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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: June Operational Report
Date: June 28, 2019
I. PROGRAMS
a. Summer Reading kicked off this month with activities and a juggling performance by Z Puppets attended
by 120 kids and caregivers. This event provides a chance to get our reading program guides into kids’
hands as early as possible. We want to encourage youth to keep reading and learning all summer long
to prevent summer learning loss.
b. Lyric Arts taught 7 teens improv techniques on Thursday, June 13.
c. Local birder, Amber Burnette, taught three back to back birding day camps to youth ranging from grades
K-9. Each day youth took a walk around Labelle Pond and we spotted a total of 16 unique species of
birds throughout the three days.
d. “Officer Bill” joined us from the Police Department for a very special storytime on Monday, June 24th.
65 kids and caregivers attended and had a chance to explore a squad car afterwards.
e. Schiffelly Puppets put on a fairytale themed puppet show for 60 kids and caregivers on Wednesday,
June 26th.
f. We currently have 11 teen volunteers at the library. Teen volunteer hours total 43.5 hours this month.
g. Program counts are as follows:
Community Room- Family Storytime 6/10/2019 60
Community Room- Volunteen Orientation 6/11/2019 10
Community Room- Summer Reading Kickoff 6/12/2019 120
Community Room- Improv 101 6/13/2019 7
Community Room- Family Storytime 6/17/2019 76
Community Room- Summer Lunch 6/18/2019 20
Community Room- Birding Day Camp K-2 6/18/2019 10
Community Room- Summer Lunch 6/19/2019 20
Community Room- Birding Day Camp 3-5 6/19/2019 16
Community Room- Summer Lunch 6/20/2019 27
Community Room- Birding Day Camp 6-12 6/20/2019 5
Community Room- Family Storytime 6/24/2019 65
Community Room- Summer Lunch 6/25/2019 25
Community Room- Summer Lunch 6/26/2019 27
Community Room- Library Live: Schiffelly
Puppets 6/26/2019 60
Community Room- Summer Lunch 6/27/2019 20
Community Room- Printmaking for Apparel 6/27/2019 16
II. COLLECTION
a. Book orders placed this month include: June Replacements, Booklist 12/15/19, SLJ 12/18.
b. Weeding of YA Fiction was completed. Weeding of J Fiction has begun.
III. PROJECTS
a. Prepared for maternity leave.
b. Continued planning for fall.
c. Managed teen volunteers.
d. Put up summer early learning activities.
e. Prepared items for rummage sale.
f. Managed summer program registrations.
g. Trained staff on various tasks for maternity leave.
h. Prepared for and put out summer reading materials.
i. Finalized volunteer binder, schedule, and nametags.
j. Finalized Fall heights happenings copy.
k. Created 2019-2020 Maude Hart Lovelace book display.
l. Began work on winter programming.
m. Trained Library Aid.
IV. GRANTS, MEETINGS, COMMUNITY
a. 6/5; Met with Katie and Brit from Parks and Rec.
b. 6/14; 40 1st through 6th graders visited library with Rec Plus program.
V. STAFF
a. 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. Additionally, she helps with volunteen supervision, and
ICS visits.