Summer 2015 - La Habra Library Used Bookstore

Summer 2015
Friends of the La Habra Library Newsletter
President’s Message
The lazy days of summer are upon us. Wait a moment! The library is a beehive of
activity during this time. The Friends of the Library is proud to help support the many
programs available to young people and adults.
Summertime for the Friends of the Library is the time we start planning for
membership renewal and recruitment. Our membership year is September 1st to August 31st.
Renewing members can help us grow by talking to family and friends about the Friends of the
Library. Let interested individuals know that while welcome, volunteering in the bookstore is
not a requirement for membership.
Summertime also marks the time we start planning our October general meeting. We
hope to once again provide a program of interest to many in the community. Our past two
October meetings have drawn capacity crowds. As we draw closer to the time of this event,
look for information about, and publicity for, this special meeting in our mailings and the local
newspapers.
Leon Getz
President
Be an “Early Bird” and send in your renewal before you forget.
Help us grow. Pass this Bookmark along to a friend.
If you have any questions about membership, our organization, or wish to be a volunteer, please
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Friends of the La Habra Library Newsletter
Summer 2015
From the Branch Manager
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I am so thrilled to announce that we have been awarded three grants, with a
fourth one soon to be announced. Both Beatriz Preciado and David Elliott participated in
a unique OC Public Library staff training program administered through the California
State Library. Only about 30 staff members were selected for this program, which
included public speaking, job shadowing, and grant writing. All participants were required
to submit a grant proposal, just over half were accepted, and I am very proud to say that
both of them were awarded a grant. David’s grant will provide laptops with educational
software that correlates with the school district curriculum to help students in our Homework Help program. Beatriz co-wrote a grant with our sister library, Garden Grove
Chapman, which will assist people in obtaining a driver license under the provisions of
AB60. And we are now able to announce that OC Public Libraries has been awarded a
National Endowment for the Arts Big Read grant! This was a very competitive process
and our grant is one of about 80 applications accepted from a few hundred submissions.
We will be reading Luis Urrea’s Into the Beautiful North throughout the county, with
numerous accompanying programs including our annual Day of the Dead event, writing
and art workshops, events with different authors and culminating with La Habra’s second
annual Tamale Festival.
Beatriz, Sherry Toth — our former children’s librarian (recently promoted to
Assistant County Librarian) and I co-wrote the grant. The City of La Habra is one of
several partners in this grant, which runs from late September through November. Specific
information on programs can be found on page 6 and more will be included in the fall
Bookmark. The book will be available at our branch in late August so we have a chance
to read it for the September book discussion.
Until then, we have plenty of other programs this summer to keep you and your
family busy, as you’ll see in the following pages as we all READ TO THE RHYTHM!.
This year, instead of buying books, the Friends funded the purchase of two AWE
computers for children ages 2-8. These computers are located next to the children’s
Internet PCs and are loaded with about 80 different educational software programs, most
in Spanish as well as English. With two headphones available, I have been gratified to see
parents sitting with their children and using the computers with them so the parents are full
partners in their children’s learning. A demonstration of some of the programs showed
much creativity and an impressive range of subjects. There is even a webcam that lets the
child take a photo of anything and then create a jigsaw puzzle which the child has to put
back together. La Habra was the first branch to buy these computers and following our
example, a Friends’ group in Irvine has authorized purchase of 2 AWE computers for their
branch.
Thank you, Friends, for your forward thinking in supporting new programs at our
branch! Enjoy an exciting program of Reading to the Rhythm this summer!
Jill Patterson
Friends of the La Habra Library Newsletter
Summer 2015
Adult Services
The Adult Services department would like to wish everyone a happy summer and
invite the community to participate in this year’s adult summer reading program: Read to
the Rhythm. Read to the Rhythm commences on June 20th with an official kickoff event
and ends on August 2nd. During the program, the more your read, the more chances to
win! The La Habra Library would like to specially thank community volunteer Amber
Gould for her dedication and hard work in assembling 13 raffle prize baskets for the
summer reading program.
In the recent months, the library has had the opportunity to offer programming for
the Spanish speaking community. In May we had the pleasure of hosting nutritionist Luz
Maria Briseño who demonstrated how to make healthy smoothies. Radio personality
Eddie “Piolion” Sotelo visited the library in June and shared his autobiography Speak Up!
Finding My Voice Through Hope, Strength and Determination. Both programs were
successful and were extremely well attended. The Adult Services department would like to
cordially invite you to please join us for the following scheduled programs:
Saturday, June 20 @ 1:00pm-3:00pm, Meet chef, entrepreneur, author and one
of the founders of the food truck movement: Roy Choi. The idea of a Kogi taco, a fusion
of Korean Barbeque with Mexican cuisine, has resulted in accolades for Choi and team
including the 2009 Bon Appetit award for excellence in culinary innovation. Naranja, the
Kogi BBQ Truck, will be on hand to sell food and drinks you can enjoy during the
program from 1:00-3:00pm.
