I am excited to announce that the Valencia Library will be hosting a FREE chess tournament in partnership with the California Youth Chess League. The tournament will be Saturday, May 30, 2015. For more information on the tournament, please view our events calendar. Advanced registration is required. Also, a special…
Many parents are surprised to find that we still use Dewey Decimal System in our library. Maybe they haven’t seen it in so long that they forgot it existed. Maybe they heard other libraries were using different systems for non-fiction. Maybe they never learned how to use it in the…
So, your child lost a book. It happens. It happens a lot. The worst thing for me to imagine is that a child is afraid to return to the library because she lost a book. She probably thinks that she’s the only kid who has done it. She probably thinks…
So, your kid doesn’t want to read on his own. That’s actually a common problem, so common that those kids have their own name. They are “reluctant readers.” We have a lot of reluctant readers come into our library. They have to read for school. They have to read books…
One of the most frequently asked questions we hear at Canyon Country Library is, “How do I find AR books?” This is tough for us to answer because the reality is that a large majority of our books in the children’s section are AR books. We follow the traditional system…
