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City of Columbia Heights | Library
3939 Central Ave NE, Columbia Heights, MN 55421 ▪ Ph: 763-706-3690 ▪ www.columbiaheightsmn.gov
To: Renee Dougherty, Library Director
From: Brianna Belanger, Youth Services Librarian
Subject: April Operational Report
Date: April 25, 2018
I. PROGRAMS
a. Bulk loans of materials were prepared for ICS, Adventure Club, and Mini Adventures.
b. April’s Family Night was offered in partnership with the MWMO. 20 kids and parents learned about
ways that they can help protect and conserve our water through stories and hands on experiments.
c. LEGO Club met on 4/11 and 18 kids spent the hour creating and building. Kids are learning social
emotional skills like cooperating, sharing, and teamwork as well as valuable engineering skills.
d. TAB held a community service event on snowy 4/14. 3 teens braved the weather and created May
Baskets and paper flowers that were donated to the Crestview Memory Center.
e. 5 youth participated in the READ Dogs event on 4/23. This is a great opportunity for youth to practice
reading in a judgement free zone.
f. ICS students visited the library on 4/4, 4/23, and 4/25.
g. Maker Club met on 4/25 and 4 kids and 2 adults practiced iterative thinking while designing Art Bots.
h. Teens volunteered a total of 6 hours this month.
i. Program counts are as follows:
Community Room- Family Storytime 4/2/2018 46
Community Room- Tech Wizards 4/3/2018 Cancelled
ICS 2nd/4th 4/4/2018 33
Community Room- Family Night 4/4/2018 20
Community Room- BRBG 4/5/2018 30
Community Room- Family Storytime 4/9/2018 34
Community Room- Tech Wizards 4/10/2018 11
Community Room- LEGO Club 4/11/2018 18
Community Room- BRBG 4/12/2018 38
Community Room- April Showers 4/14/2018 4
Community Room- Family Storytime 4/16/2018 28
Community Room- Tech Wizards 4/17/2018 11
Community Room- BRBG 4/19/2018 40
Community Room- Family Storytime 4/23/2018 35
ICS 1st 4/23/2018 9
Craft Room- READ Dogs 4/23/2018 5
Community Room- Tech Wizards 4/24/2018 14
ICS 2nd/ 4th 4/25/2018 33
Community Room- Maker Club 4/25/2018 6
Community Room- BRBG 4/26/2018 33
II. COLLECTION
a. Book orders were placed from the following: SLJ 12/17; Booklist 1/1 and 1/15; Booklinks 1/18, Kirkus
12/15/17, Growing Minds 1/18 and Summer Reading Fill and Spoken Word.
b. Weeding of juvenile and easy nonfiction continues.
III. PROJECTS
a. Prepared summer reading forms and sent to printer.
b. Began planning for Fall.
c. Planned for SRP school visits.
d. Created early literacy environments and teen passive activities for summer.
e. Planned for summer storytime.
f. Maintained and prepared spring and summer book displays.
g. Planned for summer programs.
h. Applied for summer lunch program.
i. Contacted and met with potential summer volunteers.
j. Managed Teen Volunteers.
k. Promoted spring and summer library programs.
IV. GRANTS, MEETINGS, COMMUNITY
a. 4/11: Early Literacy Team Meeting @ LSS
b. 4/17: Meeting with Christa from Youthprise discussing summer lunch program.
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.