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June 2016 Report Presented at the July 12, 2016 Library Board Meeting

1. STATISTICS

Circulation: Adult YA Juv. Total Year to Date

2016 34,255 4,745 26,567 65,567 323,110

2015 34,964 5,192 26,860 67,016 351,340

2014 33,490 4,765 23,473 61,728 362,925

Self-Service checkouts:

ITG ITG #2 ITG#3 Total % of total

2016 14,086 7,099 10,293 31,478 48%

2015 14,125 7,697 10,670 32,492 48.5%

2014 12,192 8,307 9,189 29,688 48.1%

Library cards issued: Adult Juv. Sr. Org. Total

2016 126 70 10 0 206

2015 107 92 5 0 204

2014 103 84 7 0 194

LINK libraries: Loaned to Borrowed from Interlibrary loans

2016 17,673 18,252 83

2015 19,611 19,184 67

2014 19,458 17,600 39

Visits Study Rooms Use Fax Use WIFI

2016 33,763 554 Hrs / 366 Bookings 61 users / 168 p. 6,226 sessions

2015 32,160 484.5 hrs / 355 bookings 52 users / 143 p. 717 sessions

2014 30,463 517 hrs / 366 bookings 71 users / 192 p. 768 sessions

2. LIBRARY PROGRAMS / TOURS / PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES

Date Program Attendance

6/1/2016 Northside ECC 8:45am class (Outreach) : Demonstrator, Amy Perry 11

6/1/2016 Baby Lapsit story time : Demonstrator, Betsy Bermant 35

6/1/2016 Toddler tales and tunes : Demonstrator, Betsy Bermant 35

6/1/2016 Northside ECC 12:15 class (Outreach) : Demonstrator, Amy Perry 8

6/2/2016 Toddler Tales and Tunes : Demonstrator, Betsy Bermant 30

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6/2/2016 Tiny tots story time : Demonstrator, Betsy Bermant 30

6/2/2016 Summer Reading Promo - Sunset Ridge Elementary School (Outreach)

: Demonstrator, Amy Perry 558

6/2/2016 Teen Techno Minutes : Demonstrator, Sam 1

6/2/2016 Minecraft Club : Demonstrator, Brian Miles 13

6/3/2016 Summer Reading Promo - Elm Lawn Elementary School (Outreach)


6/3/2016 School visit: Glacier Creek : Demonstrator, Rebecca V. and Catherine Baer, Ingrid Alvarez (Cross Plains)

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6/3/2016 3DS Club : Demonstrator, Chris & Jill 14

6/6/2016 Summer Reading Promo-Kromrey 7th grade (Outreach) : Demonstrator, Amy Perry

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6/7/2016

Storytime - S.M.A.R.T. Kids : Demonstrator, Lori

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6/7/2016 Storytime - S.M.A.R.T. Kids : Demonstrator, Lori 32

6/7/2016 Summer Reading Promo-Glacier Creek 6th Graders (Outreach)


6/7/2016 #TechTuesday : Demonstrator, Brian Miles 11

6/7/2016 Beers Beyond the Mainstream: A Lecture & Tasting with Robin

Shepard : Demonstrator, Robin Shepard 51

6/7/2016 Techno Minutes : Demonstrator, Amanda Brzeszkiewicz 2

6/8/2016 Power Point Basics : Demonstrator, Amanda Brzeszkiewicz 2

6/8/2016 Baby Lapsit Story time : Demonstrator, betsy bermant 30


6/8/2016 Summer Reading Promo-Northside Elementary School (Outreach)




6/9/2016 Adult Craft Event - DIY Friendship Bracelets : Demonstrator, Sarah H., 20























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6/13/2016 Seeing Stars: Indoor Planetarium : Demonstrator, Paul Kinzer 29

6/13/2016 Seeing Stars: Indoor Planetarium : Demonstrator, Paul Kinzer 35

6/13/2016 After-Hours Stargazing - CANCELLED : Demonstrator, Paul Kinzer 0


6/14/2016 Drop-in Job Help : Demonstrator, Jon Krueger, Dane Co. Job Center 5

6/14/2016

Teen Tie Dye : Demonstrator, Rebecca V. (volunteers: Elizabeth A, Althea W, Tiffany R)

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6/15/2016 Baby Lapsit : Demonstrator, Betsy Bermant 36


6/15/2016 Beanstack Book Bunch & Lunch : Demonstrator, Lori 38

6/15/2016 Voss Haus (Senior and Disabled Section 8 Subsidy) (Outreach)














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6/16/2016 Middleton Outreach Ministry (MOM) (Outreach) : Demonstrator, Amy Perry

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6/16/2016 Techno Minutes : Demonstrator, RL 1

6/16/2016 Board Game Open Studio : Demonstrator, Lori 2

6/16/2016 Adult Book Discussion : Demonstrator, Jenny Carr 16

6/16/2016

James Lattis: "Eyes on the Skies" (Scholar'd for Life) : Demonstrator, James Lattis, UW Madison Astronomy Dept.

