Craft for a Cause returns!
Make Holiday cards for seniors. Cards are due on December 20th. Cards will be given to Meals on Wheels recipients, and seniors living in Avamere and Cascadia Village. We made 350 kits. Our goal is to gather 425 cards from the community.
In partnership with Mt. Hood Hospice to provide warmth and comfort to patients receiving end-of-life care. Knit or crochet a shawl or lap blanket.
It is Holiday time in the Book Nook. Come in to buy gently used books and support library programming. The Friends of Sandy Library are taking book donations! Here is an interesting one that came in recently.
Computer Users
Sandy 363 sessions
Hoodland 103 sessions
Mobile Printing Send prints from your smartphone, tablet, or laptop. Once the print job is sent, it will sit in a queue waiting to be released to print. Call the library on the same day to have staff release the print job. Pick up your prints in person or through our Curbside Service. Starting July 15th, printing is no longer free of charge.
Sandy – 23 users printed 77 jobs (178 pages)
Hoodland – 16 users printed 43 jobs (82 pages)
Library Cards Sandy created 16 ecards (99 new library accounts in person), Hoodland created 1 ecards (19 in person).
Checkouts
Sandy – 2313 sessions. This averages 83 sessions/day (up from 82 last month) 8840 items
Hoodland – 678 sessions. This averages 28 sessions/day (up from 24 last month) 2822 items
We checked out a total of 11,662 items(down from last month’s 12,264) through curbside pickup and browsing.This equals about 2/3rds of our monthly circulation pre-pandemic. Foot traffic is still down by half.
Kids Programs
Oregon Battle of the Books is on again! Check out our display at Sandy Library.
Storytimes in Meinig Park!
All of the following videos of our live Storytime events in Meinig Park were posted in our Facebook Group: Sandy and Hoodland Libraries – Storytime Parents Group. Use numbers were recorded after 1 week. All Storytimes were presented by librarian Monica Smith – unless otherwise noted.
The dog who cried wolf by Keiko Kasza presented by Shara Sala of Todos Juntos
In Meinig – 6 kids and 6 parents
On Facebook – 34 views
Is there a dog in this book? by Viviane Schwarz
In Meinig – 6 kids and 6 parents
On Facebook – 32 views
The big storm by Bruce Hiscock (last storytime in Meinig Park until next year)
In Meinig – 10 kids and 7 parents
On Facebook – 35 views, 1 reaction
We are water protectors by Carole Lindstrom (to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Month)
On Facebook – 24 views, 1 reaction
Storytimes at Hoodland!
7 people attended
Adult Programs
Special
Red Cross Blood Drive in the Community Room – 31 people. They had 26 donors. They collected 20 units!
Ongoing
Digital Book Club – 3 people discussed My own words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Public Notary – Hoodland 8
Exhibits
Our first Library Infographic release happened this month! We got feedback from the Library Advisory Board to implement next year. We are planning this as a yearly release.
