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**//Get Involved @ Your Library//**

 * This is the place where we can begin building a strategy to keep the libraries vibrant and save them from the next budget shortfall.

Minutes from the July 14th Meeting** Here are the items we all agree the department needs to improve upon: · P. R. ·  Technology · Sharing our specific knowledge with parents and staff members Ideas for improving parent communication/Brainstorming: · Monthly Library Department Newsletter/posted on QCSD website and sent to allusers with permission · Library announcement at Open House Night · Library blog with updates sent directly to parent email addresses · Open library night for parents where parents and children can book look together (1x a quarter?) · New Book Evening for Parents (similar to New Book Breakfast) We recognize that this might be difficult for most people who might not have a book fair fund for purchases The 3 tiered approach we all agreed upon: · Monthly department newsletter – We will use a template. Librarians will take turns updating template for each month. We would like to post the template on the district website, library sites, school sites, and sent to allusers. We recognize we will need permission for posting the newsletter on site and sending to allusers. · “Family Reading Nights” Librarians can plan these at their own discretion. We agreed this would be a time the library would be kept open for a short time in the evening for parents to book look with their children. One Reading Night a semester or quarter would be good. Again, this is meant to get parents in the library. · Public Workshops- We recognize this is the most labor intensive portion but also the most powerful. We agreed to work together as a team to plan 2 parent outreach evenings before Christmas Break. The topic of these workshops could be technology, internet safety, reading with your child, etc…. the point would be to share our specific knowledge with parents. We would also ask those parents attending if they would like to share their email addresses with us. This is how we can send them our blog. We were thinking that this would be the point where we could ask them to join a Friends of the Library organization (which would basically mean they give us their email address to receive the blog updates)