Director’s Report Tuesday 8/14/18
Vision: Springfield Town Library: a community
hub for growth, connection, and discovery.
Mission: The Springfield Town Library serves
as the heart of our town. We connect people, ideas, and endeavors of all kinds.
Together, we honor our heritage and embrace the future. We transform lives.
Updates
·
Fire alarm upgrades, passed; Family Room,
Children’s Room(CR) waiting for shelves, seating
·
Dick Hurd upholstered tub; Pat Graves
replacing men’s ties on banner over CR entrance
·
CR seeing plenty of use for adult programs,
M-F free lunch site, extra seating
·
Library feels full, with people missing the
Flinn Room; New Wi-Fi signal improved upstairs
·
Slight uptick in anxious behavior; notified
the SPD, rehearsed no trespass procedure
·
Vermontel email phishing scams, STL and Town
accounts. Vermontel aware
Financial
·
Ended the year in good shape; plan report for
the board when agenda is shorter
·
Considering major expenditure for Checkpoint
·
Catamount Library Network budget approved for
presentation 8/14; cost dip for STL
Recent Press
·
Good press from Sabrina Smith in the
Springfield Reporter 7/10
·
Article by Bill Lockwood on the Promise
Community Grant in the Eagle Times 7/30
·
Karen Engdahl interviewing Erin Rounds and Charlotte’s Bones (8/8) for the Shopper
·
STL participated in VPR “Summer Reading” show
8/13/18
Coming Events
·
VT Humanities picked STL for Katherine
Paterson Bread and Roses Too talk,
9/26 at the High School; sole southern Vermont site for her talk. VT Reads book
for the UU Church this summer as STL collaboration; will continue this fall
with events around labor, and history; Riverside involvement
·
September plans: Library Card Sign-Up Month, Banned
Books Week (Sept 23-29), national Library Voter Registration Day. Library card
drive major part of our strategic plan
·
Summer reading program ended 8/10; major
celebration with books, fossils, ice cream
·
Lunch program ends 8/17; appears more
successful than last year. This week, 14 lunches
·
Gems Rock, Thursday, 8/9 with Van Bargen’s
Darlyn Walker
·
Rick Hunter display on the Springfield
Telescope Makers in the lobby case for August
·
Town curb project and Town Riverwalk display,
maps and blocks and cars to look at
FOSTL
updates
·
Friends
participated in Sidewalk Sales 8/11, next to Library STEM activities
·
Sandy Richardson presented information on
501c3 application, under consideration
·
501c3 makes tax benefit very clear; would
expand grants STL could apply for
·
VT Welcome Centers require 501c3 for groups
that offer refreshments for donations
·
FOSTL strongly endorses celebrating STL
founding in 1819 with 200th next year