Kids Special Programs

Harry Potter’s Birthday Party – Sandy 100 kids, 79 parents + 7 teen volunteers!  This program was a huge success.  One parent said “We have been to MANY Harry Potter e vents, and this one was the best one!”  We had wand making and food indoors, potion making outside the Community Room doors on the sidewalk; it was a good thing we did, as the green foamy potion was difficult to control, and went everywhere!

Summer Reading Programs
Kids Summer Reading Signups = Sandy 839 Hoodland 114
Mad Science – Sandy 28 kids, 17 adults
LEGO Guy – Sandy 30 kids, 10 parents Hoodland 19 kids, 7 parents Vista Apartments 21 kids, 2 parents
Dragon Theater Productions – Sandy 20 kids, 10 parents Hoodland 27 kids, 10 parents
Traveling Lantern Theater – Hoodland 5 kids, 3 parents

Kids Ongoing Programs
Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club
Lego Club – Sandy 16 kids, 13 parents Hoodland 12 kids, 7 parents
Minecraft – Sandy 3 kids, 1 parent

Read to the Dog – Sandy 2 kids

NEW Weekly Art Program! Wy’East Art Program – Sandy 58 kids, 16 parents

Storytimes
Preschool – Sandy 34 kids, 23 parents
Wee Ones – Sandy 42 kids, 46 parents
Storytime – Hoodland 20 kids, 16 parents

Teen Special Programs
Teen Summer Reading Signups = Sandy 218 Hoodland 19

Teen Trivia Night – Sandy 8 teens, 5 adults

Teen Ongoing Programs
Game Factory Coding Club – Sandy 29 teens
Anime Club – Sandy 4 teens

Adult Special Programs
Adult Summer Reading Signups = Sandy 197 Hoodland 28

Cool Season Vegetable Gardening – Sandy 26 people

Wise Walkers – Sandy 12 people went walking together throughout the month of July.

Library Coffee House – Sandy 101 people came to listen to the blues guitar of Terry Robb

Adult Paint Nite – Sandy 19 attendees.

Adult Ongoing Programs
Book Group – Hoodland 8 people came to discuss The Sympathizer

Public Notary – Hoodland 3

Photography Group – Sandy 2 adults

Outreach
Vista Apartments – 68 kids, 6 parents – Origami, and Outdoor games

Mt Hood Farmer’s Market – 67 visitors, gave out 99 packets of seeds, 5 new library cards, 3 teen volunteers

Buildings
Our new RFID Self- Checkout machine was installed in Hoodland on 7/24. They were installed in Sandy on 8/1!

The lobby in Sandy was rearranged to accommodate the new self checkout machines! Film was applied to the skylights to dampen the glare/heat.

Visitors
Oak Lodge Community Library Advocates visited the Sandy Library to see our building, and ask questions about funding/usefulness of our building. They are preparing information for themselves regarding recently built libraryies in Clackamas County.

Special Programs
Family
Longest Day Parkway – library staff talked with 264 people! We gave out Summer Reading packets, talked up the Sandy Seed Library, and gave out popcorn and mood pencils.

Teen
Paint Nite – 22 teens.  Library Board Member Melissa Lawrence led teens step by step through a painting.

Adult
Spain Travel Talk – 13 people.  Monica Smith, Katie Murphy and Tracy Brown presented slides and talked about their recent travels in Spain.

Paint Nite – 18 people.  Library Board Member Melissa Lawrence led adults step by step through a painting.

Library Coffee House – 203 people came to hear Skip Von Kuske & Will West. Skip Von Kuske plays Cello (Portland Cello Project) and Will West plays guitar (The Friendly Strangers).

We held a Beginning Vegetable Gardening seminar and 11 people came.

Ongoing Programs
Kid
Read to the Dog – 9 kids

Saturday Afternoon Kids Club
Sandy Lego Club – 28 kids and parents, Hoodland – 11
Sandy Coding Club – 4
Hoodland Art Club – 2

Storytimes
Sandy Preschool – 60 kids and parents
Sandy Wee Ones – 136!
Hoodland – 38

Vista Apartments – 89 kids and parents.  Photos left:  Susan Winsinger said “The kids were really engaged today doing the book scavenger hunt (for prizes)!

Wy’East Artisan Guild started a weekly youth art program on June 21st in partnership with the library. We had a great start our first 2 weeks, 28 kids and parents attending.

Teen
Game Factory – 24 teens
MakerSpace – 24. Teens designed items with duct tape.
Anime Club – 42. Teens made candy sushi!

