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The Cat's Meow Los Gatos Library Newsletter |
It's August, summer reading is winding down and we are celebrating the last few moments of summer. Make sure to catch us on social media www.facebook.com/losgatoslibrary and Instagram: @los_gatos_library to stay updated with all the upcoming news, programs, and workshops the library has to offer. And feel free to reach out and call us or IM with any questions. |
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What's New Los Gatos At Home: We Need Your Help to Make History - Help document the Los Gatos town during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Send in various at-home projects, gardens, hobbies, homeschooling, community service, chalk art, and more.
Represent LG: Oral History Project - We need your help to make our Local History Room collection reflect the diversity of our community.
- Find out how you can help amplify the voices in our community
Register to Vote! - Check your voter status, confirm your mailing address, and sign up for ballot tracking notifications here https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/.
- To register to vote for the first time, go to: registertovote.ca.gov the form is available in Spanish, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Tagalog, Thai, and Vietnamese!
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The Los Gatos Library invites Los Gatos residents to contribute pieces of their lives that document town life during the COVID-19 pandemic to tell the story of Los Gatos during this time of sheltering in place. We are interested in seeing your journeys in staying at home through all the various at-home projects, gardens, hobbies, homeschooling, community service, chalk art, and more. Curated submissions will be made available in our digital collection on History Los Gatos here. Submissions must be digital and may include: Photographs Letters, emails, postcards, and other correspondence Blog posts or social media posts Notices, posters, or signs Creative art such as drawings, paintings, chalk art, poetry, etc. Journal and diary entries
Any person who resides in Los Gatos is welcome to submit materials. We are all in this together, along with the whole world, and we are proud that Los Gatos remains a safe and healthy place for its community. To submit your materials, start here. |
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Represent Los Gatos: Oral History |
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We are recording the stories of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) of Los Gatos and we need your help to make our Local History Room collection reflect the diversity of our community. BIPOC stories are underrepresented in our local history and it is our mission as a memory institution to change this. Please share your story and take part in this oral history project., Feel free to email library@losgatosca.gov or fill out the Represent LG oral history form to participate in this project here. |
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ESL Conversation Club Wednesdays at 11am August 2020 Looking to improve your English language skills? Join our ESL Conversation Club for adults on Wednesdays at 11 AM over the Zoom platform! Click here for the link to join. Password: 033836 or Call in 1 (215) 861-0674 1 (888) 398-2342 (US Toll Free) Conference code: 589749 : |
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 Monday Morning Virtual Book Club Monday August 10th at 11:00 AM Join in on the morning virtual book club discussion! We'll be discussing Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin 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 Virtual Book Club Tuesday August 21st at 6:30 PM Please join us for an evening virtual book club discussion! We'll be discussing the memoir, The Stationary Shop by Marjan Kamali. The book is available on CloudLibrary and Hoopla Digital for all to enjoy. Click here for the Zoom link. Password: LGLbc or Call In 1(215) 861-0674 1(888) 398-2342 (US Toll Free) Conference code: 589749 |
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Poetry Exchange: Zoom Edition Sunday, August 16, 1-3 PM Please join us for the Poetry Exchange. This month's featured guest poet is Kai Coggin, the prize-winning "Best Poet in Arkansas"! Followed by an Open Mic. Bring a poem or two to share or just enjoy some awesome poetry in the comfort of your own home! Hosted by Lesa Medley! |
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Zoom Thursday, August 6, 3:00 PM Learn how to use the library’s website to get the resources and information you need most! Topics covered will include using the library catalog to place books on hold for Patio Pick-Up; getting access to ebooks and educational resources; and troubleshooting any issues you might have run into while downloading apps like CloudLibrary, Hoopla and Flipster. Password: library |
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How to Hoopla Thursday, August 20, 3:00 PM Are you curious how to get the most out of Hoopla? Join Francisco for a deep-dive into the Hoopla e-book app, which allows you to check out any title on demand and is a great resource for e-books, audiobooks, comic books, and more! Password: hoopla |
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On Demand Programs on Youtube Online Los Gatos Library Youtube At home and wondering how to learn something new, start an art project, or just have some fun? Go to the Los Gatos Library’s YouTube page for a complete selection of on-demand programs for adults and kids! Check our playlists for a stream of similar programs, or click through all of our videos to find something that you know you’ll enjoy. |
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Kids Crafts: Whale Party Cup Crafts Wednesday, August 5, 3:00 PM Join us on Facebook for some crafty fun! We will make party cup whales using plastic cups, chenille stems, and googly eyes. Bring your sense of adventure and imagination! Ages 4+ |
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Non-Fiction Story Hour: Deserts and Cactuses Thursday August 13 at 11AM Join us for a special read-aloud of books that explore deserts! We will present books and connect you with online resources to further your own research from home using library tools. This is a family friendly program and will be enjoyed by learners of all ages. Come with your curiosity and leave with some fun facts and stories about our wonderful deserts! All ages |
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Golden Acorn Music Thursday, August 20th, 11am Join us for a virtual music event for kids and family. Golden Acorn will lead us in full body music as we dace, wiggle, laugh and sing together over youtube! youtube link to the program will be posted on Facebook and Instagram
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Kids Virtual Book Club
Wednesday, August 26, 4:00 PM Calling all Middle Grade readers! In August we will read and discuss A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park. Read the book at your own pace and we will meet on Zoom to discuss and share. Participants should plan to read the whole book by the meeting and come prepared to talk about it with the group. We will explore several questions and themes throughout our discussion. Email library@losgatosca.gov for Zoom invitation. Ages 11+ |
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Storytime with Librarian Catherine Mondays at 11am August 2020 The library is closed but you can keep reading with us! Come see all your favorite librarians read at story time. On Mondays join librarian Catherines as she goes on a book adventure. Go to the Los Gatos Library's Facebook page here at 11:00am and join Librarian Catherine for Facebook Live Storytime! |
