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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…
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Director’s Thoughts – 05/20/2020
It’s been a few months since I posted about our staff training day back in February. And so much has changed! Our library has been closed to the public since March 13 and it will be a bit longer before we can even begin to bring our staff into the…
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Director’s Thoughts – 02/19/2020
Staff training, two words that strike fear into the hearts of many an employee. But, that’s where I was yesterday, standing in front of staff leading my third-annual staff training. Background But first, a little background. I have a staff that ranges from 45-50 employees, ten of whom are full-time.…
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Director's Thoughts #12 – Office Space (or Mantras to Work By)
My office has some fairly hideous carpet – dark green border with a pale lilac faded interior color, which makes decorating my office extremely difficult, but what I did find were some of these absolutely adorable children’s book posters that I use as my director mantras (it also helps that…
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Director's Thoughts #11 – Marketing
Our township has a quarterly publication that promotes the township departments and we usually have a little space in it. For the summer, I made sure to include the information about the summer reading program as well as where we are in our strategic planning process. I strongly believe in…