Adult
English Classes (ESOL)
9 students, 17 kids
12 volunteer teacher’s aides

We are switching to tutoring for the summer months. We held an English Tutor Training, and 12 people came.

Hoodland Book Group – 6 people came to discuss the book Plainsong by Kent Haruf.

Two public notaries at Hoodland.

Outreach
Rebecca Robinowitz visited the Sandy High School to promote Summer Reading and gave out 38 packets to interested teens.

Staff and 7 teen volunteers talked to 239 people at the Mt Hood Farmers Market! We gave out 307 seed packets from the Sandy Seed Library, issued 8 new library cards, and gave out 25 Adult Summer Reading packets, 40 kids summer reading packets, and 8 teen summer reading packets.

Training
Sarah McIntyre attended the AntFarm Lunch and Learn on Senior Resources. It was packed with great information.

Special Programs
Family
Free Comic Book Day 2017! – 36 people in Sandy, and 17 at  Hoodland to grab Free Comic Books, play games, and make superhero crafts.

Hora de Cuentos! – Four families came to Spanish Language Storytime in May. This happened while the library was closed to tag for RFID, so was a really great turnout.

Adult
ESOL English Language and Culture Classes – 23 students and 18 volunteer teacher’s assistants.

Library Coffee House – 141 people came to listen to Pablo Grabiel and the Steelhead Stalkers and eat treats from Tollgate Bakery.

Oregon Trail – 16 adults came to listen to speakers, John Salisbury and Richard Matthews, cover the length of the Oregon Trail, from Independence to Oregon City, using slides of the trail.

Paint Nite – 16 adults led by Melissa Lawrence of the Library Advisory Board.

Ongoing Programs
Kid
Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club – 40 kids and parents in Sandy
18 kids and parents in Hoodland

Preschool Storytime – 79 kids and parents in Sandy
Wee ones Storytime – 119 kids and parents in Sandy
Hoodland Storytime – 38 kids and parents

Read to the Dog – 5 kids

Teen
Game Factory Coding Club – 49 teens
MakerSpace – 17 teens
Anime Club – 45 teens
T-LAB Teen Library Advisory Board- 14 teens

Adult
Hoodland BookClub – 7 adults to discuss the book People in the Trees

Photography Group – 7 adults came to the informal photography outing (photos to the left by Thea Kuziemski)

Public Notaries – 4 took place at Hoodland

Outreach
Vista Apartments – 72 kids and parents for literacy and STEM activities

Mt Hood Farmer’s Market – 243 people. The Mt Hood Farmer’s Market is turning out to be a huge success for the library. In addition to all of the people we talked to about library programs, we checked out 268 seeds from the Sandy Seed Library for people to plant in their gardens, issued 9 new library cards, and had 9 teen volunteers help us out there!

Building
RFID at Sandy Library – we had 24 volunteers spend 190.5 hours . plus 19 staff members most working 40 hours during our week of tagging at Sandy Library! We tagged almost 38,000 items that week alone. 

Pictured above and left are: Kathy Drain a great volunteer (retired Reference Librarian), Sue Hash & Molly Espenel (On-Call Library Staff), and Dianne Downey (Library Assistant at Hoodland) tagging at Sandy Library.  In addition to tagging, we installed additional shelving at Sandy Library (where there were short shelves, we installed taller ones). Watch this fun time lapse video of some of our expert shifters – Susie Jenkins, Monica Smith, Jack Frick (Friend of the Library), & Suzanne Murray moving books around!

Two of the collections we moved during this week were Kids’ Nonfiction Collections. We combined our E Non-Fiction (kids up to 2nd grade) and our J Non-Fiction (kids 3rd- 5th grades) collections into one now housed in the Kids’ area! Here is a comment from a staff person shortly after:
“On Sunday, I was speaking with a mom about how we moved our kid NF collection out of being interfiled with adult. She has two boys, probably about 6 and 9. She loved the new location. Her kids were normally only checking out “the same three books”. They took different books yesterday because they were able to easily browse the shelves.”

Training
Supervisor Training with Kathy Peck – 5 library supervisors attended this great informative training.

Exhibits
Clackamas County Grange Exhibit – This great exhibit to Celebrate 150 years of granges was up for the month of May.

Services
On April 15th, we had our Grand Opening of the Sandy Seed Library. 62 people attended. Staff member Susie Jenkins, and a large number of volunteers and sponsors made this new program in the library start out great. Come check out our seed library!  “It’ll grow on you”.

