Woodland Library: New Year, Expanded Hours

From SCCLD: Patrons of the Saratoga Library and Woodland Library can look forward to expanded service hours in the New Year, beginning Tuesday, January 2,2018. The changes come about thanks to a combination of staff efficiencies, a prioritization of expanded service hours, and additional funds provided by the North County Library Authority (NCLA).

The Santa Clara County Library District (SCCLD) has enacted these changes following up on its own customer satisfaction survey pertaining to library hours. The additional open hours of service reflect the preferences expressed by their local communities and will provide residents more opportunities to visit the library and access services at times that are convenient to them.

• Saratoga Library will add hours on Mondays and Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. They currently are open between 1 p.m. and 9 p.m. on those days. “As a strong advocate of expanding library hours, which has been a popular request by our library patrons, I am very pleased and excited to see this materialize,” said Saratoga Mayor Emily Lo. “Our community will enjoy and greatly benefit from the additional hours of services on weekdays.”

• Woodland Library will begin offering hours on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. They currently are closed on Sundays. “NCLA is glad to be able to respond to the community’s desire for Woodland Library to be open on Sundays. My family has been involved with Woodland since its inception in the 1970s and it’s nice to see this neighborhood branch library thriving, loved by the local community, and now soon to be available for the public to enjoy seven days a week,” said Suzanne Epstein, President of the North County Library Authority.

In the customer satisfaction survey, community stakeholders in both Los Altos and Saratoga responded to SCCLD about their preferences for which specific hours to expand at their local libraries. The proposed schedules were a direct response to our customer satisfaction survey, in which: 43% of Saratoga patrons expressed a preference for increased hours on Mondays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 38% of Saratoga patrons expressed a preference for increased hours on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 77% of Woodland patrons expressed a preference for increased hours on Sundays from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Visit www.sccl.org for more information about the schedules for all of our locations.

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