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CUPERTINO LIBRARY
MONTHLY REPORT – DECEMBER 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?
Cupertino Library’s Reading Buddies program gives children in Kindergarten to
5th grade the chance to read aloud to therapy animals. This program, while
designed for children who are struggling with reading or needing to gain
confidence and self-esteem, is open to all young readers. Animals will not judge
or intimidate, and in fact can help reduce stress. Reading aloud to a therapy
animal allows a child to practice their reading skills in a relaxed and supportive
environment. In 2018, we welcomed over 300 readers to our Reading Buddies
program, which is supported by animals and volunteers from Furry Friends Pet
Assisted Therapy Services (http://www.furryfriends.org/).
NOVEMBER 2018 CIRCULATION STATISTICS
2018 2017
NEW PATRONS 487 468
VISITORS 64,485 61,323
PASSPORT APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED 206 - - -
ADULT & TEEN CIRCULATION 79,170 74,260
CHILDREN'S CIRCULATION 118,864 112,774
OVERDRIVE EBOOK CIRCULATION 8,701 4,588
TOTAL CIRCULATION 198,034 187,034
For November 2018, Cupertino Library patrons checked out 27% of the total materials
circulated in Santa Clara County Library District, and Cupertino Library visitors made up 26% of
total SCCLD visits.
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LIBRARY NEWS
Cupertino Library’s Think Tank meeting room is open! This community
meeting room is located on the second floor of the Library, and is for
small groups to use for purposes of group study, discussions or
projects.
For more information, and to make room reservations, visit
https://www.sccl.org/Locations/Cupertino/About-Us/Meeting-Room.
We are excited to offer this new space to the Cupertino community!
DECEMBER 2018 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
2018 2017
ADULT PROGRAMS 15 10
TEEN PROGRAMS 4 5
PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS 13 15
SCHOOL AGE PROGRAMS 20 20
TOTAL LIBRARY PROGRAMS 52 50
ADULT PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 434 403
TEEN PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 95 262
PRESCHOOL PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 771 759
SCHOOL AGE PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 905 1,106
TOTAL PROGRAM ATTENDANCE 2,205 2,530
CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS
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Winter break saw tons of activity in the Children’s Room. Nineteen 4th – 7th graders got their hands
dirty, learning how to sculpt clay, mix colors, and apply glazes during a three day clay workshop.
We held engaging book clubs for 1st – 4th grade, and welcomed all ages to our monthly game day.
Over 240 families joined us to celebrate at our Noon Year’s Eve craft and dance party, where we
counted down to 2019 with dancing, bubbles, and New Year’s hats. We thank the Friends of the
Cupertino Library for their support of our Children’s programs!
ADULT & TEEN PROGRAMS
In December we encouraged library patrons to experience both science and art. For art, we
hosted the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s production of Comedy of Errors, which attracted
families and adults who enjoy a fast-paced live performance. For science, we offered four
workshops on Adobe Creative Suite programs; adult and teen attendees learned to use Adobe
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Premiere.
Our first program on “Understanding 2nd Generation Asian-American Adult Children” attracted
an astonishing 70 people. The program could not fit in the Story Room and overflowed into the
courtyard. We look forward to facilitating more forums like these in the future.
For teens, our Girls Who Code class continues weekly, with a dedicated group of 20 attendees.
Teen Study Days provided a welcome respite for high school students who needed space (and
snacks) to work on final projects.
DECEMBER 2018 LIBRARY OUTREACH
2018 2017
OUTREACH EVENTS 10 12
OUTREACH ATTENDANCE 167 238
TOTAL VOLUNTEER HOURS 550 610
Outreach to the Cupertino community continued with
visits to the Senior Center, local preschools and
elementary schools. The Go Go Biblio visited Main St.
Cupertino at lunchtime on December 20, checking out
books and answering questions about the library and
our Go Go Biblio service. The Go Go Biblio will be back
at Main St. in January to visit the local lunch crowd.
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UPCOMING JANUARY 2019 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.
