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Patrick Hentges, City Manager
M. Rebecca Loader, Library Director'~
March, 1993, operational report
April 2, 1993
I. Significant Accomplishments
A. The Friends met on 3/1 with nine members present.
B. The Library Board met on 3/2 with all members present. Val Gifford
taped part of the meeting for use on a cable show.
C. Eight sessions of pre-school storytime were held in March with a
.total of 172 participants.
D. Eight sessions of Tiny Tots were held in March with 238 participants.
E. Read-to-Me Club ended on 3/13 with a total of 129 readers.
F. Club Read, the adult reading club, has 85 members.
Departmental Goals
A. Jo has received very generous gifts from the following organizations
for use in sponsoring summer programming: Boosters' ($500), Hylander
4-H ($50), Kiwanis ($100), and VFW ($500).
The Friends donated a Barney the Dinosaur puppet, $200 for periodical
subscriptions, and $45 for National Library Week prizes.
Becky attended an in-service workshop on performance evaluations on 3/9.
The library was the site of a cable shoot on 3/18.
The character generator was returned 3/23 and is in good working order.
Issues and Problems
A. On 3/13 a man harassed two women patrons in the library.
filed with the police.
Reports were
February
Circulation LIBGIS
1992 1993 1992
Adult 6,989 6,634 Reference 2,673'
Juvenile 7,858 6,029 Dir. A 607
14,847 12,663 Dir. B 43
Work days 24 23 Work days 24
1993
2,506
793
60
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