Getting ready for April

Plans are getting underway for a busy month of activities.  April includes Poetry Month, National Library Week, Drop Everything And Read day, and spring break activities.  I am getting ready displays, brochures and bookmarks for poetry month, and displays for spring break's science theme. We are planning to expand on the Poem in the Pocket theme and provide a new poem at the desk every day.  Our spring break consists of science activities and I am going to create displays around each days theme and put out books that will generate interest in the topics of ecology for earth day, fun science experiments, moving machines, and growing plants.  The last Saturday activity is creating an avatar using Marvel comics website.
 I just finished weeding the juvenile 500's and have evaluated what we have and compared it to the school collection.  I created a list of suggested books to supplement the collection and submitted it to the director for purchasing.  I am looking forward to beginning the juvenile fiction collection next.
I added up the total hours worked so far this semester and will have completed 180 hours at the end of this week.  I enjoy being at the library and will continue to perform the tasks I have been completing for the last few months.  I enjoy working at the desk assisting patrons, setting up displays for new books or specific topics, and planning activities.  Last week we had a train program, a readers theatre and story hour.  We had attendance at each one and they were all different families.  Families are coming in now asking for a listing of activities going on.  I am making sure we have something at the desk all the time so families who come in looking for activities will know about them in advance and can plan to attend.  Events are advertised in the local weekly papers but I think we need more in library advertising.  I have been printing a poster that I put by the front door for the activities I have planned so patrons begin seeing it several days in advance.  I forgot to get materials for my candy train until Thursday last week so didn't have it displayed until Friday.  Once students came into the library and saw it they asked for information about the program and how they could attend.  Getting the activity information out early makes a difference. I could have had a better attendance with more publicity for that event.