Program Highlights
We had a fun Kids Club in March at the Sandy Library! Lego Club continues to be very popular. 13 kids and 4 adults attended and they made awesome Lego creations. For our craft program we made paper airplanes and had a competition with them. Minecraft/video games continues to be very popular also.
Our program to celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday had 4 kids and two adults come. We ate cupcakes while watching the film “Horton Hears A Who.”
The Read To A Dog program has been building steam. We had several appointments this month. Read to a Dog happens every Thursday during the school year from 3-4pm. Call the library to make an appointment!
Monica Smith and Maureen Skinner attended the Kindergarten Roundup on Tuesday March 31st with Prudence (our “read to the dog” dog),and her owner, Chis. We made some good connections with parents and teachers. We even had a little girl read to Prudence while we were there.
We had a 187 people at our Library Coffee House on Friday March 6th to hear the livery Irish tunes of Hanz Araki & Cary Novotny for our St. Patrick’s Day Coffee House at the Sandy Public Library.
Spoken Word Poet, Hip-Hop emcee and Sandy High School alum Jesse Gardner, facilitated a workshop to empower aspiring spoken word poets to share their truth with confidence. This workshop took place on Friday March 13th. It was a lively evening.
To gear up for National Poetry month in April, we held an Origami Poetry Program on Sunday, March 15th. Participants combined poetry with origami to create works of art that are placed all over the library for the month of April.
Our Teen after hours program was a Teen Movie Night that took place on Friday, March 20th. Eleven teens came to watch Maze Runner, and hear the winners of the Teen Art Contest, which were:
Most Abstract – Erin Karl for “The Devil’s Tea Party
Most Creative – Sarah Jury for “Sunny Flowers”
Fanciest – Sary Jury for “Fairy Flowers”
Greenest – David Gomez for “A greener Oregon”
Most Useful – Matthew Jury for “Earth from Space”
Best in Show – Matthew Jury for “Penguins”
Marketing
If the number of books checked out is an indication, then we have quite a few “Armchair Travelers” in Sandy. We had 27 books go out from our March’s adult book display… that is the highest number since we began the program over a year and a half ago.
We held our first ever March Madness for books at the Sandy Library, pitting titles head-to-head to see which one would come out on top! After four weeks, and 132 votes, the winner was To Kill a Mockingbird.
Sandy Library Building
Miracle Clean Enterprises donated their time and materials and cleaned all the carpets in the library in two nights. They look like they are once again brand new!
Hoodland Library Building Update
The RFP for construction was released on March 5th. One bidder bid on the project. We are currently in negotiations with Cherryville Construction to reduce the scope of the work of the project to come in under our necessary budget amount. Building Permits were applied for with the county. Here are a few renderings of the inside of the building:
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.
Our very first Kids’ Club event was LEGO Club. Three kids made fantastic LEGO creations which were displayed in the Library for the remainder of the month. After the event we had a large number of people express interest in coming to our next one. Come in to see our current months’ display of LEGO creations in the Kids’ Room of the Library. We expect that this program will grow considerably!
14 kids come to play the Minecraft. Library Staff created a Minecraft server which 6 laptop computers connect to. Standard Minecraft can be played (Survival, Creative, etc.), or Minecraft.edu which allows creation of specials “seeds” where kids must complete specific tasks. Seeds can be used as a type of lesson plan. Staff plans to create seeds for upcoming months and build a replica of the Sandy Library within the game to be used as an information literacy instructional aid. Kids were also able to play Wii games and build paper Minecraft characters.
Sandy Library participated in the Main Street event Trick or Treat Trail. We handed out more than 600 pieces of candy to trick-or-treaters and gave each one an opportunity to win a glow stick by playing corn hole.
First Friday on October 4th brought the Coffee House into the library. Local writer Dan Bosserman signed copies of his book Images of America: Boring. In addition, Sandy residents we serenaded by Portland’s French troubadour, Eric John Kaiser who presented a lively evening of ballads and folk songs in French and English .
in the Night
Library Staff got into the spirit and dressed up for October 31st. Many came as book related characters.
