The end of another week

I never realized how much goes on at a Public Library!  Aside from all of the normal exchange of books and information, tutoring, art exhibits, author visits, book clubs, chess and Magic clubs, Teen Coffee House and now a string quartet! I never knew.  We started with a staff meeting this morning and discussed many items for this month.  We will be busy.  Besides the winter school break, which will be very busy,  we are participating in Snapshot New York.  We will be documenting what goes on in our library with stats and photos and send them to the capital on library advocasy day in March.   We are also getting ready for PARP and  Battle of the Books.  We discussed the benefits of adding a fax machine for public access and will debate more before bringing it up to the board.  Lee wants to develop teen resources by purchasing more teen magazines, fun non-fiction resources, carreer, college and health information.  We have a cozy teen section upstairs that is used often.  The library staff tries to offer teens many activities with gaming nights, coffee house and poetry slams and will be offering them an opportunity to create a video for our summer reading contest. 
After the meeting, I met with Lee to go over what I had accomplished this week and what my goals were for next week in writing.    He provided me with several articles from School Library Journal on the importance of summer reading programs and reading habits since we are working on this years Summer Reading Program.  He also had provided  felt board activities, finger plays and storytelling resources to asssist with story hour.  
I worked at the circulation desk also and was amazed at how different the circulation process is from a school library.  In the school library checking books in and out didn't involve so many resources from other libraries.  We can borrow from three different library systems so items circulate quite a bit.  I also finished training on the desk and checked in and out and directed materials to all three library systems and made patron calls to notify books were in.  I love to pull items for the send list as it helps me to identify where things are located but I tend to spend a lot of time reshelving when I am looking.  I love working on the desk on Fridays and performing all of the activities that keep the library functioning.