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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOperational Report from MarshaTO: FROM: DATE: SUBJECT: M. Rebecca Loader, Library Director Marsha Tubbs, Children's Librarian June 29, 1999 June 1999 Operational Report Central Programs A.. Super Tuesday performances got off to a great start: June 15 with the Splatter Sisters-184 people attended (140 children and 44 adults) June 22 % Pint and Oscar performed for 145 children and 52 adults. June 29 The Flyers- 180 children and 56 adults. B. Library Kids are Cool summer reading club registration began June 14. We registered 169 children by the end of the second day. Registration at this time is 454 children. C. Enchantment of Libra, our NEW reading club for older children (ages 9 and up) is off to a great a start. By the end of the first week we had registered over 50 middle school students. Due to the early dismissal of the Middle School, I think it is safe to say that the majority of these early registrations were CMS Students. Registration counts for the Libra program total 132 to date. D. Funtime/Storytime started with a BANG on June 17. The theme for the day was "hats"and the kids arrived wearing their favorite fishing hats and sun hats. June 24's theme was "summer fun activities" and the group did chalk drawings on the sidewalks for Jamboree Registration: June 17 36 children 18 adults/total of 54 June 24 28 children and 7 adults/total of 35 Collection: A. There has been little time for collection work this month but we did manage to begin weeding the easy C O r e C e i V e d a P r i n t 0 U t f r o m t h e C 0 U n t Y g t i t I e S W i t h I 0 W C i I' C t 0 t a I S W e a I' e P U I I i n g t h e S e a n d e V a I U a t i n g W h e t h e I' 0 III. Staff r n 0 t t 0 r e t a i n t h e m B. Placed an order for J and YA audio cassettes (unabridged books on tape). These are very popular and are being used by a number of ESL students as well as the parents for both in the car and bedtime activities. The kids like them as a read along activity. Kelly designed a display area and developed promotional material to advertise "read it .... listen to it". The display draws attention to the collection. C. Completed the JFIC weeding and shifted the collection to allow for housing of the J and YA Audio Cassette collection. New shelf labels were made and applied. The shift also opened up one end of the room for a seating area (small but nice) for the older kids. Projects A. Began and completed an inventory of the storytime collection items. The inventory lists will be on the shared directory within the the city network. The lists include all library holdings for flannel boards, filmstrips (storytime only) books, big books, puppets, puppet props, posters, finger puppets etc. B. Kelly Olson, clerk typist, completed the magazine discarding and moved 1year of holdings from the main floor to storage. She is in the process of compiling new holdings lists and updating the county's data regarding our collection. C. Volunteers began their summer schedule the week of June 7. We started the season with a possible 6 volunteers, lost 2 the first week (they found other jobs) but we gained another 4 in the first week of programming. We now have a total of 8 volunteers, more than enough to keep us busy this summer. A.. Pages have been working on preparing the craft pieces for our Funtime activities, registering reading club members, and shelving the materials returned daily. With the turnover in pages this season, I am somewhat concerned that keeping up the pace during a very busy time may be difficult. I plan on working closely with the new pages as they come onto the staff. MAT/k jo