Saturday, July 11th @ 2:30pm, Join us for an afternoon of music, writing
inspiration and food with Michael Oates. Oates is the author of Wade in the Water and
owner of Café Hidalgo in Fullerton. Experience a mini taste of Café Hidalgo while supplies
last. Books available for purchase.
Saturday, August 15 @ 2:30pm, Back by popular demand: Hypnotherapy with
Bill Engle. Mr. Engle is a Certified Clinical Master Hypnotherapist, with over 26 years of
experience in the field. He will demonstrate hypnosis and dispel myths.
Adult Volunteers, As of January 1, 2015 Orange County Public Libraries
requires all adult volunteers to consent to a background check as part of the volunteer
application process. Background and registration forms can be obtained at the Information
Desk. La Habra Library is thankful to all volunteers and would like to encourage new
volunteers to join us. Volunteers are an essential part of our community.
Computer Classes are taking a summer break, but will be back in September.
For inquiries about the classes, please contact Jill Patterson or Beatriz Preciado at 562694-0078.
Beatriz Preciado
Adult Services Librarian
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Teen Scene
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The last few months have seen a lot of changes to the teen department. Many
new and exciting things have happened or are going to be happening in the near future.
First, we have Juan Gomez who is now assisting in all things teen. He is helping out with
the TAB group and with all of the events and programs for the summer reading program.
He has been instrumental in bringing some exciting people for summer reading including a
caricature artist, a hip hop group, Guitar Center doing a demonstration and a Cos Play
day that includes people from Ren Faire doing different musical and theatrical stylings.
Most will be on Tuesdays at 2:30 pm. And for those of you interested we still have
volunteer opportunities available for Teens during the summer with Summer Reading
program and with TAB.
Speaking of TAB, I want to say how appreciative I have been to have the
dedicated teens come in to help plan as well as participate in events for the teens. I am
always happy to see these core students come out and be involved in our library
programs. From assisting with Earth Day to volunteering in the homework help program,
they have been there. We have some new and exciting opportunities with TAB in the
coming months. Aside from the Game Day which TAB sponsors for the kids every
summer reading program, we will create some exciting changes. First, we hope to
redecorate the teen department. Come and have your input in how the Teen Lounge is
going to look in the future. Second, we are in the process of planning more events for
the fall. From having a 3D Printer event to other volunteer and community opportunities
the La Habra library has a lot of things coming up in the fall.
One of those opportunities will come with a revamped Homework Help
program. We already had a very successful, award winning program, helping grade
school kids do their homework. This last year was no different with individual sessions
consisting of as many as 37 different students. We had some amazing Teen Volunteers
assist us. Each semester we had approximately 35 teens help out with these students
giving of their time and energy. It’s always an inspiration to see their dedicated work
with the kids, and we received exciting news this spring. We will be awarded a grant to
add computers to the homework help program in the fall. We will provide opportunities
for kids to complete their ST Math, Microsoft Office and Lexia Reading assignments
during our homework help program. We will also hold classes for the parents to help
them better engage their children in this new online learning environment. It should be an
exciting fall, added to what already has been an amazing year.
David Elliot
Circulation and Teen Services L.A.
Friends of the La Habra Library Newsletter
Summer 2015
Children’s Corner
Read to the Rhythm is such a cool theme for this
summer! We are having half a dozen or so mini concerts of
local talent to bring some music into the library…hope it all
comes together! We are two weeks into the summer reading program with over 300 children preregistered for the county wide program by the time you read this. Since the La Habra School
District ends the school year so early, we run our own Early Bird program to keep them engaged
and coming into the library until the county program starts. Thanks to the Friends for providing the
Lemon Scratch & Sniff, and the Pete the Cat Rock Out with a Good Book bookmarks for the
Early Bird prizes.
There was a LOT of noise on June 11 when we had SplatBoomBang, a percussive
storytelling experience for our first program. We will be following with Wild Wonders Animals,
John McLean Allan: Bagpiper, Family Dance Day, Game Day, and Juggler David Cousin. As is
traditional, we end with our 12th Annual La Habra Kids Talent Show! You are all welcome to
come and enjoy this delightful event!
The Angels’ Strike Force will be visiting storytime on July 15th during the All Star Break.
The girls don’t get to go to the All Star Game, they are coming to see us instead. We are still
trying to arrange a date for LA County Fire Station #191 to visit, and will end the summer with
Jill’s Famous Ice Cream Storytime.