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6/16/2016

Minecraft Club : Demonstrator, Brian Miles

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6/17/2016 Middleton Outreach Ministry (MOM) (Outreach) : Demonstrator, Amy Perry

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6/17/2016 Laura Doherty: Sing, Sing a Song Family Concert : Demonstrator, Laura Doherty

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6/18/2016 PAWS to Read : Demonstrator, 3 dogs, 3 Handlers 31

6/20/2016 La Petite Fourier Camp (Outreach) : Demonstrator, Amy Perry 43

6/20/2016

Make-it Monday: Castles & Catapults : Demonstrator, Lori

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6/20/2016

Stuffed Animal Sleepover Storytime : Demonstrator, Lori

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6/20/2016 Author Don Sanford discusses "On Fourth Lake" : Demonstrator, Don Sanford and wife Barb

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6/21/2016 Drop-in Job Help : Demonstrator, Andy Clayton 5



6/21/2016 Arbor Lakes Apartments-Summer Promo Visit (Outreach)


6/21/2016 Connecting Professionally With LinkedIn : Demonstrator, Amanda Brzeszkiewicz

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6/22/2016 Splash Pad Visit (Outreach) : Demonstrator, Amy Perry & Sarah Sampe 39

6/22/2016 Baby Lapsit Storytime : Demonstrator, Lori 24

6/22/2016 Beanstack Book Bunch & Lunch : Demonstrator, Lori 28

6/22/2016 Acts of Kindness Club : Demonstrator, Lori 6

6/22/2016 Magic: the Gathering : Demonstrator, Caleb Rudolph (with Rebecca V.) 9


6/23/2016 Tiny Tots story time : Demonstrator, Betsy Bermant 28


6/23/2016 Minecraft Club : Demonstrator, Brian Miles 14

6/24/2016 Bilingual Spanish-English Storytime : Demonstrator, Katy Shannon 40

6/25/2016 Krafty Kids - Sports! : Demonstrator, Kathy R. 84



6/29/2016 Baby Lapsit story time : Demonstrator, Betsy Bermant 16


6/29/2016 Beanstack Book Bunch & Lunch: Week 3 : Demonstrator, Lori 38


























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6/29/2016 Youth Center Summer Camp (Outreach) : Demonstrator, Amy Perry 24

6/29/2016 The Ins and Outs of Composting : Demonstrator, Art De Smet and Mary 10


6/30/2016

Tiny Tots story time : Demonstrator, Betsy Bermant

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6/30/2016

Mini-Olympics : Demonstrator, Rebecca V. (with volunteers Felicia, Sarah Helwig, Althea)

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Number of Programs / Total Attendance

Children's 49 / 3353

Teens 13 / 702

Adults/Friends/Other/All Ages 20 / 413

Grand Total 82 / 4468

DIY/Passive Program Total (this number included in totals above) 0 / 0

Outreach Program Total (this number included in totals above) 14 / 2212

3. STAFF DEVELOPMENT: MEETINGS AND CONTINUING EDUCATION

Date Department Staff Title

6/10/2016 Teens Amy Perry Meeting w/Middleton High School Child Care

Program teacher

4. LIBRARY EXHIBITS

Exhibit Case

Summer Reading Program

Art Railing

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PhotograpHERS

5. DIRECTOR’S REPORT

On the average day in June 2015 at the Middleton Public Library…

1,299 visitors

239 WIFI connections

3.2 programs with 172 attendees

2.3 public faxes with

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2,522 items were checked out with 1,211 as self-checkouts

6.5 pages

8 new library cards issued

680 Middleton items were sent

to other LINKcat libraries

702 items from other LINKcat libraries were loaned by

Middleton patrons

Staffing:

I am sad to report that Jason Boak (Library Assistant III/Acquisitions & Serials) has

decided to resign from the library, effective July 27th. He has been with the library for

nearly 20 years, working his way up from a Circulation Page to his current position. He

has been a tremendous asset for the library for a long time and will be sorely missed.

