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Library Director's Report
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RECOMMENDED ACTION (Motion):
review
BACKGROUND:
Library Director’s Report September 2018
Building:
-in September, we continued to work towards the improvements planned to take place in October
-we are also looking at adding another outdoor lamp to make sure there are no blind spots at night. It would be in between the Jefferson/7th Street corner and the library.
Staff:
-we recently hired about 8 new on-calls, who have been getting trained on a rotation basis
-we’ve had a lot of staff with family medical tragedies this last month, so that’s been very rough
-we lost one person to a move to the mid-west, which is one reason we added more on-calls
-I was on vacation for 10 days, so Denise was in charge. We also had Katrina approved to work out of class in Denise’s position in case she was called away; this plan worked great and Katrina has done a great job in Denise’s absence
-Denise attended the first month of the Chamber of Commerce leadership program and declared it ‘excellent’. Gina is back from her travels and will attend the next class, October 12
Programs:
-September saw the start of children’s programming again after a break in August
-a new Dungeons and Dragons Club has started every Sunday afternoon for ages 12+, 2-5 p.m.
-we soft launched our new laptop cart with laptops for check out in house. Adult Reference is working on programming which will start after Christmas
-the Youth Services Department is determining how best to support schools and school aged children. It’s really difficult to have huge groups of kids at one time in the library when they each want to check out books on their own cards. Despite this, we are hoping to get all first grade classes into the library and we continue to work with St. John’s. We are encouraging the use of the Educator Card, we don’t have to deal with individual cards during short visits without parents
-First Friday Film Series started up for the 2018-19 season. We are tryi...
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