November 2009

Programs

• In November, the La Puente Library offered young adults a photo book design program, a silk-painting program, and four Teen Tuesday gaming events, attracting 65 young adult patrons.

o At the photo book design party, each teen created a (free) photo book and a (free) set of 15 holiday cards, and each received (free) Shutterfly pens and a (free) reusable shopping bag. This partnership with Shutterfly was very successful, and I recommended to Teen Services that a county-wide Shutterfly partnership be considered to develop a similar Teen Tech Week (TTW) event. The TTW theme for 2010 is Learn, Create, Share --- fashioning photo books involves all of these techie skills.

o At the silk-painting party, pages Blanca Aranda and Adriana Caratachea were especially helpful in teaching teens how to create beautiful silk scarves.

• We provided 3 family and toddler story times with art activities, engaging nearly 70 persons.

o Prepared and delivered several thematic story times, such as the dino-themed story time featuring the Sabuda and Reinhart pop-up Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs; the poem “Baryonyx” in the book Dinothesaurus; the pop-up, pull-out, wheel, flap, and tab book Dinosaur Museum, a National Geographic title; and My Terrific Dinosaur Book, a lift, touch, and pop-up book with sound.

• Over one hundred patrons enjoyed 8 family gaming programs and movies.

Outreach

• Children’s Services: Visited or visited by 5 schools in November. Outreach totaled 300 persons/12 classes.

• Adult Services: Presented information about CoLapl services and resources to college students at nearby Rio Hondo College. Information about this class (Get the Most out of Your County Library Card) available online @ http://library.riohondo.edu/Research_Help/workshopscheduleFall2009.htm.

Teen Volunteers

The La Puente Library in-house volunteers made signs, peeled old genre labels from picture book spines, created a story time art activity sample, and prepped a backdrop for the Holiday Breakfast Mystery Theater. Virtual volunteers read and reviewed books for the library myspace site.

Committee Work

As a member of the Holiday Breakfast Committee, I continued to promote the event via e-mail alerts, and produced a thematic character photograph for the fund-raising raffle.

Literary Notes

• Checked titles against holdings, then selected from RP list. Using CDBG, selected new books after reviewing titles at library headquarters.

• Edited NextReads picture book and young adult lists:

o Delatte, M. (Ed.). (2009). Picture Books. NextReads Web site: nextreads.com

o Delatte, M. (Ed.). (2009). Teen Scene. NextReads Web site: nextreads.com

Team-Building Saturdays

Staff members of the La Puente Library participated in team-building activities, including birthday parties, craft prep, and even nail-painting fun on lunch breaks!