Grafton Public Library: Weekly Report: Dec 13-18, 2021

Press release from Grafton Public Library:

2021-12-17

Beth worked on many details for the Ribbon Cutting and Dedication scheduled for Friday December 17 at 11am. Many thanks to Parks & Cemetaries, DPW, and Custodial for assisting in getting the building ready for it’s official dedication.

She attended a policy committee meeting, a Friends meeting, a Trustee’s meeting, a construction meeting, and a staff meeting. She met with and directed many vendors this week: Evergreen Environments, LLC came to install another green roof, over the vestibule, thanks to a generous donor. Archetype Signworks installed the exterior Library sign, our street number, and our Dedication Plaque. Go2Blu was on site to install panic buttons and train staff. Marketspark came to connect our fax lines. DMH Electrical came to quote additional outlets. IT returned and got our gates software installed.

Beth and Sarah met with Cori from Tucker Interiors to go over shelving needs for the Children’s Room, to provide a prioritized list to the Capital Campaign. Beth also unpacked  and directed shelving of the historical collection, finished unpacking boxes in her office and filing items from the move five months ago (finally!), drafted FY23 capital requests, drafted a FY23 library budget, and ordered software for the Library.

In addition to staffing public service desks, the Borrower Services staff helped prep for the Ribbon Cutting. Susan also ordered fiction and e-content, interfaced with Musica Antiqua, who will be playing early music at the Ribbon Cutting ceremony, delivered 7 items to 4 Homebound patrons, processed volunteer applications, ran the BookWagon program at Crescent Manor, ran reports on items long in transit, and marked missing, which our Page searched for.

Allie also created signage for the New Material and Large Print Room, and worked with Beth on displaying the Mind, Body, Spirit boards from our summer Community Art Project. Sandhya updated several procedures in the procedure manual to reflect changes in the new building

Jane worked on reformatting the NYT Bestseller lists to fit into our new wall mount sign holders and made labels for the staff mailboxes.

Sarah, Jen, and Cyndi tidied all children’s room spaces in preparation for the upcoming ribbon cutting ceremony and collaborated on upcoming afterschool and weekend programming. Sarah met with Allison to begin planning tween programming for January, February, and March, presented 2 live zoom sessions of preschool outreach to SGES, shepherded a session of Young Scientists and managed registration and patron communication, contacted AWE to rectify a support issue with stats, began planning for the winter sessions of Preschool Storytime and Toddler Time, communicated with patrons both over the phone and in person, managed the CR collection, and cover meal breaks in YA.

Jen worked on the January CR newsletter, assisted patrons, planned for the upcoming session of Library Babies, updated Event Keeper and social media, helped to manage CR volunteers, and assisted patrons. Cyndi continues to manage the CR Library of Things, made curtains for the Children’s Workroom and programming space, helped to manage CR volunteers, and assisted patrons. Mare contacted volunteers to assign work shifts and followed up as needed, shelved, and assisted patrons. Stacie created take home packets for children and assisted patrons. Kristin has been contacting the schools, created a google form for library tours, planned book clubs, and assisted patrons.

Allison planned winter break programs for teens and tweens, and worked on Beanstack Challenges – creating two new, custom challenges (one for Popsugar Reads and one for Novelist Reads) as well as added some pre-done options for the winter.

Heidi ran book group discussions. Kate attended a round table on Envisionware, a software we are considering for PC print and reservations management. Eileen straightened out our National Grid account and learned where the meter is located.

OverDrive announced a number of accessibility improvements detailed on our website at https://graftonlibrary.org/2021/12/17/libbyupdates2021/

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