Shoreline Regional Park Community - Regular Meeting

Started. Great. Welcome everyone to the board of library trustees meeting. Today's date is Monday, May 18. The time is currently 07:01PM, and I now call this meeting to order.

At this meeting, all votes will be taken by roll call, and I will ask director Gray to proceed with the roll call at this time.

Chairperson, Khalid Bambasta.

Present.

Vice Chairperson, Barbara Weissenbare. Present. Board member, Kristin Higaki. Present. Board member, Eric Nerlik.

Here.

Board member, Sharon Sue, is absent.

Alright then. Section three on minutes approval. Minutes for the April 20 meeting have been delivered to board members with the draft distributed in advance. Are there any if there are any corrections or additions, please voice your viewpoint now. Okay. And if there are no corrections or additions, a motion is in order to approve. I move to approve the minutes. Right. Anyone on the line publicly?

None.

No one online on Zoom or in person? So then we will do a vote by roll call for the approval of the minutes.

Chair Ambassador? Approved. Vice Chair Mason Bear? Approved. Board member Higaki? Approved. Board member Newick?

Approved.

Section four deals with oral communications, for persons wishing to address the board on any matter not on the agenda. Speakers are allowed to speak for up to three minutes. And if there are large number of speakers, the speaking time may be reduced to no less than one point five minutes. However, state law prohibits the board from acting on nonagenda items. We have no members of the public in person.

Are there any members of the public on Zoom at this moment? None on Zoom as well. So we'll move to section five where it should be said there are no donations, to chat about at the moment. And so we get to kind of the heart of, the situation starting with section six. We have an ex three different individuals here from the library who will be chatting about the customer experience and technology division updates. So I will let them introduce themselves and and proceed with their, presentation. We have a library manager, librarians, and library assistant.

Welcome.

I'm Anne Collins. I'm the library manager for customer experience and technology.

I'm Charles Mosner. I'm a adult services librarian in the customer experience and technology division.

I'm Franklin Skratovich, and I'm a library assistant.

Excellent. Well, proceed however you'd like to proceed with the content.

Great. Yeah. Yeah. So we're here today to give you an update on, the status of the library's maker programming initiative. So as far as an agenda about what we're gonna present here goes, I'm gonna begin just by giving a brief status update on the maker programming itself, and then Berkeley is going to demo some of the key pieces of equipment that we've recently secured for these programs, and then we'll leave a little time at the end for some questions, as well.

K? So, just a little background about the maker programming initiative here at Mountain View. So last fiscal year, the the library identified a need to offer maker programming to the the Mountain View community. Many public libraries in the Bay Area, and really throughout The United States offer some type of maker programming or of maker spaces, within them. And we also saw that this would be a way to meet the city's strategic priorities, of, you know, being a community for all, helping meet the city's sustain sustainability goals, and just to to develop, economic viability as well.

Sorry. Vitality is the word I'm looking for. So to that end, we we hired an intern, Berkeley, who we have since brought back as a library assistant. And initially, her role was to research, equipment that would best fit the needs of the community here in Mountain View and then design program curriculum around that equipment as well. And one of the decisions that we identified early on during this process was that we needed our maker programs to function in a pop up capacity.

Some libraries have designated spaces where they, you know, pretty much exclusively, have makerspaces in those spaces. But we didn't have that option available to us. So we we knew that we wanted to create something that was a model that was more agile. We'll primarily be using this very room for for that program. But, of course, this room serves other purposes as well, such as library board meetings.

So we designed the programs and selected the equipment that we did with all that in mind. So then during this current fiscal year, we applied for and received a Pacific Library Partnership grant, to be able to purchase all of the equipment for these these maker programs. And we recently completed ordering and have now received all of the equipment that we applied for. So we are at this point, we're in possession of, several bamboo mini three d printers. We have Cricut cutting machines.

We have three d pens, micro bits, snap circuits. We have a three d scanner. And then we also have all the accessories and consumables that these equipment need as well. And so now that we have these machines, Berkeley has been busy, training both the adult staff, including myself, and the youth staff, on how to use all the machines. And those trainings are gonna continue throughout the summer, And there's also gonna be some, like, maintenance upkeep trainings that shall be given to staff as well on the equipment itself.

