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To: M. Rebecca Loader
From: Renee Dougherty
Subject: November 2010 Operational Report
Date: November 24, 2010
I. Programs
a. The Friends of the Library met on November 1. They will coordinate
collection of book donations for children and teens for Project Bookshelf
during November and early December. They visited the Stillwater Library
and met with a member of its Friends group on November 17 to get ideas
for new service projects. They agreed to a solicit donations to replace
classic children’s and adult books and videos as part of a “Love Your
Library” project in February/March 2011.
b. At Home Service provided 46 items to five patrons this month.
c. Volunteers provided fifteen hours of service to the library – two
volunteers with the “Buddy Up and Read” program and three volunteers
delivering items to “At Home” patrons.
d. The book group read and discussed Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the
Hedgehog.
II. Collection
a. A large DVD order was placed with Baker and Taylor this month. Many
children’s and non-fiction videos were added.
b. A final order for music CDs was placed with Baker and Taylor.
III. Projects
a. Multiple order were placed this month – to Minitex for security system
supplies; to Demco for general library supplies; to Consolidated Plastics
for building supplies; and to Office Depot for office supplies.
b. I conducted a library tour and orientation to the catalog for a class from
the Adult Basic Education Center.
c. I visited two classes, entry-level and intermediate, for English language
learners at the Columbia Heights location of the Metro North Adult Basic
Education Center.
d. I attended GroupWise training for city employees.
e. I met with a foster care and adoption recruiter from Anoka County Social
Services to plan for a library display in May 2011.
f. The displays in the library this month were “A library card is the smartest
card in your wallet” in the lobby; fiction and non-fiction books and DVDs
on homelessness on the slat wall, and a display provided by Heading
Home Anoka in the adult reading room.