cookie decorating!
the altar
Special
Dia de los Muertos – Sandy 70 kids and parents!
Ongoing
Storytime – Sandy Wee Ones 116 kids and parents, Sandy Preschool 65, Hoodland 49
Vista-Pattern Blocks
Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club – Sandy 52 parents and kids, Hoodland 19
Wy’East Artisans Art Club – 25 parents and kids
Read to the Dog – 11 Kids
Vista Apartments – 50 kids and parents. The kids continue to work towards their incentives, doing many more literacy and STEM activities than usual!
Teen Programs
Ongoing
Anime Club – 67 teens(43 people came to the special event “Taste of Asia”!)
Game Factory – 38 teens
MakerSpace – 37 teens
5th Wednesday “free day” – 20 teens
Adult Programs
Creative Cards
Special
Library Coffee House – 67 people came to hear Steve Hale – a singer/songwriter with a soul edge.
Rebuilding the David B – 7 people came to hear about rebuilding a boat and operating a small expedition cruise ship in Alaska.
Creative Cards Workshop – 13 adults came to learn how to make creative cards from previous library employee Caitlin MacDowell.
Ongoing
Paint Nite – 14 adults
Photography Group – 9 people came to hear about Pinhole Photography with library staff person Monica Smith.
English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) tutoring – 32 learners and 26 tutors met this month!
Hoodland Book Club – 7 people came to discuss the book Everything I never told you by Celeste Ng
Public Notary – Hoodland 2
Outreach
Adult Services Librarian, Maureen Houck, visited Avamere to attend their Low Vision Group and talk about library resources. 12 people attended, 4 library cards were issued, 6 items were checked out.
Training
Selectors of materials for the library got initial training in our new selection tool collection HQ. This tool will help us easily figure out what sections of the collection are under/overstocked, which authors and titles are most popular in a given month, which items need to be replaced because they’ve been used many many times and are likely in poor condition (we have DVDs that have circulated upwards of 400 times!), and what it’s time to let go of because no one has checked it out in years (don’t worry, we’ll be keeping the classics!)
Meetings
Stakeholders Meetings for the new Community Center – 4 Teens from the Teen Library Advisory Board and staff member Rebecca Robinowitz from the library attended one meeting; Library Director, Sarah McIntyre attended another.
Civics Programs – 5 Library staff met to confirm our spring civics programs.