Redwood City Public Library

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Redwood City Public Library

• Helping Build Community
• Services to Youth

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The Community-Centered Library

• We provide the community with a welcoming,
  engaging and safe place
• We help kids and families succeed, increase
  economic vitality and sustain a great quality of
  life for all
• We utilize business and retail models for
  efficient, effective and contemporary service

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Redwood Shores Branch Library

• Community Building at its best
• Library as Neighborhood
• Multi-Generational use
• Collaboration with PRCS

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Redwood Shores Interpretive Center

• Environmental Interpretive Center opens January
  31!
• A focus on environmental learning and activities
• Programs for all ages
• Bringing all of Redwood City to the Shores

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Youth Services Programs and Outreach
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Storytimes Building Pre-Literacy Skills

• All Days, All Ages, All Libraries
• Some statistics
• 20 storytimes a week
• 20-80 people per session
• 10,250 contacts annually
• Bilingual, Spanish, Hindi, Mandarin
• School readiness, emergent literacy
• Building a community of families

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Traveling StorytimeTaking the library to the
community

• 16,211 children contacts annually
• 65 volunteers
• 75-80 preschool and daycare sites

• Gave 750 new books to children at holiday
• 25,000 volunteer hours since 2001.
• Since 2001, over 7,000 storytimes, with an
  audience of over 100,000 children!

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Family Programs Community Building

• Monthly Family Nights
• Dad Me
• Seaside Storytime
• Author Events
• Holiday Events
• Childrens Book Week
• Poetry Contest
• Art in Action
• Community Fairs

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More Family Programs

• Talent Shows
• Paws for Tales
• Summer Reading Program (2,000 families read
  together this summer)
• Bookstock

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Harry Potter Midnight Party

• Only library in country to guarantee a book for
  every family
• Bigger turnout than local bookstores!
• All families took home a copy of the book
• 400 people attended

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Homework Centers

• Homework Centers at every location
• 10,360 tutored sessions
• Tutor.com (live, on-line chat tutoring for grades
  K-college)
• 1,648 tutor sessions last school year
• Volunteers

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School Partnerships Librarians as Consultants

• School visits to the libraries
• Classroom visits
• Curriculum support
• Science Fair
• Book Fair Presentations
• Summer Reading Lists
• Multiple Copies of required reading
• Free books to students completing reading goals
• School Librarian position

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Family Literacy School Collaboration

• Literacy programs at Hoover, Fair Oaks and Taft
  schools
• Library buys book for all students to take home
• Teachers teach book in classroom
• Library brings author to school for family event

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Library Collection Library Cards

• 16,697 active youth library cards
• 324,498 childrens books
• checked out last year
• Kindercard

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Technology

• Over 130 computers available to the public
• 200,000 computer sessions by children
• Research, homework, gaming, tutoring, social
  interaction

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Teen Services

• Volunteers
• Library Teen Council
• 40-65 volunteers per month
• Programs
• Monthly Programs
• Jobs for Youth resume workshops
• Kaplan SAT/ACT workshops
• Gaming in the future

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Teen Services

• School Support
• Library card
• registration drive
• Class/School Visits
• Internships
• Multiple copies of
• summer reading books
• Teen Center vision

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Project READ Literacy Programs
Youth Literacy Families In Partnership

• Families In Partnership program matched 127
  school age children in one-on-one pairs with
  community tutors
• Project READs youth reading scores have
  increased by an average of 3.0 levels after one
  year of instruction

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Project READ Literacy Programs

• Youth Literacy Kids In Partnership

• New expanded literacy space located at the
  Downtown Library is serving 150 at-risk youth
  annually
• 85 at-risk 1st - 5th graders
• 65 high schoolers
• Since 1999, all KIP Teen Tutors have graduated
  from high school, many graduated from college
• Teen tutors complete 1,500 hours a year

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Project READ Monthly Story Hours
Family Literacy

• Project READ staff collaborated with Redwood City
  School District to give away backpacks and
  necessary school supplies to 140 needy students
• Each month, families receive one family book to
  read together, and each child chooses their own
  personal book to build their home library
• Two storytimes are offered monthly

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Project READ in the Community
Received the Kent Award, given to an innovative
and successful literacy program in San Mateo
County
Received Certificates of Recognition from
the US House of Representatives and the State of
California Senate

• Project READ was chosen as a recipient agency for
  the San Jose Mercury News Gift of Reading Program

Project READ was also the recipient of Barnes
Nobles Annual Giving Campaign
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