Winding Down

Last week's events at the library were awesome!!
All activities planned went great and we had terrific attendance at each event.  During the winter break we had sparse attendance and even a snow day.  The spring break was the opposite.  We advertised as we always do with bookmarks at the desk and advertising in the local paper.  We were able to attend morning program at the elementary school and shared with students in grades K - 5th and believe this helped attendance.   We are excited to be planning another morning program visit to launch Summer Reading Program.  Our circulation statistics were up in March and I hope Aprils were up as well.  Many children announced they were going to look for science books when they finished programming since they were excited about what we had just finished.
Today, Lisa mentioned to me that she noticed the science non-fiction display  in the children's room didn't move.  I had noticed the same thing and was planning to replace it with a display of classics today.  Other displays for non-fiction of poetry and biographies for black history and women's history did circulate a little.  Some of the display books for new non-fiction of mythical beings such as ogres and giants did circulate but the books on how the body works (mouth, nose, ears) did not.  The science books on the window sill don't move either and I wonder if children know they can take them or if they just don't notice them. I had a display of unusual animal books and another display of books on meteors, astronauts, space stations and the planets.   I have made colorful signs saying  Check Me Out and hope this will make a difference.  I have been weeding the children's fiction and putting out books that have not circulated recently but look interesting and many of them have gone out.  We just received many new books so I will create a new display of those as they are processed and identify them as new.