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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2016 September Programs Monthly ReportCity of Port Townsend Monthly Library Program Report September 2016 2016 Program name: Fiber Arts Night Date: 1st and 3rd Tuesdays Presenter: Kathi J. Program’s intended age group: Kids, teens, adults, all ages/family All ages Attendance: 14 Location: Pink House Sponsored by: Friends, other: please specify Friends Description Come and enjoy an evening of working on handiwork projects with other fiber artists (from knitting to quilting to weaving all fiber arts projects are welcomed). Please bring your own supplies. FAN meets the first Tuesday of the month from 6:30- 8:30pm in the Library Learning Center. Comments/Press Coverage Program name: Book Lover’s Café: Date: 1st Monday Presenter: Melody E. Program’s intended age group: Kids, teens, adults, all ages/family Adults Attendance: 13 Location: Pink House Sponsored by: Friends, other: please specify Friends Description The book club reads Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman. Comments/Press Coverage Beginning with Darwin's notorious chart listing reasons to wed and not to wed, Heiligman has created a unique, flowing, and meticulously researched picture of the controversial scientist and the effect of his marriage on his life and work. Using the City of Port Townsend Monthly Library Program Report September 2016 2016 couple's letters, diaries, and notebooks as well as documents and memoirs of their relatives, friends, and critics, the author lets her subjects speak for themselves while rounding out the story of their relationship with information about their time and place. She shows how Darwin's love for his intelligent, steadfast, and deeply religious cousin was an important factor in his scientific work—pushing him to document his theory of natural selection for decades before publishing it with great trepidation. Just as the pair embodied a marriage of science and religion, this book weaves together the chronicle of the development of a major scientific theory with a story of true love. Published for young adults, this title will be equally interesting to adults drawn to revisit Darwin on his 200th birthday.—Ellen Heath, Easton Area Public Library, Easton, PA, School Library Journal (starred review) Program name: UGN Day of Caring Date: September 16 Presenter: Polly Lyle Program’s intended age group: Kids, teens, adults, all ages/family Adults Attendance: 8 Location: Outside library Sponsored by: Friends, other: please specify UGN Description Volunteers from United Good Neighbors help with landscaping tasks around the library, led by Polly Lyle. Polly was also award the Good Neighbor Award, which recognizes volunteers of the year by UGN for 2016. Comments/Press Coverage City of Port Townsend Monthly Library Program Report September 2016 2016 Program name: Edible Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest Date: September 21 Presenter: Daniel Winkler Program’s intended age group: Kids, teens, adults, all ages/family Adults Attendance: 100 Location: Carnegie Room Sponsored by: Friends, other: please specify Friends Description Daniel Winkler has been in love with mushrooms since an early age. He has managed to blend a career as an ecologist and geographer, researching mushrooms and rural income in Tibet, Himalayas and China. He is fascinated by ethno- City of Port Townsend Monthly Library Program Report September 2016 2016 mycology or the role mushrooms play in different cultures, especially as a source of food and medicine. Daniel writes and speaks extensively, authoring the field guides to Edible Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest and California and A Field Guide to Amazon Mushrooms with Larry Evans. Comments/Press Coverage Program name: Preschool Storytime Date: September 6, 13, 22, 27 Presenter: Rachel, Kit Program’s intended age group: Kids, teens, adults, all ages/family Preschoolers and their caregivers Attendance: 30 Location: Library Sponsored by: Friends, other: please specify Friends Description Preschool storytime brings early literacy to kids and their caregivers with songs, rhymes, and activities. The emphasis for this age group is on kindergarten readiness and fostering a love of reading. Comments/Press Coverage City of Port Townsend Monthly Library Program Report September 2016 2016 Program name: Toddlertime Date: September 8, 15, 22, 29 Presenter: Jeanne Program’s intended age group: Kids, teens, adults, all ages/family Toddlers and their caregivers Attendance: 75 Location: Library Sponsored by: Friends, other: please specify Friends Description Toddlertime builds prereading skills like vocabulary, phonological awareness, and sequencing. Young children and their caregivers share fun rhymes and songs and very short stories. The emphasis is on modeling for caregivers how to build literacy skills in very young children. Program name: Babytime Date: September 8, 15, 22, 29 Presenter: Jeanne Program’s intended age group: Kids, teens, adults, all ages/family Babies and their caregivers Attendance: 11 Location: Library Sponsored by: Friends, other: please specify Friends Description Babytime uses a warm, caring atmosphere to make parents of very young children comfortable in the library and in singing and playing with their babies. The emphasis is on modeling and teaching simple games, rhymes, songs and sign language that can help build very early literacy. Comments/Press Coverage In the month of September we tried changing Babytime to afternoons to make more