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HomeMy WebLinkAbout080823 Library Advisory Board Meeting Packet// LIC f )S' LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD MEETING AGENDA o°o August 8, 2023 0 0 % 11:00pm I City Hall 3rd Floor Conference Room • Join virtually via computer or tablet at http://joinwebinar.com enter the 9 -digit Webinar ID 111-969-211 • Join by phone in listen -only mode United States: Local Dial In — (360) 390-5064 ext. 7 access code: 587-952-268 I. Call to Order II. Roll Call III. Approval of Agenda IV. Approval of Minutes V. Old Business a. None VI. New Business a. Welcome new members and introductions b. Library Strategic Plan c. Collection Development Policy VII. Next Scheduled Meeting — October 10, 2023 11:00 p.m. City Hall 3rd Floor Conference Room Suggestions: VIII. Public Comment IX. Adjourn E �/ 0 0 2 2ƒ o A / o. k 0 E = o / �\ 3 2 — C/a E§ 0 \ // 2 o o 0 o20k2¥ 2 0 ± } 2 6 o E\ o= o o 0-= 2 Z k ® LU * .2 LU_ / 0 Q 2 % @ \ e 2 Ro E % tF \ \ 02 j ? 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Q! 1 u N 3 Y � O H cu = j C VI ho01 OL i O O ++ 3 L y h0 Q ++ 3 y QD Q i E Y O a v a z a u a > O m N M O O V1 N M Port Townsend Public Library January 2023 Monthly Program Report The library proudly partnered WSU Extension to offer a Master Gardener Plant Clinic program monthly. WSU has been a wonderful partner to the library over the years offering programs like winter gardening and backyard beekeeping. WSU also included us in the Secret Garden tour in 2022 (postponed from 2020). Storytimes resumed this month after the winter break. Melody gave her talk My Great Swedish Adventure: The power of libraries, family, and travel in pandemic to the Puget Sound Genealogical Society on January 25tH Below Book Lovers' Cafe met for the first time in 2023 and read a classic. The BLC group still prefers meeting online for now. Y,'u} a ql Mpg/ p %a The Cur of Time a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library January 2023 Monthly Program Report Monthly Programs a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library January 2023 Monthly Program Report Digital Equity Thursdays Jamie Pena Adult 4 JCL Navigator: classes Thursday Tech with a Help and Basic total of Computer Classes 11 patrons WSU Master 1St Tuesdays WSU Adult 6 WSU Gardeners Plant Volunteer Clinics Preschool Tuesdays Emily, 3-6 yr. 75 Friends Storytime Paige, and Judith Toddler Storytime Wednesdays Emily and 18 months- 35 Friends Judith 3 yr. Baby Storytime Wednesdays Emily and 0-18 43 Friends Paige months Sing -a -Ling 3rd Thursday Keeth 0-6 yr. 34 Friends Apgar Salish After Hours Wednesdays Paige Elementary 52 Friends Students & Families LEGO Club 2nd Mondays Emily 7-12 yr. 14 Friends Bufford Special Events [}88c[DtiDD: Port Townsend Public Library January 2023 Monthly Program Report Jefferson County Master Gardeners are excited to partner with the Port Townsend Library for monthly "Ask a Master Gardener" plant clinics throughout 2023. Clinics will be held at the Charles Pink House on the first Tuesday of the month Master Gardener Volunteers are here to assist you with your gardening questions by providing advice grounded in research -based science. We will work in partnership with you on a variety of horticulture topics including right plant for your environment, composting, insect infestations, unknown pathogen destroying your beloved plants, and everything in - 'f you'd like to bring in a sample, please follow the instructions plant problem: the sample should clearly show both un -healthy and healthy tissue. To keep your sample fresh, put the cut end of the stem in a moist paper towel. Be careful to keep your cut Port Townsend Public Library plants in cool and dark location to prevent • plant identification: include photos or samples of the vegetative part of the plant (leaves, branches, stems), a portion of the fruiting or flowering structure, and a representative portion of the stem or bark. The more structures, the better chance for a correct id. • insect identification: -bring an intact specimen in a small container soon after capture. Store in a cool dark place. For more information, please contact Bridget Gregg at bridget.gregg@wsu.edu 01 111111 om Date: 1/24/2023 Presenter: Lily LaMotte Intended Age: 0-6 yr. Attendance 37 Location: Children's Room Sponsored By: Friends Description: Join us for a special storytime celebrating Lunar New Year! Children's book author Lily LaMotte will be reading her new picture book Chloe's Lunar New Year. This delightful picture book introduces children to the Taiwanese tradition of reunion dinner on Lunar New Year's Eve. Activities and snacks