12/12/2001 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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{ Date: December 11, 2001 T o: Helene B. DeFoe From: Janet Bumke Re:_ Monthly Report The month of November began with a fascinatixr Family Story Time about the Children of Afghanistan. n November 3rd,Necla Whritenour described her childhood experience of living in Afghanistan to a group of 41 adults and children. To first grade classes from the K. C. Coombs School visited the library this month for their field trip: Nov. 5th Mrs. Murphy's Class 22 Nov. 6 t" Mrs. Connor's Class 20 I visited the Kids Klub Preschool on Nov.71h and brought story time to 17 children in the morning session and 7 children in the afternoon. The Cape and Islands Children's Librarians Roundtable sponsored a Capewide Family Literacy event t the Cape Cod Community College on November loth. The Crabgrass Puppet Theater presented their version of "Jabberwocky". T'he event was successful with full house of approximately Soo people. The ro final am of the Connecting Cultures Grant project was held on November Wh. . program Community members were invited to attend a Focus Croup Coffee Hour order to-recap all of the grant projects, and also to help evaluate the grant project. The attendance for this program was 15 adults. In addition, 14 children participated in a story time presented by junior volunteers, Megan Reichel and Claudia Hinkle. On November 17 1n I attended ars educators conference sponsored by the Upper Cape Family Network. It was a rewarding day as I attended two workshops, one on literacy tips and one on Native American Life gray . i also heard speakers from the Department o Education and a panel discussion on the current state of Early Childhood education in Massachusetts. This month we started a weekly Harry Potter Trivia Contest, The Scholastic Book Company seat nye a box of beautiful metal Harry Potter bookmarks. These bookmarks are being used as the weekly prizes. Junior volunteers, Danny Burke and Andre Reichel, made up ten weeks worth of trivia questions. Each week we will have four winners. For the week ending November 30th, 13 people participated.