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.i <br /> L1`br�y Services Cooter Report <br /> To: Elk River Library Board <br /> From: Will Hollerich, LSC <br /> Date: July, 2016 <br /> New Catalog and New Website <br /> In the past few months, Great River Regional Library has introduced a new catalog and a new <br /> website. If you haven't had a chance to check them out yet, see https://find.griver.org/ and <br /> https://www.griver.org/ for a look at both. The new faceted searching on our VuFind catalog, <br /> which debuted to the public in April, gives it a more modern look than the classic HIP (Horizon <br /> Information Portal) catalog, in use since 2004, and which you can still access at <br /> https://pac.griver.org/. Our new website received a soft launch in June and features a more <br /> mobile-friendly interface. <br /> Updates: 2016 Summer Reading Program, "Junior Master Gardeners" Series <br /> We've had a number of children, babies and teens register for the "Read for the Win!" 2016 <br /> SRP, and the new Junior Master Gardeners program, co-sponsored by the Sherburne County <br /> Master Gardeners, has been a big success, so far reaching full or over full attendance most <br /> weeks. <br /> ISD 728/Zimmerman Schools Bring EdVentures to Elk River Library <br /> This summer, Zimmerman schools and Independent School District # 728 have offered to bus <br /> elementary, middle and high schoolers to the Elk River Public Library twice a week. Mondays <br /> and Wednesdays from about 10:00 am to 11:00 am, students and their parents are eligible to get <br /> bus rides from schools in Zimmerman to our GRRL branch to get library cards, check out books <br /> and other materials, participate in the Summer Reading Program, and more. We think it is a great <br /> opportunity for a large community without a library to take advantage of library services <br /> available in their area when their schools are closed for the summer, and so far have seen <br /> busloads of as many as 21 children (mostly in the middle- and grade-school range) make use of <br /> this great new program that we hope will continue into future summers. <br /> 1 <br />