Staffing

· No changes in staffing for the month of March.

· Between scheduled vacations and absences due to illnesses associated with a lingering cold and flu season, staffing public service desks and keeping pace with returned materials proved challenging throughout the month.

Facility

· We continue to await resolution to the copy machine coin-op problem.

Professional Development & Meetings

· Meetings and workshops attended by professional staff included:

o Monthly Staff Meeting for Librarians, Circulation Coordinators & Library Assistants

o Monthly Staff Meeting for Pages – Mary Reed & Pamela Myers

o Friends of the Library Monthly Meeting – Pamela Myers

o Lakeland Library Cooperative’s Planning, Policy & Services Committee – Pamela Myers

o Lakeland Library Cooperative Circulation Forum – Pamela Myers

o Lakeland Library Cooperative Continuing Education Committee – Pamela Myers & Mary Reed

o “MeL Databases: Overview” Class – Pamela Myers, Mary Reed & Susan Carlson

o “Play-Grow-Read! @ the Library – Early Literacy: Birth to Five” Workshop – Jill Reyers

· Meetings and workshops attended by para-professional staff included:

o Lakeland Library Cooperative Youth Services Committee – Sue Kirvan

o Lakeland Library Cooperative Circulation Forum – Leslie Garrison & Amy Klunder

Programming, Promotions, Publicity, Special Projects,

Departmental Activities, etc.

· March 09: Book Discussion Group For Adults

o Book: One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus

o Book Discussion Leader: Mary Reed, assisted by Candace Hulst

o Attendance: 12

· Toddler (“Wee Ones”) and Preschool Story Times

o Story Times developed and presented/performed by Jill Reyers with assistance from Sue Kirvan (crafts, set-up, and patron relations). (Story time sessions for March 15 and March 16 performed by Sue Kirvan.)

o Detailed attendance statistics for Story Times held in March are provided below:

Date	Toddler Story Time	Toddler Story Time	Preschool Story Time	Preschool Story Time
	Children (Ages 1 ½ – 3)	Adults	Children (Ages 3 –5)	Adults
03/01	7	6	7	3
03/02	11	9	34	15
03/08	11	7	16	8
03/09	16	11	34	14
03/15	17	11	10	6
03/16	13	10	16	6
03/22	12	9	9	5
03/23	19	13	30	16
Totals	106	76	156	73

· March 10: Book Discussion Group for Teens

o Book: I Am David by Anne Holm

o Book Discussion Leader: Jill Reyers

o Attendance: 2 young adults

· March 22: Nancy Drew Mystery Night (In Celebration of Nancy Drew’s 75^th Anniversary)

o Attendance: 21 children and 3 adults

o Due to a need to limit registration, we were unable to accommodate all patrons wishing to attend this program.

· March 29: School visit to Sandy Hill Elementary School – Jill Reyers

o Read stories to two second grade classes as part of “March Is Reading Month” programming

o Attendance: 52 children and 2 adults

· March 31: Library tour and story presentation to a group of Cub Scouts and parents – Jill Reyers

o Attendance: 8 children (second graders) and 4 adults

· Bibliography of Caldecott and Newbery Award Winners updated – Sue Kirvan

· Began the shifting and relocation of various collections in the Youth Services area to accommodate the growing Series collection and place it in a more prominent and accessible site for patrons – Jill Reyers & Sue Kirvan

· Promotional materials designed and created for upcoming Family Reading Program special event – Mary Reed

· Tabletop lobby display for National Parenting Month created and stocked – Mary Reed & Becky Ilkanic

· “It’s Time to Read” Family Reading Program ongoing Youth Services display – Pamela Myers & Becky Ilkanic

· Career Resources bibliography completed – Susan Carlson

· Ongoing weeding of adult nonfiction 355 area – Susan Carlson

· Weeding of adult fiction “S - V” authors – Mary Reed

· Weeding of adult nonfiction 796 and 500 areas – Pamela Myers

Friends of the Library

· The Friends’ President cancelled the group’s monthly meeting for March.

Service & statistical information

Service and statistical information for the month of March 2005 is presented below.

	March	March	% Change	2005 YTD	2004 YTD	% Change YTD
	2005	2004	2004 - 2005			2004 - 2005
Circulation (Items)
Total Circulation	30,380	26,189	16.00%	79,409	72,525	9.49%
Check-Outs	27,761	24,488	13.37%	72,130	66,899	7.82%
Check-Ins	27,595	24,452	12.85%	67,489	63,220	6.75%

Interlibrary Loan (Items)
Loaned	2,619	1,701	53.97%	7,279	5,626	29.38%
Borrowed	3,523	1,799	95.83%	9,479	6,288	50.75%

Holds
Placed By Staff	978	939	4.15%	2,706	2,717	-0.40%
Calls to Patrons (Min.)	1,704	N/A	N/A	4,662	N/A	N/A

Traffic Count	12,927	12,493	3.47%	36,476	32,639	11.76%