PUEBLO CITY-COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT Report of the Executive Director Submitted to The Library Board of Trustees July 26, 2018 Trends in Genealogy PCCLD's Charlene Garcia-Simms (Special Collections Librarian) recently authored an article appearing now. The publication is "Trends in Genealogy," by Charlene Garcia-Simms, pp. 5-11, Genealogy and the Librarian: Perspectives on Research, Instruction, Outreach and Management, Carol Smallwood and Vera Gugnitskaia, editors (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2018). Colorado Library of the Year PCCLD learned that it has been selected by its peers as the Colorado Library of the Year. The Colorado Association of Libraries (CAL) is awarding PCCLD with this designation. PCCLD will be presented with the recognition at the upcoming CALCON scheduled to take place in Loveland, Colorado, September 13-15. This comes on the heels of PCCLD’s selection early this year as ELGL America’s Best Public Library in March and the IMLS National Medal in May. All Pueblo Reads The 2018 All Pueblo Reads book is The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson. Johnson is the author of the Longmire book series that also has a television show by that same name. The Cold Dish is the first book in this series. He will be here in Pueblo on October 26 and 27. The All Pueblo Reads committee has convened to work on details of program planning for October, and the Blacktie Ball is scheduled for Friday, October 26. WAN and ISP Upgrade PCCLD’s Information Technology team successfully migrated the district to new Wide-Area Network (WAN) services and a new Internet Service Provider. This change includes faster speeds for much of the network, moving from a 1 gigabit per second service to 10 gigabits per second. The Internet also is faster, speeding up from 400 megabits per second to 1 gigabit per second. These upgrades include new equipment for the network, such as switches and firewall. Much of this improvement is funded with E-rate grants valued at $160,131.60 per year to PCCLD for ongoing network services and Internet connections, and about $16,000 for end equipment. Bibliotheca Sole Source Procurement PCCLD negotiated procurement upgrades to self-check equipment located throughout the district. The improvements include replacing self-check computers on 21 stations and improving software interfaces on all. This comes after testing the upgrades over the past couple of months and receiving a special negotiated discount on the procurement. The total cost of the change was included in the 2018 budget and sole sourced to Bibliotheca at an amount of $45,723. When only one vendor is capable of meeting all specifications and purchase requirements, purchases may be made on the basis of prices established by negotiations. All sole source purchases are approved by the Executive Director and brought to the attention of the full Board of Trustees. Executive Director Report July 26, 2018 – 2 Career Online High School PCCLD received a grant equivalent to $30,000 from the Colorado State Library about one year ago to pilot an online high school program for adults in our community. Five diploma recipients are scheduled to graduate in July with forty students currently enrolled. Another five students are on track to graduate in September. The pilot has been considered a success, and the Colorado State Library recently awarded another $25,000 in scholarship support to help PCCLD continue the program. The project is overseen by Jackie Swanson (Adult Literacy Coordinator) and Amy Martin (Managing Librarian). RAWLINGS LIBRARY Special Collections & Museum Services June total attendance was 6,039. Year-to-date attendance is 31,235 compared with 28,119 in 2017. 220 Document Delivery requests, including Ask Us questions, were answered in June, and 703 items from the collection were counted used by customers in June. The obituary index is updated on an ongoing basis. 74 items, including renewals from the Special Collections circulating collection were checked out in June. Blake Hatton (Digitization Coordinator) digitized 990 pages of documents and photographs. Blake is focusing on adding more material to CONTENTdm and reorganizing digital collection files. On June 21, Maria Tucker (Special Collections & Museum Services Manager) and Blake Hatton presented the first program on the Digital Memory Lab, Personal Archiving 101, with eleven people attending. Digital Collections Use was 4,146. There were 392 views of the Colorado Weekly Chieftain and 2,693 views of the Colorado Daily Chieftain. There are now 6,561 items in the digital collection, and 58 items were added in June. Three intern students from CSU-Pueblo are working on a variety of projects in the department this summer. There were 27 movies featured in the InfoZone attended by 281. InfoZone programs included: Music Mod Podge with 22; a Jazz Concert featuring Kimberly Sewell (Museum & Special Collections