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September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month -- a time to raise awareness on this stigmatized, and often taboo, topic. In addition to shifting public perception, we use this month to spread hope and vital information to people affected by suicide. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has several resources for anyone who may be struggling with their mental health. If you or someone you know is in an emergency, call The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) or call 911 immediately. |
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Help Make the Town of Los Gatos a More Accessible Community: Click Below to Take a Quick Survey |
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Thursday, September 9, 2021, 4 PM Please join us for an online craft class with the Korean Spirit and Culture Promotion Project. The instructor will show step by step how to make a lovely lotus flower lantern using colored paper and wire frames. Then attendees will watch a short documentary film about Korean culture. The materials for the kit will be provided and the registrants will need to pick up the kits at the library prior to the class. Registrants will also receive the Zoom link via email. Registration will open September 1, at 9am. This class is for ages 10 and up only. |
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California Coastal Cleanup Day!Saturday, September 18, 9 AM Join millions of Americans on Coastal Cleanup Day to remove litter in our waterways. Litter found around the County Parks and streets eventually ends up in our local creeks and rivers which flows out to the San Francisco Bay. You can make a difference not only in your community but for the whole Bay Area. This year, you can register to help clean the waterways of our local Santa Clara County Parks! If you can’t make it to one of the in-person locations, you can participate through the Virtual California Coastal Cleanup or organize your own community cleanup! Download the Clean Swell app to track and report how much trash you have cleaned from our waterways! The Los Gatos Library will have a limited number of supplies that you can take with you and keep for future cleanups! Supplies will include: - Bucket
- Gloves
- Trash grabber
- Resource sheet
Grab a bucket at the Library while supplies last, and help keep our creeks and shores clean!
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Thursday, September 30, 5 PM Please join Los Gatos Poet Laureate Jen Siraganian for a special poetry book club of Jericho Brown’s The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Tradition tackles American identity, racial justice, trauma, queerness, police brutality, and most of all, survival. Lauded by U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith as “one of the most luminous and courageous voices,” Jericho Brown also authored Please (New Issues 2008), winner of the American Book Award, and New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014). His poems have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Best American Poetry. Check out a library copy of his powerful book and bring your thoughts, questions, and observations on Thursday, Sept. 30th. |
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Your Personal Archive: Organize, Store, and Protect Your Personal Files Thursday, September 23, 5 PM Do you have priceless family documents, photographs, or other physical memories that are at risk of getting damaged? Do you want to learn how to organize and preserve these documents? Join one of our Librarians to learn how to organize, store, and protect your personal files! Participants will receive an archival box with several folders, photo protector sleeves, and other tools that you can use to get started on your personal archive at home. This program will be live on Zoom to allow you to work on your personal archive from the comfort of your home, with your collection available to work as we talk. Please pick up your supplies beforehand, then come ready to ask for advice about the types of documents you have and the best ways to protect them! Registration Required – 10 person limit
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 Los Gatos Library Seed Share All Month Is your garden in need of a pick-me-up? Spruce it up with some new veggies or flowers from our seed library! The Los Gatos Library Seed Share is a free program dedicated to biodiversity, education, sustainability and sharing of resources. The seed library allows our patrons to take some seeds (of various kinds), plant them in their own gardens, let some go to seed, then return some of the next generation seeds for others to borrow. If you are unable to save your own seed, please donate a packet or two of fresh, commercially grown, open-pollinated, non-GMO (nonhybrid) seed to keep our library stocked. Visit us to fill out a membership form and follow some simple instructions to start sharing today! We give many thanks to the Friends of the Library for funding the Seed Share. A special thanks to Trish Goldfarb and the Library Board for proposing, approving, and initiating efforts to start our first seed library. |
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ESL Conversation Club Not meeting in September Our ESL Conversation Club will be on pause for the month of September, but join us back in October to practice your conversation skills in English. |
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 Monday Morning Virtual Book Club Monday, Sep 13, 11 AM Join in on the morning virtual book club discussion! We'll be discussing Passionate Minds: The Great Enlightenment Love Affair by David Bodanis over Zoom. Find the book on CloudLibrary or place it on hold today! Click here for the Zoom link Password: 833651 Or Call In 1 (215) 861-0674 1 (888) 398-2342 (US Toll Free) Conference code: 589749 |
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 Tuesday Evening Book Club Tuesday, Sep 21, 5 PM Civic Center Lawn Please join us for our in-person book club discussion of the renowned work , The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison. The discussion will take place on the Civic Center Lawn (in front of our library). Please note the time change: this book club meeting will be in person from 5:00pm to 6:00pm. We ask that you wear a mask during the discussion. See you there! |
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Tuesdays and Fridays, 11 AM Civic Center Lawn This Fall we will continue to offer our Storytimes in-person and outdoors, air quality permitting. Keep an eye on our social media for updates on our Storytime schedule! We strongly encourage everyone 3 years old and up to wear a mask at Storytime. As our Storytime programs continue to grow, we regularly have more than 100 folks on our lawn. We love having you, and we want you to stay safe. Make sure to visit our Facebook videos page to watch virtual Storytimes, or sign into Hoopla or Kanopy for some children’s picture books in audio/video format! |
