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"We strongly believe in a Library that serves every member of our community, and we thank California Humanities for recognizing our talented and diverse Library staff."
Those are the words of Santa Barbara Public Library's Supervising Librarian for Outreach to the Santa Barbara Independent after the library received a $5,500 grant from California Humanities in the form of a nine-month "practice-based professional development experience and cash grants of up to $5,500 to participating library programmers."
The Independent reports the library will use the money to engage Santa Barbara's significant Spanish-speaking population through events and programming.
The Library Innovation Lab program "supports the design and delivery of responsive and relevant public humanities programming in California's public libraries by providing a nine-month practice-based professional development experience and cash grants of up to $5,500 to participating library programmers," according to a press release.
"The creative and innovative programs that library staff develop will respond to the needs and circumstances of today's immigrants and immigrant communities and foster more inclusive communities within our state," says California Humanities President and CEO Rick Noguchi.
The libraries in this round of grants "follow the dozens of participants that have contributed to the success of the program to date and represent a wide swath of California's geographic and cultural diversity," Noguchi says Read the Entire Article
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