Coordinator) with 101; and weekly craft programs with 394. Sunset Preschool toured the InfoZone on June 6 with 127 participants. Community use of the InfoZone Theater in June included an Essential Oils Class, Paragon Preschool Graduation, Foster Grandparents of Pueblo, Pueblo’s Energy Future, and a Cordova surname research group. Genealogy and Special Collections programs included: o Maria Tucker made a presentation on Andrew McClelland at the Pikes Peak Library District Regional History Symposium on June 9. There were 200 people in attendance, and it was livestreamed on Facebook. o Research sessions included one on June 5 with 2 attending, Ancestry.com on June 13 with 4, and Noreen Riffe’s Finding Lineage on June 26 had 7. o Weaving the Tzute of Life presentation on June 7 had 18 people in attendance. o The Spoken Word poetry group presentation on June 14 had 15 people. o The book signing presentation for Gloria Mora on her book Mis Crismas had 97 people attend on June 21. o The Cordova surname gathering had 28 people in attendance on June 29. Maria Tucker has been working with the Colorado Non-Profit Association to partner on two upcoming programs in July and August. The Heroes Art Project will be on exhibit in May and June, and staff is working on an exhibit of Rock Art. Native Voices and Discover Exoplanets are upcoming traveling exhibits in the InfoZone. A Steampunk exhibit is on the 3rd Floor, and the exhibit on the 3rd floor and branches is Music in Pueblo. Executive Director Report July 26, 2018 – 3 Reference and Readers Advisory June displays included: Gardening, BBQ and Grilling, LGBT Non-Fiction, “Read the Rainbow”, Read-A-Likes, and LGBT Fiction. State Government Documents monthly usage was 31. Attendance for the weekly Storytellers meetings totaled 51. Where Do You Read? June passive program. As part of the Summer Reading Program, Lesley Saldana (Customer Service Representative) created an interactive display that asked customers where they like to read, and 130 people participated. Programs in June included: Bullet Journal Club on June 2 with 11 participants; To Dye for on June 5 with 18; Self- Publishing Workshops on June 4 and 18 had 16; Sound Healing Workshop with Emily Easton on June 19 had 12; Unmask Your Inner Rockstar on June 23 had 45 people of all ages to enjoy decorating masks and listening to music; Vinyl Destination on June 26 had 4; and Standing Like a Rock Advance Directives Seminar on June 30 had 9. Highlights from the new booklist sent to the Pueblo Chieftain featured Nonfiction: What Truth Sounds Like by Michael Eric Dyson; The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton; and Goodbye, Sweet Girl by Kelly Sundberg; and Fiction: The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson; A Place for Us by Fatima Fahreen Mirza; and The Pharaoh Key by Douglas J. Preston. Hispanic Resource Center (HRC) Exhibits included: Hoping for Heroes by local artist, Maria Lopez, is a collection of small cartoons mixed with abstract backgrounds. Maria earned a Master's degree in painting from Boston University and has shown her work nationally. Colors of the Southwest, pieces from the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center Colors of the Southwest collection will be on display through August 15 in the exhibit cases. HRC Films were featured on June 12, 19 and 26. Films included Coco, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Kubo and the Two Strings. The films are part of a partnership with the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center and had attendance of 60 in total. Executive Director Report July 26, 2018 – 4 HRC Programs had total attendance of 161. Bilingual Stories were offered on Mondays at 10:30 a.m. with 9 in attendance. The final HRC classes for this semester were held on June 5 and 6. Attendance this month for Rawlings was 67. Classes will resume in the fall. On June 2, Maria Smyer (Hispanic Resource Coordinator) hosted a special presentation from the Colorado Springs and Pueblo Chapter of the brain injury support group with 25 attendees who listened to a panel of survivors who shared their stories and resources for other survivors and their caregivers. Maria Smyer provided a storytime and craft on June 26 at Books in the Park in Bessemer Park. Adult Literacy Program Adult Literacy has gained many new tutors and learners. Currently, there are 53 active tutors and 78 learners. Many are working on GED or HISET (high school equivalency tests), the English language, and improving reading and writing. Age ranges for students are 15-70. Summertime schedules change time that tutors and learners spend together, but the teams stay connected. Career Online High School (COHS) will hold the first graduation ceremony on July 19. Five COHS students will be receiving their high school diplomas. In June, thirteen 13 COHS students come to the monthly meeting where they discussed their coursework, their hurdles, and their successes.