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We are excited to decorate our beautiful library walls with art celebrating diverse books and book characters. There are so many amazing books to choose from; this is your chance to think deeply about what character you love most and submit an idea for a painting to display in the Children's Room. Submit your idea for your painting in the online application before September 30th. |
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Los Gatos Library StoryWalk® Looking for something to do outside with the family? Take a walk through Oak Meadow Park and share a picture book with your family. This month, enjoy Saturday by Oge Mora and on September 15th, a new book will be posted! Join in on our interactive StoryWalk and tag any photos you want to share @los_gatos_library. |
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Music Together (Ages 0-5) Thursday, September 9, 11 AM Registration required Join us for a harmonious and melodious time with our friends from Musical Me, an organization that brings music into the lives of children. We will be singing many fun songs, practicing our listening and rhythm skills, and bringing movement and instruments into the mix! Register for the program here: |
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Start a Yoga Practice as a Family with Hoopla Digital! |
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Breathe Like a BearThis beautifully illustrated collection of mindfulness exercises is designed to teach kids techniques for managing their bodies, breath, and emotions. Best of all, these thirty simple, short breathing practices and movements can be performed anytime, anywhere: in the car on the way to the grocery store, during heavy homework nights at home, or even at a child's desk at school. Based on Kira Willey's Parents' Choice GOLD Award winner Mindful Moments for Kids, Breathe Like a Bear is sure to help kids find calm, gain focus, and feel energized during the day while also encouraging families to establish fun and consistent mindfulness. |
Using breath to feel strong, calm, and happy, Breathe with Me guides young ones ages four through eight through eleven exercises to promote body awareness, calm anger and temper tantrums, self-soothe in fearful new situations, energize in the morning, and relax at bedtime. Through visualization and play, this engaging breath-by-breath journey teaches children an essential set of self-care skills that will benefit them for a lifetime. |
The Little Book Selden Edwards Thirty years in the writing, Selden Edwards' dazzling first novel is an irresistible triumph of the imagination. Wheeler Burden-banking heir, philosopher, student of history, legend's son, rock idol, writer, lover, recluse, half-Jew, and Harvard baseball hero-one day finds himself wandering not in his hometown of San Francisco in 1988 but in a city and time he knows mysteriously well: Vienna, 1897 |
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller), an employee at Life magazine, spends day after monotonous day developing photos for the publication. To escape the tedium, Walter inhabits a world of exciting daydreams in which he is the undeniable hero. |
Dealing with Dragons Patricia C. Wrede Meet Princess Cimorene--a princess who refuses to be proper. She is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish smart... And bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a dragon. |
Cinder Marissa Meyer Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction |
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Feeling crafty? Check out one of our kits! Art Kits include: Mini Canvas Kits, Papermaking Kits, Canvas Board Kits, and Watercolor Kits, Traditional Brush & Ink Painting Kits, for painting activities, as well as EZ-Cut Stamp Kits (ages 18+) Sewing Machine Kits, Knitting Kits, and Papermaking Kits for more mediums that you may want to try. This initiative supports reusing, recycling, and sharing resources, to promote a greener community. It also encourages our community to keep on expressing creativity through the visual arts. Put a hold on a Kit today: |
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In November of 2020 we had the Orange Ties play a Facebook Live concert at the Library. Join us in grooving to the music of four talented musicians from Los Gatos High School that make up the jazz quartet, "The Orange Ties"! You may have seen the band playing around Town, and the community is so grateful for their passion for music. A big 'thank you' to the Friends of the Los Gatos Library for their support. Enjoy the concert! |
During the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic the Los Gatos Library hosted a mail art party as a way to connect with friends and family. Even after a year it is still a great way to be creative and connect with family and friends. Join our librarians on YouTube for a mail art session. Get some paper, envelopes, stamps, pens, markers, stickers, and anything else you may have lying around the house, and prepare to make some beautiful mail art with us! The recipients of our mail will be super lucky! |
The Landscaping for Wildfire Protection was part of our UC Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County Presentation series. While this was recorded in 2020 there is a lot of information that applies to the environment today. |
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Latina characters of indigenous ancestry and the land they inhabit in the American West. Against the remarkable backdrop of Denver, Colorado—a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite—these women navigate the land the way they navigate their lives: with caution, grace, and quiet force. |
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Mayan God of Death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore |
Author relates the story of two crowded decades in the life of a Chicana family. The mother, Sofia, holds things together in the years following the disappearance of her husband Domingo. Then there are the daughters: Esperanza, Chicana campus radical turned career woman and television news reporter; Caridad, a nurse who dulls the pain of being jilted with nightly bouts of alcohol and anonymous sex. Fe, the prim and proper bank employee in constant quest for the good life; and la Loca, whose "death" and subsequent resurrection at age three have left her strange and saintly and attuned to higher spiritual frequencies. |
Quiara Alegría Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced in her grandmother’s tight North Philly kitchen. She was awed by her aunts and uncles and cousins, but haunted by the secrets of the family and the unspoken, untold stories of the barrio—even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea of language around her, written and spoken, English and Spanish, bodies and books, Western art and sacred altars. |
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Escrito por Leila Cobo, la mayor autoridad de la música latina, La fórmula “Despacito” es una mirada profunda al detrás de escenas de la música que hace bailar al mundo entero.