will be provided following storytime. Families will have the opportunity to enter a raffle and win a signed copy of Chloe's Lunar New Year. Comments: Our Lunar New Year Storytime was a joyful and heartwarming event. Lily LaMotte and her husband Lucien were incredibly generous with their energy and time. Lily helped to plan out activities and snacks, and Lucien played traditional Taiwanese songs on his guitar throughout the event. Additionally, Lily waived her honorarium, allowing us to purchase 5 copies of her picture a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library January 2023 Monthly Program Report book which we gave out during the event. It was beautiful watching our community come together, learning, and celebrating Taiwanese traditions for the Lunar New Year. The room was full of movement and energy, so it was especially moving to see how attentively everyone listened when Lily sat down to read Chloe's Lunar New Year and Lucien played music on his guitar. We decorated the Children's Room with red paper lanterns, and Paige created beautiful decorations featuring yellow apricot blossoms and mandarin oranges. Our Teen Volunteer, Piper, spent several hours helping to cut these out and adding ribbon so that we could hang them on our tree. I'm so grateful that I was able to be a part of this event and I hope to make it an annual tradition. I also greatly appreciated the generosity of Michelle Lee, the illustrator of Chloe's Lunar New Year, for allowing us to use her illustrations for our marketing materials and the craft. We were able to print out decorative coloring pages that featured Lee's illustrations, and families enjoyed drawing and coloring together during the event. Port Townsend Public Library January 2023 Monthly Program Report war iiew war Storytime Tuesday, k(ouary 2�th 1o:30 AM Wldreo's ?oom M Am us {or a special stor9fiffle c,elekavviq luo(Ar New Year! O v lit w w I- w V N M W r q* M M LC) N . 117 . 00 . 0) . r . CD . 07 . CD N = . L17 . CO . N . ti . N 4 . O . 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Library Director Melody Sky Weaver's email to the library team after the event: From: Melody Eisler <MEisler@cityofpt. us> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2023 9:22 AM To: Library Team Subject: Thank you ! Thanks to everyone who made our Monday lovely! We had a nice in person turnout for our open house and many compliments on the food, music, decorations, and crafts. Patrons of all ages were delighted. You all went above and beyond to make sure our library was lovely and welcoming. The Lego Club was super popular and made some heartfelt designs. Finally, yesterday the Friends Book Store opened to great success. a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library February 2023 Monthly Program Report The Friends' of the Library opened their Pilot Bookstore out of the Pink House and here are some opening day photos: Por Townsend PuNE Library February 2023 Monthly Program Report Book Lovers' C CeFebruar mad with asc?ensho of the book dub meeting via Zoom: Port Townsend Public Library February 2023 Monthly Program Report ��f j rf�/✓r i/ �` II 1 a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library February 2023 Monthly Program Report Monthly Programs .. 111MENNiMEM Book Lovers 1St Mondays Melody Adult 9 Friends Cafe Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishi uro Fiber Arts Night 1St Kathi Adult 7 Library Wednesdays Spice Kits 2nd Kathi Adult 50 Friends Tuesdays Digital Equity Thursdays Jamie Adult 4 = Classes JCL Navigator: Pena offered Thursday Tech (Internet Help and Basic Basics: Computer Tabs and Classes Bookmarks, Search Terms, Search Results, and Control Shortcuts) 14 = total number of class participants WSU Master 1St Tuesdays WSU Adult 7 WSU Gardeners Volunteer Plant Clinics Preschool Tuesdays Emily, 3-6 yr. 38 Friends Storytime Paige, and Judith Toddler Wednesdays Emily and 18 months- 34 Friends Storytime Judith 3 yr. Port Townsend Public Library February 2023 Monthly Program Report Baby Storytime Wednesdays Emily and 0-18 38 Friends Paige months Sing -a -Ling 3rd Thursday Keeth 0-6 yr. 30 Friends Apgar Salish After Wednesdays Paige Elementary 69 Friends Hours Students & Families LEGO Club 2nd Mondays Emily 7-12 yr. 30 Friends Bufford Special Events Date: February 15 Presenter: Theresa Chedoen, Harpist Intended Age: All ages Attendance 100 Location: Library- downstairs and Pink House Sponsored By: Friends Description: a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library February 2023 Monthly Program Report Come to the library for an open house. Enjoy live music, Valentine crafts, and light refreshments. A