ANNUAL REPORT 2017

1 OUR MISSION TO PROVIDE FREE RESOURCES THAT INSPIRE READING, GUIDE LEARNING, AND ENCOURAGE INDIVIDUAL EXPLORATION

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS Gregory C. Davis, President Geraldine Sullivan, Vice-President Edward C. Keith III, Treasurer Ana Alfaro, Secretary

DIRECTORS Arunan Arulampalam David Barrett Amy M. Barron Melvyn Colón Andrea Comer Miguel Correa Andrew Diaz-Matos Marc A. DiBella Stephen B. Goddard Jack Godsill Phyllis Shikora

EX-OFFICIO Hon. Luke A. Bronin, Mayor

2 3 A MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENT AND THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Hartford Public Library celebrated the accomplishments of hundreds of summer learners at the final game of the Hartford Yard Goats’ season. Thanks to an outstanding team effort, the Summer Learning Program was a great success with 1,140 registrations, 590 completions, 6,795 logged books, 706 events attended, and 477 activities completed. One great team deserves another, so it was fitting that we chose Dunkin Donuts Park as the venue for our season-ending community event.

Our talented and experienced library team works on the front lines and behind the scenes every day to make sure people using the library have a great experience and find the help they need. Our staff field a myriad of questions and requests every day— including helping people achieve their dreams of learning a new language or navigating the pathway to citizenship, finding the right audiobook for that long car trip, and being inspired by— and an inspiration to—our children and teens with creative maker experiences and homework help.

Have you heard of these great programs and initiatives? If not, stop in any branch or check out our website, www.hplct.org, for more information and to sign up for our weekly e-newsletter.

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Bridget Quinn-Carey Chief Executive Officer

Greg Davis Board President

4 5 the year in review JULY 2016—JUNE 2017

6 7 JULY 20 LIFELONG LEARNERS COMPLETE CRAZY << Q U I LT S Teaching artist Irma Nelson brought her popular Simply Crazy JULY 20 Quilting class to the TARISHI MIDNIGHT- Ropkins branch. The students’ quilts were SHULER WINS IRON displayed in an art exhibition at the POETS OPEN MIC Downtown Library. CHALLENGE

AUGUST 9 NATIONAL BOOK LOVERS DAY

Library visitors earned raffle tickets by participating in Blind Date with a Book, checking out wrapped and decorated books and audiobooks. JULY 15 Outside, the People MARC YVES of Goodwill band performed on the REGIS EXHIBITS Terrace, paying homage to Afrika with “HEADSTRONG” drum-based music and the power of rhythm. The photo series offered a window into the lives of the street vendors who carry Haiti’s economic burden on 8 their heads. 9 OCTOBER 11 SEP 25– SENATOR BLUMENTHAL OCT 1 HOLDS CYBERSECURITY BANNED september PRESS CONFERENCE BOOKS WEEK Amid the Love Notes to Banned Books exhibit, volunteers read aloud from Allen Ginsberg’s Howl in celebration of the OCTOBER 21 freedom to read. PUERTO RICAN PARADE EXHIBIT CLOSES Archival images and video of the parades and the Miss Puerto Rico Connecticut pageant celebrated Hartford’s Puerto Rican community.

SEPTEMBER 17 HIP HOP NATION OPENS AT ENVISIONFEST A series of workshops, events, and an exhibition celebrated the five elements of Hip Hop culture, including its artistic forms and the history and knowledge that has developed over the past 40+ years of its existence.

Hip Hop Nation 2016 also brought author, OCTOBER 24 filmmaker, rapper, and professor MK Asante to Hartford to give a talk on his CHIEF TEALE TEACHES book Buck: A Memoir. THE TOOLS OF LEARNING Charles S. Teale, former Chief of the Hartford Fire Department, started offering one-on-one tutorials on strategies for academic and professional success. << 10 11 NOVEMBER 3 HISTORICAL HIP HOP EXHIBIT OPENS The archival exhibition Hip Hop in Hartford: RAW exhibitions ‘81 & ‘91 served as the backdrop to a conversation with Hartford emcee Empress Nijuabi about the evolving culture of Hip Hop.

