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Mosinee Monthly Report Events and Programs
Family Story Time: Family Story Time started its summer break, but Ashley’s outreach story time at the Mosinee Head Start served 4 adults and 16 children. This will be the last Head Start program until the fall.
Play and Learn: The Family Resource Center presented 3 sessions this month with a total of 21 adults and 26 children.
Book Club: Eleven patrons joined this month’s discussion of The Lake House by Kate Morton, including another new member. Next month we will be reading Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult.
Recurring Programs: Lego Block Party brought in 4 adults and 6 children on the 5th.
Our last two school visits of second graders were on the 5th and 6th and brought in a total of 3 adults and 37 children. This year we had a total of 3 class visits from 7th graders that brought in a total of 3 adults and 82 teens. Our second grade classes brought in a total of 11 adults and 113 children.
Our first summer session of our rock decorating program brought in 7 adults and 9 children on the 7th.
Patrons could come in on the 11th to make their own harmonicas, maracas, and tambourines using common household items. Five adults and 7 children joined us.
Patrons could come in on the 13th for our annual SLP craft day, where they could create crafts based on popular children’s songs. Ten adults, 27 children, and 4 teens attended.
It was a great event!
Our first big SLP performance, Rondini Magic, brought in 19 adults, 7 teens, and 75 children on the 27th. As we have with the last two years, we again hit our room capacity, and turned away at least 40 people. One of these patrons did call back hours later as well to state a repeat complaint that her family was unable to attend the event. We are working hard to educate patrons on how early they need to arrive before the show to get a ticket, where other shows are located if they cannot attend ours, and that we follow the room capacity because we are dedicated to the safety of our patrons.
Passive Programs:
a. Children: This summer we are asking patrons to write their favorite song or band on a music note and add it to our sheet of music in front of the circulation desk. So far 40 patrons have participated.
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b. Adult: We featured an adult book recommendation display where patrons could write down a recommended read for other patrons to try. Seven patrons gave recommendations so far.
Displays: This month we featured gardening books, a display of the first books in different series, and a staff picks display. The staff picks and ‘first in a series’ displays went over really well.
Upcoming Programs: We will hold Play and Learn, Book Club, and Lego Club as usual.
We will hold a maker explosion program on July 3rd, where patrons use sharpies and rubbing alcohol to create explosive designs. Our second session of rock decorating will be held on the 5th. Our two big performances of the month will be Duke Otherwise on the 11th and the Life of Mozart on the 18th. Three Harry Potter events during the week of Harry Potter’s birthday (the 31st) will include: a passive program where kids can make their own Hedwig, a Potions Class, and Ollivander’s Wand Shop.
Circulation Statistics
Mosinee circulated 3,879 items in June 2018. This is a 15.03% decrease. Mosinee has circulated 21,614 items in 2018. This is a 5.76% decrease.
Library News
Ashley and Sarah had rounding sessions with Ralph on the 12th. We are very appreciative of his visit!
Ashley filled in at Edgar on the 22nd and Marathon on 23rd.
Special thanks to Kee, Ashley, and Audrey for covering (and Paula for offering) so Sarah could travel to her ill grandma in Virginia. She cannot express how grateful she is for this coverage!
Ashley made labels that Taylor laminated for our juvenile series section, with the official logo for each series. Our series section looks great with these colorful new labels that not only look more professional but we think will help kids find their favorite series even faster.
Lada Xiong-Vang, representative from SG Environments, visited our branch on the 28th to assess our space and needs for replacement chairs after Ralph and Sarah discussed this need during rounding. We are very appreciative and excited for the new furniture, as several of our existing chairs are getting very worn and one has a missing part.
So far we have 171 summer reading program sign-ups, 20 more than last year. We are expecting to add even more during our second and third summer reading program performances in July.
Facilities Updates
Otis Elevator performed a routine inspection on the 29th.
17 Rothschild Monthly Report
Events and Programs
Family Story Time: In June, we held 3 regular family story times with 36 adults and 49 children attending. Caley presented two outreach story times, one at St Therese daycare for 2 adults and 20 children, and one at Rothschild Head Start for 3 adults and 15
children. We also held a special Slide into Summer story time. 48 people joined us for this fun event and made a special themed craft! We also held a Shake, Shimmy, and Dance story time for 13 adults and 20 children.
Play and Learn: 59 people participated in 2 Play and Learn sessions. In the summer, Play and Learn will be held off site at Machmueller Park, but will be held at the library if it is raining. In the fall, Play and Learn will return to the library.
Book Club: 14 book club members met to discuss The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve. In July, the club will discuss Artemis by Andy Weir.