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Storytime with Librarian Grace Tuesdays at 11am August 2020 Start your Tuesday with a smile and a book. Go to the Los Gatos Library's Facebook page here at 11:00am and join Librarian Grace for Facebook Live Storytime! |
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Bilingual Storytime with Librarian Daniel Wednesdays at 11am August 2020 Yay for Wednesday! At 11:00am join Librarian Daniel for a bilingual Facebook Live Storytime in Spanish and English! Click here for more info. |
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Storytime - Picture Book Reading Thursdays, at 11am August 2020, In addition to our Storytimes (which are geared more towards early learners and toddlers), we'll have one of our librarians read a longer picture book for older children most Thursday mornings. Join us here LIVE on Facebook, or watch the recording at a later time that is convenient for you! |
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Storytime with Librarian Jenn Fridays at 11am August 2020 Brighten up your Fridays with librarian Jenn. Go to the Los Gatos Library's Facebook page here at 11:00am and join Librarian Jenn for Facebook Live Storytime! |
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Painting in the style of Maud Lewis |
Featured Reads for August |
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Zoom Book Club The Stationary Shop Marjan Kamali Tuesday, August 21st, 6:30 PM A novel set in 1953 Tehran, against the backdrop of the Iranian Coup, about a young couple in love who are separated on the eve of their marriage, and who are reunited sixty years later, after having moved on to live independent lives in America, to discover the truth about what happened on that fateful day in the town square |
Mock, Janet Welcomed into the world as her parents’ firstborn son, Mock decided early on that she would be her own person—no matter what. She struggled as the smart, determined child in a deeply loving yet ill-equipped family that lacked the money, education, and resources necessary to help her thrive. Mock navigated her way through her teen years without parental guidance, but luckily, with the support of a few close friends and mentors, she emerged much stronger, ready to take on—and maybe even change—the world. |
Deaver, Mason When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school.
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Elise Gravel A blue crayon mistakenly labeled as "red" suffers an identity crisis in the new picture book by the New York Times–bestselling creator of My Heart Is Like a Zoo and It's an Orange Aardvark! Funny, insightful, and colorful, Red: A Crayon's Story, by Michael Hall, is about being true to your inner self and following your own path despite obstacles that may come your way. |
Say hello to the Heather, our Customer Service Specialist, and book face mastermind. Right now Heather is keeping busy with these three tittles from the library. Make sure to check them out over Cloud Library or put them on hold for a mobile pick up. |
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Who says you are dead? Jacob M. Appel MD Drawing upon the author’s two decades teaching medical ethics, as well as his work as a practicing psychiatrist, this profound and addictive little book offers up challenging ethical dilemmas and asks readers, What would you do? In short, engaging scenarios, Dr. Appel takes on hot-button issues that many of us will confront: genetic screening, sexuality, privacy, doctor-patient confidentiality. He unpacks each hypothetical with a brief reflection drawing from science, philosophy, and history, explaining how others have approached these controversies in real-world cases. Who Says You’re Dead? is designed to defy easy answers and to stimulate thought and even debate among professionals and armchair ethicists alike. |
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18 Tiny Deaths Bruce Goldfarb Frances Glessner Lee, born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family in the 1870s, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity. Yet she developed a fascination with the investigation of violent crimes, and made it her life's work. Best known for creating the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a series of dollhouses that appear charming—until you notice the macabre little details: an overturned chair, or a blood-spattered comforter. And then, of course, there are the bodies—splayed out on the floor, draped over chairs—clothed in garments that Lee lovingly knit with sewing pins. 18 Tiny Deaths, by official biographer Bruce Goldfarb, delves into Lee's journey from grandmother without a college degree to leading the scientific investigation of unexpected death out of the dark confines of centuries-old techniques and into the light of the modern day. |
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Alexis Coe Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He’s merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet every day he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. At least that’s what he has been told, time and time again. Except by one person, his mother. Who says to him: Be more.
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Tittles Being Talked About In July |
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Bennett, Brit The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. |
Davis, Angela 1. The legacy of slavery: standards for a new womanhood -- 2. The anti-slavery movement and the birth of women's rights -- 3. Class and race in the early women's rights campaign -- 4. Racism in the woman suffrage movement -- 5. The meaning of emancipation according to black women -- 6. Education and liberation: black women's perspective -- 7. Woman suffrage at the turn of the century: the rising influence of racism -- 8. Black women and the club movement -- 9. Working women, black women and the history of the suffrage movement -- 10. Communist women -- 11. Rape, racism and the myth of the black rapist -- 12. Racism, birth control and reproductive rights -- 13. The approaching obsolescence of housework: a working-class perspective. |
 Ahmed, Samira Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu.
Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface, escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities—and discovers a world her people left behind long ago.
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Anderson, Carol In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively allowed districts with a demonstrated history of racial discrimination to change voting requirements without approval from the Department of Justice. |
10,000 Dresses Ewert, Marcus Bailey longs to wear the beautiful dresses of her dreams but is ridiculed by her unsympathetic family which rejects her true perception of herself |
Herthel, Jessica Presents the story of a transgender child who traces her early awareness that she is a girl in spite of male anatomy and the acceptance she finds through a wise doctor who explains her natural transgender status |
Los Gatos Library Patio Pick-Up |
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We are so excited at how well Patio Pick-Up is working, and so grateful for our patrons making it worth while! Pick-ups are available Monday-Friday 10 am - 5 pm. |
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