We wish him the best in his future endeavors. Jenny Carr, who has been a LAII in the

Adult Services department for some time, will be taking over Jason’s position at the end

of the month.

Budget:

I am busy preparing preliminary budget numbers for both the Library Board and the City

Council, as the Budget Kick-off meeting is coming up shortly (July 20). I also want to

make sure everything is in order to make the transition to our new Director as smooth

as possible. Since she will be jumping into the middle of an on-going process, I want to

make sure everything is ready and as logical to pick up as possible.

My goal, at least for the next month and a half, is to keep the budget as flat as possible

for next year. While this will be a challenge, given the annual % increases in many of

our resource and support contracts, I have tried to keep increases to a minimum

whenever possible. That being said, I think it vitally important to push for an expansion

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of the Outreach Services position this budget cycle. As demonstrated in the attached

preliminary documents, the actual cost of adding a 50% professional Children’s

Services Library position is roughly $30,000. This new position would take over the

50% of Amy Perry’s position devoted to Children’s Services, allowing her to focus 100%

of her time on Outreach Services, which can help address the continued and growing

need for more and varied outreach programs. I am hopeful the Board also recognizes

the importance of such a request.

A secondary goal is to reclassify the LAIII-Acquisitions & Serials position to a

professional, Librarian I-level position. Jenny Carr has already been performing

professional-level tasks in her LAII position for several years (Outer-Library Loan,

facilitating book groups) and will be continuing those responsibilities in her new position.

Additionally, coordinating the library’s acquisitions and managing the collection budget

are considered professional-level tasks, and should be recognized as such. As shown

in the attached documents, the overall cost to reclassify the LAIII position is minimal, but

that increase, along with the accompanying title change (Acquisitions Librarian) would

go a long way toward acknowledging the high level and quality of work that Jenny Carr

has done here at the library for many years.

6. LIBRARIANS’ REPORTS

Patrick Williams, Head of Information Technology

Our new Children’s Page was launched. It

originally had been created and hosted on our

older Drupal server. It has been re-created

and updated on our DNN server which hosts

our main library site. It can now use all the

new online editing tools, easy picture and

document uploading and linking, as well as

direct database access to all the library

events, online registration, and slideshows.

The server auto-generates all of the event

lists and links.

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Headphone splitter adaptor jacks were created with some spare headphone parts and the cases

designed and printed with our 3D printer. They were installed on the upper level children’s

computer stations to allow two users to use headphones on one station.

Rebecca Van Dan, Head of Youth Services

Summer Reading Program: The Summer Reading Program has been going strong, with over

1,000 signed up in the Children’s program and over 200 in the Teen program. We are also

tracking first time participants this year and have been surprised there are so many! The giant

game wheel and Bingo drum have definitely received some attention and staff has been doing a

great job of promoting SRP and juggling the crowds at the Help Desk.

Teen Programming Survey: We tallied the results of our Teen Programming Survey this

month—no surprise that the food programs had the most votes! We had 130 surveys returned

(many thanks to the school librarians at Kromrey, Glacier Creek and the High School for helping

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us distribute/collect the surveys!) The most popular programs were: Chocolate Night, Ice

Cream Social/Movie Night, Cupcake Wars, Pizza Taste Test, Open Drawing Night with a 3D

pen, and Crime Scene Analyst speaker. Many of the most popular programs are already in our

summer line-up, and we are looking to include the others for the fall. For the separate

programming for middle school and high school question, 70 voted to separate the two, 46

voted to keep them together for higher attendance.

In terms of publicity/social media, 27 subscribe to NotifyMe, 14 follow us on Instagram, 7 on

Facebook. Friday/Saturday are considered the best days for programming in terms of schedule

restraints, and under “Have you attended a teen program before?”, seventeen commented that

they had not heard of our teen programs before the survey. (Some sweet/funny comments:

“Unaware of these great opportunities! I will definitely check them out in the future!”, “I didn’t

know they were a thing…”, “I have no life. Seriously, I didn’t know about these.”)

Weeding: We finished weeding the Teen DVDs and music CDs this month.

Supervisory: I trained four new teen volunteers this month for weekly shelving and we have

had some fantastic volunteers help us with program assistance this summer—we feel incredibly

lucky to have their help! I continue to meet regularly with Sally, Kathy, and Betsy; Kathy had a

great turnout for Krafty Kids and worked hard to schedule volunteers for summer program

assistance. As part of the Management Team, we met this month to create interview questions

and to conduct the Management Team director interviews. Everyone on the Management

Team felt fortunate that we could be part of the hiring process for a new director and that we

had such great candidates.