THURSDAY, January 3 and MONDAY, January 14, 7:00 pm, Story Room – Reading Buddies *
FRIDAYS, January 4, 11, 18, 25, 10:30 am, Community Hall – ESL Conversation Club
THURSDAY, January 10, 10:00 am, Community Hall – Chinese Adult Book Discussion Reads To the
Lighthouse by Virginia Woolfe
THURSDAY, January 10, 7:00 pm, Library Story Room – Children’s Literature for Adults Book Club
Reads The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
SATURDAYS, January 12, 19, 26, 10:30 am, Parents’ Corner – Family Storytime
SUNDAY, January 13, 2:00 pm, Library Story Room – Close Up Wildflower Photography
WEDNESDAY, January 16, 7:00 pm, Library Story Room – SCORE: Should I Start a Business? *
THURSDAY, January 17, 4:00 pm, Library Story Room – LEGO Club
FRIDAY, January 18, 11:00 am, Parents’ Corner – Bilingual Mandarin Chinese/English Storytime
THURSDAY, January 24, 4:00 pm, Library Story Room – Game Day
SATURDAY, January 26, 10:30 am, Community Hall – Celebrate Lunar New Year Stories and Crafts
SUNDAY, January 27, 2:00 pm, Community Hall – WELLNESS: Brain Power
WEDNESDAY, January 30, 4:00 pm, Community Hall – Chamber Music By the Bay
* Registration Required
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January 2019
Commission Report
Nancy Howe, County Librarian
Happy New Year 2019!
2018 was a busy year for SCCLD with the arrival of four new Go
Go Biblio outreach vehicles; additional service hours for
Saratoga, Woodland, Cupertino, and Morgan Hill libraries; new
passport services at Milpitas and Cupertino Libraries; and
record participation for Lunch at the Library and Summer
Reading programs. We also launched a successful Food For
Fines initiative that removed fines for almost 8,000 cardholders
and generated 36,000 pounds of food for Second Harvest Food
Bank; together as a community, we read a whopping 179,000
books this summer; and we provided 66,000 student library
accounts partnering with our local school districts!
We have similarly ambitious plans for 2019, beginning with
what’s sure to be an engaging Silicon Valley Reads. By July 1
(the end of our fiscal year) we anticipate adding/expanding Sunday hours at Gilroy, Saratoga
and Campbell libraries. All eight of our libraries will be open 7 days a week for the first time
ever! On behalf of myself and my staff from the Santa Clara County Library District, we
wish you a very Happy New Year and thank you for your ongoing support!
Silicon Valley Reads 2019 Gets Underway in January
Silicon Valley Reads Premiere Weekend is sure to create excitement with
a host of engaging events planned. A.J. Jacobs, author of It’s All
Relative will be visiting Los Altos Library on Friday, January 25 at
7:30pm, Saratoga Library on Saturday, January 26 at 10am and
Morgan Hill Library at 4:30pm.
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Other Silicon Valley Reads events in January include a talk by Regina Mason entitled “The
Slave Narrative that Freed Me” at the Campbell Library on Thur, Jan 24 at 1pm and a film
screening of The Human Family Tree by National Geographic showing at the Campbell Library
on Tue, Jan 29 at 6:30pm. There will also be a program for school-age children titled
“Learning about DNA” on Tue, Jan 29 at 4pm at the Los Altos Library.
The majority of the events will be held in February and March. For a full list of scheduled
events, please visit www.siliconvalleyreads.org.
Author Event with Cyrus Farivar- Privacy vs. The Rise of Surveillance
Technology
Cyrus Farivar, award-winning Senior Tech Policy Reporter at Ars Technica,
author and radio producer, will discuss his latest book Habeas Data.
Habeas Data shows how explosive growth of surveillance technology has
outpaced our understanding of the ethics, mores, and laws of privacy. He
makes the case by taking ten historic court decisions that defined our
privacy rights and matching them against the capabilities of modern
technology. It’s an approach that combines the charge of a legal thriller
with the shock of the daily headlines.
