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5.8 <br /> Library Services Coordinator Report <br /> Board Meeting 8-1-2017 <br /> Summer has been a busy time at GRRL-Elk River. We have over 1100 children, including 200+ <br /> teens,participating in our Summer Reading Program! Yeah! We have already given away many <br /> prizes, including a book to every child when they turn in their first reading slip. The summer <br /> reading program has also generated great traffic to our weekly/monthly passive programs going <br /> on in the library. We are excited to see how the rest of the summer goes. <br /> In other children's program news, our story times continue to have excellent attendance, and <br /> generate a busy level of activity in the library every Monday and Wednesday morning. We also <br /> had good attendance at the magic show by the Great Brodini in June, and our Lego class, and our <br /> duct tape class, which filled up to the number of registrations allowed. The Junior Master <br /> Gardeners class has also been a big hit again this summer, averaging 20+kids per week. We <br /> hope we are seeing the results in our landscapes and gardening boxes outside! We are over half <br /> full for the Creature Encounters event on July 20-thanks to the City of Elk River for sponsoring <br /> this event. <br /> For adult programs, we have continued to offer Acoustic Music Night & Adult Book Club, both <br /> of which are developing steady and enthusiastic audiences. As of this writing, we are having Jeff <br /> Bianchi, a classical guitarist in the library tonight. We are hoping for a large audience! <br /> In outreach news, we have had two Library Days at the Elk River Farmer's Market, and we have <br /> met over 100+people, and shared"what's going on at the library" as well as giving away some <br /> books and other prizes to children, courtesy of our Friends of the Library group. We are looking <br /> forward to the first Thursday of the month, in August, September and October. <br /> I am excited to share our fall/winter programming plans. We will be having a movie night in <br /> September, during Banned Books Week, to celebrate and"Stand up for your Right to Read". In <br /> October we have an author visit, from Joe Kimball, the author of "Secrets of the Congdon <br /> Mansion", and a"Military History Mysteries" event with a representative of the MN Military <br /> History Museum. In addition, we will be having a special story time event on Saturday Oct. 14, <br /> where members of the Elk River Police and Fire Departments will be reading the stories at the <br /> library, and then the children will have a chance to walk across the street to the Elk River <br /> Fire/Police Open House to tour a fire truck,police car, and participate in other activities. Special <br /> thanks to Chief Cunningham and Chief Nierenhausen for helping me coordinate this event! <br /> Summer is speeding by...here's to a great end of summer, and beginning of fall! <br />