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According to Gerry Garzon, associate director of the Oakland Public Library, teen centers are a growing specialty offering of libraries across the country. One such teen-oriented space, called the TeenZone, has been operating since January 2009 at Oakland Main libr...

By Gerry Garzon

by Gerry Garzon, Associate Director, Oakland Public Library The Oakland Public Library has received city funding, requested in FY 2007- 09 by Council President Jane Brunner, to develop a Teen Area for the Rockridge Branch Library. With feedback received f...

By Gerry Garzon

For any questions you may have regarding the meeting, you may contact Gerry Garzon, Associate Director, Oakland Public Library at 510/238-6720. Mon – Fri 9:30 – 6:00 Sat 9:30 – 5:00 CHIMES PHARMACY Serving Rockridge Since 1909 3210 College Avenue Near Alcatraz 652-1990 G R E A L T O R S The GRUBB Co. A New Year and a NEW...

By Annette Floystrup RCPC

...ck of 10,000 DVDs, he immediately realized the potential benefit what was now called the Rockridge DVD Project and library administrators. Oakland Public Library (OPL) adminis- tration was supportive from the outset with Associate Director Gerry Garzon giving the project solid backing. Garzon also lent the services and expertise of Collection Management Librarian Randy McDevitt-Parks and offered use of OPL bar scanning equipment to assist in creating a database of the selected DVDs. Mean...

...ase fills me with joy!) that will make an appearance in January 2019. You can also expect to see new faces around the library, as a bevy of new staff will be hired to join our fully-staffed library. You may have heard that beloved Director Gerry Garzon retired earlier this year. The search process is in full swing with a number of pubic community meetings and surveys that just wrapped up in June. Lots of changes coming to the Oakland Public Library.

The Rockridge Branch Library celebrated the first anniversary of its new Teen Zone, constructed with funding and support from Councilmember Jane Brunner, who, along with Library Director Carmen Martinez and Associate Director Gerry Garzone (who also was MC of the event), joined the celebration to mark the occasion. Kudos went to architect Chris Noll (of Noll & Tam) and to the Friends of the Rockridge Library (FORL), who have provided funding for teen interns and for teen pr...

...losing. These were cataloged in-house and placed in the library with stickers reading “A Gift from FORL.” ■ ■Does the Oakland Public Library (OPL) administration approve this project? The project has the blessing of the OPL administration. Gerry Garzon, Associate Director of the Oakland Public Library, has said: “It is especially critical when people are looking for alternatives to purchasing

By Ronnie Spitzer

dent) Jane Brunner discusses plans for dealing with the City’s budget crisis. Teen Zone for the Rockridge ■ ■ Branch Library: Oakland Public Library Associate Director Gerry Garzon presents Teen Zone details. Safeway’s Latest Plans: ■ ■ Review and discussion of Safeway’s latest plans for its College Avenue store, featuring local architect Jerome Buttrick. Photo: Tony Rossmann RCPC ByLaw Amendment ■ ■ : Members of the...

...itors, she obviously hasn’t crossed paths with me or some of my neighbors. I don’t like to shop at Yasai because of the solicitors who line the already crowded sidewalks. — Jody Stevens Rockridge Branch Plans User Survey for ‘Teen Zone’ by Gerry Garzon, Associate Director, Oakland Public Library The Oakland Public Library has received city funding, requested in FY 2007-08 by Councilmember Jane Brunner, to develop a “Teen Zone” for the Rockridge Public Library. In anticipation of communit...

By Susan Montauk

...ms from nearly 50 public and academic libraries that are part of Millennium’s LINK+ system. “Thanks to the voters who passed Mea- sure Q in 2004, we’re happy to be able to provide our community with this state-of- the-art technology,” said Gerry Garzon, the Library’s Deputy Director. “We think they’ll be pleased to see the changes and the new possibilities that the Millennium Catalog offers them.” Some of the specific improvements for

...an go anywhere in the imagination. These writers certainly have gone everywhere, and they have taken us with them. with renowned storyteller and children’s librarian Gay Ducey. Oakland Library Direc- tor Carmen Martinez and Deputy Director Gerry Garzon represented the City. Friends Of the Rockridge Library (FORL) chair Jennifer Vetter began the evening by assuring the audience that they were not going to be asked for money, which elicited a laugh from the audience. She went on to explain...