June 7, 2022
Library and Community Services
DATE: June 7, 2022
TO: Mayor Butt and Members of the City Council
FROM:
LaShonda White, Interim Director of Library and
Community Services
Melinda Cervantes, Deputy Director of Community
Services - Library
Subject:
Accept and Appropriate Pacific Library Partnership Grant for Link+.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: Expenditures will be funded by PLP grant funds. There will be no net additional expense to the General Fund.
PREVIOUS COUNCIL
ACTION:
N/A
STATEMENT OF THE
ISSUE:
The Richmond Public Library has been granted $7,402
from the Pacific Library Partnership (PLP) to support the Link+ lending service.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
ADOPT a resolution to accept and appropriate into the
Fiscal Year 2021-2022 budget a Pacific Library
Partnership grant for Link+ in the amount of $7,402 –
Community Services Department – Library Division
(LaShonda White/Melinda Cervantes 510-620-5452)
AGENDA
REPORT
June 7, 2022
DISCUSSION:
The Pacific Library Partnership (PLP) has allocated funding for costs related to Link+.
As a PLP library, the Richmond Public Library has been allocated $7,402 for FY 2021- 2022. The Richmond Public Library intends to use these funds to offset the costs of delivery of materials among member libraries.
There are 43 libraries participating in PLP, with nine (9) academic libraries and 34 public libraries. The PLP is a consolidation of four library systems: Bay Area Library and Information System (BALIS), serving Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco Counties; Peninsula Library System (PLS), serving San Mateo County; Monterey Bay Area Cooperative Library System (MOBAC), serving Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito Counties; and Silicon Valley Library System (SVLS), serving Santa Clara County.
The purpose of this consolidated regional system is to improve the services of its constituent member libraries by maintaining existing California Library Services Act (CLSA) programs. The purpose of CLSA is to facilitate equal access to library resources regardless of location, income, or education level, with a specific focus on underserved communities. To achieve this end, funds are made available to member libraries or localized library cooperative systems, under CLSA, for various programs, leading research, and development efforts. This is to ensure that libraries are best positioned to respond to demographic, economic, and cultural changes through innovative and collaborative approaches to programming and services and the enhancement of collective resource building and sharing.
DOCUMENTS ATTACHED:
Attachment 1 – Resolution to Amend Library Budget, FY 2021/22 Attachment 2 – PLP Claim Form
Attachment 3 – PLP FY 2021/22 Organizational Benefits Package