Mid-June Update

Staff picture at our kick-off - our director, me, our
technical services librarian and our circulation manager.

 We had a very successful - and busy - summer reading kickoff and grand reopening. Around 275 people came through the youth department. The following Monday felt even busier; I was glad I changed the schedule to come in and help because only one staff person that morning would NOT have been nearly enough! We had to do the usual weekly opening tasks, finish setting up and start summer reading, take down everything left from Saturday, and start two drop-in programs.

I moved the programs I had planned to hold in the Activity Room into the Storyroom, since the sink is on that side. Some of them got pretty messy but they mostly stayed inside the room. I can already see some things that I will do differently next year and some changes that need to be made to the spaces. It's been almost nonstop traffic, excepting a few times with severe weather, but I am hoping things will slow down over the next few weeks so we can take a breath and finally start catching up on the backlog of work from the last year of renovations. I've got almost no pictures - it simply isn't possible to take pictures while working at this pace - hopefully patrons will send me a few, especially of the kick-off.