NOVEMBER 16–18 MEXICAN CONSULATE ON << WHEELS VISITS

NOVEMBER 29 NOVEMBER 2 C U LT U R A L ARTIST SANDY FROMSON TEACHES WEAVING BOMBAZO

DEC 6 DEC 1 H O L I D AY FORMER CHIEF CARDS FOR LIBRARIAN VETERANS RECEIVES DECEMBER 5 Children ages 6 to 12 WOKE TEENS FORUM created handmade HEWINS MEDAL cards at the Albany At the inaugural Beyond GIVES OPPORTUNITY Branch. Library staff Words gala, Louise Blalock shared the cards was awarded the first FOR YOUTH TO TALK with veterans at the Caroline M. Hewins medal. Veterans Healthcare ABOUT SOCIAL JUSTICE campus12 in Newington. 13 << JANUARY 13 DALENTA & PARKER EXHIBIT PHOTOGRAMS ON THE ARTWALK

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JANUARY 17 1,000 BOOKS BEFORE KINDERGARTEN LAUNCHES 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten launched as part of our Leap into Learning program, which works to ensure that all children in Hartford are prepared to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

F E B RUA RY 4 FEBRUARY 1–28 ENCOUNTERS DISCUSSION CELEBRATING HARTFORD HISTORY MAKERS SERIES EXAMINES OUR We asked for area artists, of all ages and working in all media, to create portraits of historical black visionaries and changemakers in our city. The resulting prints were exhibited in the Hartford History FOUNDING DOCUMENTS Center throughout Black History Month. JAN 1 JAN 9 THE BENCH CUTTING ARRIVES THE RIBBON FEBRUARY 17 A bench made from the The family of Paul LOCAL ARTIST CHRIS PORTER largest elm tree in and Christine Peters Connecticut provides a rededicated The Peters TEACHES BASIC ART PRINCIPLES new gathering place. Reading Room, now on the main floor. AT LUNCHTIME DRAWING CLASS 14 15 MARCH 12

AMANDA MONACO During National Library PLAYS JAZZ Week, we: The 2017 season of Baby Grand • Held a group poetry Jazz, on Sundays from January to reading on the April, was streamlined, fine-tuned, ArtWalk and better attended than ever. • Partnered with the Our performances were viewed apr by a series-record 5,900 audience CT Ballet to present members over the course of sixteen Backstage at the performances. Ballet • Introduced Biblioboard, our online, mobile- friendly, crowd- sourced digital MARCH 1 library MAPS FOR ALL LAUNCH PROMOTES GEOGRAPHIC LITERACY APRIL 10–16 NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK

MARCH 9 NEW PARK STREET LIBRARY CARLA TEN EYCK EXHIBIT OPENS APRIL 17 DESIGN UNVEILED Originally commissioned in 2008, Carla Ten Eyck’s exhibition see real women: really see women is part of the Hartford History Center’s permanent collection.

<< APRIL 17 LEAP INTO LEARNING Weekly programs provide opportunities for interactive play time and hands-on learning. 16 17 M AY 5 JUNE 20 VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR WORLD HPL Board President Gregory C. Davis was honored by the REFUGEE DAY Connecticut Library Association at their annual meeting. Mayor Luke Bronin led attendees in a rendition of This Land Is Your Land at a Naturalization MAY 19 MAY 22 Ceremony for new PABLO DELANO’S “HARTFORD INTRODUCING citizens. VIEWS” OPENS HARTFORD CITY ID >>

Kids and families at the Barbour Branch read gardening books and learned about the Earth through word games, recycling activities, and writing exercises. Throughout the growing season, they continued to tend the garden and read M AY 9 >> more about plants and nutrition. ROBERT CHARLES HUDSON JUNE 30 TEACHES PRINTMAKING MUSIC ON THE TERRACE Our nationally recognized programming series Trumpet player Haneef Nelson leads his for older adults, Lifelong Learning: Classes in Hartford-based jazz ensemble, featuring the Arts, offered instruction in printmaking and original music and arrangements of Latin jazz collage during the spring. and jazz standards, as part of our annual World of Sounds concert series.

