We had a massive program planning meeting on Monday, laying out the schedule through next December. This is what my schedule looks like, roughly:
Then I have system committees and meetings, my ALSC Committee, Cybils I hope!, and whatever additional outreach and projects happen.
- Monday - Afternoon, staff meetings and stuff. Evening, information desk.
- Tuesday - Morning, run registration for Miss Pattie's two sessions of toddler storytime (we're going to limit attendance at the door which is going to be a hard transition for people). Afternoon, children's desk and a few hours on the information desk.
- Wednesday - Preschool Interactive, early afternoon outreach, late afternoon children's desk and tween/teen herding.
- Thursday - Morning, outreach while Pattie does baby storytime. 12-2, information desk and after school programs Messy Art Club and Lego Club from 3-5:30
- Friday - Morning, We Explore (new program that combines storytime and other stuff). Afternoon, depends. Some days I will be at the children's desk, some days at the information desk, or if I'm working Saturday I'll go home. So far, this is what I have lined up for We Explore - fall storytime, monster storytime and costume swap, color storytime with painting, Kohls' Wild Theater, Welty Environmental Center, 3 Healthy Snacking multicultural programs from Miss Pattie, and I'm talking to an education person from the Ice Age Trail, fire chief about doing a fire safety program, appliance store for a big box program, and I still have a few slots to plan storytimes for!
- Our cataloger is going to do a teen book club once a month on Thursday nights. She did this at her previous library. I'm going to do the publicity for it and hope for the best.
- Miss Pattie will also be doing her twice monthly evening storytime and a monthly family game night.
- I already have one daycare signed up for three visits a month - one on Wednesday, two back to back on Thursday - for their 4k classes. I have a remote collection set up with another preschool. I'm hoping to have the biggest preschool bring 100 kids to a couple of our big We Explore programs. I will probably get some school visits/tours from the two elementary schools and possibly the Catholic school and I'm going to make a concerted effort to have them come on Thursdays.
- I have 2 special programs, a homeschool meet and greet on a Tuesday evening in September and a cookie decorating program on the last Saturday of the session in December.
- We're also going to do 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten starting in September.
Then I have system committees and meetings, my ALSC Committee, Cybils I hope!, and whatever additional outreach and projects happen.
4 comments:
And, as always, you make my schedule look like I'm sitting around with my feet up. At least I don't have to deal with tiny children.
I don't do babies! I'm not really a baby person...I couldn't deal with the school administration and structure. I barely made it through two semesters as an intern in a high school library.
I'm wondering what your "Messy Art Club" looks like. Sounds like a neat program.
It's a drop-in, every other week, for 1 1/2 hours. I get kids age 2 - 12. We do something different every time. Some of the things we've done are collage, painting pots and planting seeds, lots of different paint, painting eggs for easter and we're doing quilts tomorrow. I get from around 25-35 people in school year, up to 70 in the summer.
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