Winter Break Begins

Today began with both the director and Senior clerk out of the library most of the day, so many of my questions were not going to be answered.  This is Winter break for our schools so we are planning events every day.  I am trying to get plans finalized for several activities at the end of the week.  The teens are going to have several events using technology and I want to make sure we have everything in place.  One of the pages has volunteered to help with the Teen Cafe and she will  help with getting the computers set up for making the videos.  If all else fails, ask a teen to help figure it out! 
I have decided to create a new display everyweek with my storytelling themes or  monthly themes in the childrens section.  My hope is that the children will begin to notice or look for the next themes and activities that I am planning.  Today I put out six new books for the Trustworthines/ Character development theme I did last weekend and before I got back to take pictures three hours later, five of the new books were checked out.   Saturday, I will create a new display for Dr. Seuss' Birthday next week.  I have already put out activities for Dr. Seuss books and am planning a quiz for next week.   
Our activity for today is a husband and wife team who are musical storytellers.  They were scheduled for 6:30 tonight. Unfortunately, we did not have any children come to the program.  This again is something we are struggling with as a library.  We discussed this issue after they performers left and will look into a program mentioned at a conference last week that can email our patrons whenever we have a program scheduled.  We also have a very small sign in front of the library that allows for only one event at a time to be posted, so we don't get much advance notice for events during a week where we have more than one event  scheduled.  This week we advertised in our usual places but didn't get the publicity we needed.  We are going to post a video of part of their performance on You Tube ( with their permission of course), which we just created last week.  I love learning all this new technology.