April 2009 Issue 4
Proposed Reduction In Hours and Services 
The library is proposing a reduction in days and hours the three branches are open if no new revenue can be realized.
Details have yet to be determined, but the proposal includes the following reductions:
•EastLake Branch would reduce from 5 days and 24 hours a week, to 3 days a week at 15 hours.
•Civic Center Library would reduce from 7 days to 5 days a week and 38 hours, instead of the current 52 hours.
•South Chula Vista Branch would also be reduced to 5 days and 38 hours.
Before the library reduced hours in Jan. 2008, the three branches were open 144 hours a week, with both Civic and South branches open 7 days a week. The proposed reduction that would take effect should no revenue be realized in May, would reduce the libraries to only 91 hours a week.
Other library services are likely to be effected by these reductions, including increased delays for guests getting materials, fewer new materials, and reduced computer maintenance.
McCandliss Art Awards Application are Now Being Accepted
The City of Chula Vista is accepting nominations for the 2009 Gayle McCandliss Art Awards. Given annually to adults, graduating seniors and community organizations that have supported the arts in Chula Vista.
For more information visit the library's website.
Friends Booksales Are April 4
The EastLake and Civic Center Friends will both have book sales on April 4.
Civic's Friends are having book sales on the first Saturday of each month through June. EastLake is going to have sales at two locations at the same time, which is a first.
Visit all three sales and remember all Friends money goes back to your community library in the form of new books, DVD's, and programs.
Chula Vista Public Library Locations
Civic Center Branch |
South Chula Vista Branch |
EastLake Branch |
Heritage Museum |
Enjoy Go Green & Clean Family Day in Friendship Park on April 18
YOUR COMMUNITY • YOUR ENVIRONMENT • YOUR CHOICE
Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 18, when the library hosts Go Green and Clean Family Day from 11am-4pm in beautiful Friendship Park, adjacent to the Civic Center branch.
There will be live entertainment, fun activities, arts & crafts, interactive displays, an SDG&E light bulb exchange, and FREE stuff.
Go Green and Clean Family Day is a collaboration between City departments and other agencies.
Visit your library or click here to pick up a flyer for a full list of Earth Month events.
Too Good To Miss
Adult Fiction
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford. Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II.
Non-Fiction
A Lion Called Christian by Anthony Bourke. A remarkable story of how Bourke and John Rendall, visitors to London in 1969, bought the boisterous lion cub in the pet department of Harrods. Christian quickly became a local celebrity, cruising the streets in a car, popping in for lunch at a restaurant, even posing for an advertisement. But the lion cub was growing up fast, and a coincidental meeting with stars of the hit film Born Free, led to Christian being flown to Kenya and placed under the care of George Adamson.
Teen Fiction
Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family.
Children's Fiction
Gooney Bird is So Absurd by Lois Lowry. It’s a cold January at the Watertower Elementary School—the perfect weather for Gooney Bird Greene to break out her special brain-warming hat! It's a good thing she has one. Gooney Bird's brain will need to be as warm as possible this month, because Mrs. Pidgeon is teaching her class about poetry.