And then once we conclude the staff trainings, we're looking to launch, separate programs for both adults and for youth, that would be taught by the librarians. So for adults, we'll be offering both structured introductory programs on the three d printers and the Cricut cutting machines. Then we'll also have open maker times for the public to drop in and use the equipment for their own projects. So that's more or less where we are right now. So at this point, I'll hand things over to Berkeley and let her kinda show you some of the equipment that we've we've purchased and, what what you can do with it.

Yeah. So I'll give a quick overview of just these two pieces of equipment and talk about them a little bit more. So we have on the right here a bamboo a one mini three d printer. And this is a machine that basically can take a design on your computer, and it what it does is it melts plastic and adds it up later by later until you get a replica of the design that you had on your computer as a physical part in real life. And and this could be helpful for multiple things such as replacing broken parts or manufacture if you need an an extra part that you don't have, it's really easy just to print out on a three d printer.

As well as people use them a lot for prototyping ideas, like if they have something they wanna make, but they wanna get a better sense of the size of it, people will prototype on three d printers. Also, just creating functional parts like storage and games and tools is is another big draw for for three d printing. And then in addition to these, we have three of these bamboo a one minis, and we also have a filament, unit that lets the printer switch between multiple colors so we can print in in multiple different colors too. And then we also got a three d scanner recently, which is really helpful for if somebody comes in and they wanna create a replica of something they already have. They can three d scan it, and then actually three d print it out and have the same thing, but in plastic.

And so the filament we're using for the three d printers, what we've purchased is PLA, which is a bioplastic. So it's actually industrial industrially biodegradable and made from different things like cornstarch. So it's it's one of the ones that can can break down and is is more sustainable to use. So I'll just go ahead. I've loaded a print on here.

I'll go ahead and start it so we can see how this works. And it'll take a little bit of time to heat up and start working, but then it'll just be gradually printing while I while I explain the Cricut. So the other machine we have here is the Cricut. And what this does is it cuts out designs that you have on the computer as well as cutting. It can also draw and score and do just different different functions.

But the main one people use it for is, like, paper craft, so cutting paper, cutting vinyl stickers. People use it. You can actually cut a type of vinyl. You can heat press onto a shirt. So we have a heat press here. So you could cut out a design that you designed and heat press it onto, like, a tote bag or a shirt. This is gonna be a little loud for a second. But this Cricut machine we have here also does things like wood and cardboard, which is really useful for if people wanna build things, get a better sense of something they're designing to prototype out of wood or cardboard. You just send it the files, and it'll cut them out. And then also, it will cut out fabric too, so it could be useful in sewing classes.

And then I'll go ahead and demo this one also. And you could see the three d printer printer has started printing here, and it's printing out a little baby it's like a baby dragon figurine because it's it's a this is takes the least amount of time, so hopefully, we'll see it build up, and I won't have to stop it. Hopefully, I'll finish all of it. But I'll go ahead and start the cricket. And this machine, you can connect to it via Bluetooth or plug directly into it.

Head and head off these little bookmarks here. It's gonna do two functions. It'll draw the wording on here, and then it'll just cut out the overall shape of the bookmark. I've actually made these so that everyone can have one.

K.

Very nice. Yeah.

So I'll go ahead and example or I'll show the actual cutting of one of these both parts.

Do the cutting. Wait.

Yeah. I also know it's a it has a little a little sharp blade on there.

A knife. It's a

It's a knife. Yeah. It's basically a knife that moves around and cuts different shapes out. Then you'll also see it does the same thing with the pen to draw. So I'll go ahead and I'll draw the text on there and then cut off the shape.

And unlike the three d printer, the Cricut machines actually can be pretty pretty fast. So this will probably finish in around a minute. The three d printer, it will I would say, usually, the prints take like, a small print would take twenty minutes. So this one, I think, is is about twenty minutes, so I don't think I'll be able to get through the whole thing. I'll probably have to stop it. But it gives you a sense of what it does. I'm just building up layer by layer until we until we have a part that we can take off of it.

And twenty minutes for a smaller item, is that towards kind of the higher end of efficiency when it comes to this sort of

Yeah. This this printer is is pretty good about the speed, and it has a few settings. This is on normal mode, but you can also speed it up to I think the maximum it goes you can speed up to a 125% then up to I think the max is around a 150, which I'll speed up. The the main one of the main benefits of this printer is that it can print really fast, but still give you really quality parts. So, like, this one is this is at its max speed now. And you could see it's it's printing really fast, but it'll still give you pretty much the same quality as as in normal.

