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Memo
To: City Council
From: Meg Lojek, Library Director
CC: Anette Spickard, City Manager
Date: 11/25/19
Re: Monthly Department Report – November 2019
1. Classes, Workshops, Events:
Please see attached for the December library program calendar, including Santa Story Time, adult
Cricut workshop, and Hour of Code, a computer science programming intro course.
This month’s Armchair Travelogue sails away with Mark McClellen and Anne MacDonald on
December 9th at 6:30 p.m. Mark and Anne sailed for 8 years from North America to Australia.
Doing Democracy takes a break for December and starts back on a regular schedule in January.
2. Staff:
The Library Director was elected President of the Valley Mountain Library Consortium for 2020. This
regional consortium of approximately 15 rural libraries works together to provide professional
development and a shared digital platform for e-books and e-audiobooks online.
3. Outreach:
Family Reading Week hosted a visiting children’s author and encouraged families to read every night.
Free books were distributed and there were 36 attendees.
Free movie benefit for Shepherd’s Home, Heartland Hunger, and Cram the Van had 76 people attend.
We donated all proceeds –over $800—to these 3 nonprofits. Thanks to Banyan’s at the Golf Course
Clubhouse for offering us space for the event.
4. Library Stats:
October statistics are attached.