Saturday, February 2, 2019 at 2pm, Milpitas Library
Yewno Discover
Santa Clara County Library District (SCCLD) is the first public library in the state to offer
Yewno Discover. Powered by technology company Yewno’s Artificial Intelligence, their
Discover platform allows users to browse information in a completely new way that is highly
visual, intuitive and fun. This resource will be of particular interest to researchers, students,
educators, or anyone with an intellectual curiosity.
When a user enters a topic of interest into the Discover platform, the system immediately
recognizes this topic as a concept rather than a search-term. It allows the user to specify,
for example, whether they are looking for “jaguar” the animal, or “Jaguar” the automobile.
Once the user has specified which concept is relevant to them, Yewno can then identify
millions of possible connections between related topics. Some of these connections are
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obvious, others surprising, which fosters
both exploration and excitement using the
visual “Knowledge Map.”
Underlying all concepts is a vast collection
of documents, including millions of
scholarly articles, books, and databases,
across virtually all academic fields. Find
Yewno Discover at www.sccl.org/yewno/.
https://youtu.be/vseAE1GGlos
Tech Kits for SCCLD Libraries
Santa Clara County Library District has created various “Tech Kits” for the libraries to offer
their communities STEAM programming. Designed to inspire patrons ages 2 to adult, there
are ten different kits in development and the first kits will be rolled out starting in January.
Libraries will have the opportunity to check out the various kits starting in Jan and utilize for
future STEAM programming. The Tech Kits include the following:
3D Printers: Supports art, computer design, engineering and software education (Teen
+)
3Doodler 3D pens: Supports art, design and engineering (Age 6+)
Arduino for creating simple electrical devices using circuitry: Supports coding,
engineering and robotics (Middle School +)
Cubelets for creating robots: Supports coding, robotics and design (Age 4+ play;
Age 8+ coding)
Dash & Dot for robotics: Supports critical thinking, robotics and coding (Age 8+)
Keva Planks for building: Supports engineering, design, architecture and art (Age
2+)
LittleBits for robotics: Supports coding, robotics, critical thinking, mechanics, and
engineering (Middle School +)
Oculus Go VR: Supports computer design, design and technology (Teen +)
Ozobots for robotics: Supports critical thinking, coding, sequencing, design and
robotics (Age 9+)
Stop Motion for simple movie making: Supports creativity, computer skills,
photography, and video editing. (Middle School +)
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Star Library Award 2018
SCCLD was recognized as a 4-star library by the Library
Journal for 2018. 7,361 U.S. public libraries were scored
against the index established by the Library Journal. Five
different library services are measured to determine index
scores and star status: overall circulation, circulation of
electronic materials, library visits, program attendance, and
public Internet computer use. Each library is compared to its
peers based on levels of funding.
SCCLD received a 4-star rating in 2018, was in the Top Ten
Libraries in the Nation in our funding classification, and since
the award’s inception 11 years ago, we’ve received a star
rating every year. This is exciting news we wanted to share
and again, thank you for your support of the Library District.
16th Annual Friends, Foundation, Endowments & Commissioners Forum
Please join us on Saturday, February 2, 2019
from 8:30am-12:30pm for the 2019 SCCLD
Forum. We will have a special guest presenter,
Sharon Streams-Director, WebJunction, OCLC,
who is the primary author of the report From
Awareness to Funding: Voter Perceptions and
Support of Public Libraries in 2018. This report
investigates current perceptions and support
among US voters and how they may have shifted
over the past decade. From Awareness to
Funding includes resources and tools libraries
can use to strengthen support for public libraries.
Learn about the latest study and findings, essential knowledge for future library strategies and
survival.
The SCCLD Forum is also an opportunity for you to meet colleagues from other cities, and
share best practices. We hope you will join us.
Please RSVP with Cynthia Rios Garcia at (408) 293-2326 x3090 or criosgarcia@sccl.org.
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Trend Report
The following executive summary is from 2018 report From Awareness to Funding. One of the
principal authors of the report will be joining us on February 2, 2019, at our annual Forum.
For more information, please find link to the full report:
https://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2018/oclcresearch-awareness-to-funding.html
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