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Highlights of Our Accomplishments based upon our EPIC Strategic Plan <br />Summer-Fall 2018 <br />ENGAGE <br />Meet people in the community | Listen to learn | Improve our services <br /> <br />Training we are integrating into our work <br />x Engaging with Diverse Communities <br />x Star Party (in preparation of hosting our own party in April) <br />x NC Preservation Consortium Annual Conference <br /> <br />Special programs we’ve hosted/attended to engage new and existing customers <br />x Summer Learning was huge hit –, <br />- In YS: 800+ children registered; 67 programs held with 2,948 people attending; 574,200 minutes were read by <br />ages birth to grade 5; 225 books were donated to Fairview through our Book Bucks program <br />- In ATS,80,514 minutes were logged for reading and public service by middle school and high school students <br />this year. <br />x Chamber Candlelight Home Tour <br />x Library tour for Child Protective Services staff and library card sign up at OC Government Employee Appreciation <br />Luncheon <br />x This past Halloween the ATS department (and TAB) participated in trick-or-treating and had a cookie decorating <br />passive program, Halloween candle holder decorating passive program and a social media costume selfie <br />contest. As hoped for, a very racially diverse audience participated. <br />x Kafi, along with several part-time and circulation staff members made connections and new friends at this year’s <br />Bull City Comicon. <br />x Passive programs have been a big hit in ATS. Library patrons are working puzzles like crazy. <br />x Andrew and Annette worked with Sharon from Purple Crow Books and the Friends of the Library to bring three <br />local authors, J.G. Hetherton, Julian Rankin, and Hal Crowther to the library. <br /> <br />We’ve been refining the collection and our approach to building it <br />x The Cybrary’s collection continues to evolve. Albeit much smaller, the collection there is now as diverse as the <br />collection at Main. We continued efforts to curate a small but healthy collection of children’s items at the <br />Cybrary, which has shown surprisingly robust circulation statistics. Credit to Damaris for the bulk of the work in <br />this project. <br />x YS greatly expanded our Early Reader Nonfiction section from two shelves to nine by pulling appropriate titles <br />from JNF to improve circulation. <br /> <br />Our digital presence continues to grow, thanks to the social media team (Terri, Jody, Stephanie, Kafi and Cara) <br />x Facebook is up 20%, Twitter up 18% and Instagram (just started in January 2018) has over 550 followers <br /> <br />PARTNER <br />Work with county and local government to address customer needs | Create a community engagement framework | <br />Outreach to schools <br /> <br />SEA accounts -- We entered year 3 with The Expedition School, year 2 with Orange County Schools and year 1 with <br />Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools. Total number of SEA accounts is now over 16,000. This has been a very complicated <br />process for the folks at CBL owing to its location within a school. Staff there continues to reevaluate procedures to best <br />suit their needs and frequent requests from school staff, but they’re getting the hang of it. Thanks to Jason for handling <br />all of the backend work needed to support the SEA and Educator account initiatives. <br /> <br />2