FY 07 - 12 Strategic Plan Show & Tell
Highlight |
Date |
Ralph Ellison Library moves to temporary location during renovations |
2008/August |
Ralph Ellison Library offered a Skype talk with bestselling young adult author, Earl Sewell. Young adults and adults who attended were able to interact with an author in a virtual environment while learning about writing. |
2011/August |
Ralph Ellison Library partners with AARP volunteers to provide afternoon snacks each day for children and teens visiting the library. |
2011/June |
Ralph Ellison Library partners with Planned Parenthood to offer a program titled Straight Talk, geared toward tweens and teens and focusing on builiding healthy relationships and sexual health. |
2012/March |
Ralph Ellison Library partners with the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center to hold a Children's Health Fair. |
2012/April |
Ralph Ellison provides a senior program called How Does Health Care Reform Affect You? A volunteer from AARP came and spoke to us about the Health Care Reform bill. Individuals were allowed to ask questions. |
2010/May |
RE Librarian Kim Ventrella is contributes a book review to School Library Journal |
2008/October |
RE presents a Juneteenth celebration at Douglas High School. |
2009/June |
RE sponsers the Heroes and Villains art contest in conjunction with the OKC Museum of Art. |
2009/May |
Reading Readiness workshops held at Midwest City and Village Libraries. |
2010/August |
Reading to Dogs programs encourage children to read. 1,739 children attend these programs offered at severals libraries throughout the year. |
2008/July |
Reduxion Theatre presents "The Shakespeare Connexion" which includes workshops on comedic stage combat, the language of Shakespeare, and improvising Shakespeare. |
2011/October |
Reference collection interfiled into regular nonfiction for greater accessiblity. |
2011/December |
Relocate New books |
2012/June |
Representatives of the Capitol Hill Library participated in the annual Hispanic Expo on July 31st. Customers enjoyed a variety of activities which included a free book for the children. Altogether we reached approx. 2000 customers. |
2010/July |
Results of the 2010 Telephone Survey are presented. |
2011/April |
Revenue from usage of the meeting rooms at the Downtown Library is up by 25% over last year |
2009/June |
Rhythmically Speaking performs The Way it Was: Oklahoma's Soulful Stories around the system for 835 people. |
2010/February |
Rhythmically Speaking, Hidden Soldier: I just need a JOB performed for Black History Month at our libraries and 1,141 people attend |
2008/February |
Ric Rea and Roy Ballou attended OCHRS Legal Seminar to learn about recent updates in wage and hours laws, FMLA, OSHA enforcement, immigration law, healthcare reform, and workers’ compensation updates. |
2010/September |
RSS feeds added to our website allowing customers to be updated on MLS news, events and catalog additions |
2008/September |
Schedule of Delivery Drivers is Modified to Best Meet Needs |
2012/April |
School Readiness workshop held. |
2010/August |
SCORE Business Counseling sessions are held at several libraries this month |
2009/August |
SCORE Small Business Counseling is held at the Belle Isle Library twice this month |
2009/April |
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