quorum of Council may be present. Comments: I The Lego club followed the Valentine theme on that day: Valentine making station: a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library February 2023 Monthly Program Report Date: February 15 Presenter: Mary Lou Sanelli Intended Age: Adults Attendance 15 Location: Pink House Sponsored By: Friends Description: ���� X,.i ,I1V ._. '"""""".4".Ar *4_4,.,., Join us in the Pink House for a Reading and Author Talk with Local Author, Mary Lou Sanelli. She will read and discuss her new release Every Little Thing: Small Breakthroughs, Big Mistakes, Endless Lessons, which was nominated for a 2022 Washington State Book Award. "In Every Little Thing: Small Breakthroughs, Big Mistakes, Endless Lessons, Sanelli proves that a narrative essay can be wise and vulnerable and nail what matters most in our lives, all in the same breath. No one tells -truth with more heart, humor, and accountability. With a voice that speaks of life as it is everyday lived—with joy, calm, worry, and alarm—Sanelli manages to write lyrically in warm, accessible language. One can learn so much from a writer who, wherever she goes she takes her readers along with her, her experiences becoming theirs, as well. These writings will make you miss the Northwest even if you've never been there. Gliding on sentences smooth as stone with the brightness of the author's enthusiasm, this book will delight, challenge, reassure, and steer any reader toward a higher capacity to expand life's smallest moments into our arandest triumbhs. 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Monique Gray Smith's loving young adult adaption of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass helped bring comfort, joy, hope, gratitude, kindness, connections, and new uplifting perspectives for our community which was needed after three years of being in a pandemic. The library received excellent press coverage and plentiful comments of deep appreciation from the community for a book for teens that also spoke to adults. Offering books that appealed to kids, teens, and adults helped bring everyone together. Monique Gray Smith presented to schools and many students were able to read the books. The students deeply connected with her and we consider her talks to be the most successful we have had at the schools in recent memory. The library was able to partner with the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe and offer a special meet and great for tribal elders and at the Dungeness River Nature Center. Many copies of the book were also given to Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe to be shared with teens through the tribal library. This was our first year to have the Meet the Author talk at the Northwest Maritime Center and the venue was perfect. The Port Gamble Tribe came and gave Monique's talk a special blessing and welcome that Monique said was, "good medicine." With over 1330 attendees the program had more attendance than some past in person Community Reads, which is incredibly gratifying. This year we had nearly 1000 books circulating through the community as well. Having a special PTFF Indigenous animation film screening at The Rose Theatre, community based art in the library with Northwind Art, and a permanent StoryWalk all added to wonderful in person programs. This program was such a success thanks to the Friends of the Library and Library Foundation! a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library March 2023 Monthly Program Report Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things --from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen --provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth's oldest teachers: the plants around us. With informative sidebars, reflection questions, and art from illustrator Nicole Neidhardt, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults brings Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation. Monique Gray Smith is an award winning, bestselling author, and professional consultant. She has written eight books including Speaking our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation, My Heart Fills with Happiness, You Hold Me Up, Lucy and Lola, Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, and When We Are Kind. Monique's most recent novel, Tilly and the Crazy Eights, was long listed for Canada Reads 2021. Monique is Cree, Lakota, and Scottish. She lives in British Columbia, Canada, with her teenage twins. