August 2010 Library News

Your library is open 6 days a week!

Weekdays 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.   Nights  M & W  7:00 – 9:00 p.m.    Saturdays 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. 

UPCOMING EVENT:  Come watch a slideshow of BOLIVIA with NPS Interpreter Ranger Emily Mount on Thursday, Aug. 19, from 7:00 - 9:00 at the library.   

Volunteers Needed
Gustavus Public Library
Where Volunteers are Our Foundation
 
Summer is moving on and some volunteers are heading elsewhere!
Needed:  Desk sitters:  Tuesday 1:30—4:30 (periodic), Thursday 1:30—4:30 & Saturday 1:00—3:00
Substitutes to give the desk sitters time off.  Come volunteer once a week OR once/twice/3 times a month — whichever fits your schedule!

GUSTAVUS PUBLIC LIBRARY

PO BOX 279 GUSTAVUS, ALASKA 99826-0279

PHONE (907) 697-2350 FAX (907) 697-2249 e-mail librarian@gustavus.lib.ak.us

 

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

PUBLIC RELATIONS LIBRARIAN

 

Closing Date: Friday, August 13th, 2010, 4:30 pm

Supervisor: Gustavus Mayor with library advisory board input

Wage: $15.00 per hour

Worksite: Gustavus Public Library

Employee Category: Part-time

Work Hours: Minimum 15 hours per week*

*NOTE: additional work hours may be added mid-May to mid-September,

contingent on successful grant funding for the Summer Reading Program.

 

Under the direction of the City Mayor and the Library Board the successful candidate will:

 

• Manage the Library Volunteer Program including recruiting and training library volunteers.

• Write and administer library grants and contracts and assist with establishing the annual library

budget (with Library Board assistance).

• Organize, administer and promote a variety of library programs, including storyhours for children,

teen programming and community interest programs.

• Create posters, news stories, web postings and press releases as necessary to promote library

events and activities.

• Report to the Library Advisory Board concerning library issues, programs and funding opportunities.

• Participate in Library Advisory Board meetings as required.

• Assist in coordinating Library Advisory Board initiated fundraising activities.

• Work with the State Library Coordinator to seek statewide opportunities for training, funding,

conferences, visiting authors, etc.

• Perform tasks involving library policies, programs, services, fundraising and facilities, including

making recommendations to the Library Advisory Board, the Gustavus Mayor and the Gustavus City

Council.

 

• Summer Only -- Administer, implement and staff the annual Library Summer Reading and Reading

Buddies Program. NOTE: Employee will be working with children of all ages. *Additional work hours

may be added mid-May to mid- September contingent on successful grant funding for the Summer

Reading Program.

 

Requirements: The successful candidate must:

 

• Support the concept of Intellectual Freedom and be committed to protecting each patron’s

right to privacy and unrestricted access to information.

• Demonstrate good writing skills.

• Have a history of working successfully with a diverse group of individuals and agencies.

• Have experience with office equipment, computers and basic computer programs.

 

Application forms may be obtained at the Gustavus Public Library or City Hall.

Applicants must provide a completed application form, a cover letter and must sign the Certification

Statement on the back of the application form.

 

Completed forms may be dropped off at City Hall or at the Library, or mailed to the Gustavus Public

Library, P.O. Box 279 or to Gustavus City Hall, P.O. Box 1, Gustavus, AK 99826

Forms may also be Faxed to the library @ (907) 697-2249 or to City Hall @ (907) 697-2136

 

All applications will be reviewed by the Library Advisory Board and all qualified candidates will be

interviewed. The Library Advisory Board will forward a recommendation to hire a successful

candidate to the Mayor for approval. Employment will begin at a mutually agreed upon date after the

job offer is accepted.

 

The City of Gustavus is an equal opportunity employer.

 

 

GUSTAVUS PUBLIC LIBRARY

Job Description

Public Relations Librarian

7/20/10

 

Job Summary:

 

Make recommendations to the library advisory board, mayor and city council and perform

tasks involving library policies, programs, services, and facilities. Administer the library

program and services to meet community needs and board and council decisions. Promote

library service to all potential users.

 

Duties and Responsibilities:

 

• Inform library board about library issues, policies, programs, and funding sources or other

items of importance to board. Participate in board meetings and work sessions as

required.

• Work with State Library Coordinator to seek statewide opportunities for our library,

including training, funding, conferences, visiting authors, etc.

• Assist in the coordination of board initiated fundraising activities.

• Attend continuing education activities.

• Foster partnerships, cooperate and develop programs and plan with other organizations

to improve and strengthen library programs and other community projects.

• Write and administer grants and contract. Write annual grant for Summer Reading

program, with board assistance.

• Create posters, e-mail and print news stories and press releases as necessary to promote

library events and activities.

• Assist with establishing the annual library budget, with library board assistance

• Recruit, schedule and organize library volunteers; for example: facilitate training, find

substitute circulation desk sitters, provide focus for volunteer work parties.

• Coordinate programs with the community and the school. Plan for monthly storyhours

for children, community and teen library programs, publicity, news stories, and press

releases. Coordinate with the committees and community on facility use, i.e.

meeting room reservations.

• Be knowledgeable and proficient in a wide range of technologies, including computers,

printers, scanners, fax machines, modems, servers, projectors, etc.

