##VIDEO ID:KWoHw5azJB8## e for recording in progress what is Happ e first for e we um when we hired our new local newspaper before that we used micro film we've been moving away from it since we digitized there have been nearly 64,000 visitors to the S with an aage engagement time 23 minutes visit many people are researching and hopefully finding cont interested process cost 9,000 which breaks down to about A40 per visit Amy did the math in her in a meeting with JN and I we were very impressed I did it on calculator just to make she yeah um so as we've moved away from searching the microfilm which is very clunky if we've ever we really increased the accessibility efficiency please so like I said we we're doing more programming um around local history and history in general and one of the really successful ongoing services in the last couple years his oneon-one appointments with Jocelyn to research patrons genealogy we've had over 60 patrons come to session since August of 2022 um this High touch impactful services produced glowing feedback such as I am ecstatic to have received all this wonderful detailed information so happy you provide a terrific service to reading residents I want you to know how much I appreciate the time you with me it inspired me to do more research and put together my family tree thank you so much for all the links and suggestions I will reach out to you for further discussions and guidance as I pursue this new interest you also make this process a lot of I've given you all Joseline's card so that you can schedule your own genealogy one onone if you want to or have a family member coming into so um as Johnson has inventor the local history collection we found plenty of ephemera and just things that were Loosely kept and as you see in the top uh left corner there's a postcard to a World War II World War I soldier from his mother Harriet Hill of 32 Bank Road which reads keep up your courage and do your best love and in the um bottom corner we see a postcard postcard that has postcard collections in it and Jocelyn's flipping through it there and you can see the old Highland School and The Old Firehouse and so to better preserve these sort of Lo items um we're making sure items are properly stored we're continuing programming efforts um we just wrapped up a couple year project seat beeding um Community Workshop we had sessions seven sessions maybe um where the participants worked on their own jewelry and then created a whole set of this s stum of the massachus tribe who was the leader of the tribe around and the colonists um came to Eastern Massachusetts and it's a headband earrings and necklace and those items right now are on display by the research and leader Services desk but in the future we'll put them in the shadow box and in the studio people can always visit them um the idea was to have something that could be housed in the library that would show history before uh reading was established as Colonial Town and that that cing project was led by the Massachusetts tribal artist and educator Thomas Green we also have purchased these Maps um the large maps are of what is now the United States on the on the leftand side um you see the kind of pre-colonial pre- indan removal period of what is now the US with all of the proper tribal names and Nations and territories so that's from about 1580s to the 1800s and on the right hand side you see Which tribes have any land designated a sovereign land left um in what is now the us so you see a very dramatic difference um sort of educational stuff but on this lower and smaller map is going to permanently be housed in the local his room and it is a map of current Massachusetts and all of the tribes that have called Massachusetts home um to the best of our knowledge um we also have had a big project going on to transfer a lot of our Digital Data from archives to archives Advantage was just where the ring Chronicle has been housed um and we're doing that because it's a much more stable um web based service and because there is Customer Service attached to us so we've been happy with the running Chronicle and this will help us preserve this the access to this this resource do you have anything else questions about that process and these are just a few a few more projects that um we' beening up to expanding access to geneology books rehousing Collections and removing plastic and acidic items um uploading collections to the digital Commonwealth we have Bost public Wy continuing to update the chronical database and researching un can you have any questions yeah you could see it oh you were looking at that that title slide with the yeah okay I thought you were looking at those little postcards I think that was a little before your time okay now we're moving on to something I'm much more comfortable with winter programming and services that slide all right so winter quarter for using wise runs deu um this is just some some highlights of programs um that are already underway actually um baby snowball is a dress up dance party for Littles crypted Club is mythical creatures for third through fifth grade my Mara and NCO are part of our effort to increase our family young children concert series because Peter shid been popular but just have more cont and we hope to have them back multiple times a year Miss Mystery reader we have two authors coming for an author visit in January we have tween cook with the kids Test Kitchen coming out for teens we just last week had a drone cing Workshop where kidsmed mini drones and across the community room um this week we have a K-pop crafting Workshop uh we're adding in a tabletop games meet up for teams and our traditional exam PR for midterms is coming up in January I believe and