Programs

Special
15 Teens attended our Teen Paint Nite in April.

30 teens attended our terrarium building workshop on the Sandy Seed Library Grand opening day.

We had a talk by local author Mike Jordan. 13 people came to listen to him speak about the writing process.

61 people came to our Family Friendly Poetry Slam! at Sandy. The winning poets were:

18 people attended our Open Mic Poetry Night at Hoodland! A great time was had by readers and listeners alike.

13 people attended our Adult Paint Nite with Melissa Lawrence.

Dia de los Ninos was a huge success! Once again planned by Katie Murphy with members of the Hispanic Community, it ranged throughout the entire Library and outdoors for 2 hours.  About 300 people came to this event.

Ongoing
Sandy Kids Club had 57 parents and kids. Hoodland Kids Art Club had 7 parents and kids attend.

Storytimes: Preschool 60 parents and kids, Wee Ones 152 parents and kids, Hoodland 56 parents and kids.

60 teens attended Game Factory Coding Club, 37 attended Makerspace, 51 attended Anime Club.

100 people attended Library Coffee House to hear Eric Kallio play slide and finger-style guitar.  5 kids participated in the craft.

34 Adults and 24 kids attended our ESOL English classes. We had 22 volunteer helpers.

8 people attended the Hoodland Bookgroup to discuss the Book True Grit by Charles Portis.

Outreach
We attended 4 Kindergarten Roundups in April – Sandy Grade, Naas, Firwood, and Kelso. We talked with 24 parents and 27 kids.

Vista Apartments now regularly has about 4 parents attending the weekly program for kids! We went 3 out of 4 weeks in April, and had 60 kids attend to do literacy and/or STEM based activities.

Sandy Library staff and teen volunteers had a booth at the first Mt Hood Farmers Market on April 28th. One staff person and 4 volunteers talked with 71 people, and checked out 85 seeds from the Sandy Seed Library. We issued one new library card!

Buildings
The Hoodland Library got tagged for RFID on April 30th! It took 8 staff members and 14 volunteers one full 8 hour day to tag most of the 10,000 items that Hooldand has on their shelves.

Special Programs

Kids
We held Dr Seuss Birthday parties at Sandy and Hoodland! 23 kids and 15 adults came to Sandy, and 11 kids and 6 parents came to Hoodland to watch a Dr. Seuss movie and eat cupcakes!

Living Way Preschool (7 kids and 7 adults) and Little Cubs Preschool (17 kids and 5 adults) visited the library in March.

Welches School had an Architect create projects with kids in 3rd and 5th grades.  The projects were displayed at the Hoodland Library from March 20th – April 3rd.  The kids created diaramas of school playground equipment.  There was a reception at the library on March 22nd that 102 parents and kids attended.

Teens
Our Jeopardy Trivia Night had 22 teens attend to duel it out. Three winners got a $25 Amazon gift card.

We talked with 10 teens and 9 adults at the Job Fair with Antfarm. We talked with them about the Job and Career Accelerator database, had books on jobs and careers to check out, and advertised positions for the summer camp the City of Sandy is doing (with Camp Namanu).

Adults
20 people attended our Adult Paint Nite with Library Advisory Board member Melissa Lawrence.

We held a “Know Your Rights” Program in partnership with Programa Hispano at VISTA Apartments.  35 people came.

Ongoing Programs
Kids
Preschool Storytime at Sandy had 62 kids and 42 adults, Wee ones at Sandy had 95 kids and and 93 adults, Hoodland Story time had 41 kids and 26 adults.

Vista Apartments had 106 kids and 14 adults attend to do literacy activities.

Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club        Art Club at Sandy had 25 kids and 25 parents come to make crayon art with Kylie Shai, a Sandy High School student working on her senior project.

Hoodland had 14 kids and 9 adults come to play LEGOS and make art projects in the month of March.

Teens
29 teens attended the twice monthly MakerSpace program.
47 teens attended the twice monthly Anime Club.
23 teens attended the thrice a month Game Factory.
12 teens attended the Teen Library Advisory Board meeting.

Adults
ESOL Classes had 53 students and 23 volunteer teacher helpers in the month of March!

168 people came to hear Aaron Meyer play his violin at Library Coffee House.

We held a talk by The Early Assessment and Support Alliance (EASA). EASA is an early intervention program for adolescents and young adults experiencing psychosis for the first time. 2 people attended.

