I’ve highlighted some of what was discussed at the April board meeting below.
*National Library Week
I reported some of the great National Library Week activities we had going at the Library:
National Library Week a. National Library Week was April 8-14. The theme this year was “Libraries Lead”. We offered Food for Fines for patrons again this year. We also created a few “Libraries Lead” social media posts featuring some of our regular patrons and held a drop-in screen printing program where patrons could print their own t-shirt or canvas bag with the “Libraries Are For Everyone” design. The print was available in six languages spoken in the community: Swahili, Hindi, Mandarin, French, Arabic and English.
*Adult Readers
We’re nearly ready to make a new “Adult Readers” collection available for checkout. Adult Readers are books with content appropriate for adults that are written for someone learning to 3 read. Adult Readers will be behind the New Arrivals and will be shelved next to language learning books and audiobooks.
*Services
I updated the board on some of our services:
Free Lunches: There will be two free lunch sites in Johnston this summer: Chapel Ridge, 12pm-12:30pm, and Sterling Pointe, 12:30pm-1pm. The Library, Community Education, and the Parks Department will take a day of the week to take a simple activity to attendees at the Chapel Ridge site. Megan will be putting together travelling activity kits for either the intern, herself, or the book bike to take.
Johnston Partnership : Molly and her Circulation staff will be taking a pop-up library–a small selection of materials, information about the Library, and sometimes an activity–to the Johnston Partnership every Saturday 10am-12pm this June and July.
Little Free Food Pantry: I met with a local Girl Scout troop a few weeks ago. They proposed building a “Little Free Food Pantry” to place outside the Library. The group plans to use this little free library as their model for the design. The idea is that community members will help keep it stocked for anyone needing a snack or easy meal. The Library will also use the food from the donation bin in the entryway to restock the pantry.
Teacher Cards: We’ve begun promoting Teacher Cards. A notice about Teacher Cards was sent to all Johnston School District staff, all Johnston daycare facilities, and as many in-home daycare providers as we could find.
Tech Lab: AutoCad has been added to the Tech Lab iMac.
For more details, remember that current and past board agendas and documents are located under Staff Resources or at http://catalog.johnstonlibrary.com/board/