Author: Eric Melton

Links to today’s slides are included below as well as a link to the complete list of “Library Law FAQs”.

Molly’s slides

Eric’s Slides

Library Law FAQs

Public Works staff will be here Friday morning to grind some concrete in the large meeting room where the wall is currently dragging along the ground. Expect an hour or so of annoying noise.

Please take a look at the following announcement from the State Library regarding discontinuation of the Overdrive app.

Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. June 29, 2022 Invoices for FY2023 It’s that time again. Invoices for FY2023 Bridges members will be available in your Marketplace account sometime next week. Just log in an check under the Billing menu. OverDrive will also be sending a directly linked invoice to the email address on your account. If that hasn’t been updated lately, it may go to a previous address. If so, it will still be available in your account. Bridges Membership Fees FY2023 OverDrive app update Starting the week of July 25, the message on the right will be displayed to your users in the OverDrive app. Later this year, this in-app message will be updated to remind your users about this change. Use the following resources to help your library and users through this transition: For library staff: Bookmark this Resource Center page for helpful FAQs, a preparation checklist, and staff training materials. Use this marketing kit to help get the word out to your staff and community. Register for a live Q&A session with members of team OverDrive on June 22. If you are not able to join live, you can still register to get a link to the recording. For users: In-app messaging will link users to this overview page for more information, FAQs, and helpful video tutorials. How-to videos on Libby Help walk users through how to use the app. Beginning in August, your users can sign up for virtual training sessions hosted by team OverDrive. While Amazon has not yet accepted our submission of the Libby app to the Amazon Appstore, Kindle Fire users can now download the app onto their device manually. These steps are also linked to from https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby. Marketing and Outreach Thank you for being a Bridges member library! 1112 East Grand Avenue Des Moines, Iowa 50319 Bridges is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of Iowa.

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The shade installers are currently creating footings for the shade structure. Once the footings are in and have cured, they’ll install the structures legs. Once that’s done, the concrete company will come back to pour the patio. It may be up to two weeks before the patio is reopened.

Molly and I will be out of town this Thursday so our all-staff meeting will be held next Thursday, June 30th at 8am.

Kinney Carnahan, JPL children’s librarian from 1992 to 2016, passed away last week. I’ve placed an envelope on the magnet board in the break room if you’d like to contribute to sending flowers to her service which will be held next Thursday at 11am at New Hope Methodist Church.

Tear-out and replacement of the west patio concrete will start next week. The shade structure will be installed soon after.

Our replacement clocks have finally arrived. Assuming they’re going to work, they should show the correct time before we open tomorrow.

This month’s library board meeting will be the last for Megan Tooker. Emily Betz will start her six year term on the board in July. Emily grew up in Johnston and has been a longtime library user.  She worked at the Grimes Public Library from 2010 to 2012. She is currently Business Liaison for Des Moines Area Community College.

Artists will be dropping off their art walk paintings over the next couple of weeks. They can be placed in my office.

The Parks Department has asked me to check if any part-time library staff would like a few extra hours helping with senior programming at Crown Point. They’re looking for help Thursday and Friday from 3pm-5pm and possibly some weekend hours. Let me know if you’re interested.

UDPATE Responses to the survey’s open-ended questions are here

Every couple of years the city’s Communication Specialist organizes a survey of Johnston residents. I’ve linked to the 2022 results below. The summary of library-related findings, which is very similar to the 2020 summary, is included below. Complete library-related results are on pages 24-27.

Library Services. Residents were generally satisfied with the overall quality of library services provided.
Ninety-four percent (94%) of the residents surveyed, who had an opinion, were “very satisfied” and
“satisfied” with the Johnston Public Library; 92% were satisfied with the quality of library materials,
books, DVDs magazines and etc., and 88% were satisfied with the quality of library programs, story hours
and book discussions.

Sixty-three percent (63%) of respondents indicated they had visited the Johnston Public Library
in the past year.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qx23Kv3PmSANzweCBoE60zqf_zHNIySf/view?usp=sharing

The Johnston Arts Council is hosting an outdoor art walk this summer at Terra Park. The library is the pick-up and drop off site for the boards registrants will paint on. I’ve placed a list of registrants near the boards at the checkout desk. Each registrant gets one board. Mark the names off the list once they pick up their board.

Before the shade structure on the west patio can be installed, the concrete there needs replaced–the current concrete pad is too out-of-level for proper installation of the structure. That work will likely start in the next couple of weeks–maybe as soon as next week.

We will be open tomorrow. The high is forecast as 81 so it should be significantly cooler in the building.

The parts we’ve been waiting for to repair the chiller have not arrived but work will begin on Monday. The contractor is hoping the parts will arrive next week.