Summer reading 2025 at Sonoma County Library

The school year is nearing its end at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts, but there will be plenty to do and read through the summer reading program at Sonoma County Library.
https://youtu.be/TpGwDQgmCnE

Book haul : Friends of the Library sale, Fall 2024

There’s still time to visit Friends of the Santa Rosa Libraries’ Fall 2024 book sale: 2 to 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7 at the Veterans Building in Santa Rosa. I uncovered a lot of treasures at the latest sale, plus I know that proceeds benefit local branches of Sonoma County Library.
https://youtu.be/XIezNLkLlQ4

Summer reading, 2024!

In my approach to youth librarianship, one important emphasis for me this time of year is to promote my public library’s summer reading program. Sonoma County Library is hosting its summer reading program from June 1 through Aug. 10, 2024. Readers of all ages can log their minutes spent reading via the Beanstack app or by completing a paper log.
https://youtu.be/Q701MRlc3A4

Simon Sort of Says, by Erin Bow (eBook preview)

Presenting … First-chapter Friday, the eBook edition. Yesterday’s selection featured Simon Sort of Says, by Erin Bow: Read via Hoopla, and obtained through Sonoma County Library. Simon Sort of Says is a nominee, in 2024-2025, for the California Young Reader Medal, in its Middle School/Junior High category.

LumaCon ’24 : personal highlights

On Feb. 3, 2024, I went to a youth-oriented comics convention, LumaCon in Petaluma, California. Event highlights, for me, were talking with creators Maia Kobabe, Brian Fies, and Alexis E. Fajardo, as well as a sighting of the BiblioBus: a mobile branch of Sonoma County Library. (One more sticker to affix to our map of Sonoma County Library branches!)
https://youtu.be/bIKtPXO1bp8

‘Find Your Path at the Library’ (Update, January 2024)

We’re on an adventure to collect as many stickers as we can for a map of libraries in the Sonoma County Library system. During our most recent adventure, we collected stickers from the Sebastopol and Guerneville branches of Sonoma County Library.
https://youtu.be/G8HRWsuKz88

Free school supplies at Sonoma County Library

The 2023-2024 school year is almost here, and Sonoma County Library is offering free school supplies to students going into Kindergarten through 12th grade. Shop for school supplies with the library’s Otto Bucks and use art supplies to decorate your backpack. One backpack and set of school supplies per student — first come, first served — while supplies last. Check the library’s calendar of events for dates, times, and library-branch locations.

https://events.sonomalibrary.org/events/upcoming?keywords=money%20smart

Digital inclusion : Libraries provide access to Internet, technology

Hotspot, available from Sonoma County Libray

For LIS 5804, my studies this week focused on technology: specifically on “digital inclusion.” This subject is important to me because, through personal experience, I recognize how important it is for people to have access to the Internet in our ever-more-connected society.

Library resource sharing: My hands-on experience

Circa March 2011: Locating “holds” at Lakeport library

The focus of my studies this week, for LIS 5804, is on library resource sharing and consortia. As a prior volunteer for a library system that contributed to a three-county shared catalog, I’ve had direct involvement with the sharing of resources among libraries.

‘Library Value Calculator’

One of our takeaway concepts this week concerning the value of public libraries was the idea that different forms of value require different metrics, e.g. quantitative versus qualitative value (Kammer, n.d.). As Matthews (2019) points out, “our clumsy attempts to ‘define’ the value of the public library” are “confounded by the reality of the many diverse definitions of ‘value’ itself.”

IMLIS ‘Library Search & Compare’

As part of my studies this week for LIS 5804, The Public Library, I explored the “Library Search & Compare” datasite, hosted by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, for statistics about my local public library.

LIS 5804 : Haiku and reflection

For my first week of studies in LIS 5804, The Public Library, I was to write a haiku in response to a photograph in Robert Dawson’s The Public Library: A Photographic Essay.

‘Read harder’ and library reading challenges

I’m reading a couple of adult-interest books (as well as a book for younger readers) in an effort to complete the 2022 Book Riot Read Harder Challenge. I’ll also be counting minutes spent reading for the Winter Reading Challenge through Sonoma County Library. Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel if you are enjoying my videos.

Collaboration between libraries

Identification of partners, collaborators, and resources is an important aspect of a “Library and Community Analysis.” The local public library is where I can make referrals in instances when my library is not equipped to meet a particular need.

Letter supporting Pride displays in libraries

Someone removed all the books from a Pride display at the Rohnert Park library. In solidarity with Sonoma County Library and with other local libraries that help users to #ReadwithPRIDE, I submitted this letter to the editor of the Press Democrat. My ground-rule when writing this letter: not to validate a campaign to remove the books, nor the organization spearheading it, through any mention of their names.

Sonoma County Library’s Winter Reading Challenge

Video: During Winter Break, I’m logging my minutes for Sonoma County Library’s 2022 Winter Reading Challenge.

End-of-school-year, 2020-2021

Congratulations to our departing eighth-graders; it was great to be able to see you receive your certificates with an in-person promotion ceremony. Best wishes for next school year, everybody, at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts. And whatever else you do this summer, be sure to log the time you spend reading for our public library’s Summer Reading Challenge.

Take SCL’s winter reading challenge

My latest video on YouTube: Whatever books you read or listen to between now and Jan. 31, 2021, be sure to log your minutes for Sonoma County Library’s winter reading challenge.

First Partner issues a ‘Summer Reading Challenge’

First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom has issued a five-week Summer Reading Challenge to encourage California families to “check-out” their community libraries. SRCSA families, your first task is to sign up for summer reading through Sonoma County Library. Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel if you are enjoying my videos.

Shelter-in-place amendment allows curbside library services

With a new amendment to the county’s order to shelter-in-place in effect as of 12:01 a.m. today, look for curbside service to soon begin at Sonoma County Library. According to a recent headline in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, our public library was awaiting the county’s OK to offer limited curbside services. But in the meantime, be sure to access the library’s digital content, which remains accessible 24 hours per day.