Library News
           It has certainly been an “interesting” and very different summer for all of us and for the library. All programs are now online with great attendance. Over 900 children participated in the Summer Reading Program and read 8,200 books. This shows that kids don’t spend all their time on video games! Thanks to a generous grant from the Mithun Foundation, the Friends sponsored this annual program, its associated performances, and the weekly activity kits given to families. We are funding all children-related activities and programs this fall as well.
           Our lectures this fall will be online. Check our website a few days before the event for the link or sign up for our mailing list at friendsoftheGVlibrary@gmail.com. The lectures will be available online afterwards with links on our website and on the library’s Facebook page.
            Only permanent staff are allowed inside the library, no volunteers. The library usually functions with ten permanent staff and twenty to thirty volunteers. It now provides multiple services with only the permanent staff. Please tell our stressed-out staff how much you appreciate their work. Unfortunately, some people have used interactions with our librarians as outlets for their frustration after six months of confinement.
            Libraries in the Black Gold system are not sharing books for health safety reasons. Patrons can only order curbside pick-up from the collections of the Goleta Valley Library, so the Friends gave $14,000 to purchase multiple copies of the latest best-sellers. We stepped in to greatly increase the funding for e-books and audiobooks on the library’s online platforms. In the meantime, our revenues from the book sale stopped mid-March. While half of our funding source is gone for the moment, the library needs are acute.

Become a Friend or renew your membership for 2021!
Please consider adding to your yearly donation in support of the library collections and programs so it can better serve our community in these troubled times.

The Goleta Valley Library website provides the latest information on available services:
www.cityofgoleta.org/city-hall/goleta-valley-library

The new parachute is a great success with our youngest patrons.

Who are The Friends?

    The Friends of the Goleta Valley Library is a non-profit 501(c)(3), volunteer organization. We raise funds through membership dues, donations, a permanent book sale in the lobby of the library, and special events such as the yearly Signed and Rare Books Silent Auction.

What will we fund in 2020-21?

• All Children's programs: performances, activity kits for families, online performances, new books for the collection.
• We'll increase the budget for the library's online platforms such as Libby, Hoopla, and more. Their costs are based on demand, which has considerably increased because of the pandemic confinement.
  
• We'll supplement the book and materials budget to compensate for the temporary ban on transferring books from one library to another.
• and more, according to our librarians' needs.

Thank you for your generosity!

The Friends of the Goleta Valley Library is a 501(c)(3) organization.
Tax ID#: 23-700 6256
All donations are tax-deductible to the amount authorized by the law.
​The Friends of the Goleta Valley Library
P.O. Box 635
Goleta CA 93116-0635
​friendsoftheGVlibrary@gmail.com

Library hours
Monday - Thursday: 10 am - 7 pm
Friday - Saturday: 10 am - 5:30 pm
Sunday: 1 pm - 5 pm

How Can I Help?

• become a Friend (see our membership form)
• volunteer
• donate books, DVDs, CDs, and audiobooks when the library reopens. No donations yet, please!
  

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