City of Surrey's 2021 - 2025 Financial Plan

SURREY PUBLIC LIBRARY

ECONOMIC PROSPERITY & LIVELIHOODS

• Helped citizens improve digital literacy skills with training in branches and online; • Facilitated the Google IT Support Certificate program for 50 learners in Surrey; •

Developed a Newcomer Integration Plan; and • Provided access to online courses from Gale and Lynda.com, and offered access to Cypress Resume.

EDUCATION & CULTURE

• Ran 79 in-branch science, technology, engineering and mathematics (“STEM”) programs hosting 865 participants and moved STEM programming online with 13 videos; • Partnered with UBC Geering Up to facilitate Virtual Coding workshops and with North Surrey Secondary Robotics Club to offer coding classes online; • Offered online programs such as: Reading Link Challenge, Teen Challenge Tuesdays, and Teen Book Review; and • Added Elgato Video Capture Digital Converters to our collection to allow people to digitize their treasured memories from a VCR, camcorder or other analogue video sources for playback on digital devices or to share with friends and family online.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Created an online card registration process, registering 2,855 new members through this process and welcomed

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11,441 new library members overall;

Actively planned for a new library in Clayton Community Centre; and Reopened the Cloverdale branch after major structural and aesthetic renovations.

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Renovated Cloverdale branch

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