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Her first book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. Her writings have appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. Nicole Neidhardt is a Dine (Navajo) artist of Kiiyaa'aanii clan. She received her MFA from OCAD University in Toronto, Ontario, and a bachelor of fine arts with a business minor from the University of Victoria. She is the cofounder of the Innovative Young Indigenous Leaders Symposium, alongside Gina Mowatt, and is the cofounder of Groundswell Climate Collective, a group that is fighting the climate crisis through resiliency and artwork. She currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library March 2023 Monthly Program Report Communitylead 2022 Program and Circulation Statistics Program Attendance Date Book Lovers' Cafe 15 3/6/2023 Native Peoples of the Olympic Pen. Trunk from JCHS 100 3/1-3/31 StoryWalk— When We Are Kind 300 3/1-3/31 Seeds Are Postcards from the Land 100 3/1-3/31 Artist Talk with Nicole Neidhardt 20 3/9/2023 Community Book Discussion at The Castle 12 3/16/2023 cicmehan Trail Walk 15 3/18/2023 PTFF Indigenous Screening at the Rose Theatre 100 3/25/2023 Meet the Author, Monique Gray Smith 100 3/28/2023 Dungeness Talk 70 3/27/2023 School visits Blue Heron 300 3/28/2023 High School 200 3/28/2023 Total Attendance 1332 Total Books Circulating in the community 1,000 Thank you to out incredible sponsors: Friends of the Port Townsend Library, The Port Townsend Public Library Foundation, and our community partners: Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, Native Connections Action Group of the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, the Port Townsend Film Festival, The Rose Theatre, Northwest Maritime Center, Imprint Books, Port Townsend School District, Port Townsend Jefferson County Leader, Peninsula Daily News, Northwind Art, and KPTZ 91.9 FM. a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library March 2023 Monthly Program Report Zoom artist talk with Nicole Neidhardt Port Townsend Public Library March 2023 Monthly Program Report '\X/IW YOUN FQBBON SKIVIT WANI AUPENOSAUNEE NKs Cji\/Ner�I* our mimis togetker as one T as Vve scrid gree6nrs and tkaAs to N�I vae WIN M purily the )nim "100 q, 1-414 4, ��)„rmmke, d”I ,'0" (t }Q t6t A 1:1N, .............. ........... 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Baby Storytime Wednesdays Emily and 0-18 47 Friends Paige months Sing -a -Ling 3rd Thursday Keeth Apgar 0-6 yr. 24 Friends Salish After Hours Wednesdays Paige Elementary 81 Friends Students & Families LEGO Club 2nd Mondays Emily 7-12 yr. 18 Friends Bufford Teen Space Wednesdays Emily 13-18 3 Friends a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library March 2023 Monthly Program Report Additional Special Events 1101MM1011MEM Date: 3/8/2023 Presenter: Emily Bufford Intended Age: Teens Attendance 4 Location: Pink House Sponsored By: FOL Description: Join us for an afternoon hangout with friends! Eat free pizza, play Nintendo Switch games, and learn about upcoming library programs for teens. Event will be held in the Pink House from 1:30pm-3:30pm. Open to grades 7-12. Comments: In March, we launched our weekly Teen Space program. We started this new program series with a "Teen Pizza Party" program. We had 4 teens attend this program. They enjoyed eating pizza, hanging out, and playing Mario Kart and Smash. We have heard positive feedback from parents/teens interested in this program, and grateful to have some additional spaces available for teens in the community. Our teen volunteer, Piper, designed several interactive boards for display at the program. They featured fun questions like "Would you rather?" 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Connectivity Fair on April 16 at Blue Heron The Friends were invited to have a booth at the first ever Connectivity Fair. The event was well attended and received. As described in the Friends invitation: "this event is co-produced by The Jefferson County Land Trust, Skillmation Mentoring, Local 20/20, and a collection of other community -minded individuals with an aim to rocket us all out of our pandemic isolation and remind us how strong we are when we all pull together!" Color Code: Adult Programs, Green= Kid's Programs, Purple=Teen Programs, Red= Monthly Programs, Wuee= All Ages Programs a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library April 2023 Monthly Program Report Monthly Programs Book Lovers Cafe 1St Mondays Melody Adult 10 Friends Where the Crawdad's Sing by Delia Owens Fiber Arts Night 1 St Kathi Adults 6 Friends Wednesdays Spice Kits 2nd Kathi Adult Friends Tuesda s Digital Equity Thursdays Jamie Pena Adult 10 Jefferson Navigator: Thursday County Tech Help and Basic Library Computer Classes Preschool Storytime Tuesdays Emily, 