time between Babytime and Toddler Time. Parents appreciated the attempt but said that afternoons were not as easy to attend as mornings, so we will begin having Babytime at 10:15 on Wednesday mornings starting in October. City of Port Townsend Monthly Library Program Report September 2016 2016 Program name: FIRST LEGO League Practice Date: September 8, 15, 22, 29 Presenter: Kit Program’s intended age group: Kids, teens, adults, all ages/family Team members age 9-14 Attendance: 38 Location: Pink House Sponsored by: Friends, other: please specify Friends, Whistle Stop Toys, League of Steam, Boeing, anonymous donor Description Practice for the library’s FIRST LEGO League robotics team for 9-14 year olds for the 2016 season. Program name: Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Library Robotics Date: Sept. 7 and 14 Presenter: Kit, Bonnie (tribal librarian) Program’s intended age group: Kids, teens, adults, all ages/family Teens Attendance: 16 Location: Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Library Sponsored by: Friends, other: please specify Washington State Library Description Teens from the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe worked with robotics kits from the State Library. Kit went to the tribal library to help the kids with robot programming. Comments/Press Coverage “I just wanted to thank you for “loaning” Kit to us for our Lego Mindstorm programs. We were so thrilled to have her help us! She made the whole process less intimidating and more fun. I think the kids really enjoyed having her help them. I’m really looking forward to working with her on future STEM programs.” Bonnie Roos, Jamestown Tribal Library City of Port Townsend Monthly Library Program Report September 2016 2016 Program name: 10,000 Hours Party Date: September 21 Presenter: Library staff Program’s intended age group: Kids, teens, adults, all ages/family All ages Attendance: 30 Location: Library Sponsored by: Friends, other: please specify Friends Description The community celebrates our reading record of over 13,500 hours read with a party! Music by Swami John Pickle, snacks, crafts, a pub quiz, and more for all ages. The adults really appreciated being so included this year and it was great for the kids and teens to see adults modeling a lifelong love of reading. Comments/Press Coverage City of Port Townsend Monthly Library Program Report September 2016 2016 LETTER: Summer learning, brighter futures  Sep 14, 2016 Kids were engaged in fun learning opportunities all over Jefferson County this summer thanks to the cooperation of a number of county organizations. The Jefferson County Library and Port Townsend Public Library held active summer learning programs for hundreds of kids, combining reading with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) learning activities. To date, our kids have read over 11,000 hours this summer and some are still going strong. The libraries partnered with the YMCA, the Chimacum, Quilcene and Port Townsend School district summer programs, and Count Me in for Quilcene to offer classes and events all over the county to help kids engage in interest- and passion-based learning. The Friends of the Port Townsend Public Library fully funded the Port Townsend Public Library program. And over 1,000 new books are now in the homes of kids and teens in Jefferson County, thanks to the Friends of the Jefferson County Library, which provides these incentives for reading throughout the summer. Research shows students who read and take part in social and emotional learning through the summer months avoid the summer academic slide and return to school more prepared and motivated to learn. The data shows kids, especially low-income kids, can lose two to three months in reading proficiency, while kids who engage in summer learning make City of Port Townsend Monthly Library Program Report September 2016 2016 gains. These losses add up; by fifth grade, summer learning loss can leave students two and a half to three years behind their peers. Our libraries want kids in our community to succeed. We are developing strong working partnerships with our educational peers to help us reach more kids and have a greater lasting impact for the educational success of our kids. MEREDITH WAGNER director, Jefferson County Library MELODY SKY EISLER director, Port Townsend Public Library http://www.ptleader.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/letter-summer-learning- brighter-futures/article_c2ee5abc-79fd-11e6-8d89-d36f09d8c6fb.html City of Port Townsend Monthly Library Program Report September 2016 2016 Program name: Library All Staff Day 2016 at Fort Worden Date: September 21 Presenters: Melody E., Kit W-C., Jeanne S., and special guest Dave Robison PDA Executive Director Program’s intended age group: Kids, teens, adults, all ages/family Staff Attendance: 16 staff and 5 special guests Location: Fort Worden Commons Sponsored by: Friends, other: please specify City of Port Townsend Description The staff enjoyed a day of learning and teambuilding; which was meant to be a day of learning, exploring, and connecting with the treasures at Fort Worden. It included the finale of six months of training on Strengthsfinder; name badge making; Rosetta Stone database training; a tour of the Marine Science Center or a historical walking tour of Fort Worden with the Coastal Artillery Museum; and a leadership lunch with special guests from the City, Library Advisory Board, Friends of the Library and Library Foundation. The day concluded with a presentation about the PDA and Makers Square with Dave Robison.