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Elk River Public Library Board Page 4 July 24th,2018 routine maintenance go into the facility dude request system. Willes also • stated that the zone report is to help the board remember the brick and mortar concept of the buildings. 5.6 City Council Report 5.7 Patron Services Supervisors Report In addition to her report,Brandi noted: • Brandi told the board that Brianne Johnson has started as the Communications and Development Coordinator in St. Cloud The"E" newsletter is new. Brandi told the board about binge boxes,which are packs of DVD's that are all a similar subject matter i.e. Indiana Jones movies. The binge boxes are shelved in St. Cloud but can be requested at other branches. The program is pretty much all donations driven. It is a very successful program,more so in winter.The board of trustees met and approved the budget for next year. There is a LST grant to work on Somali and Spanish support. In September there will also be the Fines for Forgiveness program for 2 weeks. 5.8 Library Services Coordinator Report In addition to her report, Robbie noted: • They have now exceeded 1200 children in the summer reading program and more than 250 books have been given away.They have exceeded St. Cloud's numbers. They have been at the Elk River Farmer's Market,Elk River Fest, Guardian Angels, about brain games. They will have the fire and police program again. They were in the Elk River newspaper about the skate board program they offered. • They have hired two library aid positions and the library assistant position is filled. They have one aid position left. • Robbie attached to her report the visual graphs she had used when she gave her report to city council. She also told the board about two upcoming author visits. Allan Eskens who wrote"The life we bury" and Twin Cities Sisters in Crimes • Willie J. said she liked the visuals that Robbie provided. Willie pointed out that the numbers are down. Rita asked Robbie if the e books are included in the numbers. Brandi said no. Brandi said the numbers were really to show the city circulation times for staffing purposes. Rita asked if the renewals were counted. • Brandi said that 2017 circulation statistics are down but only down by 1 and 2 %vs. double digits in the past. Elk River is the second largest library to St. Cloud in size. Brandi said that they are adding lots of library cards regionally but they are losing cards that are expiring. She is looking at data to see what is going on and to see which factors figure into the 1111 loss. Programming, outreach, zip codes, correlations with populations all WERE ® Ir NATURE