This week at the library; or, pre-summer outreach begins

Programs

• Storywalk - we borrowed a storywalk of this year's Big Read, Map into the world by Kao Kalia Yang.
• 3 virtual school visits
• Field trip

Projects

• Institutional (school) cards (I do this periodically, update spreadsheets of their checkouts, mark items lost, contact teachers, renew items, etc. It's a process that takes a while)
• Process new items
• Working on updating toys (I'm passing most of this over to one of my staff, once I've reviewed them. The toys I mean, not the staff.)
• Wisconsin Science Fest meetup

Professional Development

• Booklist webinar: Middle grade magic

I used the field trip as a test for the art programs I'm doing this summer - I read Milo imagines the world and Be quiet! by Higgins - and had the kids draw pictures for the journal of creative work from the kids I want to put together. We set the room up for 22 kids, 3 feet apart, tested the webcam and screen, and it went very well.