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by Virgilio Martínez La creciente popularidad de la cocina peruana en todo el mundo ha convertido a Lima, la capital de Perú, en un destino obligado para los amantes de la buena mesa. Virgilio Martínez, el chef más famoso de ese país, basa sus singulares creaciones gastronómicas en una inquieta y continua investigación sobre la diversidad ecológica de los productos de la tierra peruana y de los agrosistemas de los Andes. Su restaurante de Lima, Central, está considerado uno de los mejores del mundo y en la actualidad se sitúa en el 4.º puesto mundial según la prestigiosa lista 50 World's Best Restaurants 2015 (los «Oscar» de la cocina). |
by Juana Martinez-Neal When Alma Sofia Esperanza Jose Pura Candela asks her father why she has so many names, she hears the story of her name and learns about her grandparents |
by Meg Medina When Mia's Abuela comes to live with Mia and her family, she helps her learn English while Mia learns Spanish, both with the help of a parrot named Mango |
by Anna MerianoWanting to be a part of her family's Dia de los Muertos preparations, Leonora sneaks out of school to discover her mother, aunt, and older sisters have been keeping a secret. |
Job & Career Resources The Los Gatos Library is here to help you with your job search. Browse a list of helpful books that can be reserved and picked up from the Library; look through unemployment resources; take advantage of free job search and training resources; and even find help for your small business. Visit our Job & Career Resources page and call, chat or email the library if you need help! |
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Looking for a place to work outside your home? Why not reserve a space at the library? You can place a study space on reserve for you and a group or reserve a smaller room just for yourself.
Masks or face coverings must be worn at all times while inside the Library, including inside study rooms. Anyone refusing to wear a mask while inside the Library will be asked to leave and forfeit their room reservation. This room can be booked 7 days in advance with a limit of 90 minutes per day, and 180 minutes (3 hours) per week. |
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Are you having issues with your device or laptop? Tech Assistance is back (socially distanced) in the front patio of the Library. Make a 30-minute appointment online or by calling us at (408) 354-6891. Tech Help appointments Will be available every Tuesday and Thursday from 11-12 PM starting in May. Make sure to bring your face mask and your device fully charged. We look forward to assisting you. *1 appointment per month per person. |
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WiFi Hotspot Lending The Library is now loaning mobile hotspots for anyone with a library card. Limited to one hotspot per family unit for 21-days (no renewals allowed). The hotspots provide unlimited data and WiFi anywhere T-Mobile service is available. Hotspot service will be turned off after 21 days if not returned. For more information, please contact the Library. |
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The Library is now offering two new remote services - all free of charge. Do you have an idea for a 3D object you'd like to create? Send us a file, and we can create it for you with our 3D printer. We are also unveiling our newest piece of technology - our Glowforge Laser-Cutter. We'll gladly engrave or score your design. |
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New York Times
Read the New York Times online from the comfort of your home. |
Flipster An online catalog of your favorite magazines, available right at your fingertips. |
Los Gatos Weekly Check out the latest Los Gatos Weekly Times anytime. |
Hoopla Check out movies, music, audio books, manga, graphic novels and much more online. |
 CloudLibraryOur most extensive e-book and audiobook collection. Compatible with most devices |
 KanopyMore than 30,000 award-winning documentaries, rare and hard-to-find titles, film festival favorites, indie and classic films, and world cinema options to check out. |
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