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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOperational Report from Marsha To: From: Subject: Date: I. M. Rebecca Loader, Library Director Marsha Tubbs, Children's Librarian October 2003 Operational Report October 30, 2003 PROGRAMS October Kindergarten 10/06/2003 20 1 Kindergarten 10/07/2003 20 1 5th grade 10/07/2003 25 1 1st grade 10/08/2003 17 1 2nd grade 10/09/2003 18 1 2nd grade 10/09/2003 18 1 1st grade 10/10/2003 18 1 Story time 10/07/2003 20 7 Story time 10/08/2003 9 7 Story time 10/14/2003 22 8 Story time 10/15/2003 15 5 Story time 10/21/2003 18 4 Story time 10/22/2003 14 4 Story time 10/28/2003 34 10 Story time 10/29/2003 12 5 4th grade 10/08/2003 25 1 FMS 10/10/2003 9 3 II. COLLECTION A. J FICTION INVENTORY. This has been completed. There are a large number of items in charged/assumed lost status, many for several years, but since there are multiple copies in the database at this time, I cannot mask these entries. This section is now scheduled for collection development in 2004, perhaps replacing some of the lost items with paperback editions. B. Y A FICTION. The transactions are complete and I am in the process of weeding this section. This should clean up the old call numbers of JFIC as well. I hope to eliminate the old non-circulating materials. Collection development in this section in 2004 will include additional copies of high circulating materials in paperback. C. OVERSIZED PAPERBACKS, GRAPHIC NOVELS, NONFICTION PAPERBACKS. These items will be weeded this month. This collection is not large but has grown over the last two years. We need to consider some type of alternative storage unit. At this time, all collections are shelved in the Y A area. I will be moving the juvenile materials out of the Y A section in November. D. MAGAZINE REPORT (Kelly Olson). I have finally received the Renewal Checklist for our periodicals. This required a little more attention to detail than in the past. EBSCO carries more than one edition of most titles. They may be available in different languages, on microfilm, or different editions. When our checklist was printed out, it assumed we wanted the first listing for every title. This, however, is not the case. I wrote the correct title number and publisher extension date for any titles that needed changing. This month I have also started to add the newspapers in Acquisitions. By doing this, patrons will be able to view our latest holdings from home or the library's catalog; we can locate this information also on the Intranet. We have five newspapers that I do this for: Star Tribune, Pioneer Press, USA Todav, Wall Street Journal, Focus, and Northeaster. III. PROJECTS A. IT'S OUR BIRTHDAY. Plans are well underway for the Library's 75th Birthday Celebration on December 3. Invitation designs are complete and at the printer along with the advertising flyers for distribution throughout the community. A special thanks to Anoka County Library for allowing the use of their Ellison Die machine. I have begun stamping out 1000 static cling red wagons to give away during the birthday event. Bob Gasch is preparing a special storytelling session related to Columbia Heights history and Jerry George has been retained to provide music. Balloons, face painting, and a magician should make this an outstanding birthday party. News releases and PSA's will go out in about a week. Decorations and displays will go up next week. B. NATIONAL CHILDRENS BOOK WEEK. Plans are nearing completion for this event as well. In order to coordinate NCBW with the birthday party, I decided to meld the two programs. The theme for 2003 will be "It's Our Birthday and We're Free to Read". The national theme is FREE TO READ. We have duplicated the national advertising and combined it with our birthday cake image for the bulletin boards. Children will be invited to spend time on a number of activities related to the birthdays of famous storybook characters: i.e. complete a picture for Harold (Harold and the purple crayon), create an Arthur mask, Curious George bookmark, Amelia Bedelia maze, Junie B Jones Picture search, Magic Tree House word search and puzzles. We will also have a couple of drawings for prizes. C. GIRL SCOUT TROOP 2549 participated in Make a Difference Day by cleaning shelves in the Library. About 13 girls spent two afternoons armed with damp sponges and pails of water. They removed dust and grit from the adult shelving in the east room and part of the main reading room. Thank you troop 2549. IV. MEETINGS A. I attended two CHILD LIB meetings this month. The first was the Summer Reading Fun wrap-up meeting. Items of interest but requiring further discussion at Columbia Heights include: revamping at least some portions of our Volunteer program to coincide with changes in Anoka County Library's program, evaluate changes in incentives for 2004, and a change in MELSA materials order deadline to January 15,2004. B. The second CHILD LIB meeting took place on October 21 and convened to cover general children's services issues. Items of interest related to this meeting include: potential changes in standing orders for paperbacks including graphic novels, promotion of story time kits available through Mississippi Branch, labeling of individual collections within the children's collection, and a weeding schedule to coincide with the county's. V. STAFF A. Children's department aide Cristy Tombarge reported the following tasks completed in October: -Assisted with delivery -Small Halloween display set up author of the month display -Completed the birthday bulletin board display -Created new volunteer log -Created 4 storytime incentives (Best Friends, Cowboy, Cat & Mouse, Halloween) -Set up Poetry Display -Updates of Mailing Lists - Worked on ongoing project of storytime themes -Character displays for our open house Kelly Olson helped with class visits from Immaculate Conception School, delivered a bulk loan, worked on promotional items for the library's 75th anniversary, reviewed periodicals, produced photos for adult bulletin board, and worked on booklists for 75 years of young adult literature, and books that would appeal to boys.