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5.8 <br /> Library Services Coordinator Report-Board Meeting-9-25-18 <br /> Summer reading program was a great success in Elk River this year. Our registered participants were up <br /> by approximately 200 children/teens this year,compared to last year. We gave away 500 books,and <br /> many other prizes as well. Our"passports"added a little extra to the program this year,and helped the <br /> kids who were participating learn a little more about the community of Elk River by attending the <br /> Farmer's Market or Elk River Fest. Thanks to Karen Wingard from the City of Elk River for coordinating <br /> with me, and our Friends of the Elk River Library group for supporting these events with prize books. <br /> In outreach news,we took our brain games kits"on the road"for an outreach event at Elk River <br /> Guardian angels on September 5. We had 13 residents and staff who played games with us. I would <br /> consider this a success! A special"Thank You"goes to Nora,one of our branch assistants,for putting <br /> this program together.We will continue build community relationships and spread the word about our <br /> "brain fitness kits" by taking this program out to another senior facility in the near future. We are <br /> attending Elk River Farmer's Market one more time on Sept. 13 to promote upcoming programs. So far <br /> this summer we have reached out to about 300 people at the Farmer's Market. We will also be doing a <br /> Fall FairyTales outreach to a local preschool program,as well as participating in the Community Connect <br /> event in October. <br /> In children's programming, now that summer is over,things have slowed, but we are still offering some <br /> great programs for children including our Lego hours, READ to a dog,and our storytimes. These <br /> programs are usually full with between 12-20 children, plus their parents per session. We are also <br /> continuing to offer our school age book club,and that program is building a nice following. On Dec.5& <br /> 6,we will be offering our Hour of Code classes,which had great participation last year,and we are <br /> hoping for the same this year. <br /> In teen and tween programs/services,we continue to offer our passive teen trivia contest,which draws <br /> a good numbers of participants,particularly when the trivia questions are about the Harry Potter Series. <br /> In July and August,we had almost 500 entries in the Harry Potter trivia contest. We are working on <br /> building Teen book club as well,having established a couple of regulars,and asking them to invite their <br /> friends. <br /> For adult programming, we had a great turnout of 23 adults at our Twin Cities Sisters in Crime mystery <br /> panel last week,and we hope to have at least that many when Allen Eskens,author of"The Life We <br /> Bury"comes out on October 4. Our Crafternoon programs for adults have generally been full with 12-15 <br /> participants at each one. We will continue those into the fall,on Oct. 15 and Nov.26, as well as some <br /> new classes about ancestry and genealogy,(Oct. 16) a class on communicating with <br /> Dementia/Alzheimer's patients, (Nov. 15) and a class for budding writers to learn about National Novel <br /> Writing Month,and our MN Writes/MN Reads database on Nov. 14. We have three concerts we are <br /> offering this fall as well—one on Sept.20,and two in December on the 3&10. <br /> There is a wide variety of offerings for all this fall-hopefully something to delight everyone! <br />