Programs
Elvis is in the building! Mark Stevenz, locally renowned Elvis tribute artist played at the Library Coffee House on September 4th. 246 very happy members of the audience enjoyed a tremendous show.
On September 17th, our first Oktoberfest “Meet the Brewer” took place at the Sandy Library. This series was five weeks of brewers, complete with beer tasting. The fifth “Meet the Brewer” program took place at the Hoodland Library on October 15th.
September 18th kicked off our Teen Programming with a Lock-In. The Lock-In was co-sponsored by Antfarm and the Library. We had 72 teens come to the program. It was a great success! We had karaoke and gelato floats at Antfarm, and then walked over to the library to watch a movie and play Minecraft. View a video from the karaoke portion of the Lock-In here.
The first of our financial series programs happened on 9/23: Retirement Planning for All Ages. It covered basic investing, health care, social security, and long term care. Barb Clare for Clackamas County Bank facilitated the program.
A photo from Hoodland storytime is to the left. Creating Green Monster Masks to go with our monster themed storytime!
Building
The photography of Paul Sivley of Lake Oswego is currently on display at the Sandy Library. All photos were taken in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Training
Six Library staff members were trained on three products from the Adobe Creative Suite. We now have Four licenses to the Creative Suite for staff to use to create fliers and brochures. Step one of our marketing plan is complete.
Staff
We hired two new on-call library staff to work at the Sandy and Hoodland Libraries. Rebecca Robinowitz (pictured left), and Barbara Bartel. Rebecca previously worked at Estacada Library, Milwaukie Library and Gladstone Library (15 years total). Barbara has worked at the Estacada Library for 12 years. They are great knowledgeable additions to our staff.
Sandy Library held our July Library Coffee House on July 3rd. Despite the looming holiday and the fact that First Friday was not happening downtown, we had 67 people attend to hear No Time 2 Lose, a great bluegrass band. People who came were very complimentary of the music.
The performer at the Library Coffee House On June 5th was Pablo Grabiel and the Steelstalkers. The Coffee House brough 299 people into the library to listen to the music, eat treats, and chat with their neighbors.
The Summer Reading progams have begun! Starting June 15th kids, teens, and adults can pick up their summer reading materials at the Sandy and Hoodland Libraries. Join the fun! Summer Reading runs through the end of August. Prizes for all ages. Summer Reading Programs for kids start in July at the Sandy and Hoodland Libraries, as well as at the Vista Apartments! Visit the library 
Spoken Word Poet, Hip-Hop emcee and Sandy High School alum Jesse
e Hoodland Library held a Valentine’s Day crafting workshop on Wednesday, February 11th. They made bird seed hearts, and strung chains of hearts.
February 20th, we held a Teen Art Night after hours at the Library. Local artists were be on hand to present their crafts. Among the artists who will be present are two members of the Wy’East Artisan Guild. Joan Ragan, who helped the teens make stained glass tile mosaics. Becky Hawley, the head of the Kids Outreach Program, and Art Volunteer at Firwood, taught teens how to design a personal logo. Kathy Marawski, from Beads Down Under, was there with beads and findings for earring-making. In addition, we had a table set up for colored pencil art, and a table set up for freehand drawing and water colors.
The special marketing items in February were “I love my library because…” valentines. It was amazing how many nice things our patrons had to say about their library. It was heart warming, funny and cute.
Over 82 people came to the Library for our first ever comedy night! This was a great night of fun and laughter, brought to you by local comedians and musicians!
The Sandy Library implemented self service pay for printing and photocopying! This new service allows people to release their print jobs and pay for their printing and photocopying in a vending device, taking staff out of the picture as middle man.