SLP Class Visits: 61 students from the Rothschild kindergarten and 81 students from Rothschild first grade visited the library to learn about the summer library program.
SLP Programs: In June, we held 3 Paws to Read programs with 62 people participating.
92 people attended the juggling show put on by Truly Remarkable Loon and 156 people attended the magic show presented by The Great Rondini. Both shows were really well received! 26 people attended our Sound Stations program and experimented with sound.
Recurring Programs: 10 people joined us for LEGO Club and 3 people joined us for our monthly Needle Arts event.
Circulation Statistics
Rothschild circulated 10,737 items in June. This is a 9.67% decrease from last year. In 2018, Rothschild circulated 62,904 items. This is a 3.4% decrease from last year.
Library News
SLP has been going very well in Rothschild. We have had 203 people sign up for the reading club.
Many different subs filled in at Rothschild to cover open shifts. Thank you! We really appreciate all of the help!
We weeded and shifted the adult large type and nonfiction collections.
Facilities Updates
N/A
18 Spencer Monthly Report
Events and Programs
On June 4th, the Spencer Kindergarten class came to the library for a presentation on the Summer Reading Program. Summer Reading brochures were given to each child to take home. Three adults and 43 children were present.
“Has Anybody Seen My Car Keys?” was held on Tuesday, June 5th. Mahala Earnheart, a local Alzheimer’s and dementia educator taught us the difference between Alzheimer’s and dementia and the many different types of dementia. She also talked about the steps you can take if you are concerned about a love one. 20 adults were present for this informative program.
Rookie Rockets Day Care Story time was held three times in the month of May with a total of 75.
On June 9th, the 2nd Annual Spencerama Days were held. Wendy D. and Audrey K.
represented the Spencer Branch Library. Wendy did face painting and Audrey did crafts with the children. We also handed out information on the library and our services. 45 adults and 50 children enjoyed the events.
On June 13th, a program sponsored by the Friends of the Library was held as part of the Summer Reading Program. The Great Rondini, an award winning magician thrilled the audience in Spencer. 24 adults and 110 children applauded the show.
On June 19th, the Friends of the Library sponsored The Truly Remarkable Loon.
Everyone enjoyed watching this juggling act as well as his plate spinning talent. 18 adults and 72 children enjoyed the program.
The Fromm Brothers and Their Fur Farm was held on June 21st. This program held by Ben Clark of the Marathon County Historical Society was well attended and very interesting. The Fromm Brothers were leaders in the silver fox industry and one of the first to grow ginseng in Marathon County. 25 adults and one child were present.
Story Time and Play –n- Learn was held two times this month with a total of 22 attending.
“Library Lego Tower” where each child gets one Lego per item they check out (limit 15) started in June. 97 children took part in engineering the Library Tower.
A passive craft program was held where the children could make an ant out of plastic spoons and pipe cleaners. 21 children enjoyed the craft.
Circulation Statistics
Spencer circulated 1,853 items in June. This is a 22.5% decrease from last year. In 2018, Spencer circulated 11,269 items. This is a 11.71% decrease from last year.
Library News
Audrey attended the Spencer Chamber of Commerce meeting on June 6th. Upcoming Summer Reading programs was discussed and handouts were given out.
The Library Board met at the Spencer Library on June 18th.
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A passive program was held asking, “What is your favorite grilled food”? Chicken was the most favorite with a three way tie for second place, hot dogs, veggies, and steak.
Facilities Updates
Nothing to report
Stratford Branch Report Events and Programs
Book Club: Our monthly Book Club was held on Monday, June 18, and featured Before the Fall by Noah Hawley. Nine members attended.
Story Time: In June, we held four regular Family Story Times, with 39 adults and 55 children attending.
Play & Learn: We also hosted four regular Play & Learns, with 39 adults and 55 children attending.
Class Visits: Four 1st grade classes from Stratford Elementary School visited on Monday, June 4. During these visits, we read a book and discussed the Summer Library Program and sent bookmarks and brochures back with all students.
Our Summer Library Program kicked off on June 4. So far, we have registered 92 children.
The Great Rondini visited on Wednesday, June 13, as part of our SLP. Fourteen adults and 29 children attended.
The Truly Amazing Loon visited on Wednesday, June 20, as part of our SLP. Twelves adults and 23 children attended.
Tom Pease visited on Tuesday, June 26, as part of our SLP. Nine adults and 23 children attended.
Passive Program: Patrons were invited to take a decorative 45 record and write down What Book Rocked Your World? The 45’s were then hung throughout the library to help decorate during our Summer Library Program, Libraries Rock! So far, 12 patrons have participated.
