FY 07 - 12 Strategic Plan Show & Tell
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The Midwest City Library collaborates with a local Islamic school on an art exhibit that gains local and national attention. |
2010/September |
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The Midwest City Library holds a Black Heritage Celebration. Over 200 people attend. |
2009/February |
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The Midwest City Library provides café tables and stools in their lobby, which allows for social interaction as well as additional seating for WIFI users and study groups. |
2010/August |
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The Midwest City Library screens the documentary Grace about the writer Grace Paley. |
2010/March |
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The MLS eMedia page becomes a gateway to over 15,000 free public domain titles from the Project Gutenberg collection. |
2011/April |
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The MLS Friends of the Library group receives a National Philanthropy Day Award for Outstanding Fundraising Organization. |
2010/October |
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The Native American Festival was held at the Downtown Library on October 4. Over 350 people were in attendance to see Native American dancers and artists, participate in craft activities, and taste samples of Native American foods. |
2009/October |
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The Norick Foundation commissions a sculpture 4 U 2 LEARN to be placed in the children's area. |
2009/February |
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The Oklahoma Gazette writes an article promoting Teen Read Month. |
2010/October |
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The Oklahoman carries a great article about children and reading at the library. |
2010/October |
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The Planning and Construction departments create a page on our intranet to keep staff informed about progress on current projects |
2009/June |
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The Ralph Ellison Library begins a GED study program in that will carry on into 2011. |
2010/September |
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The Ralph Ellison Library holds a month long College Preparation Series. |
2010/September |
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The Ralph Ellison Library hosts a Guitar Hero tournament. There were 24 contestants, a large audience of family and friends, and a Thunder basketball player presenter. |
2010/March |
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The Ralph Ellison Library hosts Cards for Oklahoma Troops program for customers to make cards to send our troops overseas. |
2010/July |
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The Ralph Ellison Library re-opens to the public after a year-long renovation. |
2009/December |
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The Richter Uzer Duo presented classical guitar and cello music from Led Zeplin to Rimsky-Korsakov at 5 library locations. |
2010/January |
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The Rose State College's class of Family & Consumer Science invites Outreach's Kelley Riha to speak about library services and give a story time demonstration to an audience of day care providers. |
2010/April |
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The Southern Oaks Library book club, providing a life long learning link for adults and seniors, celebrates nine years and begins it's tenth. |
2011/October |
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The staff at the Capitol Hill Library celebrated Customer Appreciation Month by preparing and distributing bookmarks that stated our appreciation to all our customer. |
2009/October |
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The staff of the Capitol Hill Library interacted with several local schools to promote the library to parents, teachers and students. |
2010/February |
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The Sugar-Free Allstars entertain a school choir group during noon toons. The password to view the video is January. |
2009/March |
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The system-wide Summer at the Library program registers 4,056 teenagers, setting a record for teen participation. |
2010/July |
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The The Little River Zoo brings animals to the Harrah Library for the public to see and interact with |
2009/June |
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The Underwater Bridge play tours the libraries for Black History Month to standing-room-only crowds which total 2,086 |
2009/February |
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