Our newly revived Photography Group had 7 people attend for Camera 101 lessons.  Camera 101 will continue on April 20th.

The Hoodland Book Group had 6 people attend to discuss the book Maytrees by Annie Dillard.

Hoodland did a total of 7 Public Notaries in March.

Celebrations
On May 6th, we celebrated 5 years in our new Sandy Library building!  We had cupcakes and waived $5 in fines for anyone who came in the door on that day.  We waived a total of $258.55.

Teen Paint Nite paintings

Special Programs
Teens
On 2/17 we held our very first Paint Nite at the Sandy Library.  Paint Nites are being taught by Melissa Lawrence who is a member of the Library Advisry Board and formerly worked for Vine Gogh in Portland.  17 kids attended, and had a great night!  We will continue to have paint nites for both teens and adults.  Our next class for adults is on March 17th!

No more dieting with Dr. Victoria Larson

Adults

Our Watercolor Adventure Class was postponed from January because of incelement weather.  This class was taught by local artist Eileen Holzman, and had an attendance of 15 adults.

“No More Dieting”, a presentation by Dr. Victoria Lawrence on Febraury 24th had 13 people in attendance.

Family

Brady Goss, phenomenal honky-tonk piano player & singer was our Coffe House musician on February 3rd.  94 people braved the weather to come see him!

Ongoing Programs
Kids
48 kids and parents came to Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club – Sandy in February.
14 kids and parents came to Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club – Hoodland in February.
59 kids and parents came to Preschool Story Time in Sandy in February.                             Toddler Time and Baby Time in Sandy combined starting in the month of February.  The reuslt is Wee Ones Story, Songs, & Playtime! We had 180 kids and parents attend!
51 parents and kids came to Storytime in Hoodland
We did literacy activities with 63 parents and kids at the Vista Apartments in February

Teens
15 teens attended MakerSpace in February.
42 teens attended Game Factory Coding Club in February.
27 teens attended Anime Club in February.
12 teens attended T-LAB (Teen-Library Advisory Board) in February to help the library plan teen programs and services.

Adults

ESOL – English Language and Culture Class had a diffciult time in February becuse of fear in the Hispanic community.  After 2 classes with no attendance, the rest of the month had 12 students make it to the library.
7 people made it to the Book Club at Hoodland to discuss Station Eleven.
6 people at the Hoodland Library utilized our free Public Notary service.

Meetings, etc
Rebecca Robinowtiz & Monica Smith attended the Youth Service Provider Network meeting on 2/1, This presentation focused on Social Media and the Impact on Youth.  Sara McClurg, the Crime Prevention Specialist for Clackamas County Sheriff Office, presented on Internet Safety and the most recent threat and impacts on youth. Presentation included:

• Online predators
• Cyber Bullying
• Theft of personal information
• Internet slang
• Social Networking
• Sexting
• Risky cell phone apps like Instagram and Snapchat
• Online game sites

Sarah McIntyre assisted the City in interviews for the new Community Services Director on 2/2.  There were a great group of candidates for the position.  Welcome Tanya Richardson!

On 2/21 Chris WIlhemi and Sarah McIntyre met with Greg Williams and staff from the LINCC Network Office to review the Sandy and Hoodland Library buildings for RFID tagging. RFID tagging is scheduled at HO on 4/30 (they are closed on Sundays), and at Sandy on May 1st-5th. The Sandy Library will be closed during the tagging. If you are detail oriented, and would like to volunteer at least 4 hours of your time, contact Chris Wilhelmi at the Sandy Library.  All library programs will continue as normal this week in the Community Room, and we will reopen in time for First Friday on May 5th.

Sarah McIntyre attended the Oregon Public Library Director’s Meeting on 2/22. We got an update from State Librarian Marykay Dahlgreen, an update on Douglas County Libraries (which are closing), talked about information literacy in the age of fake news, and library service to people facing homelessness.

On 2/25 Rebecca Robinowtiz and a local teen attended a meeting to choose the winner of the Teen Art Contest for LINCC Libraries. The 2017 WINNER is Lexie Ng (8^th grader) from the West Linn Library.  Lexie was awarded a $100 cash card.  The winning entry is to the left:

Sandy had two natable entries

• Erin Karl (12^th grader) from Sandy Public Library
• Rachael Williams (12^th grader) from Sandy Public Library

Special Programs

Sandy

Hoodland

Kids

Sandy Teddy Bear Sleepover on 1/13 had 25 kids, and 20 parents attend, Hoodland Teddy Bear Sleepover on 1/27 had 5 kids and 3 parents attend.

