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Library Director's Report
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RECOMMENDED ACTION (Motion):
Review only
BACKGROUND:
Statistics-
-checkouts of physical library materials are 99.5% of the number of checkouts at this time last year; Library2Go checkouts are exactly the same as last year at this time.
-door count is 105% of this time last year
-fines and fees were up by $212.46 from this time last year;
-self-check transactions were down by 257; internet use is up by 5 uses
Events-
The big events for March were:
March 5-Elevated Readers Book Club, Wii Night
March 6 - First Friday Film Series The Human Face of Big Data; about 30 or so people attended and the conversation was really great!
March 12 - Storyteller Will Hornyak; about 15 people attended
March 14 - Pi Day at the Library; get your Pi pencil: well received
March 17 - Evening Pajama Story Time-this needs some tweaking; we are getting our new story time person involved
March 19 - Music with the Whispering Roses; over 30 people attended
March 25 - See to Read: about 8 kids were screened; Kid's Crafts: this had a big crowd
March 26 - Wii Night for kids of all ages-only 2 kids attended; Spring Break-it's hard to figure out sometimes
Upcoming April events:
April 2: Teen Video Game Night - 9 teens attended
April 3: First Friday Film-Pedal Driven - about 40 people attended
April 9: Publishing with John Williams
April 12-18: National Library Week
County Wide Food for Fines all week long; collected food will go to local food bank; also check out our staff baby photo matching game
April 14: National Library Workers Day
April 16 National Teen Literature
April 23: Peter Sears and Andres Berger Kiss
May 1: First Friday Film: RIP, a remix manifesto
May 4: May the Fourth be with you!
May 14: Cello Bop with Gideon Freudmann
New story time schedule, all at 10:15
Mondays: Preschoolers
Tuesdays: Preschool Yoga Story Time
Wednesday: Toddler Yoga Story Time
Thursday: Toddler
Friday: Story time for Littles and Bigs
Budget:
The budget for the Library will be presented on Monday, April 12 at the City Budget Hearings. It is a biennium budget and I will bring this to the meeting for you to review
Staffing:
We have hired several on-call workers to help fill out the uncovered hours here and there as well as be available for times when staff are on vacation or ill. We feel like we got a lot of sharp people. We have replaced the story time person who moved away. We also are training people for specific areas such as reference and children's.
Speaking of reference, we have hired a new full time Library Assistant 3 to replace Sue Adams and work with us in the new library. Her name is Gina Bacon; she comes to us from Hillsboro and PSU and she will be starting full time on April 21. We are really excited to have her.
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