News from: Oakland Public Library

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 25, 2018

Get a New Warriors Library Card, Participate in OPL or SFPL Summer Program Collector’s edition Golden State Warriors library cards available June 9, in addition to Oakland Athletics ticket vouchers. OPL Summer Program runs from June 9 – August 4; online pre-registration is now open. SFPL Summer Stride runs from May 19-August 19, 2018.

Web Release: http://oaklandlibrary.org/news/2018/05/get-new-warriors- library-card-participate-opl-or-sfpl-summer-program

Oakland, CA – Starting Saturday, June 9 library users can visit any branch of the Oakland Public Library (OPL) and sign up to receive a collector’s edition Golden State Warriors library card. In partnership with Media Contact: OPL, San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) is also offering a Golden State Warriors library card this summer, so library users on both sides of the Bay Matt Berson Public Information Officer can show their Warriors team spirit. 510-238-6932 [email protected] In addition to receiving a Warriors library card, participants who register at for the Kids’ Summer Reading (ages 0-14), Teen Summer Passport (ages 12-18), or Adult Summer Reading (ages 18+) are eligible to receive Oakland Athletics ticket vouchers. Kids and teens will receive four ticket vouchers for select A’s home games at the Coliseum; adults who sign up will receive two A’s ticket vouchers. Warriors cards and A’s ticket vouchers will be available for pickup starting Saturday, June 9 at the Main Library, the African American Museum and Library at Oakland (AAMLO), or any of the 16 neighborhood branches – while supplies last. Warriors cards are available to current cardholders, or anyone age five and up with ID or parent signature.

The new Warriors library card design combines an illustration of the Bay

Bridge and a hand-drawn rendering of a Warriors player in the team’s special “The Town” jersey, which highlights and celebrates the rich News from: heritage of the City of Oakland. Oakland Public Library “By partnering with our beloved sports teams, we hope children will be Participate in OPL or even more excited to read, learn, and play with us this summer,” said SFPL Summer Program, Supervising Librarian for Children’s Services, Nina Lindsay. “Caregivers Receive Warriors Library with babies and toddlers are encouraged to participate, too.” Card Participants can sign up for the OPL Summer Program at May 25, 2018 oaklandlibrary.org/summer or at any branch of the Oakland Public Library. Page Two OPL will also offer FREE SUMMER LUNCH FOR YOUTH (ages 18 and under) at seven library locations: 81st Avenue, César E. Chávez, Eastmont, Elmhurst, Martin Luther King, Jr., Melrose, and the Main Library. This is the eighth year that OPL has partnered with Oakland’s Department of Human Services and the Alameda County Community Food

Bank to provide this essential service.

Prize Donors for 2018 Summer Reading: Aquatech, Athletic Playground, Bay Area Children's Theatre, Bladium Sports & Fitness Club, Blue Bottle Coffee, Bookmark Bookstore, Chabot Space & Science Center, Children's Creativity Museum, Children's Fairyland, Cookiebar Creamery, YMCA, Fentons Creamery, Folkmanis, Ford GoBike, Friends of the Oakland Public Library, Golden State Warriors, Grand Lake Theater, Imperfect Produce, Kinetic Arts Center, Boating Center, Landmark Theatres (Piedmont Ave Theatre), Laurel Book Store, Nerd Nite , Oakland Athletics, Oakland Feather River Family Camp, Oakland Museum of , Oakland Symphony, Oakland Zoo

Major Supporters of 2018 Summer Reading: Friends of the Oakland Public Library, Fentons Creamery, Hellman Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation, Union Pacific Foundation, William G. Gilmore Foundation.

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