Teens

The Teen Lock-In with Antfarm had 108 attendees! It was a fun night of karaoke at Antfarm, and Wii + games at the library.

Adults

Our January Mind, Body, Spirit Program: Watercolor Adventure was postponed until February because of inclement weather.

Dare to Download!

As part of our e-book and e-audiobook awareness week Dare to Download! January 9-15, we raffled off a  Kindle Fire to one lucky winner.  Congratulations to Barbara Lawrence from the Hoodland Service area!

Ongoing Programs

Kids

Sandy Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club had 40 attendees, Hoodland Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club had 18 attendees

Vista Apartments had 65 attendees.

Sandy Storytimes: Toddler Time – 129 attendees, Preschool Storytime – 68 attendees, Baby Time – 11 attendees. Hoodland Storytime – 30 attendees.

Teens

Game Factory – 53 attendees, MakerSpace – 39 attendees, Teen Library Advisory Board (T-LAB) – 13 attendees, Anime Club 28 attendees, Teen Book Club – 4 attendees.

Adults

Our First Friday Library Coffee House with the Doubleclicks was a fun and zany musical adventure that 84 people attended.

ESOL Classes (English for Speakers of Other Languages) had 31 students, and 10 volunteer shadowers!  This was with the cancellation of 3 classes due to inclement weather.

Special Programs
Teen
7 teens attended our Hour of Code passive programs the week of December 5-11. See more about the Hour of Code here.
Adult
On December 1st, 5 Adults attended our board game night as part of our Mind, Body, Spirit series.
42 adults watched Mary Flower perform on December 2nd for our Library Coffee House program.

Ongoing Programs
Kid
Ananda our dog was sick for three weeks in December, so only came to the library twice for kids to read to her. 4 kids read to her.
Saturday Afternoon Kids Club at Sandy had an attendance of 60, Hoodland had 6 attend.
Preschool Storytime had 71 attend, Toddlertime had 84 attend, Baby Storytime had 4 attend, and Hoodland Storytime had 23 attend.
83 kids attended our programs at Vista Apartments.
Teen
22 teens attended our Game factory Coding Club, and 9 attended Anime Club.
Adult
We notarized documents for 2 people at the Hoodland Library.

Eric Griswold

Art Exhibits

The Clackamas County Arts Alliance installed an exhibit by photographer Eric Griswold of West Linn.

The photography of Randy Blevins of Boring, is also on display at the Sandy Library.

Randy Blevins

You can catch these two amazing photography exhibits through February.

Fun  On December 4th, staff of the Sandy and Hoodland Libraries ran (or walked) the Jingle Bell Run in downtown Portland.  12 staff members joined in, and we raised $1400 for the Arthritis Foundation.  After the run, we all went out to brunch before the library opened.  This was our staff Holiday event.

Programs
Teen
On November 10th, we held a Scholarship & Financial Aid Workshop in coordination with College Goal Oregon’s Lisa Brookshier, MBA & ASPIRE Access Specialist. The event included scholarship essay writing and application tips and hands-on-help with FAFSA applications from FAFSA pros. 8 people took advantage of this great opportunity.

Adult
On November 3rd, 9 people came to our film screening of Xmas without China.

On November 4th, 90 people came to our Library Coffee House featuring a folk anthology by Romeo and Carolee Carrera.

On November 12th, 11 people came to Mike Jordan’s author talk at Hoodland. Mr Jordan wrote much of his recent book at the Hoodland Library! FInd out more about Mike Jordan and his books here.

On November 13th, 30 people came to listen to the Peter Wigmore to hear about his family’s experiences during the Holocaust.

On November 14th, 26 people came to Tim Palmer’s author talk and slide show on the Rivers of Oregon. See more about Tim and his beautiful book here.

On November 17th, 22 people came to the film screening of feature-length documentary film Gaining Ground by Elaine Velazquez and Barbara Bernstein that tells personal stories of farmers making extraordinary changes in their farming practices to feed their local communities sustainably grown produce and grains. Find out more about this documentary here.

Ongoing Programs
Kids
7 kids read to the dog in November (we were closed one Thursday for Thanksgiving)

79 people attended Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club in Sandy, and 11 attended in Hoodland.

86 people attended Preschool storytime and 114 attended Toddler Time in Sandy. 18 people attended storytime in Hoodland.