So we won't be materially different from a quality perspective. And

so and then this is Both part. The both part. And this can just get peeled off. And then

have yep.

So in these situations, the user excuse me. The library patrons responsible for creating files to give to you, or how does that help you assist?

So for the three d printer, there's actually a very large large CAD libraries out there of parts. So it can be a combo of somebody already having designed something and coming in or just researching and finding something online. Mhmm. And what you can do is if you find the pad model online, you can just send it over to the printer to print. And there's hundreds of thousands of models for pretty much anything. So if you need, like, a specific part replaced, if it's a common part, most likely somebody will have one with it.

And I know different jurisdictions handle this differently, so bear with me. But some libraries do a a vetting process where they have to approve or or deny a request based on copyright laws that this library has or not? Yeah. We're we're still in

the process of, finalizing our policy guidelines in terms of what we're going to really allow, during it. I know copyright is one concern. Many libraries also have guidelines about, like, not printing out weapons or things along those lines. So we will have that line flat. Prohibit sort

of types of materials. Okay. I was just curious at this point. I know it's still developing. But you know?

People pay for the material needs?

So that's also, that's a great question. There certainly is a cost for it, and we are we're in the process of putting together limits on what we do allow for any particular print in terms of amount of time or the amount of filament, that an individual print could could take. At the moment, I think we're thinking that we would provide a a certain amount for for free as part of the program.

Venues that would do this much better than we could. For example, academic libraries, they have very large three d printers, and they know exactly how much to charge for the filament. And people and they have staff there who are experts in CAD so they could look at a drawing and know if it would work or not. So we don't intend to go that that route. We would refer them to one of the academic libraries in the area where they could have their their printing done, especially if it was something that was was bigger.

As, Charles said, we're still looking at this. We plan mostly for the three d printers to be used as part of programs. You took people come in like families to teach them about the three d printer, to have something printing while they're there, that some small thing that they can take away with them, that comes from one of the websites that have no copyright issues that people can just download stuff and and we can make it right there and then. And they're generally small things that would take about five, ten minutes or so. We we don't anticipate really going into the business of of, you know, print printing on demand for people.

Don't know if anybody is left on the staff that was around when we had the first round of three d printers. There used to be one that was kept in the area where the checkout machines are in the in the alcove that backs up to children's, and that one was highly touted early on and used for some programs and then mainly didn't get used a lot. I don't know whether it was a issue of staff materials, what it what it was. But I remember it's sitting, and people would show it off in school tours and say, here's the three d printer. But

But it wasn't used.

There wasn't a lot going on with it, but there might be somewhere a basis of the guidelines that they were using for it that might be helpful, but I'm not sure how how much would be left over from those days. That would have been the, oh, 2010 maybe, that type of period or so when things were happening. Question about if people are transferring files to you. Any questions about problems with file sharing that that that you're not picking up something from their files that you don't have?

Be an issue also. So, yeah, we we really think that we're going to go the more education programming route rather than accepting files and building things. And these will be

available in the catalogs that are something that you could access without having something come in from somebody's personal.

Yeah.

And there's also a great online website that lets you design something in person or, like, using the computer, which somebody because we'll these will will have computers that can then you can send files to the three d printer so people could make things on, like, the library computers too, like, custom design them and then print those out. But, yeah, mostly, it's just there's very extensive libraries of of things

to print. My grandsons are very excited. They my husband got them a large one like the one we have, and they exchange projects back and forth. They're in Massachusetts. And so we we get, pictures of how the three d printer is being used out there to create emblems for swords and other things that they're up to. And my daughter uses it for replacement parts for her laboratory work quite a bit. So it they are very handy. And I know the bamboo that he's had, you know, it's a larger enclosed one,

has been

very reliable, and he's been pleased with it.

Yeah. Yeah. These printers, I would say, in my opinion, have are are very reliable. I have one at home, and I've never had a single issue with it, which actually was a lot of the the problems with older printers is that they're they usually had so many issues. I've been three d printing for probably, like, six or seven years. And even seven years ago, the printers compared to nowadays are, like, night and day.

It was really one we had with pretty rudimentary. It was an exciting new technology, but I thought it was reliable.

