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the national medal for Museum and

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Library Services is the nation's highest
honor for libraries and museums that are

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serving their communities in exceptional
ways Rancho kukamonga Public Library

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director Robert KATU and Community
member Christine De traveled to

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Washington from Rancho Cucamonga
California to receive the national medal

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and spoke to imls about how the library
impacts the community okay the rancha

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kukamonga library is located in rancha
kukamonga it's in Southern California

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it's about 40 Mi east of Los Angeles the
library itself is relatively new as well

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it it started around 19 years ago we
were part of a county system and then

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the city decided they would run the
library as a municipal service and

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because of that it really gave us I
think a lot of flexibility in when we

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started creating the library the
programs the services as far as just U

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you know looking to be maybe a little
bit innovative a little bit

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entrepreneurial and just maybe doing
things that a lot of you know

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traditional public libraries U may not
be doing the library means so much to me

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because um I have spent a lot of time
taking my children there since they were

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infants the triplets soon as they were
old enough to sit upright and sit in a

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little semicircle we would go to the
library start reading them the picture

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books obviously our our first um role
and I think our first priority is to the

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the people of Rancher camanga and just
to you know provide the services and not

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just you know for the kids but for the
adults we have a after school tutoring

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programs for some of the older kids we
have adult literacy programs the

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cultural arts nights are for All
Families um we have a lot of programs

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that are targeted for seniors we do by I
think you know 10 computer classes a

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month they really really love to go they
have their favorite authors and their

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favorite genres and they like to go see
if new books are being released the

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library is really good about getting the
new books in so as soon as they know new

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books getting released they're at the
library is it is it available is it

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available and they're they're ready to
check it out we did A needs assessment

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back in 2009 and um the families like
Christine and the moms were saying that

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they wanted to do things with the kids
that would be Hands-On kind of

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interactive but it's not like we had a a
museum space to do it so we we basically

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created these Interactive um exhibits
that are you know maybe the size of the

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table they call them manipulatives but
they're basically toys that um kids

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could play and they would be learning at
the same time kind of reinforcing you

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know hand eye coordination and and the
the small motor skills and from that we

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just we developed it for ourselves and
then we got another Grant and so uh we

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were able to start loaning these plan
learn Islands to other libraries in the

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country and now we're um actually
selling them as well so it kind of

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created maybe a little cottage industry
within our library and it it's become a

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self- sustaining uh um program that
we're able to do it we did a Play and

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Learn Island trip to the library which
was neat for the kids to interact and

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learn about uh environmental
resources as a homeschooling Mom it

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means a lot to me because we can go to
the library the kids get to learn

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research skills and get to explore uh
new things through the library and

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develop a love of reading which is
really important to me that they

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understand that uh reading in the
library is really their access to the

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world and learning about all the places
they're going to go to see as they grow

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up well a lot of the curriculum I have
it gives suggested uh reading materials

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to go along with it to kind of reinforce
underlying um facets of the curriculum

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so I can go to the library and I can
check out those books and I can read

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them and I can pick from them uh
activities that will correlate to my

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curriculum you know I I really can't say
for a fact you know what came first the

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Carter or the horse when it it comes to
the the homeschooled because um you know

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we're a public library and everyone is
welcome to come and I guess at some

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point the the homeschooled uh moms
realize that okay this is a nice asset

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and a good resource that can help them
and you know we're really glad that they

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are using us for that I can't imagine
homeschooling without the Library

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without the Librarians with without the
facilities that they have without the

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activities that they have the cultural
nights that they do one of the programs

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things they do at cultural history night
is they do like an underground railroad

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thing and they have a guide and they and
the guide leads you around the bookcases

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and there's people dressed up to look
like helpers or people who don't like

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slaves like the different sides and they
either will make you leave or they'll

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let you in and be nice I like going to
the library checking out books and the

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library has some books that you could
that you can put on your Nook which is

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pretty cool because they have a lot of
books what I like most about going to

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the library other than checking out
books is um the Star Wars night is when

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they have like charact Librarians just
up of Star Wars characters once they had

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our 2D2 there it was awesome
well I I I think we've realized that at

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least in our library just one size did
not fit all everyone has a little bit

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you know they want something different
you know the homeschoolers the the kids

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and the the the teens the seniors the
adults they're just all very different

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and you know again we just have to keep
our ears open and you know see what they

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want and then we have to figure out how
we're going to provide that to them so

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that's the kind of direction that we're
going in now and um our public has

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really responded to that that