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Director’s Thoughts – 3/23/2023
It’s all about staff training! And at a time when public libraries are actively under attack with book challenges, staff training has never been more important. Due to COVID, our usual staff training was put on the back burner. But I felt like this year, we were finally able to…
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Director’s Thoughts – 1/23/2023
My Director’s Thoughts posts are back! I just realized that I haven’t posted one of these since December of 2021. I’m not sure what I was doing last year, but I didn’t write a single post about being a library director. So, my goal for 2023 is to create a…
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Director’s Thoughts – 12/15/2021
It’s that time of year when there are sweet treats all over the library from staff and patrons alike! After a cookie baking marathon, I brought in cookies for my staff and my Board this week which was a lot of fun. And today, I’m handing out my end-of-the-year appreciation…
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Director’s Thoughts – 11/4/2021
Just as I felt the tiniest of weight lifted off my (very) tired shoulders, our budget has to be approved by our Township Board of Supervisors. My library is a department of our local government, unlike a nonprofit library. And honestly, until the past couple of years, the budget season…
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Director’s Thoughts – 9/15/2021
I survived summer reading! But, there isn’t really a better way to say it. We’ve run out of space! We moved into our current space in the late 1980s after vacating a much smaller location. In 2007-08 a feasibility study showed that we had in essence run out of space.…
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Director’s Thoughts – 6/25/2021
It’s been almost six months since I’ve written a Director’s Thoughts post. As you can imagine, life has continued to throw us curveballs and I’m happy to say that I’m still standing at the plate (how’s that for a sports metaphor?) We officially started our Summer Reading Program on Monday…
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Slice of Life Day 9: Meetings Week
Every month it seems that the stars perfectly align that I have a meetings week where all my monthly meetings fall in the same week. It’s absolutely ridiculous! And it’s also very hard to get anything else accomplished when I’m sitting in a meeting almost every day of the week.…
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Slice of Life Day 4: Dependence on Email
How did people communicate before email? Being in my mid-30s, email has been around for pretty much my whole life. And honestly, I couldn’t imagine life without it! My dependence on email for work was more than apparent than ever when I sent out three in quick succession! With a…
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Director’s Thoughts – 12/30/2020
The last time I posted a Director’s Thoughts, it was the day after we opened to the public in September. Where do I even begin? Before the virus hit, we were working on hiring a couple of part-time staff members and had a staff of almost 50 individuals working anywhere…
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Director’s Thoughts – 9/9/2020
The last Director’s Thoughts post I wrote was back in May. Where do I even begin? From mid-June through August we offered curbside pickup at our library while planning for reopening. And today, for the first time in almost six months there were patrons in our library! It was so…
