Grafton Public Library Publishes Weekly Report For April 11-16

Grafton MA

17 April, 2022

9:19 PM

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Press release from Grafton Public Library: April 16, 2022 The Friends of the Library Spring Egg Hunt was a smashing success, even with the less-than-ideal weather! We had 531 visitors and averaged 80 children per hunt; 177 people stopped by our craft room and 121 children and families participated in storytime. Thanks to the Friends of the Library, to Goretti's and Stop and Shop for sponsoring, and to our Boy and Girl Scout troops who assisted with crowd control, stuffing and hiding eggs, and assisting with crafts and event set up and clean up! In the last week, we circulated 2,768 items, had 587 materials requests and filled 424 requests, sent 638 items in transit and received 711, added 29 new card holders, and 191 new items. We welcomed back the Grafton Farmers Market on Wednesday afternoon and are planning to have another Market in May. Grafton Ukulele Musicians (GUM) met to strum and sing on Wednesday evening. Beth took the Crowd Manager Training, checked in with the Trustee Chair, met with policy committee, and attended the construction team meeting. Beth also worked on getting postings ready for two anticipated vacancies for retiring employees. Beth continued to work on construction finances and year end budget and ordered nonfiction. Several staff were trained in Mac accessibility features as part of our Massachusetts Office On Disability ADA grant. Beth unboxed and tested items purchased with the and wrote an interim grant report and invoiced for reimbursement. A high-definition OCR with Zoom capability is now available for use, along with several Explore handheld digital video magnifiers. Griffin returned to install exit signs with wheelchair icons, and fix a lighting issue in the Community Room. Advantage was on site to work on the HVAC system and American Alarm installed a cover over the alarm panel in the vestibule. We are still waiting for study room doors, as well as doors for the maker space and presentation area, and gate for the bottom of the stairs. We are getting ready for a software update for our library catalog! Evergreen, our online catalog, will be unavailable due to an upgrade to version 3.7.from 6:00 PM on Saturday April 16 through Monday April 18. Beginning sometime on Monday, you will see a new catalog interface at grafton.cwmars.org with a new, modern design that is much more responsive to smaller displays and mobile devices, and the ability to limit to available items when searching and when viewing a record's item list. Please note that some databases will work with EZproxy bypass will be in place, while others (OverDrive, Kanopy, ComCat and other sites authenticating with SIP) will not be able to be accessed. We apologize for the inconvenience; access is likely to be restored over the weekend before the update is complete. For more details, including an overview of changes and updated instructions for how to search and browse the online catalog, how to place holds, and how to manage your account and lists, please visit https://cwmarsnews.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-new-catalog-experience-is-coming.html. Thank you for your patience while we upgrade! Borrower Service Staff handled all the usual circulation functions, including holds, delivery, lobby, AMH system, museum passes, room reservations, and patron assistance. We had a department staff meeting and reviewed the procedure for checking the telescope in and out. We are continuing to work on the technology inventory. Allie spent the week reviewing room reservations, reminding teens about Code of Conduct in Adult Large Print room, giving 2 warnings, writing an incident report, organizing Circ Signage files, creating and printing display bookmark templates to be laminated, updating newsletter links on website, assisting patrons with faxing, copying, scanning, training Sarah L in Circ (fax, copy, register, check-in, sorting room, overview of museum passes, phone, tour of study group rooms, monthly displays), planning May's newsletter and displays, HF list, assisting patrons with room reservations, creating new newsletter graphics, and adding descriptive text for newsletter graphics for screen readers. Ranjita updated the Library of Things and created a display for "Thing of the Month"; Jane finished changing the status of a list of items that had been marked "in storage"; researched ideas for a future display; and did collection development with the NYT Best-seller list. Sandhya processed out of network and out of state holds; cleared the hold shelf; oversaw a volunteer doing a sticker project in Library of Things; and helped a patron print from a USB drive. Susan supervised the team, completed an employee review, completed the Items in Storage report, changing the status of 44 items from "storage" to "available"; ran transit and missing reports, trained a staff member on running reports, and met with staff about the volunteer program. This week Sarah coordinated with local schools about upcoming school visits, brainstormed summer programming, created a July and August jam board for CR collaborative planning, met with Cori from Tucker interiors to discuss additional shelving, put together a non-fiction order for our ABDO rep, and attended the webinar Parent Management for Librarians presented by Jungle Jim. Jen updated the online calendar of events, scheduled social media posts, planned for Library Babies program that will reconvene in May, prepped the May newsletter, and prepped the Stuffed Animal Hospital program with Cyndi, who also managed library volunteers, and prepped for April vacation programs. Stacie scheduled upcoming monthly missions and science nook activities, and assisted patrons. Mare coordinated with volunteers and assisted patrons. Kristin collaborated with the schools and planned for her upcoming book club and comic club programs. Children's room staff worked on summer reading program planning. Teen behavior has calmed down a bit after intervention at the Middle School from a reminder to students from the principal on appropriate Library behavior. Allison put out two new end cap displays: Cats and Dogs and shifted the graphic novel collection so that the top shelf can be used for display and so that taller books can stand upright. Additionally she spent more time working on summer reading including continuing to put together a list of recommended books that go with each badge category. This press release was produced by Grafton Public Library. The views expressed here are the author's own.