Yeah. The the nozzles would keep clogging with filament, and it was very hard to clean them out. And it was and then sometimes the the the pad, it was

hard to to to To get things off. Release your your

rent. Yeah. They're they're they're so much better now than they used to be.

Exciting that you're offering exposure to the technology.

Absolutely. Especially to the kids. Any other questions the board may have?

Did it finish printing or did you say I just paused. Sorry.

Because I figured it'd be easier to hear everybody talk. Yeah.

Is there any member of the public on Zoom that would like to offer comments? No? None? Okay. Well, thank you very much for the demos and the bookmarks, which are very nice. And, so we appreciate being able to learn a bit more and look forward to seeing more in the future. It was programming, especially. Number seven, section seven, there is no unfinished business. Section eight, new business. We do have one item here in terms of the work plan for f y twenty twenty six, twenty seven.

We're going to be reviewing the document and then, eventually voting by roll call. I will hand it over to director Gray to walk us through the document.

Thank you. This is the proposed fiscal year twenty twenty six, twenty seven Board of Library Trustees work plan. The ongoing items of accepting donations, reviewing and advising policies as needed, reviewing the library performance, workload measures, and including the annual meeting with the Matthew Library Board and any topics or updates regarding national and regional trends in public libraries. So this is all of the boards and commissions established by the city council have a fiscal year work plan to approve. And then this if it is approved this evening, we'll go to the city council.

I believe it's at their August meeting for, for them to adopt the work plans collectively of all the boards and commissions.

And this is basically the same as last year?

It is. Yes.

Don't see any changes, but just in case. Just

gonna confirm.

Just confirming. Of course. We're not forgetting something.

Do you know of

things that would be on other library boards plans that are not they

Bethel, this is something unique to Mountain View as far as I know for the work boards and commissions. Yeah. Here. But I can definitely take a look at maybe not work plans, but goals and things that other library boards have on their lists that similar. Yes. Yeah.

This looks pretty comprehensive of what we do now.

Yeah. Agree. Anything you want to do that we're not doing?

I kinda feel like there's a

I don't know what I don't know. Mhmm. Right? Like, maybe there's something really impactful that we could also be doing. So that's where my question stands here.

And there we could throughout the year, as things come up, this is your work plan, but you're not not tied to only this Okay. If things, do develop. So I

guess the one thing that I would think along the lines of what was just commented in terms of accept donations, I do know that in the more board meetings I've visited with now tend, We do talk from time to time about, you know, applying to different grants, different programs, etcetera. Is there may be a place for that here or not? Because those things might be something that are very ad hoc. They come up and you apply, and that's it. Right? So so there's not much structure to it. So I'm not sure if it would belong to this or not.

Yeah.

The grants, the city would apply. So if there are things that you all see somewhere out there, do definitely, send our way. Researching grant opportunities is something that you can do individually too and and send to to me as as you see if it's something that would fit.

Okay. Yeah. I'm I'm fine. I think it's probably too at heart.

I think what you're hearing, Tracy, is I've got a board that that is open Yes. To to doing it more. Yes. Or Thank you. Being being more involved with particular projects or something that would be helpful to you. Right. So that we, I think, don't Yes. Won't feel real limited by this, but using a space space structure. And I

know I mentioned at the last meeting when we talked about next year budget, that we will be planning our thirtieth anniversary. So

Right. There may

be. Opportunities, and I know you all gave some ideas, brainstorming ideas, the last meeting. And I know Anne is working with other city departments. I think I've mentioned that we have the opening of the time capsule that's happening in September that the city council of you will be invited for that. It'll be a not a huge pop in circumstance event, but it'll be fun to to do that. See things like that coming up, especially as we as we plan.

Absolutely. That sounds great. Thank you. Anything else? Anyone else?

Yes. I would like to move to a roll call. Do we have to We have

to move to approve the Yeah. Yes.

I move to approve. Second. Let you get rid of it tonight. I was like, you

can do it, Tom. Chair

Avastat? Approved. Vice chair, Weissenbair? Approved. Board member, Higaki? Board member, Nerlik?

Approved.

Excellent. Well, now that that roll call is done, we will be moving to section nine, board and staff announcements, updates, requests, and committee reports. Section 9.1, library director's report, has been, released publicly already. I will hand it over to director Gray to cover key points.

