The California legislature is seriously considering borrowing 8% of library property taxes on 2009/2010. This will force the Library to cut hours, services and programs. This chart demonstrates the significance of the loss of these revenues.
$1.2 Million Loss
Librarian
32,597 hours
Library Clerk
42,826 hours
Page
56,127 hours
Books
34,158
CDs
60,000
DVDs
39,695
Children’s Programs
2,400 programs
Teen Programs
2,492 programs
Literacy Training
3,692 programs
“Libraries are more essential than ever. Reading is still the most basic survival skill in today’s information driven world.” William Ecenbarger
How can you help?
Please support your library by asking the State Legislature to exempt libraries from the Proposition 1A property tax shift.
Time is of the essence, so phone calls and faxes are preferred; letters are also welcomed.
Please join the Alameda County Library Foundation for its 5th Annual Fundraiser – “A Night at the Library”
When: Friday evening, June 5, 2009, 6:30-9:00 a.m.
Where: Fremont Main Library, 2400 Stevenson Blvd., Fremont, CA
Tiickets are $100 / block of 12 tickets: $1000
Proceeds benefit Alameda County Library Programs and Services
The Alameda County Library Foundation was formed in 1996 by a group of civic-minded community leaders to provide supplemental financial support for the Alameda County Library in a time of decreasing public funding. People from all walks of life and numerous businesses, foundations and organizations sustain the work of the Foundation through financial contributions and active involvement in its activities.
The Alameda County Library Foundation is a major financial supporter of the Start with a Story Program.
National Children’s Memorial Flag Day Ceremony 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009 at noon
Alameda County Administration Building
1221 Oak Street, Oakland
Central Plaza
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors and the East Bay Regional Park District invite you to attend the Thirteenth Annual National Children’s Memorial Flag Day as we remember the children who have died by violence in Alameda County and across the United States. In 2008, 19 children in Alameda County died by violence. Since the Children’s Memorial Flag Project began in 1994, a total of 339 Alameda County children under the age of 18 have died by violence between 1993 and 2008.
The Children’s Memorial Flag flies in Alameda County whenever a child dies by violence.
The Child Welfare League of America promotes the Children’s Memorial Flag nationwide,
and the National Association of Counties also endorses its use.
The estimated dollar value of volunteer time is $19.51 per hour for 2007.
The estimate helps acknowledge the millions of individuals who dedicate their time, talents, and energy to making a difference. Charitable organizations can use this estimate to quantify the enormous value volunteers provide.
Learn more about these figures, including how they are calculated and how nonprofit organizations often use them, at the bottom of the page.
The dollar value of volunteer time for 2007 is estimated at $19.51.
Please note: Values for 1990-2006 were adjusted to reflect a new data series released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Dollar Value of a Volunteer Hour, by State: 2006 Please note that 2006 is the latest year for which state-by-state numbers are available. There is a lag of almost one year in the government’s release of state level data which explains why the state volunteering values are one year behind the national value.”
Alabama: $16.33
Alaska: $18.65
Arizona: $18.17
Arkansas: $14.63
California: $21.97
Colorado: $20.08
Connecticut: $25.75
Delaware: $21.28
Dist. of Columbia: $30.10
Florida: $17.38
Georgia: $18.77
Hawaii: $16.52
Idaho: $14.90
Illinois: $21.09
Indiana: $16.83
Iowa: $15.59
Kansas: $16.64
Kentucky: $16.07
Louisiana: $16.95
Maine: $15.25
Maryland: $20.47
Massachusetts: $24.29
Michigan: $19.29
Minnesota: $19.46
Mississippi: $14.08
Missouri: $17.19
Montana: $13.51
Nebraska: $15.37
Nevada: $17.98
New Hampshire: $19.77
New Jersey: $23.62
New Mexico: $15.35
New York: $26.18
North Carolina: $17.14
North Dakota: $14.27
Ohio: $17.53
Oklahoma: $15.68
Oregon: $17.33
Pennsylvania: $18.86
Rhode Island: $17.81
South Carolina: $15.52
South Dakota: $13.72
Tennessee: $17.29
Texas: $19.89
Utah: $15.97
Vermont: $16.07 8
Virginia: $20.08
Washington: $19.53
West Virginia: $14.70
Wisconsin: $16.76
Wyoming: $16.69
Puerto Rico: $10.21
Virgin Islands: $14.85
Notes: The value of volunteer time is based on the average hourly earnings of all production and nonsupervisory workers on private nonfarm payrolls (as determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics). Independent Sector takes this figure and increases it by 12 percent to estimate for fringe benefits.
Read to your kids. It’s a mantra from educators that President Obama likes to invoke, most recently in his address to Congress this week. For good reason: Plenty of studies drive home the connection between reading to your child and your child learning to read to himself. But what if this isn’t the only path to early literacy? Wouldn’t we welcome an alternative for children who can’t sit still to listen to books—or for parents who fall asleep reading them? Except, uhm, if that alternative heads straight for another source of parental woe: keeping the house neat.
Beginning November 1st, Start with a Story will also take place Saturdays and Sundays at the Glenn Dyer Jail Facility in downtown Oakland. This Alameda County jail facility is located at 550-6th St., and is accessible by public transportation. An estimated 100-150 children visit this facility on weekends!
We are in need of volunteers for this facility. If you are interested, please let us know. Volunteer time slots will be available from 8 a.m. – 11 a.m. AND 12 p.m. – 3 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays.
Volunteers – You asked for it! We heard your request! And now…
We finally received our mobile book shelf at Santa Rita Jail.
What this means to you: no more hauling boxes of book (unless to fill the shelf) or digging through to find specific types of genres and age appropriate materials.
How it will work: The shelf will be wheeled out during program times, and wheeled back in when the program is complete. We expect to keep it fully stocked with lots of kids’ favorites, especially board books and picture books!
"No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted...Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader."
-Jim Trelease
“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations--something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.”- Katherine Patterson
"A house without books is like a room without windows...Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices." -Horace Mann
Please join the Alameda County Library Foundation for its 5th Annual Fundraiser – 
