HOOVER COMMUNITY SCHOOL
SEPTEMBER 2024

We are proud to announce the completion of our 19th library refurbishment at Hoover Community School in Redwood City. The students of this school are primarily Hispanic/Latino English Language Learners from socioeconomically challenged backgrounds, whom the Library Media Assistant describes as being some of the most vulnerable children in San Mateo County. Unfortunately, the school library was severely outdated, with an alarmingly large number of books going back 20 years. This is where we stepped in. Students at Hoover Community School now have a newly refurbished library with an additional 1290 brand-new, diverse, culturally relevant books in both English and Spanish, and three delightful murals.

Our team and fantastic volunteers were hard at work on Project Day, painting murals and processing the new books in time for the students to check them out the following week. Our social media team documented the amount of work that goes into these tasks here. Everyone pitched in with smiles on their faces and hope in their hearts of a brighter future for the students at Hoover Elementary School.

We are very grateful to the donors, the volunteers and the school administration and staff who worked together to make this project possible. At Access Books Bay Area, we wholeheartedly believe that school libraries matter! With 19 library refurbishments under our belt, we are more excited than ever to continue spreading book joy to schools across the Bay Area.