This month should be a brief respite before we start the final leg of our renovations. In the youth department, we are starting a basic schedule of programming:
- Mondays: Paws to Read
- Tuesdays: Minecraft Hangout
- Thursdays: Pokemon Hangout
- Fridays: Words and Wiggles Storytime
My staff member will continue to go to storytime at the Rec center on Tuesdays. The only outreach we are continuing is her monthly visits to our county special education school - some years they come on field trips, but we can reach more of the students with a visit to the school. I have had teachers ask about resuming outreach visits and it's hard for me to say no, but with the new schedule needed to adequately staff the new youth department, it just isn't possible unless I take on a lot more desk time or do the outreach myself, neither of which I have the time or capacity for. We'll also have TAB meetings several times a month while we're continuing to work on the Teen Space and monthly Youth D&D.
I've started weeding and reorganizing our circulating kits - this is loooong overdue, we have a ridiculous number of kits in storage with missing/broken pieces and all the inventory/records need updating. I also need to get started on weeding the juvenile nonfiction - I started more than a year ago and had to move on to work on other things - but that may not happen this month.
We'll end the month with an Eric Carle party on a Tuesday morning - this will substitute for a day when our school colleague can't offer storytime and restart our Read and Grow program.
Only three youth spaces are left to reopen - our activity room, create space, and Quiet Room. We should get the Quiet/Nursing room reopened very soon, since it just needs some paper on the walls as a temporary cover until we're able to get them mudded and sanded so we can repaint.
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