3-6 yr. 72 FOL Paige, and Judith Toddler Storytime Wednesdays Emily and 18 months- 40 FOL Judith 3 yr. Baby Storytime Wednesdays Emily and 0-18 14 FOL Paige months Sing -a -Ling 3rd Thursday Keeth Apgar 0-6 yr. 24 FOL Salish After Hours Wednesdays Paige Elementary 47 FOL Students & Families LEGO Club 2nd Mondays Emily 7-12 yr. 12 FOL Bufford Teen Space Wednesdays Emily 13-18 yr. 3 FOL Farmers Market 1St Judith 3-6 yr. 18 FOL Storytime Saturdays a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library April 2023 Monthly Program Report Special Events Date: April 4 Presenter: The Library Foundation Intended Age: Adults Attendance 40+ Location: Online and in person Sponsored By: The Library Foundation Description: 0 Library G 10 1 Vrn , 1 SR Library Giving Day is Tuesday, April 4! The Port Townsend Public Library is without a doubt one of the best places in Port Townsend. It provides services to kids, families, and the young and the old. But occasionally, our Library needs some help from generous people like you. That's why we at the Library Foundation are excited to announce that our Library will participate in the 2023 Library Giving Day campaign, a one -day online fundraising event on Tuesday, April 4. Please help us reach this year's Library Giving Day goal: $1,000 in a single day to help us with our next Community Read book purchase. Comments: This was our most successful Library Giving Day with over 40 donors donatina a arand total of $4.419 a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library April 2023 Monthly Program Report Date: April 18 Presenter: Sheila Bender Intended Age: Adults Attendance 15 Location: Pink House Sponsored By: Friends Description: Comments: Since Teen Join us for a wonderful talk with local author and poet Sheila Bender! Sheila Bender is the author of other books including A New Theology: Turning to Poetry in a Time of Grief, Sorrow's Words: Writing Exercises to Heal Grief, and Writing Personal Essays: Shaping and Sharing Your Life Experiences. a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library April 2023 Monthly Program Report Date: April 19 Presenter: Daniella Chace Intended Age: Adults Attendance 5 Location: Pink House Sponsored By: Library Description: 00 =101 160 W"I with Daniella Chace Daniella Chace, MSC, CN, is a nationally -recognized clinical practitioner, author and educator. Her vision is to empower people to improve their health with informed food choices. She is the host of the Nutrition Matters, a National Public Radio show covering health topics including nutrigenomics, toxins, microbes, epigenetics, and whole foods nutrition. She will discuss her books and research on healing breast cancer. Comments: Daniella has offered this talk a couple of times over the years and even though this was lower attendance it gave the author more time to connect with her audience indeoth. a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library April 2023 Monthly Program Report Date: 4/3/2023 Presenter: Emily Bufford Intended Age: Ages 3-12 Attendance 6 Location: Children's Room Sponsored By: FOL Description: Join us for an afternoon of stories and letter writing! We will be reading a short picture book about kindness and then working on letters for the Library's "Dear Friend: Letter Writing Campaign." Letters will be delivered to our home library patrons and local assisted living facilities. Comments: In honor of National Letter Writing Month, we encouraged Port Townsend community members to write letters to homebound and senior members of the community. In addition to the Letter Writing Program held on April 3rd, we also provided letter writing materials in the Children's Room of the library. Kids and their parents worked on letters together and we received a range of heartwarming, thoughtful, and funny letters and drawings. These were delivered to San Juan Villa Memory Care. Our StoryWalk title was DearAbuelo, the story of a young child who has recently moved to the United States and writes letters back to her grandfather in Mexico. The last pedestal featured additional books about letter writing and kindness. We also created a display of books about letter writing and kindness in the Children's Room. These books circulated well and were enjoyed by families. a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library April 2023 Monthly Program Report a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library April 2023 Monthly Program Report IMENNOMMMEMM Date: 4/30/2023 Presenter: Emily Bufford, Natalia Duran, JCIRA Staff Intended Age: All Ages Attendance 29 Location: JCIRA Multicultural Center Sponsored By: FOL, JCIRA Description: Port