 budding entrepreneurs per session. On October
24, the League of Women Voters presented its Pros and Cons of
State Ballot Measures in Community Hall, with 60 attendees.
This event was recorded and is available at
https://youtu.be/B7qcj-GqX_s and via the library’s Facebook
page.
For teens, there was a two-session Math & Coding workshop on
Python. The 2018-19 session of Girls Who Code started October
25 with 20 teen attendees; these young women will dedicate
their Thursday evenings to learning Java through April.
OCTOBER 2018 LIBRARY OUTREACH
2018 2017
OUTREACH EVENTS 14 12
OUTREACH ATTENDANCE 642 878
TOTAL VOLUNTEER HOURS 1,129 1,034
The Go Go Biblio had two outings this month; one to the Cupertino Diwali Festival in Memorial Park,
and also to a lunchtime event at Homestead High School. At both events, the Go Go Biblio
generated plenty of positive attention and attracted quite a few new library cardholders. Our Go
Go Biblio is supported by the Friends of the Cupertino Library. Cupertino Library also had a table at
the West Valley Community Services Health Fair on October 26.
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UPCOMING NOVEMBER 2018 CUPERTINO LIBRARY EVENTS
We thank the Friends of the Cupertino Library and the Cupertino Library Foundation for their
generous support of our library events and programs! To view all upcoming events, visit
https://www.sccl.org/Locations/Cupertino.
Thursdays, November 1 & 15, 12:00 pm, Story Room – Cupertino Poet Laureate Lunch Hour
Language Artists Series 2: The Art of Recklessness *
Monday, November 5, 11:00 am, Story Room – Healthy Eating to Manage and Prevent Diabetes
Tuesday, November 6, 1:00 pm, Story Room – Medicare Q & A Session
Wednesday, November 7, 4:00 pm, Community Hall – Fairytale Mystery in the Library *
Wednesday, November 7, 7:00 pm, Story Room – SCORE: Simple Steps to Start Your Business *
Thursday, November 8, 7:00 pm, Community Hall – California Native Plant Society: Propagating
California Native Plants in Time for Spring
Thursday, November 8, 7:00 pm, Story Room – Children’s Literature for Adults Book Club Reads Al
Capone Does My Shirts
Thursday, November 8, 7:00 pm, Think Tank – Teen Financial Literacy Workshop *
Saturday, November 10, 4:00 pm, Community Hall – Firebird Chinese Youth Orchestra
Wednesday, November 14, 7:00 pm, Story Room - Building Your Extracurricular Story Workshop
with Synocate *
Thursday, November 15, 7:00 pm, Story Room – Adult Book Discussion Group Reads The Oregon
Trail
Friday, November 16, 11:00 am, Parents’ Corner – Mandarin Chinese/English Bilingual Storytime
Saturday, November 17, 3:30 pm, Story Room – Fall Origami for Children
Sunday, November 18, 2:00 pm, Community Hall – Wellness: Mind and Meditation
Wednesday, November 21, 11:00 am, Children’s Room – Family Game Day
* Registration Required
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Morgan Hill | Saratoga
November 2018
Commission Report
Nancy Howe, County Librarian
Silicon Valley Reads 2019
Silicon Valley Reads is a
collaborative, county-wide
program designed to
engage entire communities
in conversation around a
single theme. The journey of
discovery about one’s own
family history and
heritage is the focus of
Silicon Valley Reads 2019.
Finding Samuel Lowe by Paula Madison, It's All
Relative by A.J. Jacobs, and The Stranger in
my Genes by Bill Griffeth are the selected titles
and featured authors.
Madison is a nationally honored journalist and
retired NBC executive. In her book Finding
Samuel Lowe, she describes growing up in Harlem and feeling that her family was somehow
different from the African-American families around her. Her quest to learn more about her
mother’s roots in Jamaica leads to the discovery of a Chinese grandfather and eventually
reconnection with 300 long-lost relatives in China.
Jacobs is a best-selling author and immersion journalist who chronicles his three-year
adventure to help build the biggest family tree in history, starting with his own 80,000+
“cousins” identified in a genealogy database.
Griffeth is the co-anchor of “Nightly Business Report” produced by CNBC and writes about
how he was shaken to the core when he discovered through a DNA test that the family tree he
had spent years researching was not his own.
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
Morgan Hill Library Expands Hours Starting December
Responding to community requests to be open on
weekends, Morgan Hill Library will be expanding their
hours from 51 to 55 hours per week including Sunday
hours. Effective the week of Monday, December 3,
Morgan Hill Library will be opening at 12 pm Monday
through Wednesday and will offer Sunday hours for the
first time, from 1 to 5 pm.
SCCLD has initiated these changes in response to a
customer satisfaction survey on library hours. The
additional open hours of service reflect the preferences
expressed by the Morgan Hill community and will provide
residents more opportunities to visit the library and
access services at times that are convenient to them.
Morgan Hill Library will celebrate the additional hours of
service with a special performance by Germar the
magician on Sunday, December 9 at 2 pm. We hope you
will be able to join us.
