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AGENDA TODAY
Pages and Stages - Origins and mission
Walking garden still in works –
new library in a different site
Chenoa Public Library and Chenoa
Our book clubs as outreach
Another day, another book (our future)
Advice and lessons learned
What about you?
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ALL ABOUT “MOI”
PAGES AND STAGES GETS STARTED
Some people never give up on an idea – idea of books to help people even before directorship
As a child MY LOCAL LIBRARY SAVED ME – I escaped and became smarter & happier, kind librarian there
I only look like I’ve been a library director forever - 1 year
My journey and CIMADA – nonfiction books as therapy different stages = different pages
for example -
EVOLUTION OF MY PAGES
John Bradshaw on The Family - dysfunctional family
Co-dependence, self-esteem
Divorce survival
Women Who Run with the Wolves
Weight loss
Menopause (sorry men)
– Weight loss, Thought and habit control
- Leadership
- Change
- Back to weight control
FROM CIVILIAN TO BARTENDER
Or- how My Pages and Stages Help my Library – Let YOUR uniqueness shine
Uniqueness to grow our programs – idea person, not afraid of CHANGE, outsider
I have a natural empathetic skin – good for small library – didn’t know I’d be a bartender - but we do serve coffee
PAGES AND STAGES = BOOKS + OUTREACH
Pages and Stages - name of our book outreach program
Pages and Stages Mission – to join our community and books for the purpose of improving health and happiness
Pages and Stages includes all our book clubs – it’s the main way we reach out
Includes author visits and other events
A success still in the making– no reading garden/path yet, book clubs with fitness still evolving – updates later
CHENOA PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT
Chenoa Library serves 2,074 people
- Not a growing town
- Library budget around $80, 000
- Supportive historical society, churches and businesses
- No community center
- No exercise center
Yet a GREAT LIBRARY Yet – New Technology Center
Yet– Amazing citizens and community spirit
PAGES AND STAGES
How we show the value of the Library
to the Community
and
That the Library values the Community
MONDAY MORNING BOOK CLUB
Guess when we meet - 14 ladies of a certain age
Share your culture book choices this year
Want me to pick books – they have a few criteria -
MONDAY MORNING BOOK CLUB REQUIREMENTS
Fun book
Happy ending
No biographies
Variety
Not brutal
Not about food or with recipes
Fiction
Easy reading – no keeping characters straight
Surprise ending
YOU WANT ME TO WRITE IN A BOOK?My scandalous idea –
write a mini-review in the book
Let them be Reader’s Advisors
Staff reminds readers or writes their words
for them
Examples – 50 Shades, Nora Roberts The Witness
Another great thing about a small library
THERE’S ALWAYS NEXT MONTH
They don’t like the book ?– There’s always next month
Next month for us -
and Brooklyn
TEEN BOOK CLUB
13 year olds – scared our male off
They DO things – I ask questions while they DO things
- May baskets, Tea parties, Laughter Yoga
Meet them where they are - A Child Called It – 1st choice
Exercise with them - “Isn’t yoga one of those weird religions”
Chenoa’s Got Talent
DID YOU SAY THIS WAS A DRESS EVENT?
LAUGHTER CLUB
http://www.laughterourbestmedicine.com/Also check out Laughter Clubs
WE ALWAYS HAVE TEA AFTER LAUGHTER YOGA
GROOMING FUTURE BOOK CLUB MEMBERS
TUESDAY NIGHT TRAVELERS
These books were made for walkin’
We walk and talk !!!
Name a bit more creative
Wine and Wit
4 Members - smaller can be better
Patron wanted a night group
COURSE IN WEIGHT LOSS BOOK CLUB
Idea had to percolate
Almost ready to start walking
- in talk stage
WORKING OFF YOUR FINE BOOK CLUB
Four participants so far –
It’s working and so are they
Instead of losing customers, we’re creating regulars
Our non-judgmental staff helps
our success
Teaching them how to be good users
FURRY READING - SATURDAY MORNING
FURRY READING – DOGS CAUGHT SLEEPING ON THE JOB
FURRY READING - AND FUN
FURRY READING BUDDIES
BOOK CLUBS IN THE WORKS
History Book Club - requested by 2 users - hoping to see that elusive book club creature – a man
Meadows Nursing Home – we’ll read them books of their era, doing book cart now
Then we have our oh so likeable Takota –
TAKOTA BOOK CLUB – OR - I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW I WAS IN A BOOK CLUB – OR SNEAKING THEM INTO A BOOK CLUB
FROM BARTENDER TO SIMON BAR SINISTER
My ultimate plot – Pages and stages future
Library events for non-readers
NOT YET A SUCCESS CLUBS
Laughter Yoga
Yoga, Tai Chi – local gymnastics center
Veterans involved
Vision impaired – doing more now
Into the community – books to the church
AS BOB SAYS – “WE CAN DO IT…”
Join all of Chenoa in a big library/reading adventure
Karaoke or bingo in the library
City Read -– EDD grant – Community Technology Center
Planned labyrinth or reading garden – am I the only human who walks and reads?
Peace meals reads
More author visits
Music events + Music room in new library
MUSIC AND MEMORIES IN THE LIBRARY
OUR JOURNEY TO THE FUTURE
Building a new library or joining with grade school in future
More regulars as they trust me – We treat them like visitors to our home
From “Yoga is a religion” – to – “I’m looking for the new yoga magazine”
Learned people join groups at the library to socialize - few want to walk
I still have lots to learn
SPARKLING BOOK CLUB NAMES
Ladies of the Evening
Feast for the Mind
Toward Justice and Mysterious Undertakings
Dog-eared Readers
American Experience Book Club – Mill Valley, CA - Fiction
The American experience operates under the idea that there is no single American experience, as notions of what it means to be "American" have changed over time, and as the intersections of place, gender, race, and class inform these experiences. Join us as we explore classics and undiscovered literary gems that speak to the issues of the constantly changing face of American Identity. Ka,MN
MORE SPARKLING BOOK CLUB NAMES
Guys Read Book Club – grades 4-6 Radical Readers
Freedom Readers Thriller Book Club
Real to Reel Book Club Forever YA Book Club
Quarter-Life Crisis Knitting Between the Lines
Shakespeare Reading Group Just Desserts Mystery
Geeks who Read Omnivorous Readers
MY LOWLY WORM ADVICE Be A Fun Library
Keep it fun and light no matter the subject – make them laugh ,
don’t make them apologize for missing an event
Check your Chicken at the Door
Try the new - Courage for Laughter Yoga
There WILL be failed ideas or ideas people are not ready for (Tai Chi, Laughter Yoga)
Throw idea out and wait ‘til the desire builds or the laughter stops –
if it doesn’t work, so what? Don’t dis yourself.
Be Your Unique Self
Celebrate and use the uniqueness of your readers or community
Trend here - cake pans to loan
Celebrate being a small library
MORE LOWLY WORM ADVICE Be Psychic - be aware of the need (A Child Called It and
abused girl in teen club)
Forget the Numbers - Not about the numbers for small libraries
Some don’t like change - Plant the seeds and wait
Patience my dear – Allow ideas to have their time and flow naturally from desire of patron, but as Simon Bar Sinister would say, sometimes you have to create the desire
Chenoa Library - Doing big library things in an intimate way Another great thing about a small library
YOUR TURN
Questions
What about you?
What have you always wanted to try?
Contact Sheryl - [email protected]
