Trying to Lead

I had a very big breakthrough yesterday and was extremely excited. In Michael's post,Lead, Follow or get out of the way, he addressed people taking the lead and making choices.   I have been leading the preschool story hour since September last year.  I have been trying to get the HeadStart students who are in the building next door to come since November. They came during October and then stopped.  We continued to go over to let them know we missed them but continued to get no where.  I went back last Friday and talked to them again.  This time I persisted and we discussed why they weren't coming and how we could get them back.  Through my persistence, they will now be coming back beginning in April.  We will now have a separate Story Time for them on Thursday's which is only a half hour and no activity.  I was very excited since they have always been sporadic when coming to the library.  Having the young children coming to the library was important to me and I needed to be persistent in my quest.  I will be going to HeadStart on Tuesday to reintroduce myself to each class and set up a schedule so I know which class is coming each week.  We think with a solid commitment, they may be more invested.
On the other end, today when I was discussing Saturday activities, it was suggested not to plan activities for every Saturday because they don't want patrons to get used to having activities since they don't have staff to do programs every week (this was not the director).  The programs that I create do take time to plan and implement but I was disappointed with the "Don't get them use to it because it won't happen when you're gone" comment.  I am still there another six weeks and was saddened with this statement.  I enjoy being at the library and had planned on continuing volunteering there after my internship was over since I don't have a job yet.  The library is very small and there is no chance for employment when I finish.  I have worked hard to increase the number of children coming to the library for activities other than checking out books and was disheartened by this attitude.  Circulation is up this month since it is PARP month, but I thought programming would keep them coming.