Greetings
from the California Area Public Library
How time flies! As we all recover from the rigors of the
holidays and finish off the last of the leftover cookies it is time to reflect
and plan how to forge ahead in the New Year.
I am just finishing up my first
year here as the library director and what a year it has been. Most of my time has been spent on learning
the day to day operations of the library and getting to know the community. My goal was to see what the library had to
offer, what more we could do and how we fit into the lives of the people. At this point I have a fairly good idea to
those answers. Before I get into that I
wanted to let you know what we have accomplished this past year.
In 2011 we have invested heavily in
three large projects. The first was
updating our facility. We were able to
renovate our office space increasing efficiency and work space that was
welcomed by the employees. Technology
was another goal of ours. We have been
fortunate enough to upgrade equipment creating a more stable system
in-house. We now have a total of eight
computers that are available publicly to our patrons along with projection
equipment they can utilize. In cooperation
with the Washington County Library System we will be making e-books available
through OverDrive. Patrons will be able
to borrow e-books and audio books 24 hours a day to the device of their choice
with a valid library card. We also have
e-Book readers available here for our patrons to use. The last project was serving the children of
the community. By focusing our efforts
we had more children attending and participating in our Summer Reading and
Story Time programs. This was all in
addition to adding new employees, expanding our collection and serving our
patrons in more traditional ways.
So what is in store for us in 2012?
This year I have three goals;
providing more services and programing, creating relationships with
organizations to help promote those services and finally increasing community
participation. We are in the process of planning programs for both children and
adults. We are planning classes on
computers and health and would love to see the return of the book club. We are hoping to partner with local
organizations to help provide content that you are interested in. We are hoping to forge stronger relationships
with area schools and see how we can help them achieve their goals. Lastly, we are hoping to develop more
community participation with the library.
We have a number of ways to be involved; if you are interested on
serving on our board, joining our Friends of the library group, volunteering
regularly, helping us teach a class or accomplish a short term project let us
know.
~Brian
K. Dawson
Library Director
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