Programming: Summer programs have been going well! Lori and I met to discuss a game plan

for fall programs. We have been in contact with an author and the high school to coordinate an

author visit in the fall and have hired someone to run a Writing Workshop in November. We

have also spoken with Bloom Bakery about judging our Cupcake Wars again this year, and

have contacted the police dept. about recommendations for a Crime Scene Analyst speaker,

which was a popular option on the teen survey.

Displays: Teen Writers, Get in the Game: Olympics, Diversity

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Sarah Hartman, Head of Technical Services

Technical Service is having busy summer, with 1,788 items added to our collection this month.

Excluding Nekoosa, whose joining our ILS is skewing the numbers, the only library that added

more items in June was Madison-Central.

I completed a thorough weeding of the romance paperbacks, and I ran the annual Collection

Check report for adult fiction, generated by collectionHQ, to look for items not seen in four

years. We found many of them and deleted the rest from the catalog. Since we don’t do a

regular inventory of our collections, this report helps us keep the catalog clean.

For the Director hiring process, I took part in the Management Team interview portion of the

proceedings. It was great to meet all of the candidates, learn a little more about them, and tell

them a little more about us. Jason led two of the candidates on tours of the Library. We’re

looking forward to having a decision made next month.

Jenny Hiorns, a valued member of our Circulation department, was hired to fill our vacant Page

II-Technical Services position this month with a start date of June 27. Her training has been

going very well, and she will be an excellent addition to the team. We got up to full strength in

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Tech Services just in time for Jason to announce that he will be leaving us at the end of July, so

we will be working on filling that position next month.

Jim Ramsey, Head of Adult Services

June marked the last jam-packed programming month for adult services before the relative lull

of July and August. A mini-fundraiser we held for the Friends featuring beer-guru Robin

Shepard deserves special mention, as does the very successful third installment in our

Scholar’s for Life lecture series. I also spent a lot of time this month firming up two mini-series

we’re having in July and August and, of course, finalizing plans for the rest of 2016.

I finished the annual weeding project for the adult fiction section this month and moved on to

specific areas in the non-fiction collection where space was limited: biographies and world

history.

I also spent a lot of time preparing to launch the library’s Music and Memory program. If you’ll

recall, Music and Memory is a project to provide personalized playlists on iPods to members of

our community suffering from dementia or other memory-related disorders. There are a lot of

moving parts to this project—including coordination of volunteers and acquisition of

equipment—so it has taken awhile to get it off the ground. I hope to be able to roll this program

out the public within the next month or so.

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Scheduling the reference desk and filling a lot gaps in the reference calendar occupied more of

my time this month, owing largely to the increase in vacation requests during the summer. Our

Page II subs have been absolutely essential in keeping the desk covered this summer; I simply

couldn’t run the desk without them. As you know, there will be more scheduling uncertainty in

the near future due to Jason Boak’s departure. Jason worked two regular shifts on the

reference desk each week that must be covered by other staff members until his replacement is

hired.

Jenny Carr held her final gardening program of the season as a tie-in with our Seed Library.

I’ve mentioned it before but it bears repeating: Jenny has done a fantastic job with the Seed

Library and associated programming. This is the second year our library has offered seeds for

check out, and thanks to Jenny’s efforts I anticipate we will offer them again next year.

It almost goes without saying that I spent a lot of time this month in my role on the Management

Team evaluating the candidates for library director, including attending presentations and

conducting interviews. All of us on the Management Team—Sarah Hartman, Patrick Williams,

Rebecca Van Dan, and I—felt very fortunate to be involved in the hiring of our new director. As

the library’s collective second-in-command, we have traditionally worked very closely with the

library director on matters of operations, planning, and policy. Luckily, we have four very

qualified candidates. All of us agree that we look forward to working with the candidate who is

ultimately chosen by the Library Board of Trustees.

Brendan Faherty, Head of Circulation

**prepared by Barbara Henderson**

June has been “classic summer” busy for the Circulation Department. Patrons are doing the

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things we all do during summer and using our library offerings to add to the fun, not to mention

the SRP readers and family programs. Even though our circulation numbers are a bit under

last year’s, the circulation department has been very busy. We continue to turn around material

quickly and add new users regularly.

We have had some staffing changes within the department. Jenny Hiorns, Page II Circulation,

has relocated to Technical Services, and Lori Esenther has retired to spend time with family.

