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Home My WebLink About12/2/2013 - Board of Library Trustees (17) 1 NEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY To: Board of Library Trustees From: Tim Hetherton, Acting Library Services Director Re: Report of Library Activities ____________________________________________________________________________________ TIM HETHERTON, LIBRARY SERVICES DIRECTOR (ACTING)/TECHNICAL PROC. COORD. Lucille Kuehn Former Mayor, Councilwoman, and Library Trustee Lucille Kuehn passed away last week. Mrs. Kuehn was a strong supporter of the Library and we are forever indebted to her determined efforts to benefit the community with a first class Central Library. Staffing The Library has hired new staff for some key positions. Leah Duffy began training in her new role as a part-time clerk on Monday, October 21. Leah has been working as a Page for the last year. On November 2, Annika Helmuth also joined the Circulation team as a part-time Clerk. Pages Julie McCarthy and David Kong also started their positions earlier in November. We are also in the process of recruiting two part-time Library Assistants for the Mariners Branch Library. Lynda.com The Library offers a great service for self-directed learning in the Media Suite called Lynda.com. Lynda.com is an online training resource that utilizes video tutorials. It allows Library users to both refresh their skills or learn something new. The databases include 2,263 courses and more are added every week. The tutorials are conducted by industry experts carefully selected for their background and expertise. The newest course offerings in Lynda.com include: Blogging Strategies for Musicians and Bands Content Marketing Fundamentals Data-Driven Presentations with Excel and PowerPoint Increasing Your Creativity at Work Motivating and Engaging Employees Rescuing Troubled Projects Revit MEP 2014 Essential Training Foundations of Layout and Composition Foundations of Typography: Color, Contrast, and Scale Print Production Essentials: Packaging Architectural Photography: Exteriors Photographing Jewelry Video Production Techniques: Location Lighting JavaScript for Web Designers Up and Running with Bootstrap 3 2 DEBBIE WALKER, BRANCH AND YOUTH SERVICES COORDINATOR Branches October was steadily busy at all locations. Special children’s related programs included “Monster Madness” at Mariners, a “Spooktacular” event at Balboa and “Not-too-Spooky Crafts” for the CDM craft club. Additional shelves were added to the DVD and Children’s kit areas at Balboa which allowed them to shift and better display those collections. On the personnel side, part-time Library Assistant Jason Bensley gave his notice and left employment at Mariners on October 29th. Recruitment to fill Jason and Christine Chapel’s positions will take place in November. In the meantime, staffing for Mariners to fill scheduling holes has been supplied by Central Adult Reference and Children’s services staff. CDM was closed for the day on Thursday, October 17 due to a planned power outage by Southern California Edison. Staff was deployed to Central and Mariners. Kristin, the Library Assistant at Balboa, presented a “Groovin with Pete the Cat” program this month. What made the program unique was the incorporation of iPads as part of the planned activities. Traditional crafts and book reading were part of the afternoon but the iPads and the story video they offered added an extra dimension to the event. Youth services staff at the other branch locations will work with Kristin to help plan future events that incorporate this technology. The School Book Fair at Mariners Elementary was held on November 18 – 22 and just yesterday the PTA presented the library with $3000. This is about four times the amount they have given the library in the recent past. Heather Hart, Branch Librarian at Mariners will use it to purchase fiction and non-fiction materials for the Children’s collection. Youth Services The Craft Club theme at Central was “Boo Blast Craft Club.” Forty-two adults and children enjoyed Halloween stories and crafts. On Saturday, October 19, in conjunction with the special Syd Hoff exhibit, Carol Edmonston, Syd Hoff’s niece, was a special guest at the Family Storytime. Carol talked about her uncle, his artwork and his legacy of children’s materials, including Danny and the Dinosaur. After Carol spoke and fielded questions, a costumed dinosaur made a surprise visit to round out the special event. The children in attendance were delighted and most posed with the dinosaur to have their pictures taken. Storytimes at Central continue to attract larger numbers. This may be in response to the room expansion but we are very happy to welcome the larger crowds. On November 3 well-known children’s author Cornelia Funke presented visited the library to talk about her writing process, answer questions and sign books for excited readers and fans. David Shannon, well-known picture book author (the No David! series and many others), read his latest book Bugs in My Hair!, made drawings and talked about his process and writings on November 17. This program was held in the Children’s room and attracted over 160 attendees. Both events were part of the Making Memories Series that is sponsored by the Library Foundation. Youth Services staff, with funding from the Friends, hosted a Princess Tea Party on Wednesday, November 13. Cinderella came in costume to the delight of the 112 people in attendance. She read her story, sang songs and posed for pictures with adoring fans. Crafts and refreshments rounded out the special afternoon event. 3 Teen Services YAAC met on October 9. In addition to brainstorming about potential programming, special guests from a local high school spoke to the group about TEDxYouth events. These are independently organized groups and events, licensed by the TED conference and designed along the same lines as the annual TED events. On November 6 the library presented “The Whole Package College Planning Workshop.” This program was done in conjunction with Kaplan. YAAC met in November to work on Teen booklists and brainstorm on names that would be appealing to readers. The council members also spent a large portion of the meeting time in the Media Lab improvising some pictures and video clips that might possibly be used for advertising. The YAAC members were impressed with the lab and what it had to offer. MELISSA KELLY, SUPPORT SERVICES COORDINATOR Photographs The architects were back during the first week of November to take more pictures of the Civic Center Plaza at various times of the day and night. HVAC Repairs The repairs were completed and staff received training on the new monitoring software. So far everything seems to be working well. Exterior Lighting We had a couple of the lights in the Bamboo Courtyard converted over to work on a photocell rather than a timer. This is help illuminate the area in the morning so staff is not arriving in the dark. We have one staff member starting work at 6:00am on week days to open the building for the Bistro staff. Circulation In November Annika Helmuth started in the position of Part-Tim Library Clerk at the Central Library. We also have two new Library Pages, David and Julie. They will be filling open positions at the Central Library and Mariners. Literacy The Literacy program will have the annual Holiday Potluck lunch on Saturday, December 7th at the Central Library. This is a fun event for the learners, tutors and volunteers in the program. This is also an annual business meeting for Newport Mesa Pro Literacy. The new officers of the NMPL Board will be elected and one of the tutors will be honored as “Volunteer of the Year” for the group. The slate of officers for Newport Mesa Pro Literacy is: Jason Brady President Kate Besch Vice President Karen Letterman Secretary Reginald Peterson Treasurer 4 NATALIE BASMACIYAN, ADULT SERVICES COORDINATOR What’s Cooking? Event Chef Geeta Bansal from Irvine’s Clay Oven restaurant demonstrated classic Indian cooking techniques and shared samples of her dishes. 70 people enjoyed the program. Manuscripts Book Discussion Group 40 people attended the book group to discuss NW by Zadie Smith. NW delves into the lives and challenges of a group of friends from an impoverished section of London. Sunday Musicale The Sunday Musicale featured Duo Ondine, consisting of flutist Boglarka Kiss and harpist Alison Bjorkedal. Recently selected by the Beverly Hills Auditions as one of the top chamber groups in Los Angeles, the duo played some music by Bach as well as some of early twentieth century as well as modern selections. Interesting and personable, they spoke about the pieces they were playing as well as their instruments. 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