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Glendora Library presents strategic framework progress covering access, skills, preservation and misinformation work
Summary
Library Director Janet Stone and senior staff briefed the Glendora Board of Library Trustees on progress under the library’s strategic framework at the June 9 meeting, detailing recent programmatic wins across access, skills-building, preservation and information literacy.
Library Director Janet Stone and senior staff briefed the Glendora Board of Library Trustees on progress under the library’s strategic framework at the June 9 meeting, detailing recent programmatic “wins” across access, skills-building, preservation, organization and information literacy.
“The world of ideas needs to be nearby,” Stone told trustees as she introduced the framework that organizes library services around proximity, lifelong human development, accessibility, preservation, organization and contextual accuracy.
Staff reported a broad set of accomplishments since the board’s last update: virtual speaker programs and watch parties, school tours and Read Across America events, multiple public tables at city events (Earth Day, Kidpalooza, CultureFest), a History of Route 66 driving tour planned for June 2025, partnership-driven summer lunch distribution with Glendora Unified School District (program ending June 26 this year), and the addition of a semi-private meeting room and refreshed signage on Glendora Avenue.
The library also described efforts to widen access for patrons with visual impairments by working with a local foundation to improve provision of audio and large-print materials; staff said they are enhancing that partnership to fill service gaps. Preservation actions included launching the Engage Glendora history Q&A project, a community cookbook collection drive to scan local community cookbooks into the archive, and a community history celebration held May 7.
Staff highlighted organization and service-efficiency steps such as relocating historical and family-archive materials to the main floor for easier access, placing more items on preprocessed, shelf-ready orders from vendors to reduce staff processing time, and planning an extensive update to the library’s mobile application to make it easier for staff to maintain.
Trustees heard about an emergency risk literacy team that will rotate displays on the main floor to help patrons find authoritative information. Staff cited recent national media coverage in which several summer-book lists were found to contain AI-generated “hallucinations” and described internal conversations about ways to help patrons distinguish accurate sources from fabricated AI outputs. “Ten of the 15 items were AI-generated hallucinations,” staff noted when describing that example.
On sustainability and collections disposal, staff said they are negotiating a contract with ThriftBooks to replace Discover Books (which closed), and that the vendor will provide a sustainability report tied to materials the library sends for reuse or recycling.
Administrative updates included improvements to internal documentation to speed phone transfers to other city departments, completion of most part-time hires that previously left the library short-staffed, and an ongoing communications audit with the city’s rebranding vendor to improve how the public discovers library services.
Trustees asked follow-up questions about mandated changes to collection development policy language from the state; staff said the state provided suggested language and staff expect to return with recommended policy revisions this fall so the library can meet the end-of-year submission date.
No formal board action was taken; trustees received the report and thanked staff for the breadth of activity covered.