that is usually very well attended um Team studying for the most part uh for adults we have a lot of Series in the works we have um folk dancing series we found out that the New England folk art Society is founded right here in ston and so we reached hey we partner with you and we are try both dancing chur we also have ever popular chair yoga series series who doing landscaping for plant she's going to be talking about how to create these like mini Gardens that we have the Li sensory Gard pollinator anded on Pao how to recreate those at home and we have a fabulous pop strings Ensemble called for an adult concert rooted and reading um Grant got underway in the fall but we really really starting to go into high gearing this is just a selection of what we're doing over the next two months we have um our solstice celebration coming up on Solstice which is the 21st and for all ages talk on the Bay Circuit Trail felted Woodland toad stoles craft for teens I think this week we have climate change photographer Jia Kum we have a new moon lock series which is um led by children's librarian outdoor evening family walks around we have a couple of gardening talks one on attracting monarch butterflies and another on native plants and pollinator we're keeping going with plant lab which teaches children handson gardening in our patio and then we've also added in a winter wond School AG science series and that's again just a just a selection okay so um some new stuff and some stuff we're renewing um the teen Advisory Group we've we've rebooted it this year after a year or so off um this time it was a selective process by application rather than just sort of a Meetup we we focused on an older pool we only admitted kids e8th grade and up uh we made sure that it fulfills volunteer hour requirements which fa groups job skills Fosters relationship and touches on rooted anding things so we kind of did a deep dive with Team Advisory Group to try to make it meaningful for the library and for the teams involved and so far it's going well we also added um a stem series with a teenager who came to us who said she wanted to science technology engineering math um programs for other teams booting live wires um which was a a series that was for retirees and Beyond um we haven't really stopped doing those sorts of programs at any point we've always had programs that we designed for older adults but for some reason people really L the name live wires and been asking about it for years so just giving um we have a new non-fiction book group the real story and and we are in the process of developing a new passive intergenerational program that right now we're calling shelf Joy which is going to be designed to um kind of throw an element of delight if people travel through the library and sort of like a scavenger hunt um but not prizes and not competitive just for fun and it will have some Grant themes and help folks connect all of the plantings the library next slide please all right friend speaker series so we're we're about six months in now witer program highlights include Thriller writer Laura Dave presenting Wednesday this Wednesday um linguist and podcaster Amanda monel bestselling fiction author TJ former Wall Street Journal reporter Lee Hopkins and I'm just these are the titles of the books the book jackets you're seeing here and the last one is the Smithsonian Institute Museum of Natural History curator biological anthropology theen Schultz writes about human disease um so you get a little bit of a taste of how diverse the offerings are uh people are finding and watching this content looking at the viewing statistics a month after author talks are posted the majority have 70 or 80 views 13 authors have had over aund views in counting TI separately every day um viewing parties and discussions were facilitated the library residents at Pearl Street and Pleasant Street Center over the last few months and each of these viewing events has count only one have people in room people in the it's only reg really the the stops are even higher and in a friend speaker first we had a dual language author talk um Javier Zamora presented in both English and Spanish the Spanish language talk was VI 25 times and English Talk wased 67 times as of today but again just keeps growing so that's great because it's in it's part of our action plan to do more multilanguage kind of content in questions so that was great to have access to that next slide question I was one of two people that worked for 13 months to bring this I work with the former manager Cur M I'm a m of is AAL Justice organiz that Focus onuc office ofal Justice very to social justice andal justice that everyone in our community heard and recogniz for their contri to our the main goal I would like to see achieved by committee is to acknowledge the experiences that Bill Russell have ining and educate last e e no it was mostly the voting aspect yeah basically the associat the associate members were brought in to make thats there not I appreciate that I'm going to microphone um the year 25 update expenses and materials expected to be one thing I just want to that the actual r2,000 being and it has all these reporting requirements and I can get that to at some point but right now it's a very small amount of money um some of the bills that you're signing for are for kind services to that Grant because the understanding that we be implementing that through State a and Gifts um thank you very much to nope okay and that's it I to it's a short agenda most of the budgets last week to police Health don't last week and then public services and administrative Services went last week any other questions about money e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e