{"id":969,"date":"2017-05-11T22:04:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T22:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/library\/?p=969"},"modified":"2017-05-17T16:47:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:47:30","slug":"library-activities-april-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/library\/2017\/05\/11\/library-activities-april-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Activities: April 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Services
\n<\/strong>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! \u00a0“It’ll grow on you”.\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>
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Special<\/strong>
\n15 Teens attended our Teen Paint Nite in April.<\/p>\n

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30 teens attended our terrarium building workshop on the Sandy Seed Library Grand opening day.<\/p>\n

We had a talk by local author Mike Jordan. 13 people came to listen to him speak about the writing process.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>61 people came to our Family Friendly Poetry Slam! at Sandy. The winning poets were:<\/p>\n

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Grand Prize: Slylar Olsen \u00a0with a poem called “Vultures”. (She was in the age 14-18 category)
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Age 8-13 – Greta Freet with “Celebrating My Soccer Game”<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Age 14-18 – Sayge Noakes with “When It’s Cold Out”<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Adult – Phyllis Joy Martin with “Ode to Johnny Appleseed”<\/p><\/div>\n

18 people attended our Open Mic Poetry Night at Hoodland! A great time was had by readers and listeners alike.<\/p>\n

13 people attended our Adult Paint Nite with Melissa Lawrence.<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0About 300 people came to this event.<\/p>\n

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Ongoing<\/strong>
\nSandy Kids Club had 57 parents and kids. Hoodland Kids Art Club had 7 parents and kids attend.<\/p>\n

Storytimes: Preschool 60 parents and kids, Wee Ones 152 parents and kids, Hoodland 56 parents and kids.<\/p>\n

60 teens attended Game Factory Coding Club, 37 attended Makerspace, 51 attended Anime Club.<\/p>\n

100 people attended Library Coffee House to hear Eric Kallio play slide and finger-style guitar. \u00a05 kids participated in the craft.<\/p>\n

34 Adults and 24 kids attended our ESOL English classes. We had 22 volunteer helpers.<\/p>\n

8 people attended the Hoodland Bookgroup to discuss the Book True Grit <\/em>by Charles Portis.<\/p>\n

Outreach<\/strong>
\nWe attended 4 Kindergarten Roundups in April – Sandy Grade, Naas, Firwood, and Kelso. We talked with 24 parents and 27 kids.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

Buildings<\/strong>
\nThe 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.<\/p>\n

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