Adult Services Minutes - November 03, 2021

Community Literacy Centers 

Guest Speaker: Elizabeth Willner, Program Coordinator 

Community Literacy Centers provided an overview about what low-literacy behavior looks like from customers, and how to support and work with those who wish to improve their literacy skills without calling them out or embarrassing them. The presentation included research, best practices, and ideas from CLC’s adult learners themselves. CLC is our partner in providing regular Adult Basic Education (ABE), English as a Second Language (ESL), High School Equivalency Testing (HiSET), and Citizenship classes. 

OES Updates 

Winter Reading- Kristin - January 1-February 28, training will be available starting December 1, corporate sponsor Slim Chickens – free Chick’s meal for Bingo completions, 2 free Chicken for a Year grand prize drawings, marketing pieces nearly complete, toolkit and intranet resources coming soon, only adults can earn prizes, ceramic campfire mugs- they're microwave safe this year!  

Native American Heritage Month – Sarah – 3 systemwide take home kits, please help promote, supplies have been delivered, please reach out to Sarah or Daniel if you have questions, landing page is up at www.metrolibrary.org/NAHM, grape dumplings cooking tutorial, Facebook Live programs like Indigenous Art talk, beading tutorial, actor’s panel 

Folk and Traditional Art partnership grant – Emily - We received a grant from the Oklahoma Arts Council, and OES will be working with several libraries, SPP, and SCR over the next 9 months on a Living Traditions project highlighting two artists: Beverly Kirk (master quilter) and Francisco Trevino (traditional music). This program is designed to amplify the traditions, cultural practices and creative work that often gets overlooked by the arts industry. A key aspect for this new initiative is working with marginalized communities including communities of color, Native communities, and refugee/immigrant communities to help tell their story. 

Sharing and Programming Discussion  

Lynda (AL) - community responds well to take-home kits, outreach at senior centers, nutritionist 

Danielle (AL) - two window displays for Hispanic Heritage Month, more take-home kits, looking at kit + virtual components 

Mitch (BE) - doing one-on-one tech help/computer coach, kits are still super popular and in demand, crafts distributed to local assisted living center, Rocket Readers virtually 

Grant (BE) - Friday Night Movies for the month of October with info about Kanopy and hoopla 

Julianna (BI) - online book group 

Kelly (BI) - string art take-home kits. Murder at the Zoo, family history kit with information about genealogy databases, passive program gratitude tree, movie bags to move large amount of DVDs on the shelf 

Andrew (CH) - haunted house on the patio brought in 60 people, outreach table at Haunt the Hill with 300 people, ofrenda for Día de Muertos, great dumpling tutorial for Native American Heritage Month, film screenings 

Rebecca (CL) - continuing kits and will continue some element of those even when in-person, Novels and Night book club, yoga class 

Bonnie (LU) - customer traffic increasing, a lot of gamers, wanting basic computer lessons, felting kit, helping with tai chi, adult day center outreach 

Johnathan (CL) - geocaching going over really well, booth at local farmers’ market with nearly 500 people stopping, intro to investing program on Zoom, customer comment for more programs age 18-29 

Kadey (DC) - take-home kits continue to be wildly popular, money management, crafting kits – paint n’ sip and DIY cat toy, Del City Trunk or Treat with over 1000 people interacting with the library, virtual author talk with Jeff Provine 

Pallas (DN) - currently 8 take-home kits happening Downtown, NYE kit, Broadway box highlighting  film script databases and musicals on hoopla 

Sarah (DN) - NAHM events, Indigenous food sovereignty and traditional foods, contemporary beading, finished up Paranormal Fest and had great attendance, book clubs with veterans and Palomar, outreach with First American Museum (FAM) 

Danielle (ED) - writing club has started and two meetings have gone well so far, Author Hour with dark vibes for Paranormal Fest 

Adrien (ED) - cozy mystery book club with 10 people every month, fall festival season with lots of outreach events – Edmond Vibes, trunk or treats, etc. 

Darcus (ED) - working with Citizenship classes and have had 3 new citizens this semester, book club met outdoors after months of Zooming, senior centers 

Shalla (ED) - first time participating in Edmond Vibes and learned a lot, Edmond Pride event gave away the rest of the “Pride Is” signs, created presentation for Unpacking the Boxes group, participating in Edmond Veterans Day celebration in November 

Tulin (MC) - take-home kits continuing, brain-building puzzle packets, make it together kits for families in partnership with Children’s Librarian, looking forward to in-person programming, cyber security handout for holiday season, tools for caregivers with OHAI, Medicare Zoom program 

Becky (NW) - virtual paint party, take-home kits, thinking about January, Dinovember 

Ann (RE) - RestoreOKC trunk or treat and gave out slime-making kit, popcorn movie night 

Jessica (SO) - graveyard terrarium, outdoor Halloween science event, movie club 

Phil (SO) - working on holiday showcase, hopes we still continue some Zoom programs to serve those with transportation issues 

Darrie (SO) - adult audio book on the patio, tai chi and SAIL classes, Adult Basic Education students – providing instruction on library resources and databases, outreach, harvested seeds from monarch way station garden as take-home kits, holiday kits for senior centers 

Armando (WA) - staffing issues, worry doll take-home kits, loteria, Mexican Gothic book club, ofrenda and display for Day of the Dead 

Judith (SCR) - helping with Info magazine, designing posters for RE centennial, grant from Friends to work on 3D modelling of Deep Deuce and other neighborhoods on NE side of town, gathering oral histories and photographs of the area, Whose Land take-home kit 

Heidi (DVS) - volunteer management software updates with training coming soon 

Zach (CSD) - new to meeting, happy to hear about programs and services, looking at creating training to help staff sell databases 

Kelley (OES) - outreach events picking up, seniors looking for read-aloud services 

Kimberly (OES) - discussion about hybrid programming and developing an on-demand program library, discussion and questions about return to in-person programming 

Kristin (OES) - NASA @ My Library grant to RE, programming and Summer Reading tie-ins, all locations have option for related 5161 programs, Beanstack challenge with completion certificate