Townsend Public Library celebrates multicultural literacy through El dia de los ninos/EI dia de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day). Join us for an afternoon of songs, stories, activities, and crafts at the new JCIRA Multicultural Center. We will be reading and enjoying stories in English, Spanish, and Korean. Snacks will be provided. Location: The JCIRA Multicultural Center: 2328 Washington Street, Port Townsend WA, 98368 CELEBRACION DEL DIA DEL NINO, DIA DEL LIBRO 30 DE ABRIL, 13.00 H iOnase a nosotros para una celebracion del Dia del Nino / Dia del Libro! Nuestros socios de la comunidad de JCIRA ( Defensores de los derechos de los Inmigrantes del Condado de Jefferson ) se uniran a nosotros para una tarde de canciones, cuentos y actividades en Ingles, Espanol y otras lenguas. LA BIBLIOTECA PUBLICA DE PORT TOWNSEND CELEBRA LA LITERATURA MULTICULTURAL A TRAVES Del DIA DEL NINO / DIA DEL LIBRO Lugar: Centro Multicultural de JCIRA Direccion: 2328 Calle Washington (junto al Restaurant Hacienda Tizapan) About EI dia de los ninos/EI dia de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day) a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library April 2023 Monthly Program Report EI dia de los ninos/EI dia de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day), commonly known as Dia, is a celebration every day of children, families, and reading that culminates yearly on April 30. The celebration emphasizes the importance of literacy for children of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Dia is a nationally recognized initiative that emphasizes the importance of literacy for all children from all backgrounds. It is a daily commitment to linking children and their families to diverse books, languages and cultures. The common goals of all Dia programming are to: • Celebrate children and connect them to the world of learning through books, stories and libraries. • Nurture cognitive and literacy development in ways that honor and embrace a child's home language and culture. • Introduce families to community resources that provide opportunities for learning through multiple literacies. • Recognize and respect culture, heritage and language as powerful tools for strengthening families and communities. Comments: I want to begin by expressing my gratitude to all the staff members at JCIRA. Natalia, Libby, and Miriam all played an essential role in helping to create this program and turn it into such a joyous event. I feel incredibly privileged to have been a part of this event, and I look forward to partnering with JCIRA again in the future. The event started out with opportunities for community members to connect and tour the new JCIRA Multicultural Center. There were snacks and activities for kids and families including facepainting and letter writing. The second part of the event was structured after a library story. Natalia talked about the importance of coming together and honoring the different identities and cultures found in our community and the role literacy plays in this process. I led us through our welcome song, and taught some basic ASL signs including "hello," "friend," "time" and "say." We talked about how the song incorporated two separated languages: English and ASL. Then Natalia and I read Book Fiesta!: Celebrate Children's Day/Book Day, Celebremos EI dia de los ninos/EI dia de los libros by Pat Mora in Spanish and English. After that various community members took turns reading in different languages. A mom and her son read together with the son reading in Japanese and the mom translating to English. One of my favorite moments was the 86 year old grandmother who read a story about the Chinese zodiacs in Chinese and asked me to read the English translation. She started a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library April 2023 Monthly Program Report out by telling the children more about culture and talked about the importance of reading together. We also built in time for singing and music. Natalia wrote a Spanish translation of "You Are My Sunshine" and sang it with her daughter and Libby. We also passed out egg shakers and Natalia played the guitar. All in all, this was a wonderful and impactful event. I look forward to doing it again next year! Por Townsend PuNE Library April ZOZ3Monthly Program Report a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library April 2023 Monthly Program Report Summer Reading Outreach a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library May 2023 Monthly Program Report During the month of May, we took a break from many of our recurring programs in order to focus on Summer Reading