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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: July Operational Report
Date: July 28, 2020
I. PROGRAMS
a. July live programs were cancelled due to COVID-19.
b. Virtual Storytimes continue to be offered Mondays at 10:30 on Facebook Premiere.
c. Story Strolls continued this month at Keyes and LaBelle Parks. Families are encouraged to discover city
parks while reading book pages set out along park trails.
d. Four youth participated in a four-day virtual engineering camp. They spent each day working together to
engineer machinery and gear that would help them survive the zombie apocalypse.
e. This month’s virtual LEGO Challenge was to create a spinning top.
f. We cancelled 2 programs due to low registration: Manga Workshop and Mural Camp.
g. Summer lunch service continued this month. Families are able to pick up a full week’s lunches and
snacks for each youth in the household. We are also including activities like coloring pages and crayons
or sidewalk chalk.
II. COLLECTION
a. Book orders placed this month include: SLJ 3/20 Growing Minds 3/20 and 4/20, Booklist 1/1 and
1/14/20, 2/1/20, 2/15/10, and 3/1/20 and spoken word.
b. Weeding of E Nonfiction continued
III. PROJECTS
a. Recorded and edited virtual storytimes
b. Developed and planned for Story Strolls
c. Continued fall program planning
d. Monitored and managed summer registration
e. Managed summer lunch program
f. Prepared for ESL class virtual visit
g. Worked on developing fall activity kits
h. Planned fall storytimes
IV. GRANTS, MEETINGS, COMMUNITY
7/7: Phone call with Marie from Code Savvy
7/9: Youthprise Summer Lunch Audit
7/16: Met with Katie from Rec Department regarding fall 21CCLC programming
7/22: Returned 4-H Tech Wizards Equipment to Bunker Hills Activity Center
7/23: Talked to CHHS ESL classroom about library
V. STAFF
a. Kelly Olson worked on book orders. She completed her usual tasks including month end reports,
magazines, receiving books, and purchase requests. Additionally, she helped with curbside pickup and
she is deep cleaning and organizing youth materials.
b. Farrah Briest has been working on selection tools and processing. She is also brainstorming and creating
summer content such as LEGO Challenge videos and photo scavenger hunts. She is coordinating with
pages to complete DIY decorations for the youth area as well and she assists me with the summer lunch
program.