Our Summer Storytime schedule includes our Monday Baby Lapsit at 10:30am (a new
program offered by our new Librarian Assistant Alex), Tuesday evening
Family story time at 7pm, Wednesday morning Storytime at 10:30am, and our Wednesday
evening Spanish/English bilingual story time for preschoolers and their families at 7pm. Our story
times teach pre-literacy skills to the children which prepare them for success in kindergarten. We
have recruited over 50 local teens as volunteers for the summer. This fine crew of middle and
high school students will be running the Summer Reading Desk for the kids, helping with almost
all the different programs offered at the Branch over the summer, and completely in charge of the
talent show. Wow, we are so very lucky to have them! There’s something for everyone in the
family here at the library.
I want to give a special thank you to Dolores Greenberg for the fantastic baking for our
Thomas the Tank Engine program. Pretzels, little train cookies that sit on the rim of the cup and
the coolest Rail Road Crossing cookies on a stick! You are amazing, Dolores!!
As ever, thanks for all your support and all that you do to make the library and its services to our
patrons possible!!
Catherine Gillette
Children’s Librarian
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What is The Big Read?
What is the Big Read? A program of the National Endowment for the Arts, The Big
Read broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of
sharing a good book. Managed by Arts Midwest, this initiative offers grants to support innovative
community reading programs designed around a single book. The Big Read supports
organizations across the country in developing community-wide programs which encourage
reading and participation by diverse audiences. OC Public Libraries last participated in an NEA
Big Read with the book To Kill a Mockingbird. Last year, we participated in a similar
statewide program, War Comes Home, with our reading of Karl Marlantes’ book, What It Is
Like To Go To War. This year, we wanted to choose a book that would resonate in our communities and
relate to a currently relevant topic. Luis Urrea’s book, Into the Beautiful North, is a moving
and humorous adventure with an irrepressible heroine who, after watching the movie “The
Magnificent Seven”, decides to head into El Norte, e.g. the U.S. to find her own magnificent
seven to protect her small town in Mexico from the bandits who are planning to take over. Why does she need to recruit protectors for her town? All the men, including her father, have
already journeyed to El Norte to find work, leaving the town defenseless.
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Luis Urrea says of this book, “It felt subversive to make undocumented people the
heroes of an American book. To make the three male heroes a gay man, a Mexican bowling
alley janitor, and a scary cholo from the Tijuana municipal garbage dump. It also felt subversive
to make the action-hero a 19 year old young woman undertaking a heroine’s journey.”
Please check in the library for upcoming presentations or
check out the OC Public Library website calendar at:
www.ocpl.org and check the events under La Habra Library.
Board Members’ Reading Recommendations
Dolores Greenberg
Melanie Dennis
Esther Moreno
Colin Whipple
Myron Bantrell
Jill Patterson
Carol Zaczyk
Dottie Paxton
Marianne Getz
Carlene Maynard
Lois Shea
Bette Frazier
Edge of Evil
In the Woods
Lost Light
The Stonecutter
Gray Mountain
Ramona
The Black Cat
The Road to Burgundy
RE Jane
The Good Lord Bird
Babylon
Sail
For more recommendations go to:
J.A. Jance
Melanie Dennis
Michael Connelly
Camilla Lackberg
John Grisham
Helen Hunt Jackson
Martha Grimes
Ray Walker
Patricia Park
James McBride
Joan Oates
James Patterson &
Howard Roughan
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Friends of the La Habra Library
Report for the Eleven Months Ended May 31, 2015
Income:
Bookstore sales
Ebay sales
Dues from members
Donations
Program grants
Interest income
7
$18,119
391
1,995
525
500
411
Total income
$21,941
Expenditures
Books and other expenditures
for the library
Programs
Supplies, postage, and
other operating expenses
$22,596
511
Total expenditures
$25,700
Cash balances at May 31
$63,600
2,593
Colin Whipple
Treasurer
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Book
Bookstore News
Ends
The bookstore is receiving loads of donations usually on a daily basis. New books are shelved
everyday so come in often to see what’s new. Since we have had an overload of science fiction/fantasy
books donated, we are offering a large amount of them in the hall for 10 cents. If that is your favorite
genre, now is the time to come browse.
Melanie Dennis
Welcome and Many Thanks to Our New Volunteers:
Monique Bergland
Diane Grisham
David Garcia
Lupe Ruiz
Each of the above has generously volunteered to work a regular two-hour shift in the
bookstore. David Garcia is currently working three two-hour shifts, which is a first for any volunteer
in our bookstore.
We are still in great need of substitutes to work on call as needed. This is vacation time when
we need more substitutes than usual. We also have several volunteers who are on a leave of absence
due to medical reasons. We hate to close the bookstore for lack of a substitute.
Applications for volunteering are available in the bookstore and may be left with the
volunteer at the desk.
Marianne Getz
Visit the Boookstore Website at: http://lh-library-bookstore.weebly.com/
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o Colin Whipple - Treasurer*
o Marianne Getz - Bookstore Manager
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Russ Robertson - Banking
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Bette Frazier - Publicity
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