Oof. We keep saying "it will slow down!" It has not slowed down. It was a little quieter during the week leading up to July 4th, but this was balanced out with a massive, damaging storm that ripped through our county on July 3rd. Some of our staff lived in the affected areas and almost everyone had friends or family who were affected. I am still very tired but I have to start thinking about what we're doing next.
I've gotten a lot of teen participation in volunteer and drop-in events. The feedback is great, but this is just one group of teens with very specific interests (manga and fiction reading) so I've been searching out teens with different interests. And, of course, these teens will move on in a few years. The heavy traffic, plus the usual and additional work of summer, plus the stress of the last year and a half are definitely affecting all of us. On the positive side, our public seems to generally be happy with storytimes and just hanging out in the new area so I am not feeling a need to plan specific programs.
I have finished weeding several teen sections, am working through backlists of orders, and am waiting for some shelving to arrive to start shifting the nonfiction (again). Budget season will be starting soon and I am collecting feedback and writing reports for the end of the summer for needed updates for the department after we've lived in it for a season. We still haven't had time to organize the Create Space. I think I will need to consider a different method of running our summer performers as well as not all the presenters we get are suited to the audience or venue where I'm holding them.
Link to video of my hapless presenter doing their level best to talk over 270 screaming kids.
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