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City of Columbia Heights | Library
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To: Renee Dougherty, Library Director
From: Brianna Belanger, Youth Services Librarian
Subject: March Operational Report
Date: March 29, 2018
I. PROGRAMS
a. Bulk loans of materials were prepared for ICS, Adventure Club, and Mini Adventures.
b. Play pieces purchased with a grant from the Library Foundation were introduced to the children’s space
this month. Families linger in the children’s area and children make friends while playing with the
greenhouse installation. Play pieces will be swapped out seasonally to keep things fresh for families.
They support the library’s initiative to support early literacy skill building.
c. 30 kids and parents participated in the drop-in activities planned for Read Across America Day. Families
could do a scavenger hunt, make a hat, and create story stones to facilitate storytelling at home.
d. 21 parents and kids joined us at our Family Night event on 3/7. This month we focused on games and
basic math skills by learning about Guinness World Records and then attempting to break them
ourselves.
e. LEGO Club met on 3/14 and 11 kids spent the hour creating and building. Kids are learning social
emotional skills like cooperating, sharing, and teamwork as well as valuable engineering skills.
f. TAB met on 3/17 to discuss summer programs and help create spring decorations for the teen area.
g. ECFE (Early Childhood Family Education) classes visited the library on 3/20, 3/21, and 3/22. Families
participated in storytime, got a tour of the library, signed up for library cards, and played together.
h. ICS students visited the library on 3/12 and 3/14.
i. Silverwood Park delivered the Forecast Calls for Art program to 15 kids. Kids learned about different
types of weather and storms in particular and then created a take-home craft.
j. Maker Club met on 3/28 and 15 kids created papier-mâché bird’s nests.
k. Our Escape the Library program had 7 kids and teens racing against the clock to solve problems and
riddles in order to break out.
l. Program counts are as follows:
Community Room- Baby Storytime 3/1/2018 25
Craft Room- Read Aross America 3/2/2018 30
Community Room- Tech Wizards 3/6/2018 12
Community Room- Family Night 3/7/2018 21
Community Room- Family Storytime 3/12/2018 48
ICS- 1st Grade 3/12/2018 10
Community Room- Tech Wizards 3/13/2018 12
ICS 2nd/4th 3/14/2018 33
Community Room- LEGO Club 3/14/2018 11
Community Room- Baby Storytime 3/15/2018 38
Craft Room- Teen Advisory Board 3/17/2018 3
Community Room- Family Storytime 3/19/2018 55
Community Room- ECFE 3/20/2018 38
Community Room- Tech Wizards 3/20/2018 7
Community Room- ECFE 3/21/2018 58
Community Room- Baby Storytime 3/22/2018 27
Community Room- ECFE 3/22/2018 18
Community Room- Family Storytime 3/26/2018 30
Community Room- Forecast Calls for
Art 3/27/2018 15
Community Room- Maker Club 3/28/2018 15
Community Room- Escape the Library 3/28/2018 7
Community Room- Baby Storytime 3/29/2018 47
II. COLLECTION
a. Book orders were placed from the following: SLJ 11/17; Kirkus 11/1, 11/15, 12/1; Booklist 11/1, 11/15,
12/1, 12/15; Booklinks 11/17, Series Made Simple Fall, PW 12/11/17 and Replacements and Adds.
b. Weeding of juvenile and easy nonfiction continues.
III. PROJECTS
a. Prepared and promoted for summer volunteer applications.
b. Created, implemented, and maintained spring early literacy space.
c. Planned for ECFE library visits.
d. Planned and promoted April Family Night.
e. Planned and implemented Read Across America Day activities.
f. Created summer event promotional materials.
g. Planned for High School Drop-in Teen Tech Week event.
h. Imputed summer events into evanced.
i. Created TAB agenda.
j. Managed Teen Volunteers.
k. Planned for summer programs and storytime.
IV. GRANTS, MEETINGS, COMMUNITY
a. 3/9: Drop in Activities at High School for Teen Tech Week.
b. 3/22: ECFE Community Baby Shower
V. STAFF
a. This month the major projects page staff worked on are as follows: selection tools, processing, and
various cutting projects.
b. Kelly Olson worked on book orders. She also fulfilled the many bulk loan bins we had this month. She
completed her usual tasks including month end reports, performer contracts, magazines, counting
money, receiving books, and purchase requests.