We will miss both of these women at our service desk. Page I staff are covering the heavier

summer circulation period, and we anticipate hiring new staff in July.

Circulation Staff met at the beginning of the month. Updated procedures for a variety of

circulation issues were reviewed, including payment options for patrons with fines or fees

exceeding $10. A review of Archer Room closing procedures was gone through as well. We are

encouraging service desk staff to become familiar with all of our database offerings.

The Community Canvas project saw several canvases returned by the deadline of June 25th.

The Middleton Community Arts group will be in to install these works of art on our stairwell wall

leading to the Archer Rooms in July.

The “Author’s Birthday” collection in the service desk area has been popular, and the circulation

staff continues to think of ways to highlight collections that may not get noticed by the public.

Amy Perry, Outreach Services Librarian

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Most of June was devoted to Summer Reading Program (SRP) promotion. I made three

preschool visits to Northside Early Childhood Class and Gio’s Garden, but the remainder of my

outreach was to Sunset Ridge, Elm Lawn, Northside elementary schools (all grades &

students), as well as 7th graders at Kromrey, and 6th graders at Glacier Creek. With all of the

SRP promo visits made in late May through June, approximately 2900 students received a

presentation about the SRP this year. This includes visits to all five Middleton Elementary

Schools, all 6th & 7th graders at Kromrey Middleton School, and 6th graders at Glacier Creek

Middle School. It was very helpful having Lori and Rebecca handle some of the school outreach

as I don’t think I would have been able to do it all.

In addition to school outreach, I made a monthly visit to the Voss Haus Senior & Disabled

section 8 housing unit where I did some checkout and returns, processed a library card, and

signed up a handful of adults for the adult summer reading program. I also made two visits to

the Middleton Outreach Ministry to promote the summer reading program, made new library

cards, promoted the library, and gave away books. I started summer poolside visits at Arbor

Lakes apartments, signed up some tweens/teens for the SRP and gave away a lot of kids

books.

I also started my summer Splash Pad visits. For the first Splash Pad visit at Lakeview Park, it

rained all morning so our new summer page, Sarah Sampe and I, sat under the pavilion and

had a steady flow of people come to our table to either sign up for the SRP, choose a free book,

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and to get a new library card. We even had one mother and teen arrive specifically to see me

and the library at the park!

Other outreach visits included a camp site at La Petite Fourier for a special storytime & craft

activity and at the Youth Center targeting teens. For that visit, I brought lots of withdrawn library

books and provided two activities for the teens to work on.

Highlights for June include the start of the Summer Reading Program. In the first week, we had

1,150 kids and teens sign up, which is 240 more sign ups than last year’s first week. New this

year, we’ve been calculating how many people are signing up for the very first time at MID and

after two weeks, we have 444 people signed up who said this was the very first time they’ve

done the SRP at Middleton Public Library. It’s been especially rewarding to be recognized by

so many kids from my school visits.

As far as meetings, I met with Emma Dittmer on June 10th, a Middleton High School teacher

who teaches the Early Childhood Classes at the high school. She asked if I would be interested

in presenting storytime essentials to her students in the Fall. We met to discuss logistics for my

two fall visits. I also met with Nicole Sjogren from Greenway Station on June 17th to discuss the

library’s Kid’s Day Event this Fall, that takes place on Thursday, October 6th from 8-1pm. Nicole

and I discussed what the library will provide and what Greenway Station will provide to make

this event a success. The library will received $200 as the selected beneficiary for this event

and in return, we will have a storytime on site, and provide library info, craft activities, have a

princess meet and greet hour, etc. I already have Lori Bell and Betsy Bermant onboard to help

and to do a storytime, but will also seek assistance perhaps from the new library director, a

library board member, and someone from the Friends. There will be a box at this event for

people to donate children’s books for the Friends.

Lastly for June, I interviewed and hired Carmella Hatch for a Page II Substitute position at the

Help Desk. She started her training and will be an excellent addition to our Youth Services

Substitute team. Carmella will continue to sub for the Adult Services department too.

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I continue to manage the children’s collection through collection development and weeding.

Lori Bell, Children’s Services Librarian

As the first month of summer break, June saw the launch of our Summer Reading Program, the

continuation of our Storytimes, and the start of our summer programming schedule. Program

attendance has been fabulous and the feedback, positive. I believe we have succeeded in our

goal of providing quality programs for youth of all ages and their families.