Sure. Just a couple additional. Firstly, it's hard to believe we're starting summer reading in a couple weeks. So our staff are doing the scratchers again as, the staff informed you all a few meetings ago. They are visiting a lot of the schools, printing out hundreds and hundreds of these for the schools, for the adults this year.

So, hopefully, the adults will enjoy it and will get high numbers for for the adult participation. And then our assistant library director, Bill Cobb, started today, this morning at seven. So he's with us. You will meet him at some point in the fall, but we're excited to have him on board. And then Friday evening, the Chamber of Commerce had their celebration of leaders and Athena Awards event at the Ameswell Hotel.

Right. This past

Friday. Last Friday. So I was there, couple of the city department heads as well as city council and the mayor and the vice mayor and the friend's treasurer, Pat Kasner, was given a volunteer of the year award, so that was very exciting. They did a short video about the library. She gave a short speech and a shout out to the library, and, the Friends, several of the Friends volunteers were there for that.

She's been with the Friends for over twenty years. She's been the treasurer for, I think, almost all of that. She is going to be retiring soon from her volunteer work, but she's been amazing to work with with our staff. Super supportive, and just, yeah, being treasurer of a nonprofit isn't always easy, but she's done an excellent job. And as far as on our end, she's been really great to work with. So that was exciting that she could have that celebration.

I think in a case like that, is there anything that we as a board could do just as a thank you? Uh-huh. Not necessarily so just a Yeah. Card or something that Yeah. Acknowledges that Yeah. Prove is is pleased and celebrates Yeah.

That contribution. Can generate something to do, whether it's a card or something, but we'll connect to you all via email about something. Because I'm not sure when her last when she's leaving. So we'll find out indefinitely.

Might be nice if we acknowledge something like that.

Yeah. A card or a proclamation or something, a statement. Yeah. That's a great idea. K. That. And then aside from that, I think Renee Ting was recently elected to a board of some sort.

Yes. So Renee Ting, the American Library Association has several branches, and so she was elected to the ALSCE, Association for Library Services for Children. So she's on that board. So she'll be attending the American Library Association meeting and has, meetings to develop best practices for serving children's services. So, yeah, it's exciting that she's been elected to that board, and we're happy to have her bring back ideas and so forth that she has from that.

So, yeah, there's about over 3,000 librarians that belong to that division and American Library Association. So And

and are you, do you say that this get publicized in in the city, like, in the the city paper?

So we have this in we sent this to our city council. Mhmm. Update. We give them an update. And then I'm not sure if it was included in our monthly newsletter, but I'll check. Okay. It may have been.

These are nice things to just call it special. And it's for people that aren't active library users to see that something special is going on in the library, any venue that we've got to Yeah. To share that. It's a a nice thing to do. Yeah. We're we're proud of them.

Yes. Definitely. Yes. And several of the staff attended the the Library Association Conference a few months ago, and then the June is the American Library Association Conference in Chicago this year, and we have, I think, four or five maybe staff going. So we're happy we have the funding to be able to send the staff to these great conferences. I know everyone who's been going has brought back great ideas, and it's just invigorating to be around thousands and thousands of librarians in in that setting.

Great. Other items you'd like to speak to on the director's report?

No. I know that, we are you are all not scheduled to meet over the summer. But if for some reason a meeting is needed, we will reach out to schedule throughout the summer. If you wanna just have a chat with me, you know, because that seems like a long time. Right. It months. So reach out to wife. She'll get something on the calendar even if it's a thirty minute Zoom to just what's going on? Just so we'll try to send you all stuff updates throughout the summer of big items. But, yeah, it'd be great to check-in with all of you as you can throughout the summer individually.

I'm happy to do that in person via Zoom, phone, anything. And then, lastly, it is scheduled for this Wednesday. The movers are coming to take down the shelving, that the staff emptied to make room for additional tables and chairs on the 2nd Floor. So they're coming Wednesday to remove all the shelving, put carpet underneath because there isn't carpet under the shelving. And then the furniture should arrive in July.

It's taking a little longer for the the furniture, the tables. Not sure where it's coming from, but it's a lit and furniture takes a while. So these days. Yeah. So we have about 14 tables and seating that will come.

