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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: May Operational Report
Date: May 19, 2018
I. PROGRAMS
a. Bulk loans of materials were prepared for ICS, Adventure Club, and Mini Adventures.
b. LEGO Club met on 5/9 and 8 kids spent the hour creating and building. Kids are learning social
emotional skills like cooperating, sharing, and teamwork as well as valuable engineering skills.
c. ICS students visited the library on 5/14 and 5/16.
d. Tech Wizards hosted a Film Festival on 5/22. This was a chance to celebrate the work that the teens did
this session and to watch their completed films.
e. Teens volunteered a total of 7 hours this month.
f. Program counts are as follows:
Community Room- Tech Wizards 5/1/2018 10
Community Room- Tech Wizards 5/8/2018 6
Community Room- LEGO Club 5/9/2018 8
ICS 1st 5/14/2018 12
Community Room- Tech Wizards 5/15/2018 12
ICS 2nd/ 4th 5/16/2018 33
ICS K/3rd 5/16/2018 10
Tech Wizards 5/16/2018 9
Craft Room- TAB 5/19/2018
Community Room- Tech Wizards 5/22/2018
II. COLLECTION
a. Book orders were placed from the following: SLJ 1/18; Booklist 2/1 and 2/15, Growing Minds 2/18 and
Summer Reading Fill, Board Books, Early Readers and Spanish Language.
b. Weeding of juvenile and easy nonfiction continues.
III. PROJECTS
a. Prepared summer reading forms and sent to printer.
b. Prepared reading program supplies and signage.
c. Created Volunteen Binder
d. Created early literacy environments and teen passive activities for summer.
e. Maintained and prepared spring and summer book displays.
f. Contacted and met with potential summer volunteers.
g. Managed Teen Volunteers.
h. Trained staff on summer lunch program.
i. Purchased summer prize books at Scholastic Book Fair.
j. Created TAB agenda.
IV. GRANTS, MEETINGS, COMMUNITY
a. 5/7: Summer lunch training
b. 5/7: Active Shooter training
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. Kelly was also trained on summer lunch program and
will help run the program this summer.