Amazingly we actually managed to finish pretty much everything I had planned for January. The family storytimes offered by a colleague from our local school district are still being held at the recreation center - this will probably continue until summer for consistency and continuity. However, one of my staff has been taking library materials and our outreach library out on Tuesday morning and we've seen a resulting increase in traffic in the youth department.
Our next move went off fairly well. Circulation, Adult Services, and Technical Services were moved into the renovated workroom downstairs, our director moved into his new office, and I and my staff moved into the old Adult Services office upstairs. We did have to do an emergency clean of the office, and a lot of maneuvering to get things to fit and be in proximity to the outlets and access points. Once Technical Services had moved to their new space, the Teen Space was open.
We had initially planned to move the YA collection into this space (it had not been moved upstairs with the rest of the youth department) and either recycle shelves or purchase inexpensive shelving. However, the committee overseeing our grant and renovations decided the Teen Space should not contain any teen materials. After much discussion, it was decided that the manga collection (and two shelves of circulating toys, kits, and games) would be in the Teen Space and the layout would be rearranged to accommodate the rest of the young adult collection. We removed a seating area (and aforementioned shelves of kits) and our movers shifted the shelves continuing our Young Teen, juvenile audiovisual materials, and popular series (Minecraft, Disney, etc.) farther into the aisle and closer together (keeping the minimum 3 feet). They then brought up from storage in the basement and reconfigured a shelf for the young adult fiction, graphic novels, and nonfiction in this space.
Construction, specifically electrical work, continues intermittently upstairs in the youth department. However, we did get all but one piece of stored furniture moved downstairs and only two spaces are still being used by construction, our Multipurpose Room (as an office) and our Activity Room (for storage). Our Lego Wall has been installed and we have made a lot of little adjustments and improvements to the space as a whole.
Although we don't officially resume programs until February, we did have a few the last week of January. I was able to get the Dungeon Master I had last summer to come in with very little notice and she ran a game for our Youth D&D (primarily ages 9-11). I also had a TAB meeting (now open to middle schoolers) once we had the Teen Space cleared out and they started working on decorating the space. We had NINE kids! Six of them came voluntarily! One was already there volunteering and was bemused but agreeable to painting instead of hauling furniture down to the basement and two middle school students had, I think, come to study, but were pleased to jettison those plans in favor of snacks and paint. My staff also resumed Friday morning storytimes on the 30th - she put in a lot of last-minute work to get the Storyroom usable.
Our mural is neeeeeearly finished, I have more or less finished the early reader weeding project, and I have settled on a blend of Bound to Stay Bound, Ingram, Mackin, and Amazon for vendors.
If anyone is curious, my location did NOT get snow, we got subzero temps. But we stayed open as we are a county-designated warming shelter and anyways I had a lot of stuff I needed to get done.
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