September All-Staff Meeting Notes

 Agenda – All Staff Meeting 9/26/19

  

  • TS/IT

  • Public Services

    • Fall adult and family event schedule (link)

    • Our Stories: The Mizo Community (more info)

    • ESL Childcare

      • We are suspending childcare for our ESL class. Attendance has been too low to continue. 

  • Youth Services

    • Socktober/Sock Hop

      • We will be collecting socks and other articles of clothing during the month of October. This will culminate in a Sock Hop on October 21st. A sensory-friendly sock hop will start at 5:30pm followed by a sock hop for all at 6:30pm. See details.

    • New programs:

      • Paws to Read

        • A new YS program lets kids read to trained therapy dogs. One of the dogs is HUGE! Details here

      • Teen Programs

        • Jessica has started a new teen tabletop gaming program. She purchased several cool new games. Details here

    • Kosovo (if time allows)

  • Circulation

    • Home Delivery Update

      • Home delivery has taken off this past year thanks to Rod and Molly’s efforts. They’ve been turning more deliveries over to volunteers. Checkout the link above for the latest stats.

    • Volunteer Update

      • Volunteers put in a ton of hours at JPL. Molly shared some stats which are linked above

    • Welcome Jennifer

  • Eric

    • Online payments

      • Providing a way for patrons to pay fines/fees online is WAY too expensive. We will not be offering it any time soon. 

    • Security Cameras

      • Once the city council votes to approve the expenditure on 10/7, the new security camera system will be ordered. We hope to everything done by late fall or early winter.

    • Restrooms

      • The restrooms will have new tile, stalls, and counter installed sometime this fall or early spring.  

    • ILA

      • Several staff will attend–and Megan, Beth, and Peg will present at–the Iowa Library Association annual conference next week. Checkout the details here. Staff will share what they learned at the next all-staff meeting in November.