C O U NT Y OF O RA N GE 2 0 1 9 Acco m p lishments and 2020 Go a l s
O C C OM M U N I T Y R E S O U R C E S - OC PUBLIC LIBRARIES 2019 ACCO M PL I S H M E N T S •
Opened the state-of-the-art Costa Mesa Donald Dungan Library in Spring 2019. The 22,000-square-foot library is significantly larger and offers two library programming rooms, separate children and teen areas, private study rooms, a video wall and a laptop check-out machine.
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Expanded OC Public Libraries’ Lunch at the Library program to six branches and served over 20,500 free lunches, a 47 percent increase from 2018. This program is a partnership with the California State Library and local school districts, which extends their Free or Reduced Lunch Program into the summer months.
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Launched the Discover & Go Program, which offers library card holders the opportunity to access world-class museums, theaters, aquariums, zoos and science centers by offering low cost to free admission. Partners of note include Mission San Juan Capistrano, Pretend City and the Muckenthaler Center.
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Under OC Public Libraries’ programming, presented world-class authors Gloria Steinem, Dani Shapiro, Tara Conklin, Martha Hall-Kelly, Alan Brennert and Hannah Shaw, among others, to the public to encourage community connections and conversations.
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Launched Freegal, a digital music service, providing community members free access to 15 million songs from 200+ genres.
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Increased community outreach through the award-winning Pop-Up Libraries initiative, in which OC Public Libraries participated in outreach opportunities with a focus on city — and County — sponsored events, along with privately sponsored cultural happenings where resources and services the library offers would be of value to the community.
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Position OC Public Libraries’ Branches as trusted community spaces to our member cites by providing safe, modern facilities, makerspaces for all ages, STEAM programming, laptop kiosks, voting centers and literacy services.
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Create communities of lifelong learners by offering literacy services, which includes family, health, financial, digital and food literacy.
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Connect Orange County communities to their history and culture by collecting, preserving and sharing digital access to unique collections and materials that tell the stories of our local communities and celebrate our common heritage.
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Provide equitable services that are responsive to the cultures, languages, abilities and other diversities through programming and library resources such as materials and programming in multiple languages.
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Partner with County, State and Federal agencies such as Veterans Service Office, Office of Care Coordination, OC Health Care Agency, OC Animal Care, Registrar of Voters, Census Bureau, Department of Education and Workforce Development to reach and engage underserved communities.
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Develop a skilled, diverse workforce whose members engage in continuing education and leadership development opportunities to deliver high quality information services and affect positive change in our communities.
