City of Surrey 2020-2024 Financial Plan

SURREY PUBLIC LIBRARY

ECONOMIC PROSPERITY & LIVELIHOODS

• Helped citizens improve digital literacy skills with technology training in branches, provided access to online courses from Gale and Lynda.com, and offered access to Cypress Resume; • Facilitated the Google IT Support Certificate program for 50 learners in Surrey; • Hosted Authors Among Us program for local writers and poets to showcase their work; and • Ran programs such as a Repair Café, digital skills for entrepreneurship, resumé check-up, and interview presentation and practice.

EDUCATION & CULTURE

• Piloted Dot & Dash Robotic Coding program with traveling iPads and developed staff training plan for system roll-out; • Introduced Wonderbooks, audio- enabled picture books for children; and •

Promoted the value of learning by hosting the Grand Reading Link Challenge for kids from grades four and five, with 227 teams of kids from 48 Surrey Schools participating for a total of 1,357 children.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Issued 1,041 new library cards at events in the community through Mobile Circulation and a total 28,674 new library cards issues overall; Actively planned for a new library in Clayton Community Centre and supported major renovations at Cloverdale branch; and Ran a Pop-Up Library in the Cloverdale Recreation Centre while the Cloverdale branch underwent renovations.

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Dot and Dash robotics coding program

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