promotion. Emily worked closely with Joy Wentzel to identify forms of outreach that would have the highest level of impact at each school. Outreach included school assemblies, class visits, field trips to the library. Emily attended two school assemblies at Salish Coast Elementary, reaching over 500 students. During these school assemblies she shared a short video featuring footage of students answering questions about the library. Students responded to the following questions "What do you like most about the library?" "What are some of your favorite books?" "What are you most excited for this Summer?" Students enjoyed seeing their classmates featured in the video, and were very excited to hear about upcoming programs at the library. Additionally, over the course of a week, Emily reached over 300 students through class visits at Blue Herron Middle School. She also met with students participating in the OCEAN program. Finally, she coordinated with Joy Wentzel and Virginia Grace in organizing a field trip and tour of the public library for 5 classes of high school students. Over a 150 high schoolers enjoyed hearing about upcoming teen programs and learning about new areas of the collection including Nintendo Switch games, comic books, and the Unusual Items Collection. Overall, these outreach visits were highly successful, and Emily is hoping to continue to expand our reach by including local private schools and homeschool groups next year. a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library May 2023 Monthly Program Report Pictures from May's Sing -a -Ling: a'y� 4'a7rr dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library May 2023 Monthly Program Report Return to the Rhody Parade! The Friends, Melody Sky Weaver & Emily Bufford and volunteers marched in the Grand Rhododendron Parade to wonderful applause. 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Baby Storytime Wednesdays Emily and 0-18 5 FOL Paige months Sing -a -Ling 3rd Thursday Keeth 0-6 yr. 38 FOL Apgar Salish After Hours Wednesdays Paige Elementary 63 FOL Students & Families LEGO Club 2nd Mondays Emily 7-12 yr. 15 FOL Bufford Teen Space Wednesdays Emily 13-18 2 FOL Bufford Farmers Market 1St Judith 0-6 16 FOL Storytime Saturdays a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library May 2023 Monthly Program Report Special Events Date: May 10 Presenter: Corky Parker Intended Age: Adults Attendance 30 Location: Pink House Sponsored By: Friends Description: 1L.,O, Lwg, wwo L111 -do, Tlpq e eyl, flk'iFn4p Rrfl4,vd +at.uw✓m8;�.0 mmNV roe¢' wN puB�i For those daydreaming of summer and sunny days, join us at the Port Townsend Public Library's Pink House for an amazing talk with local author, Corky Parker! Her most recent work, La Finca, is the Book Lover's Cafe read for the month of June. Get a sneak preview here! Corky Parker will lead a book reading and discussion in person, about her book La Finca; which is the 2022 Nancy Pearl Award Winner for Memoir. "La Finca is the story of my inn, on Puerto Rico's Vieques Island, a special little corner of the world, and how much it taught me over 20 -odd Years. " a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library May 2023 Monthly Program Report Corky Parker will discuss her experiences as an author, her life in Puerto Rico, the line between artist and author, and following your dreams. Corky Parker grew up in Northern California; Sonoma County and Berkeley in the 60's. And although she never went to a traditional high school, she was given a scholarship to Bennington College, where she studied environmental economics and served on its Board of Trustees after graduating in 1977. For much of Parker's career she was creative director for a small creative team she started in Seattle, writing and designing environmental public awareness and corporate marketing films. In 1996 she started La Finca Caribe, an offbeat, "eco -inn" on Puerto Rico's Vieques Island, which she and her family ran for nearly 25 years. Around that She has also been on air public radio announcer, helping KSKA, the public radio station in Anchorage, Done corporate sustainability work in the online retail world, had a small gelato shop in Fremont and owned a small organic sheep farm on Marrowstone. But, Writing and creative design has been integrated into all of her work, which (whether in film, corporate carbon footprint reduction programs or eco -hospitality) has received accolades in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Seattle Times, Outside, Lonely Planet, Gourmet and China's People's Daily, and won various national and international awards. her website is corkyparker.com Her book, La Finca