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To: Renee Dougherty, Library Director
From: Winnie Coyne – Library Clerk
Subject: July Operational Report
Date: August 1, 2019
I. COLLECTION PROJECTS
A. Magazines: Magazine labels were typed for newly received magazines.
B. Damaged Shelf: Items older than 1 month were cleared from the shelf this month.
C. Paperback order: No paperback orders were sent this month.
D. Book Display: This month’s display was ‘Beach Reads’. It is all books with the words
summer or beach in the title, or a beach-themed cover. The Beach Reads display will continue
through August with books being added as the display gets low.
E. Weeding Projects: Renee is regularly giving me books to withdraw. Weeding in the
Romance and Western sections is completed.
F. Withdrawn items: Books are withdrawn from the system each week and are placed in a box
to go to Better World Books if they are accepted by the company. If not or if they are in very
bad shape they are recycled.
II. MAINTENANCE
A. Fire extinguisher: The fire extinguishers were checked on July 23rd, 2019.
B. Security gates: Security gates were checked twice daily to record the gatecount.
C. Public Works: This month, Eric Hanson from Public Works was here to adjust the
temperature, and public works was here to do lawn maintenance.
D. ILL Drawer: The ILL drawer is no longer needed; the Anoka County Libraries now generate a
report that tallies the ILLs for each month.
E. Month End Statistics: The statistics for the previous month will be totaled and sent to staff
by Friday, August 2nd.
F. Bulletin Board: Old notices are removed once they have expired or have been up for thirty
days and new notices are put up as we receive them.
G. Shelf Reading: There are adult and youth lists with assignments for pages and teen
volunteers. These assignments will be the same for the whole summer unless they are
completed before September.
H. Website and Facebook: Periodic updates of both Facebook and the web page were
completed. Both pages feature recurring and one-time events. Our Facebook page created
several events including ‘Library Live with the Wargo Nature Center’, and ‘The Road to Stardom:
Highway 14 and Three Great Children’s Book Creators Who Grew Up Along It’.