News & Announcements

Santa Cruz Public Libraries are excited to announce our expansion of hours at four library locations. When we surveyed our communities last fall as part of our strategic planning feedback process, expanding hours consistently landed in the top spots as a request from library patrons and stakeholders. Luckily, our Board had approved this expansion last summer and now the pieces are in place to make that happen. You can find the new hours listed on our website or in our press release. Next up, we are expanding our Outreach Services to additional locations around the County to better connect with people who need library service but cannot easily reach our libraries themselves; stay tuned for more details to come.   

Finally, the American Library Association announces its literature awards for youth and adult titles each year at the end of January. You will recognize these as books with special medallion graphics inserted on the covers. 

• This year, the John Newbery Medal for distinguished contribution to American literature for children is awarded to All the Blues in the Sky by Renee Watson. 
• The Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book is awarded to Fireworks by Matthew Burgess, illustrated by Catia Chien. 
• The Printz Award for literary excellence in young adult literature is awarded to Legendary Frybread Drive-In by Cheryl Isaacs. 

The full list of Youth Media Awards contains many more categories and you can see the full list of winners here.  For adults the Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction are A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar and Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li, respectively.   

Find these award-winning titles at your Santa Cruz Public Library!   

Christopher Platt