MAY 20 << THE BARBOUR GARDENING GROUP PLANTS SEEDS IN THE MOUNT MORIAH JUN 28 COMMUNITY CIGNA FOUNDATION OFFERS 18 GARDEN FREE HEALTH SCREENINGS 19 BY THE NUMBERS JULY 1, 2016-JUNE 30, 2017

860,561 353,087 145,665 11,993 4,566 26,500 14,411 6,367 total visits annual total PC use adult program adult learners visits to homework help Boundless circulation attendees the digital recipients participants repository

financials

20 21 ANNUAL REPORT FINANCIALS STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION FY17 BUDGET June 30, 2017 and 2016

REVENUE EXPENSE 2017* 2016 ASSETS

City Contribution $7,860,851 Personnel Costs $7,511,780 Cash $599,343 $428,110

Investments $15,856,837 $14,768,283 Grants $1,074,498 Other Operating $2,067,480 Expenditures Accounts Receivable $217,102 $60,392

Endowment Income $740,037 Prepaid Expenses $227,327 $102,111 Library Materials $597,807 Property and Equipment $11,419,833 $7,610,363 Gifts $500,000 Plant Operations $426,889 TOTAL ASSETS $28,320,442 $22,969,259 & Maintenance Fees Income $428,570 LIABILITIES AND 4% 71% 4% 74% 5% 6% NET ASSETS

7% LIABILITIES

19% Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses $46,969 $53,247

10% Deferred Revenue $19,168 $14,635

TOTAL LIABILITIES $66,137 $67,882

NET ASSETS

Unrestricted $23,573,036 $18,507,506

Temporarily Restricted $604,997 $317,599

Permanently Restricted $4,076,272 $4,076,272

TOTAL NET ASSETS $28,254,305 $22,901,377 TOTAL REVENUE: TOTAL EXPENSE: TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $28,320,442 $22,969,259 $10,603,956 $10,603,956

22 *2017 statements are unaudited 23 HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY THANKS YOU, OUR DONORS July 1, 2016—June 30, 2017

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COVER PAGES 14–15 Gerry McCarthy (used with (clockwise from top left) permission of the UConn Donna Larcen, Benjamin Parker, Foundation, Inc.) Joel Agosto (Portrait of Warner Lawson, 1903-1971), Donna PAGE 2 Larcen, Jasmin Agosto, Donna Andy Hart Larcen, City Bench

PAGE 5 PAGES 16–17 Donna Larcen (clockwise from top left) Maurice Robertson, Donna Larcen, PAGES 6–7 TSKP Studio, Donna Larcen, Andy Andy Hart Hart, Carla Ten Eyck

PAGES 8–9 PAGES 18–19 (clockwise from top left) (clockwise from top left) Sarah Pelletier, Kenyon Grant, Donna Larcen, Andy Hart, Donna Marc Yves Regis I, Kenyon Grant, Larcen, Donna Larcen, Sarah Kenyon Grant Pelletier

PAGES 10–11 PAGES 20–21 (clockwise from top left) Kenyon Grant Jeffrey Mainville, Donna Larcen, Hartford Times photograph PAGE 24 (Angelica Velazquez, La Gran Donna Larcen Marsical de Hartford, stands in front of Hartford Public High PAGE 30 School’s Proyecto MAS group. Sean Burns Hartford History Center Collection, photographer unknown. September 24, 1972), Donna Larcen, Donna Larcen, Kenyon Grant

PAGES 12–13 (clockwise from top left) Donna Larcen, Wayne Fleming (Dooney Bates of the Master Poppers competes at Peace Train’s Breaking & Popping Contest in Bushnell Park. LEFT TO RIGHT: Myron Moye, Jonathan Baxter, Mike “Nice” Wilson, and BT. August 14, 1983), Jasmin Agosto, Andy Hart, Donna Larcen

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