The new children’s webpage went live this month – thank you, Patrick! Bright colors, clear

format, and unique slideshows on nearly every page provide patrons with a much more modern

and fun experience. Patrick designed the page to draw upon the existing events calendar

eliminating the need to input programs manually in multiple places. I can’t write enough good

things about it.

Moving the Tuesday Storytimes to the Archer Rooms has been a huge success. Caregivers

and children are able to linger over the craft, exercising their creativity and just really enjoying

the process. The larger space also allows us to incorporate more movement activities such as

marching/dancing around the room.

Our Bilingual Spanish-English Storytimes resumed to massive attendance. We’re seeing our

largest groups yet for this long-running program. Katy Shannon does a fantastic job, and the

word is getting out! Both Betsy and I have been verbally promoting all the Storytime options to

our groups.

The highlight of my month has been the success of my new Beanstack Book Bunch & Lunch

program. Kids and their families bring a sack lunch to eat while I read The Phantom Tollbooth

aloud. I am amazed every week at how well the kids sit and listen to the story. One mom told

me her kids never finish their lunches because as soon as I start reading, they sit there

mesmerized. After lunch, the kids do a project. We’ve made “watchdogs,” 3D castles, balloon-

powered race cars, and played with slime.

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Beanstack registration has taken off with the special SRP track and promotional inserts given

out with every reading log. We had 89 new readers join Beanstack between June 10 and June

30! Patron feedback has been extremely positive as well. I will follow up this month with a

NotifyMe announcement and handout explaining how to continue on in a new track once the

special SRP track has been completed.

Collection development is ongoing, and I believe my efforts to ensure plenty of great selections

for kids in the paperback, hardcover chapter book, graphic novel and non-fiction collections has

been successful. The YS team has been great about forwarding patron requests and letting me

know if a particular series is in high demand.

The Help Desk has been extremely busy this month. I love helping kids find books they are

excited to read! The energy at the SRP desk has been fabulous, drawing even more attention

to our SRP programs and spilling over to create a very positive and exciting atmosphere

upstairs.

Rebecca Light, Administrative Librarian

It has been a busy and exciting month at the library! My major project has been coordinating

the interview schedules, communication, and meetings related to the director search, which has

recently reached a conclusion. We are so thrilled to announce the selection of Jocelyne

Sansing as our new library director. Jocelyne impressed all of us with her vision for the modern

library and her commitment to community engagement. I have no doubt that she will be an

exceptional director and an asset to this community. Welcome, Jocelyne!

I’d also like to extend a thank you to members of the community who gave their time and

expertise to aid in the selection process. This includes South Central Library System consultant

Shawn Brommer, former Library Board member Joan Gillman, Friends of the Library President

Karen Natoli, Library Board Council Liaison Kathy Olson, Friends member David Reed, Library

Board Vice President Rob Seltzer, Mayor Kurt Sonnentag, Library Board President Jeremiah

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Tucker, and Common Council President Susan West. Special thanks also to staff members

Jason Boak, Katie Ganser, Sarah Hartman, Amy Perry, Jim Ramsey, Rebecca Van Dan, and

Patrick Williams. I’d also like to thank the countless other staff and community members who

took time to offer their feedback and assistance. It was so impressive to have so many

members of our library community come together to work on this important decision.

Lastly, I’d like to extend a huge thank you to our Acting Director Brendan Faherty, who has done

a phenomenal job stepping in as our leader over the past few months. It has been such a

pleasure working under Brendan’s leadership, and I have heard so many of us on staff express

our great respect and appreciation for him. Thank you, Brendan.

7. AGENDA OVERVIEW

Lynda.com demonstration: Amanda B will share a few things about one of our newest and coolest digital resources (Acting) Director’s Report:

Roof Repairs complete MCF Endowment general distribution—potential uses Meredith Russo—potential joint venture with the high school Staffing changes: Jason Boak is resigning at the end of July, Jenny Carr will be moving

from her current LAII position to Jason’s LAIII position. Possibility of replacing Jenny’s 75% LAII position with two 50% LAII positions, focused on Reference Desk coverage, public service, and some collection development, social media presence. Board needs to approve the “new” positions.

2017 Budget:

Attached documents lay out a couple of different Personnel/Benefit costs scenarios Only increases planned in Operating Budget so far are mandated subscription and

contractual cost increases. Transition to New Director:

Budget Kick-Off Meeting is July 20th. Budget Operating & Capital Requests and Narratives are due to the City by 8/12.

Admin/Finance meetings with Dept Heads are the following week. Final Department Revisions are due 8/24.

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