SCCLD Provides Student Support Across the Library District
SCCLD is helping local students
excel in school through a combined
effort with school districts to offer
every student a digital library card, or
“eAccount.” The eAccounts provide
students with access from home,
school, or anywhere with an internet
connection to resources for studying,
research, reports, homework help,
test preparation, and of course,
relaxing.
During the last fiscal year, over
20,000 student eAccounts were
created for Campbell Union, Saratoga
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
Union, Saratoga High and Milpitas Unified (K-12) school districts. Since then, SCCLD has
added Cupertino Union, Gilroy Unified and Morgan Hill Unified, as well as an update for
Saratoga Union School District. In the next two months, SCCLD will add Los Altos School
District (K-8).
The student eAccounts provide anytime access to the online library for 8 out of the 13 school
districts we serve, with more coming soon!
Joint Powers Authority Board Meeting Update
The October JPA Library Board meeting was bittersweet as it was the last meeting for three of
our longest serving representatives: Burton Craig, Monte Sereno; Emily Lo, Saratoga; and
Steve Tate, Morgan Hill. Each of the three is leaving their respective city councils and hence
the JPA Board. Steve Tate has served on the library’s JPA for over 20 years and chaired two
of our special tax campaigns.
At the meeting, the JPA accepted the end of year financial and service reports, re-elected
Supervisor Wasserman and Council member Corrigan as Chair and Vice Chair for 2019, and
approved the addition of $1.9 million annualized for additional staff at Campbell, Gilroy,
Morgan Hill, and Saratoga for the purpose of offering more open hours to the public. The
intent is to allow Campbell and Gilroy to open 1-5 pm on Sundays in early 2019. In April, the
JPA had asked that SCCLD open all locations on Sundays if possible and given increased
revenue, we believe that we will be able to do so for a minimum of two years. Due to the
funding formula in the JPA agreement, every library will receive an increase in revenue that
must be used for staffing. Specific plans and schedules will be developed to determine how
the incremental funds will be used to support each location.
SCCLD Nancy Howe Receives Intellectual Freedom Award
The California Library Association is honoring SCCLD County Librarian Nancy Howe at its
annual awards gala on Saturday, November 10. Howe is receiving the Zoia Horn Award for
Intellection Freedom, which goes to individuals who have made significant contributions to
advance intellectual freedom and help preserve free speech in an open society.
In 2017, when the grant qualification changed requiring English as a Second Language (ESL)
participants to provide social security information, Howe declined to renew the grant and
enforce the requirement, concerned about the effect on an already vulnerable population.
Upon learning of the loss of funding and recognizing the importance of ESL programs, the
Santa Clara County Executive and Board of Supervisors stepped in to provide funding through
the year 2020. The Library was able to offer the free classes without interruption in addition to
informal conversation clubs and individual reading tutors at every SCCLD 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
Coming Soon: Early Learning Readiness in Morgan Hill
Currently, Santa Clara County has a shortage of 1,400
spots in critical early learning programs. Whether a child is
Kindergarten ready can have an affect if they are more or
less likely to graduate from high school and go on to
college.
SCCLD is partnering with YMCA to offer an Early Learning
Readiness (ELR) program in the Morgan Hill Library to help
children develop the social, emotional and literacy skills they need to be prepared for
Kindergarten. ELR is a relationship and play based program for informal caregivers caring for
young children ages 0-5. The program provides caregivers and children experiences and
knowledge necessary to ensure children are prepared for Kindergarten. The Early Learning
Readiness program will be available soon at the Morgan Hill Library.
WHAT: Early Learning Readiness Program
WHERE: Morgan Hill Library
WHEN: Tue/Thur from 9-11am
Opening in Nov/Dec (date TBD)
WHO: SCCLD and YMCA
DETAILS:
20 spots for child participants (space is still available)
Interested families should contact the YMCA
Intake process for participant evaluation is conducted by the YMCA
Free- no cost to the participant
This is not a drop in program. Interested families must register and be admitted as a
participant.
Library Trends:
California Library Association Conference:
The 2018 California Library Association conference will be held November 9-11 in Santa
Clara. For registration details and more information see https://conference.cla-net.org/2018/
You are invited to a reception on November 9 from 3:30pm – 5:30pm. Please RSVP by
November 5, 2018, https://tinyurl.com/y8ksmt4s
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 Stronger Together,” is
sponsored by Pacific Library
Partnership, Silicon Valley Library
System. The guest speakers are
Joe Simitian, President, Santa Clara
County Board of Supervisors and
Joint Powers Authority Board
member for SCCLD, and Lisa M.
Gillmor, Mayor, City of Santa
Clara. The event will take place at
the Santa Clara Convention Center,
Great America Room 2, 5001 Great
America Parkway, Santa Clara,
CA 95054.
Following the reception there will
also be two events of interest. The
Exhibit Hall will open at 6:30 and admission is free. Browsing the exhibit area is an engaging
way to learn about library trends and view the latest products from library vendors. SCCLD
staff will be available to accompany you through the exhibits if you prefer. In addition, the
California Public Library Advocates will be holding an awards dinner
https://www.cpladvocates.org/