This week at the library; A week of meetings

Teen volunteer hanging
out with our Paws to Read
visitor.

Programs

• Paws to Read
• Family Storytime (our school colleague was out sick, staff subbed)
• Teen engagement: journal-making
• Family Storytime
• Teen Advisory Board

Outreach

• Daycare/preschool/4K outreach storytimes
• 1st grade Library on the Go outreach

Self-Directed Activities

• Read and Grow
• Reading Explorer
• Scavenger Hunt: Bugs
• Construction Hangout
• Homeschool Hangout

Meetings, Hosted events, etc.

• 4-H meeting
• Virtual consortium meet-up
• Collection/shelving measurement meeting
• youth services department meeting (except two people were gone, so really it was just lunch)
• 2 virtual meetings to pick the brains of some helpful librarians regarding the new middle school collection
• Managers' meeting

Notes

• So many meetings this week. I am still researching and working on my new young teen/middle school collection as well as finishing the last bits of the neighborhood projects. I started my new big weed/project in the young adult. Picture book replacements are starting to come in. I spent some very frustrating hours measuring shelves - I just couldn't get my head around the numbers/formulas I was asked for! Happily, I finally got something that worked as well as made my own data overview.
• AND I was late to one of said meetings b/c a herd of deer decided to cross the road ONE AT A TIME in the MIDDLE OF THE MORNING. Very annoying.
• We had a heat wave, more or less (thank you climate change) and the library hvac system did NOT react well. Wednesday - Friday it was ~75 or higher on the lower level around the circulation/info desk and probably closer to ~80 in the youth area, due to the heat pouring in through the windows. I suffered.