is a lively graphic memoir about a woman creating a new life amid countless challenges, including hurricanes that led her to reconsider everything. It is a story about trusting oneself, self-discovery, accepting disappointment and loss, and falling in love with a place. At age forty, Parker surrendered to her Swept Away meets Swiss Family Robinson fantasy of running an inn far from her home on Vashon Island . For the next twenty -plus years Corky lived out her dreams of running La Finca Caribe, — an eco -lodge in Vieques, Puerto Rico. What started as a rough-and-tumble dream grew into a destination enjoyed by guests from around the world. a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library May 2023 Monthly Program Report Sketchbook in hand, Parker chronicled her daily adventures living with the land. Years later went on to write and illustrate how many more which was recent Winner, of the Nancy Pearl Award for Memoir, and the University Presses Book & Cover Design Award Comments: Email from Corky Parker after the event: Hey Paige, Want to thank you again for last night's reading. I've done quite a few of those by now, and I have to say that was one of the all-time best. I guess it was the culmination of your organization before hand and just the easy way with which you set things up and introduced it all All around it made folks comfortable and the whole thing fun. So —Thank you! Thanks again!! corky. a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library May 2023 Monthly Program Report Description: Join us for readings from the book, questions and discussion. Daniel Deardorff's The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture and Psyche is an initiatory journey through ancient myths, wisdom literature, and personal revelation. Having survived disabling polio as an infant, Deardorff knew well the oppressions of exclusion, outsiderhood, and the betrayals endured by all who are ifothered." His book guides us to discover our own true identity and honor the "other" that lives within each of us and within society, the exiled part that carries wisdom so desperately needed for ourselves and the culture at large. Originally published in 2004, this new 3rd edition published by Inner Traditions on November 8, 2022, includes commentaries by Robert Bly, Martin Shaw, and Robert Simmons and words from Judith -Kate Friedman. I �p ;//yv r ::ii.i .irn. it it coil. ii irn ::c irri/lb lk /.�I� .:::: h ir::::wil.�lh�.iiim Deardorff (1952-2019) was also a musician and a beloved long- time resident of Port Townsend, WA. Comments: Port Townsend Public Library May 2023 Monthly Program Report Date: May 10 Presenter: Lisa Steph and Melody Sky Weaver Intended Age: Adults Attendance 10 Location: Avamere Retirement Community Sponsored By: Avamere and the Library Description: Avamere wanted to start a book club for their residents and they decided to read The Grapes of Wrath as their first book as they all enjoyed reading the classes. Melody helped them start their first book club and will come back to visit a couple of times a vear. Comments: I The newly formed Avamere Book Club nui�rr�ir a�� 4'a7�r dirumura "�"�� Port Townsend Public Library May 2023 Monthly Program Report Date: 5/6/2023 Presenter: Port Townsend Police Department, Port Townsend Library, East Jefferson Fire and Rescue, Broken Spoke, Port Townsend School District, The Marine Science Center, and S3 Training. Intended Age: Kids & Families Attendance 50+ Location: Blue Herron Middle School Sponsored By: PTPD and the Library and Community Partners Description: Learn the rules of the road, do some bike safety checks, and practice bike skills by participating in a bike rodeo with the Port Townsend Police Department. Join the Port Townsend Library for fun stories and activities. Volunteers from the Marine Science Center and the Broken Spoke will be teaching bike cleaning and repair. East Jefferson Fire and Rescue will be giving out free helmets. Comments: What a fun and engaging event! Officer Kamal Sherif was responsible for organizing the Bike Rodeo and deserves a huge shout out for his vision and expertise. I am so excited to see this idea become an annual event for our community. It was so special seeing so many community organizations come together in support of this event. The Port Townsend Police Department set up several obstacle courses to designed to help kids learn the rules of the road and practice responding to various road signs. East Jefferson Fire and Rescue gave out free helmets. I set up a table with various bike related stories and activities for families to engage with. 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