Weekly Report: December 31, 2023 to January 6, 2024
Library Weekly Report
Week of December 31, 2023 to January 6, 2024
This week we circulated 1,391 items, received 370 items in transit, and sent 661 items. We requested 473 items and fulfilled 244 hold requests; registered 13 patrons for library cards; and added 141 new items. The most popular book this week is The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness by Robert Waldinger, MD and Marc Schulz, PhD.
Due to staff shortages, new Winter Hours are in effect from January 2 to March 4, 2024. The library will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
Due to the start of Winter Hours, the Teen Room will be unavailable for after-school use on Fridays through March 1. The Teen Room hosted an all-ages New Year’s Eve at Noon celebration in cooperation with the Children’s Department. Staff continue to program plan, create amazing displays, and build relationships with teens after school.
The Children’s Room and Community Room remain closed, and the Friends of the Grafton Public Library book sale remains on hold awaiting reconstruction. Book bundles and gifts are available for purchase at the library. Children’s Room staff shifted to planning for late winter/early spring programming, lesson planned for January outreach programming, continued planning a Children’s Room Grand Reopening party, planned for how the Community Rooms could be used for a temporary Children’s Room in the event reopening is delayed, and fielded many questions about the Children’s Room closure.
Borrower Services staff attended two webinars through Booklist Online: Listening Advisory and Thriller and Mystery and True Crime; and updated the Readers Advisory Binder with selections from 2023. Reference staff visited the Crescent Manor Rest Home for outreach and drafted a procedure for patrons to check out in-house use laptops, which we hope to roll out to patrons in the near future.