On November 7th we held our first quarterly (rather than weekly) Hora de Cuentos with Claudia Osario. 14 people attended this extremely vivacious storyteller’s program.

Teens
17 people attended Game Factory – our Teen coding club.

5 people came to out T-LAB (Teen – Library Advisory Board) meeting to help us plan our teen programs.

9 people came to Anime Club, and 1 came to Teen Book Club.

Adults
Our ESOL classes were very well attended right through our last date for this calendar year in November. Our last day of class was November 16th. We plan to start these classes up again January 10th. They will be held every Tuesday and Thursday from 12-1:30pm. We are also partnering with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints starting in January. They will be holding an additional ESOL class on Wednesday evenings.

10 people attended our Hoodland Book Group this month to discuss Girl on the Train.

7 Public Notaries were done in Hoodland.

Outreach
On November 10th, we talked to 21 people at the Headstart Family Night., We issued 6 library cards and checked out 2 books.

We did literacy activities with 62 kids and 12 adults at Vista Apartments.

Strategic Planning
Our final Strategic Planning Committee Meetings took place this month. The Strategic Planning Survey went live on December 13th. Take the survey here to help us determine our priorities going forward, it should take you about 10-15 minutes if you finish all the questions.  75 people have already taken the survey!  I should have a Draft of the Strategic Plan for Sandy and Hoodland Libraries before the City Council in February.

Meetings
On November 17th, Thea Kuziemski and Sarah McIntyre met with Dylon Blaylock from Clackamas County as well as 5 other City officials within the County to discuss ways of maximizing our Social Media presences through working together.

On November 18th, Directors in LINCC (Libraries IN Clackamas County) met with Directors in WCCLS (Washington County Cooperative Library Services) to discuss regional policies, and share information.

Special Programs
We had 1115 kids come to play games and get candy for Trick or Treat Trail on October 29th!

On October 21st, 180 people (mostly teens) attended the Haunted Library and Creepy Carnival! The dunk tank was a big hit. A special thank you to Officer Olmos who did 2 turns in the dunk tank, and to Officer Steffenson for putting up with the smoke alarm going off in the library! Now we know what to do for next year so that this does not happen again.

13 kids, volunteers, and staff attended the Zombie Walk! Watch the video here.

Our Chair Yoga Class for adults had great attendance for the 4 week class with an average of 15 people attending each week.

Cheryl Hill’s author talk on October 10th on the Fire Lookouts of Oregon had an attendance of 23.

October Coffee House on October 7th with Steve Hale performing had 51 people in attendance.

Our Dia de los Muertos event on October 28th, planned with key members of the Hispanic Community had a great community attendance of 75 people. 

Ongoing Programs
We had 9 kids Read to the Dog in October

69 kids and parents attended Saturday Afternoon Kids’ Club at SA, 20 at HO.

80 kids and parents attended Preschool Story Time, 94 at Toddler Time, 21 attended Baby Time, and 37 attended HO storytime

We saw 60 kids and parents for literacy activities at Vista Apartments.

Teen Game Factory had 43 teens attend. TAB had 77 people attend to work on the Haunted Library and Creepy Carnival. Teen Book club had 3 people attend, and Anime Club had 15 people in attendance.

We held one Book a Librarian session on how to use the library catalog.

6 people attended Hoodland’s Book Group to discuss Walking on Water, and 8 people attended Gypsie Raleigh’s author talk at Hoodland. Gypsie is the author of Soolie Beetch and the Dying Light.

Our English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Classes continue to be popular on both days, with approximately 6-8 adult at each class, and 8-10 kids.

Outreach
On 10/8, we attended the Oral Hull Family Fall Festival ans talked to 58 people about library services and programs.

We attended the Kelso Elementary School open house on 10/25 and talked to 41 parents and kids.

Strategic Planning

The Strategic Planning Committee continued to meet in October.  We are making great progress on a Strategic Plan for the Sandy and Hoodland Public Libraries.  It should come before the City Council for approval in February 2017.

Training

Libraries in Clackamas County held our second annual all staff training on October 10th.  We had a great day learning about building resiliency with Clackamas County trainer Jeri Oswalt and mental model busting with Cheryl Gould for all staff.  There were individual breakout sessions on Library Security (thanks to Chief Yamashita!), Singing and Signing with Storytime, Cataloging digital information, and Readers’ Advisory.

Staff Fun!

The staff at Sandy Library dressed up for Halloween as our library programs.  We had a great time!