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Patricia Sowada
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Nancy Hoium
Vice-Chair
Catherine Vesley
Secretary
To: Renee Dougherty, Library Director
Steve Smith
Barbara L. Tantanella
From: Bethany Grabow, Children’s Librarian
Member at Large
Subject: May Operational Report
Gary Peterson
Council Liaison
Date: May 26, 2015
Renee Dougherty
I.PROGRAMS
Library Director
a.Bulk loans of materials were prepared for Mini Adventure Club.
b.Classes from ICS visited on 5/18, 5/19, 5/20, and 5/21.
c.Teen Advisory Board (TAB) met on 5/4. We discussed ideas for summer and furniture for the
new library.
d.On 5/21, we had a Minute to Win It program for teens in grades 5-12. Teens from Columbia
Academy and Columbia Heights High School attended. The program was made up of a series of
challenges where teens tried to complete a task in one minute. There were lots of giggles and a
parent that came in to pick up her teens asked if we had something for teens every Thursday.
This was a good opportunity to promote the upcoming summer reading program and Teen
Thursdays during June and July.
e.On 5/22, four Kindergarten classes from Valley View Elementary visited the library. The groups
listened to stories, sang songs, and danced. The storytime was followed by a tour of the library.
Several students asked if they could come back to the library that evening with their parents.
f.Program counts are as follows:
Program Title Date Total
5
Teen Advisory Board 5/4/15
3
Baby storytime 5/5/15
5
Minute to Win It 5/21/15
89
Valley View field trip 5/22/15
II.COLLECTION
a.Book orders were placed from the following selection tools: Kirkus 12/1, 12/15 and Booklist
12/1, 12/15. Orders were also placed in the following areas: replacements and adds.
b.Spot weeding in various sections took place this month.
III.PROJECTS
a.Prepared for and performed visits to advertise summer reading program at 6 different schools.
b.Created TAB agenda.
c.Coordinated summer teen volunteers and prepared training materials.
d.Printed summer reading event calendars, bookmarks, and reading log.
e.Submitted summer events calendar to printer.
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f.Added all summer events to Evanced on library website.
g.Prepared book talks for Columbia Academy visit.
h.Planned and performed storytime for Valley View Kindergarteners.
IV.GRANTS, MEETINGS, COMMUNITY
a.5/5: Attended all staff training for new city logo and branding.
b.5/11-5/12: Visited Global Academy grades K-6 to talk about the summer reading program
(approximately 430 students).
c.5/14: Attended Staff Day training at Wargo Nature Center.
d.5/19: Visited Columbia Academy English classes and cafeteria to do book talks and advertise the
summer reading program (approximately 95 students).
e.5/19: Attended staff meeting to train library staff on summer reading program.
f.5/20: Visited Immaculate Conception School grades PreK-8 to talk about the summer reading
program (approximately 90 students).
g.5/26: Visited Highland Elementary grades K-5 to talk about the summer reading program
(approximately 490 students).
h.5/27: Visited Valley View Elementary grades K-5 to talk about the summer reading program
(approximately 540 students).
i.5/29: Visited North Park Elementary grades K-5 to talk about the summer reading program
(approximately 510 students).
V.STAFF
a.This month the major projects page staff worked on are as follows: selection tools, processing,
and shelf reading.
b.Kelly Olson worked on book orders. She also assisted in the bulk loan bins we had this month.
She completed her usual tasks including month end reports, magazines, counting money,
receiving books, and purchase requests.
c.Michelle Wermerskirchen created flyers to advertise summer programs, finished the summer
events calendar, and put up 2 new bulletin boards.
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