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Mountain View library spotlights Bookmobile outreach and Homebound Services
Summary
Library staff told trustees the Bookmobile and related outreach reached thousands this fiscal year — including school visits, senior-center stops and a corporate Google site — and outlined homebound deliveries and summer outreach plans amid staffing limits.
Renee Ting, manager of Youth Bookmobile and Collections at the Mountain View Public Library, and Bookmobile supervisor Rick Hanson told the Board of Library Trustees on April 20 that the system’s outreach programs have expanded service to schools, senior centers and community events while continuing homebound deliveries for residents who cannot visit the library.
Ting opened the presentation and handed the floor to Hanson, who described the Bookmobile’s community stops and use metrics. At a regular Google campus stop the Bookmobile has visited 33 times this fiscal year; Hanson said the team issued 59 new library cards there, served roughly 580 visitors and checked out more than 1,500 items at that single stop. Hanson also described work with nine elementary schools and two middle…
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