Passive Program: 52 kids participated in the themed coloring sheets in the Children’s Section and the adult coloring pages and bookmarks in our Teen Section.
Passive Program: Children participating in the SLP could write their names on Pete the Cat Paws and hang them up in our library. So far, 54 children have participated.
Circulation Statistics
Stratford circulated 2,451 items in June. This is a 15.4% decrease from last year. In 2018, Stratford circulated 12,010 items. This is a 13.4% decrease from last year.
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A Best Beach Reads display was created using recommended reading lists, and has been very popular with patrons.
A Road Trip Reading book display was created to promote books on CD in summer.
Juggling and Magic books were displayed during our SLP visits.
Facilities Updates
Olson Carpet One in Rib Mountain donated 20 carpet squares for use during Story Time.
Monthly Business Report – July, 2018
The money spent for electricity at the Wausau location by the end of June represented twenty eight percent of the funds allocated for the year, a savings of twenty two percent of expected cost. To put it another way, eleven thousand five hundred dollars allocated for electricity for the first half of the year were not needed for that purpose. With the slight lag in billing periods there will be a partial month’s expense to be made up for sure, but our projection is that there will be approximately eighteen thousand dollars left in the fund at the end of the year. Since money allocated for Library maintenance falls under the statute allowing Marathon County Public Library to keep the fund balance, these savings when combined with savings from the boiler replacement project will more than recover the cost of the LED lighting project during the first year of implementation.
An electrical use survey of branches not yet converted to energy saving lighting will be
conducted during August to determine further savings opportunities. The exercise appears to be worthwhile even in cases where we pay a prorated percentage of a building’s overall as it will demonstrate the Marathon County Public Library’s commitment to be aggressively guarding and conserving resources.
21 Director’s Activities:
6-18-18 Marathon County Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting 6-19-18 Early Years Coalition Steering Committee Meeting
6-20-18 Early Literacy Center dedication @11am
6-25-18 Friends of the Marathon County Public Library Board Meeting 6-25-18 LENA Start Data Team Meeting
6-28-18 Meeting with Jonette Arms/New ADRC Director 7-9-18 Monthly agenda meeting with Library Board President 7-10-18 OverCOATs Meeting re: Culture work moving forward 7-16-18 Marathon County Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting 7-20-18 County Dept. Heads Meeting
NEXT MONTH DIRECTOR’S ACTIVITIES:
7-16-18 Marathon County Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting 7-16-18 Toward One Wisconsin Committee Meeting
7-20-18 County Dept. Heads Meeting
7-23-18 Friends of the Marathon County Public Library Board Meeting 7-25-18 LENA Start Data Team Meeting
7-30-31-18 PLSR Summit/Stevens Point
8-9-18 Library Advisory Council Meeting/WVLS 8-15-18 WMMIC Workshops/CE/Pewaukee 8-16--18 County Dept. Heads Meeting
8-19-18 Marathon County Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting TBD Policy reviews w/Leah and Matt
TBD Monthly agenda meeting with Library Board President
LIBRARY PROJECTS, PROGRAMS, EVENTS:
UPCOMING CONFERENCES, CONTINUING ED, WORKSHOPS:
ALA Annual Conference is in New Orleans, LA, from June 21-26.
WLA Annual Conference is in La Crosse, from Oct. 23-26.
Any other issues or items of note:
Letters and notes are posted at the Library Board Meeting.
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Period 6 ending June 30, 2018 Transaction status 1
Sub 604 LIBRARY CIP PROJECTS
Description 2018 Current Mth YTD YTD YTD Total Unobligated % MODIFIED Expense Encumbrances Expense Obligations Budgeted Amt Expen
Or2 934 CIP PROJECTS
APR 777A LIBRARY CIP PROJECT Cat 980 CAPITAL OUTLAY
Act 8118 LIBRARY-BRANCH DEVELOPME 536,647.00 536,647.00 Act 8291 LIBRARY AUTOMATION 8,455.33 8,455.33 8,455.33- Act 8400 MAIN LIBRARY CUST SERVIC 237,037.00 50,254.15 50,254.15 186,782.85 21.2 Act 8444 LIBR-CUSTOMER SRV AREA 10,900.00 10,900.00 10,900.00- --- APR 777A LIBRARY CIP PROJECT 773,684.00 69,609.48 69,609.48 704,074.52 9.0 --- Or2 934 CIP PROJECTS 773,684.00 69,609.48 69,609.48 704,074.52 9.0 --- Sub 604 LIBRARY CIP PROJECTS 773,684.00 69,609.48 69,609.48 704,074.52 9.0 --- Report Final Totals 773,684.00 69,609.48 69,609.48 704,074.52 9.0 ============================================================================================