And then Anne's team's going to be creative in the meantime to put spread some things out so it doesn't look bare in some of the areas. Mhmm. But we're excited to get that project going. So by fall, we'll have a lot more seating in the library for, yeah, all the folks that are just coming. I just keep hearing people coming from all parts of the Bay that come Mhmm. Use our resources, study agreements, and that. So

If you need quick displays for other things like that, something might consider is reaching out to the Community School of Music and Arts. Okay. The art teachers, I think, work with the schools from that organization, and they might have art projects, other things that they do a

quick display for. Oh, put something in.

You have temporary displays. Right. Just just Yeah.

Yeah. Just something that

you could

That's a good idea. It's like

we use our colorful carts and do cute book displays in between. Like Yeah. I think you're just roaming, and all of a sudden appears a book display on Right. The what's coming up? The oh, the soccer FIFA Cup. The two and fiftieth anniversary. The two hundred fiftieth. Yes. So that's Yeah. Yeah.

Get creative with filling up the space. Friends collection items, book in a bag, things like that. And we've been doing more social media videos. So if you have Facebook and Instagram, I think there's some new stuff popping up, and they're working on a video to bring to the schools or to give to some of the one of the library staff asked for a video for teens for the summer. So Katie and Ashley did a cute video, and there were some other staff in it.

Julian, I think. And they put a cute one together for teens and the teen center and the teen zone area and our resources. So they've they've sent that to the schools to play for for the kids that are moving up in grade level for the summer to show them about what resources we have. So yeah. Yeah.

So we've been working a lot with the schools. And then a lot of outreach events too. Tomorrow, there are two. The senior center, I think there's a they're doing an outreach during the day. And then tomorrow night is the state of the city that the mayor and city manager will present, and it's an official, meeting, with city council. Mhmm.

It's on the city government calendar and everything.

Yeah. So if you're going to that, I'll be there, and then we have some staff that we'll be tabling at that event tomorrow. Some of the city departments will have tables with information because it's open to the public. I think they're expecting a lot of folks again. Last year was well attended.

And over the past weekend, there was the start of summer kickoff, and I saw that Mhmm. There's libraries table there at

the Yeah.

This they told me that they seem to get a lot of when people pass through. Is that fair to say?

Yeah. Definitely. Great. Yeah. The outreach tables, when they bring the bookmobile or not, either or, get a lot of of of folks. So I think we've definitely doubled the amount of outreach events we've been doing this year. So we're glad to have the staff available to be able to do it, and they get to go outside. And, yeah, it's nice how everyone about the library. Yep. That's a great

For the work. Yeah.

Great job to to do. So yeah. You mentioned of making the videos just connecting back to Renee. And was it Pat that was Renee. With with her position. Mhmm. It might be something to think about, an interview where she explains what that means to go to these meetings and other things. Thinking about introducing library jobs as a career sort of thing. It might be a you know, what does she do and and what what means to the library that she goes to these studies sort of things. There might be something in that in that short video clip and then possibly an interview with friends of the library Mhmm.

Honoree Yeah. About that if if she's Yeah. She's willing willing

to be on video. Yeah.

Well, then building up a bit on that after Renee has had some experience being a board member of that organization, special video Mhmm. About board service and, you know, Zayed in attending conferences, etcetera.

When we would have the visits from the kids, they really did had no idea what librarians did and what you do. And showing them that it's not just you're here at the library. You know? There are other national things and connections that you can have might be something to focus on.

So library board too. Maybe we'll have to interview some of you.

We we could volunteer at chair.

Yeah. Okay. So

no. Thanks for all this feedback. It's great. Yeah. You had a a chart in there of numbers that you gave us of all sorts of, you know, interesting statistics. What was the time frame for that? So the monthly Was that a monthly numb

so Oh, the bookmobile or the website?

Under the the website. Let me log in. Refill. Okay.

Okay. So you get this Rick Hansen, our senior librarian that oversees the bookmobile, does monthly stats, and I thought it would be nice to show this once in a while to y'all because because they also have a nice anecdotal bullet points on what's a closer look. And then we get these stats monthly as well. Katie Hammer, communication librarian. I thought it'd be neat you all to see I always find it fascinating what are people looking at on our website.

And so the visits, The New York Times online, very popular account borrowing, study room. And so this helps us too Mhmm. With the information. Absolutely. And the outbound outbound links as well. The New York Times. Everybody's reading The

New York Times.

That's your 80,000. That's number one by a huge margin. Yeah.

Yeah. I thought it would be search would be the highest.

