This week at the library; or, Summer part 2

Happening at the library

• Monday
• Open Storyroom
• Paws to Read
• Department meeting/summer wrap-up
• Tuesday
• Craft-o-rama
• Wednesday
• Library on the Go: Learning Curve (3 sessions)
• Drop-in We Explore activities
• Thursday
• Open Storyroom
• Friday
• Free Lego Build
• Saturday
• The Big Splash
• Teen volunteer ice cream party
• Worked 40 hours; 18 hours on desk; 3 programs
• A couple hours doing collection development at home

Notes

• Summer reading as such is done. People can still pick up their end of July prize (a free book) for pretty much the whole month. We're also doing a drawing for a quilt each week. But other than that, finished. If they really, really need to mark something off, they can grab one of our year-round reading programs.
• At our meeting we discussed how things went, what we want to change next year, and what we'll be doing this fall. One thing I've noticed is that the middle schoolers are very sad that the program is over - we might continue it longer next year as it's very little work and, even if they pooh-pooh it, they really like getting a piece of candy or little prize. With only about 150 kids, it's doable.
• This week's projects are making a list of the projects we're going to do this August and into fall. Also, some last-minute weeding so I can send orders before our cataloger is unavailable. Some of the things I already know we'll be doing - organizing 11 years of photographs, organizing flyers and marketing, lots of weeding and collection development, inventory (not sure how since I fried the scanner...), cleaning out the basement, updating program plans, adding new stealth activities, a couple grants... oh, and the cataloging. See, we're having a scaled-back fall because of all the cataloging, I have to keep reminding myself of that...