This week at the library

Someone gave us a paper wasp nest. I felt it was
appropriate to display it this week.

Programs

• Paws to Read
• An evening with GLAS
• Pokemon Club
• Outreach storytimes (4 sessions)
• Family storytime
• After school STEM program
• Lapsit
• Outreach storytimes (4 sessions)
• Double Digit Gamers
• Kohls Wild Theater (2 sessions)

Projects and meetings

• Recataloging Spanish and separating out Bilingual titles
• Meeting with retired director and volunteer re. the landscaping and gardens
• Circulation meeting to discuss institutional/teacher cards
• Programming meetings with staff and collaborators

Monday was our rescheduled telescope program - the skies were finally clear. We decided after Pokemon Club that we should increase the sessions to twice monthly. There was a miscommunication about an event on Wednesday via the school, so I popped in and did storytime. The garden meeting ran over, and then I took Ozobots out for the kids, which also ran late. They love this, but it's exhausting. Most of them aren't capable of the fine motor skills to draw the lines and codes (I'm not sure I'M capable of this either) and none of them have the listening skills for me to explain it. They enjoyed themselves though. Also, I should probably apologize to their school librarians who are now going to get constant requests for Ozobots. I was also fortunate our new adult services librarian picked up one of the outreach storytimes for an associate when we had a scheduling conflict. Thursday there were no programs that I was responsible for. So I had several programming meetings, desk time, and tried to catch up on my cataloging projects. Friday I had to be at work at the ungodly hour of 8am to be prepared for Kohls Wild Theater. I arranged one session for a four year old kindergarten (they have enough kids to make it worth it and they are one of only two centers taking Covid precautions, so I wanted to accommodate that) and then a session for the public. Unfortunately, their bus died and they had to get a jumpstart and so the first session ran really late. However, the KWT folks were wonderful and we had a large (if wiggly) group for the second session. I did manage to go home a little early this day. And finish the rest of the work from home. Oh well.