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HomeMy Public PortalAboutApr. 02. report CITY OF MCCALL MONTHLY DEPARTMENT REPORT MONTH: April, 2002 DEPARTMENT: Library DEPARTMENT HEAD: Anne Kantola DATE: May. 1, 2002 REPORT NAME/TITLE DESCRIPTION  Project(s) Status Weeding Inventory Automation Patron database Library On-Line Catalog Project Co-ordination meetings with Long Pin group. Finished Reference, working through other collections, now finishing 600’s and fiction to “C”. Same as above Have received an anonymous donation for the purchase price of an automation system. System will be here within the week of May 6-10. Have over 1000 patrons on file in the new database. Still finding quite a few who are not paying county assessment. The new computer has arrived, and we are beginning the task of inputting all the patrons, volunteer help has entered 890 to date. With the Hewlett-Packard Grant and the donation, we now have the hardware and software to begin to build the library database. We will pull records free from the Library of Congress database to load our database, and this project will begin next week. We expect this project to take about a year. Long Pin meetings continue. We are now in the process of creating a working group to do the planning for creating a consortium, and are applying for a state grant to fund our travel and legal fees. This grant application will go in on May 10.  Services Summary Circulation Internet service Story hours Proctoring tests Adult = 1684 Young Adult = 52 Juvenile = 275 Easy Readers = 527 Audio and video = 201 Circ. For year = Adult 9732 Juv. = 3446 and 2328 people have come in during April, totaling 6885 since we started counting in February. 14 1-hour slots, use continues to be high. Machine for 15 minute access, 80% usage. We have made a dramatic increase in the attendance at the story hour, partly due to the presence of a pre-school group. The attendance this month was 78, with over 25 for three weeks. The library has been offering proctoring services to students from several Universities and correspondence course test taking programs. This month, there have been 4 students who have used this service.   Services Summary Circulation Internet service Story hours Proctoring tests Adult = 1684 Young Adult = 52 Juvenile = 275 Easy Readers = 527 Audio and video = 201 Circ. For year = Adult 9732 Juv. = 3446 and 2328 people have come in during April, totaling 6885 since we started counting in February. 14 1-hour slots, use continues to be high. Machine for 15 minute access, 80% usage. We have made a dramatic increase in the attendance at the story hour, partly due to the presence of a pre-school group. The attendance this month was 78, with over 25 for three weeks. The library has been offering proctoring services to students from several Universities and correspondence course test taking programs. This month, there have been 4 students who have used this service.  Activity Trends  LiLI magazine database Literary Book Club Community Service Heartland High School Volunteers Wishing Tree  We continue to encourage all patrons to use the LiLI database here and at home, and have had quite a bit of success with people doing research, especially for personal use and for school reports. The book club had 5 in attendance this month, and we discussed “The Battle for God” by Karen Armstrong. We have a young man working Community Service hours, working on reading and cleaning the shelves. Again, Heartland High School has been using the library for creating reports and preparing presentations and debates. Extremely well-behaved and on task. We have had a young lady volunteer 10 hours a week to the library this month. She has been a great help with creating the patron database. A second volunteer, who started on the 29th is also learning how to input for the patron database. The Friends of the Library wishing tree has been blocked from the public by the braces, and has not had much action. Purchased one book.   Activity Trends  LiLI magazine database Literary Book Club Community Service Heartland High School Volunteers Wishing Tree  We continue to encourage all patrons to use the LiLI database here and at home, and have had quite a bit of success with people doing research, especially for personal use and for school reports. The book club had 5 in attendance this month, and we discussed “The Battle for God” by Karen Armstrong. We have a young man working Community Service hours, working on reading and cleaning the shelves. Again, Heartland High School has been using the library for creating reports and preparing presentations and debates. Extremely well-behaved and on task. We have had a young lady volunteer 10 hours a week to the library this month. She has been a great help with creating the patron database. A second volunteer, who started on the 29th is also learning how to input for the patron database. The Friends of the Library wishing tree has been blocked from the public by the braces, and has not had much action. Purchased one book.  Future Goals Expansion and upgrading of specific collections Library expansion There has been a voluntary donation for $1,000 for creating a Spanish Collection. Have been ordering books for the Idaho History Room, and have recently purchased an Idaho History video. The Library Expansion Committee has been working on getting together a feasibility study of possible uses for the fire house. Meetings continue.  Staff News Staff inservice New Staff Staff have been participating in small mini-workshops to increase their use of and teaching of the programs being offered to the public. We have added 4 new staff this month. Our Children’s Librarian position will be shared by two local ladies, Pat Zanzic and Sue Rost. They are very efficient and enthusiastic, and have made a difference already in the quality of the children’s program. They will be sharing the hours for this position. Brandi Condit will start as our new Clerk I on May 2. The third position, that of Library page, will be filled during the second week of May.