From One Educator to Another

The Los Gatos Library's Youth Services Team is passionate about helping other local educators bolster their resources and success so that our community's youth and families can thrive. If you are a local Pre-K/TK through grade 12 teacher, homeschooling educator, or work in another education sphere, we'd love to get to know you and work with you! 

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  1. Tours and Class Visits to the Library
  2. LG School Librarians
  3. Collaborate with us on Author Visits!
  4. More Ways to Collaborate, More Resources

Los Gatos Library Class Visits

  1. Tour Info

    A class visit to the Los Gatos Library is full of fun, wonder, and excitement! The field trip will include a tour of the Library’s facilities, which may include our garden, our various technology (our laser cutter and our 3D printer), our book bike, physical library cards for each student, and of course, our AMHS machine that automatically sorts all the items that are returned through the book drop. 

    All tours are scheduled at 9  am (before the Library opens), for one hour. Due to limited staff capacity, we are most likely unable to accommodate for longer, extensive tours that involve more than 1 staff member. Our tours typically end with an opportunity for students to independently browse and find books to check out with their library cards. Finding books for classes where students have individual topics of interest can be fairly time-consuming and even frustrating because we may have limited supply. The process of looking up book titles on the two catalog stations and then finding them on the shelf may take a while, even with the help of several parent chaperones, teachers, and Library staff. Our team works to create a framework for class visits to provide students with a positive experience and set everyone up for success.

    Schedule your classroom’s field trip to the Library! Fill out this form with your preferred date and any other special requests or accommodations, and the Youth Services Librarian will get back to you on confirming or changing the date, depending on availability at the Library.

  2. Library Card Application Form
  3. If you would like your students to receive a physical library card, please have your students’ parents and caregivers fill out the Library Card Application form. If a student already has a library card, we will still make a new card for them so they can have the option to receive a physical card if they did not bring their card with them. Please note that the majority of your students will already have an account with us that is linked to their school ID.  

    Please return the applications to the Library at the Circulation Desk or scan and email them to us 1 week prior to your scheduled tour.

    If you have any questions please email Library@losgatosca.gov.

  4. Does your class need library cards? *
  5. Please let us know if there are any other special requests or accommodations, and the Youth Services Librarian will follow up with you via email, and also follow up on confirming or changing the date, depending on availability at the Library.  

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