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II. About Our Organization:
<br />Qualifications and Experience: Santa Ana Public Library
<br />The Santa Ana Public library (SAPL) is a division of the City of Santa Ana's Parks and Recreation
<br />Department. The administration and management personnel of the department, including the Director's office,
<br />accounting, and payroll functions, are housed in the Main Library building and available for participation in the
<br />project. Administrative staff includes a Senior Management Analyst, a Management Analyst, and several part-
<br />time clerks who are experienced in grant management and can provide skilled fiscal support. PRCSA's staff is
<br />experienced in the management of grants and has learned to incorporate the payment of grant-funded interns
<br />through participation in the library's federal IMLS grant. The library itself employs 10 full-time librarians, 7
<br />full-time paraprofessionals and 7 full-time clerical personnel. We currently employ 70 part time clerks and
<br />tutors in children's, teen and adult programs. Some of our part-timers are paid through the General Fund and
<br />others through various grants.
<br />The Library's allocation of City General Fund monies for 2010-11 was $2,880,720. Other sources of
<br />revenue include a CDBG block grant of $250,000, which supports the Homework Help Centers. We have been
<br />awarded an equivalent CDBG grant for 2011-12 for this purpose. In 2010, we were the recipient of a three-year
<br />Laura Bush 21S' Century Librarian grant of $636,000, and were recently awarded a $28,000 LSTA grant from
<br />the State Library to train teens to produce bilingual videos providing education for healthy living. We also have
<br />been awarded a $5,000 LSTA grant to support job skills development workshops for limited English speaking
<br />adults, and a $5,000 LSTA grant to train and utilize teens to collect oral histories from immigrants to Santa Ana.
<br />In addition, the library receives about $100,000/year from the State Public Library Fund to purchase new print
<br />and media materials. Collectively, grants will add approximately $600,000 to the library's budget in 2011-12.
<br />Santa Ana was the only public library in the United States to receive a Laura Bush grant in this grant
<br />cycle. The grant is to enable SAPL to prepare bilingual youth for careers in librarianship and to help other
<br />libraries to learn to do the same. The grant award recognizes our ongoing success at attracting Latino and
<br />Vietnamese-American teens to the library, nurturing them through high school and college, and retaining them
<br />as library staff through graduate programs in Library and Information Science. Of the ten librarians currently
<br />employed by the library, seven followed this path, including all three Principal Librarians. At present over
<br />twenty teens and young adults are employed by the library through the Laura Bush grant, and many other young
<br />library employees are involved in its skills enhancing activities. Six of our Laura Bush employees have recently
<br />been accepted into the San Jose Masters Program in Library and Information Science. The long-neglected
<br />concept of apprenticeship inherent in the Laura Bush Program has spread to other city entities: An urban
<br />planner with the city has selected and employed one of our young people as an intern.
<br />The program combines the veteran apprenticeship concept with cutting-edge technology. Laura Bush
<br />employees are required to attend a Graphics Design course created and staffed by library staff, and to blog
<br />weekly in the project's website about their experiences and what they have learned
<br />(www.seedstotreesacademy.com). As part of their job experience, they rotate through all of the divisions of the
<br />library, assisting librarians with graphic and web design projects, teaching computer skills, and creating and
<br />filming content for the City's CTV-3 channel. This focus on technology is responsive to the mandate amongst
<br />agencies serving teens to emphasize the development of STEM (Science, Technology, English and Math) skills.
<br />Since its historic inception as a city general funded library in 1891, the Santa Ana Public Library has
<br />had a long tradition of serving the informational and educational entertainment needs of youth in Santa Ana by
<br />providing access to books, programs and the latest technology of the time. In recent years, the library has a
<br />record of unusual success in attracting teens to its TeenSpace and supporting them through its many programs.
<br />In January, 2007, Cheryl Eberly was appointed Young Adult Librarian. From that moment, the Young Adult
<br />program began to grow in attendance and expand in scope. Ms. Eberly initiated her "Circle of Mentoring"
<br />program, in which adult volunteers mentor teens in learning life, leisure and academic skills, and teens mentor
<br />smaller children in the same.
<br />In 2009, the Library opened its TeenSpace, providing a home for the young adult service's many
<br />programs. The TeenSpace is advised by the Teen library Club, who helped design the space and have an active
<br />voice in the development of programs and activities. The Teen Library Club consists of 20-30 students per
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