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To: M. Rebecca Loader, Library Director
From: Marsha Tubbs, Children’s and Young Adult Librarian
Subject October 2008, Operational Report
Date: October 27, 2008
I. PROGRAMS
A. Fall Storytime sessions have been drawing large crowds. Average attendance is
around 30 children.
B. Immaculate Conception classes visited the library the week of October 6.
C.
Global Academy classes began visits to the library this month.
D.
Several Teachers for District 13 have requested corporate cards for classroom collections.
E. The first Baby Read Baby Grow Storytime was held
on October 23. Due to the overwhelming response
we expanded to two sessions for the remainder of the
program.
F. Program counts for October
Program TitleDate ChildrenAdults
ICS 4th 10/6/2008 20 1
ICS 1st 10/6/2008 14 1
ICS Kindergarten 10/8/2008 24 1
ICS 2nd 10/9/2008 24 1
ICS 5th 10/9/2008 19 1
Dragons Flutes
and 10/6/2008 3 11
Storytime 10/7/2008 25 8
Storytime 10/14/2008 32 11
Storytime 10/21/2008 34 14
Storytime 10/28/2008
Baby Storytime 10/23/2008 20 17
Baby Storytime 10/30/2008 10 9
Baby Storytime 10/30/2008 9 7
Read Dogs
10/9/2008 8 4
Read Dogs 10/16/2008 17 4
Read Dogs 10/23/2008 12 4
Read Dogs 10/30/2008 11 4
Global Academy 10/14/2008 22 1
Global Academy 10/8/2008 23 1
Global Academy 10/15/2008 23 1
Global Academy 10/15/2008 46 2
Global Academy 10/24/2008 21 1
II. COLLECTION
A. I am preparing final book orders for 2008 and holding them until year-end funding totals have
been confirmed.
B. An order for additional copies of the Maud Hart Lovelace titles was placed. Teens will have the
option of voting on their favorite at the library again this year.
C. Weeding of the J 600-J744 and the J Fiction C and D sections are complete
III. PROJECTS & MEETINGS
A. I attended a CAPP (Comprehensive Arts Planning Project) meeting on October 23 at the Columbia Heights
High School.
B. I attended ELL Family Nights at Highland Elementary, and North Park Elementary as well as Central Middle
School. The Elementary Crowds were smaller than the last two years.
C. I presented the Anoka County Library /Columbia Heights Library catalog options to a group of High School
Ms Ole Nelsons students. Twenty-one students in all were shown how to access the Library catalog, where to
view their accounts, online resources, MNLink, book lists and several other search options.
D. The Summer Reading Club wrap-up meeting was held at ACL on October 4. Registrations for summer
Reading were down in some locations and up in others. It is the belief that families were traveling less and
conserving gas hence smaller libraries showed increases while larger locations lost small numbers in
registrations. COH showed a small increase this year.
IV. GRANTS
A. Century
Independent School District 13 announced their plans to apply for the next round of 21st
funding.In the past, the Library has partnered with ISD 13 in this grant application. The Library
Director and I will be discussing possible options for our future grant initiatives over the next
few weeks.
B. On October 27, I joined other members of the CAPP committee (Liz Bray, Diane Scully, Mary Bussman)
in a meeting with MRAC representative Gwen Cannon. The committee members were interested in
investigating the option of MRAC grant funds to be utilized as a part of the CAPP community arts
objective.
V. STAFF
A. Library Clerk, Kelly Olson provided a Storytime session while I was on vacation. She also prepared
year-end budget figures for the director, placed book orders and received magazines.
B. Library Aide, Cristy Tombarge established a Maud Hart Lovelace slatwall display, created materials for
use at ELL open houses and prepared a booklist based upon titles recommended by a local teen user.
C. Pages aided in the weeding of J nonfiction and J fiction, continued checking of selection tools and set up
for programs.