I'm a bit surprised that magazines well, this is my personal bias, but magazines and newspaper in general is number nine, whereas, you know, New York Times is number one. I read a lot of different Mhmm. Items. So I look at lipstick quite a bit.

So And then I read The New York Times. You like The New York Times games?

Yeah. Or the cooking.

The cooking.

The crossmuts. The recipes.

Recipes and games are what people pay for for The York Times. Nobody cares about these anymore. Sorry.

It could be, but I guess from my viewpoint again, since I read a lot of different magazines, yeah, flips are being a part of bumper dimes, isn't it?

Nice to see that broken down. See what's happening. Uses.

Yeah. Through it doesn't fluctuate a whole lot, the usage. It's been pretty consistent, this. It may fluctuate a little. The cats preparation may you know, there might be some that bumps up a little. I could go Yeah.

More seasonal. And then Yeah. Yeah. And then probably things like fourteen and fifteen in terms of passes. Do you see a big backlog of people you wanting to use this? Because I'm assuming there's constraints. Right? Because state parks, right, there's a limited number of passes that you can give out, say, Michael to museums.

I think we've been kinda caught up now, would you say, Anne, with the state park passes and the

other passes? It's seasonal too, you know, with the Especially with the state

park passes. Yeah. There's usually some polls, but not but, yeah, about a week, you wait pretty much not more than that, which is really good.

Okay. No. That's that's not too bad. I was expecting more like three, four weeks. But Yeah. A week is nothing. You know, that stuff. So he's the both. Okay.

And we haven't heard anything from the state library. We're assuming the state parks passes are continuing to be funded.

And then

yes. So yeah. And then the postal bill, it's always interesting to to see their the numbers there. But the schools going to Crittenden is has been the usage there and the amount of kids they talk to there has been quite a bit. And then there will be a little fluctuation of the bookmobile schedule for the summer since the schools are closed.

Mhmm. And then we'll start back up in the fall. Surprise Magical Bridge. I don't know. It kind

of all depends on trying to understand. Like, the the checkouts are really low.

Three checkouts.

Yeah. Yeah. The Magical Bridge, they typically do and I think my guess is because it's part of the playground Yeah. Is that the big attraction, but they do do a story time there, and that's very popular. Story time as part of the bookmobile or Yes. They'll bring the bookmobile and do the story time

I see.

And have it. Yeah.

I wonder if it's also just because it's a newer stop, so people don't have the habit of going and checking things out.

Yeah.

And this one, one of the ones this month was canceled because they were doing a maintenance. So, because they only go there, I

think, at the twenty seventh. So And those sorts of places draw parents with kids from surrounding communities Mhmm. That may not have cards or frequent the library, but would sit for the story time, but not check out anything.

Yeah. I think this one on mar the one second bullet was they had to cancel the one because of a

Maintenance issue. Yeah. Mhmm. Yeah. I would be curious to hear so you mentioned schools. And, And, obviously, you know, schools sometimes have summer school. So is the bookmobile, like, on a half schedule, a third of the schedule? Like, what's the modified schedule you're setting?

The summer schedule, I can see if I can

fill that if it's here yet.

Schedule. And then we will be going we started this last year, and it was hugely popular is the summer camps over at the community center in Rings To A Park. We will have a bookmobile when those camps get out. So parents are there. Kids are there.

We are there. So we'll be right there. And they did it last year, and it was So they will they're trying a new apartments, the Fountains Apartments and Kinston Terrace Apartments this summer. New stop they are trying is Questa Park. I know you got the flyer, Eric, for that.

They'll be trying that in the evening on Wednesdays, and then they'll continue Magical Bridge on Thursdays. And then the Ranksdorf Park Summer Camp pickup at 03:30 on Thursdays, and we'll continue to do Hope services on Fridays. And then the senior center and the Avanitas Center, they'll continue that in the summer as well. That's a very popular stop, the Avanitas Roseline Center. That's adjacent to the senior center. So yeah. So new apartment complex and Westview Park. We're gonna try this summer and see.

Okay. Great. Any other items to mention or any comments, questions from the board? Anyone on Zoom at this time for public comments? No? Okay. Any other items we need to discuss? Anything on the agenda that we dig into more? Like, no. Okay. So I hereby announce that it is 07:53PM. The meeting is adjourned at 07:53PM. Be somewhere, everybody. Yeah. Please.

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