Library Board of Trustees Agenda and Packet 2022 11 10

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Erin is also working with the city to include library services in the new resident welcome packet. Kristen is leading the Welcome All initiative where all library departments are focusing on codifying excellent customer service characteristics. Erin explained the library's plan to recognize and plan more diverse events based on the City Council's Events and Recognitions Calendar. There will be more events, programs, celebrations, displays and booklists throughout the library to recognize diversity. Additionally, Kristen is starting a People in my Community Storytime where different community members will lead story time once a month. Mayor Stoltzman will begin at the end of September. Champion Literacy Emily shared that there will be a recently returned cart of popular items displayed on story time days so that caregivers have easier access to adult books. Peggy informed us that her department interfiled all genres. In the adult section many authors write in many different genres and books have different genres in them. This way of filing books is more browser friendly and has gotten lots of positive responses and increased circulation! $13,000 in American Rescue Plan monies were used to increase diversity of the entire library collection. In the adult area holiday books across faiths and beliefs were added. Also, they created a Spanish language collection including fiction, non-fiction and teen books. A collection was also added for those with memory care issues. These are adult books on a level those who are impaired can understand. In the Children's Department more books from world languages were added including texts in Spanish, Japanese, and Arabic. They also added kits to check out such as the crime solver kit, rocks and gems, and others. These kits have been very popular and reaching out to people who can learn in different ways. Spark Imagination and Learning Erin shared that the library is going to work on a program known as Bring Resources to Life. They will share in periodic emails the resources the library has to offer patrons in an effort to better inform people what is available. Peggy is working on putting together information about ancestry programs. She will also organize education on these resources Kristen updated us on the summer reading program. This year's goal was to get back to pre-covid activities and participation levels. The adult and teen participant numbers were above 2019 numbers and children's participant numbers were close. Programs had more attendees than ever. Erin shared that there are five different bookmarks to recommend different types of books where patrons had questions.