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While we finished the month's programs, including several huge events with our school colleague, the last performers, and a lot of teen volunteers, I continued planning for the fall. I have already started collecting some teen feedback and will be doing a survey for families in August. I am writing a report on the space use and changes that need to be made. There are some things that need to be done that I cannot (and do not want to) DIY. I am also chronically behind on collection development projects.
In August we will continue summer reading through the 22nd. We don't have any performers or big programs and will not be doing any teen events or volunteering, but we'll do a couple storytimes each week and drop-in activities so there is still something going on every day, Monday - Friday. I will be doing storytimes, which I haven't done in a long time. We are also going to be having one last round of construction at the entrance.
I'm hoping we can start getting some of the program spaces organized, but staff will be on vacation and I am just physically and mentally exhausted. We won't be resuming programs until late September, so we can work on it then.
Summer reading overall has worked very well - there are only a couple minor updates I will make next year.
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I've gotten a lot of teen participation in volunteer and drop-in events. The feedback is great, but this is just one group of teens with very specific interests (manga and fiction reading) so I've been searching out teens with different interests. And, of course, these teens will move on in a few years. The heavy traffic, plus the usual and additional work of summer, plus the stress of the last year and a half are definitely affecting all of us. On the positive side, our public seems to generally be happy with storytimes and just hanging out in the new area so I am not feeling a need to plan specific programs.
I have finished weeding several teen sections, am working through backlists of orders, and am waiting for some shelving to arrive to start shifting the nonfiction (again). Budget season will be starting soon and I am collecting feedback and writing reports for the end of the summer for needed updates for the department after we've lived in it for a season. We still haven't had time to organize the Create Space. I think I will need to consider a different method of running our summer performers as well as not all the presenters we get are suited to the audience or venue where I'm holding them.
Link to video of my hapless presenter doing their level best to talk over 270 screaming kids.
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