• Summer Only: Organize, administer and implement the Summer Reading Program.

Supervise Summer Reading staff and volunteers. Recruit and train Reading Buddy

volunteers. Contact businesses for prizes. (See attached Job Description for details).

 

NOTE: additional work hours may be added from mid-May to mid-September

contingent on successful grant funding for the Summer Reading Program.

 

Requirements:

Library employees must support the concept of Intellectual Freedom and strive to protect

each patron’s right to privacy.

 

Supervision:

 

• This position is supervised by the Mayor of the City of Gustavus.

Rate of Pay

• Starting rate of pay for this position is $15.00 per hour.

The City of Gustavus is an equal opportunity employer.

 

 

 

GUSTAVUS PUBLIC LIBRARY

JOB DESCRIPTION

SUMMER READING PROGRAM

July, 2010

JOB REQUIREMENTS

 

Facilitate the Summer Reading and Reading Buddy cooperative

programs:

 

• Program planning

• Supervise Program Aide position

• Attend all training sessions

• Set up Reading Buddy Program:

--Recruit and train Reading Buddy volunteers

-- Match volunteer buddies with students

• Create gameboards for summer readers

• Contact local businesses for gameboard prizes

• Work with Gustavus School elementary teachers to obtain

leveled books for the summer and student reading level lists.

• Order incentives, food, supplies, grand prize books for end

of program and obtain and organize bi-weekly book selections

• Schedule and coordinate volunteers for weekly activities and

Reading Buddy Program

• Coordinate weekly story hours, including volunteers, snacks

and supplies

• Process and file purchase orders and required paperwork

• Write an end-of-summer report to State Library and School

District

• Turn in weekly time sheets.

 

QUALIFICATIONS:

--Education (B.A. in relevant area – e.g., art, library,

elementary/secondary education, liberal arts, early childhood

education) and/or

--Experience in organization and facilitation/management,

teaching/care of children (pre-school to 13 yrs.), reading aloud

to groups, library procedures, computer literacy, written

communication

 

SUPERVISION: This position is supervised by the Mayor of the City

of Gustavus.

 

RATE OF PAY: $15/hr

The City of Gustavus is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

 

 

 

 

AN EVENING WITH GUSTAVUS AUTHORS!

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6^th,  7:00 - 9:00  PM

@ the LIBRARY

OPEN HOUSE and PROGRAM

 

Meet 20+ local authors, get your books signed,

purchase books from some of the authors and view poster displays.  

A program will follow the open house

with presentations and panel discussions by various authors. 

Refreshments and beverages will be available.

Donations to the library will be accepted at the door.

 

Take part in the Author Contest:

Stop by the library, the P.O., the store…

and pick up a copy of our author’s contest form. 

Come take a look at (please don’t check out right now)

books by Gustavus authors,

then mark your choices – multiple choice – for who wrote which passage.

Submit your form in our container on the desk.

A winner will be drawn from all those

who correctly identify all authors with their quotes

(Note:  not all Gustavus authors have quotes included)

and a prize will be rewarded on Author’s Night, Aug. 6, at the Library!

 

GUSTAVUS PUBLIC LIBRARY BRICK FUNDRAISER

Purchase a brick to support your library, the hotspot of Gustavus! 

PERSONALIZED BRICKS WILL BE PERMANENTLY INSTALLED IN THE LIBRARY’S ENTRYWAY ALONG WITH THOSE OF YOUR NEIGHBORS and FRIENDS! 

·        1-2 lines                          $100.00

·        3 lines                             $125.00

·        Corporate/business with LOGO (up to 3 lines)         $250.00

15 spaces available per line including spaces and punctuation 

Leave a legacy for yourself or your family, a memorial for a loved one; inscribe your own words of wisdom; purchase a specialized brick for your business or company.  

For more information, or to order on the phone, Call 907-697-2350. 

 

THANKS to all who have helped make this Summer Reading program GREAT FUN!  Thanks to the National Park Service interpreters who helped read and lead activities each week:  Marieke Slovin ("Our roots go down..."), Patrick Hair (in orca costume),  Elizabeth Anderson (getting kids moving as they act out nature), and Linda Lieberman (orcas).  Thanks to all local businesses who have offered prizes for weekly hour reading! 

Thanks to the following incredible snack makers:  Tracy Bohlke, Terri Metcalf, Katie Bodell, Vivian Pilkington, and Karen Platt!  Thanks to Julie Vathke for helping with the bi-weekly Bike and Hike program, and to all who hiked the Falls Creek Road with kids for one of the hikes.  Thanks to Harvey Van Patten for his Whittling Workshop and to Artemis Bona Dea for her Bookmaking Workshop, making this summer very special! 

 

READING BUDDIES PARTY:  If you are a Reading Buddy or have a Reading Buddy, come share pizza at Homeshore Tuesday, Aug. 10 at 5:00 p.m. to celebrate another great summer of reading!

SUMMER READING BIKE AND HIKE ALPHABET IN NATURE BOOKS by Gustavus kids on display at the Gustavus Author's night, Fri. Aug. 6 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.  Come see our book!

STUDENT-MADE BOOKS FROM ELLIE SHARMAN'S ELEMENTARY CLASS OVER THE YEARS FROM 1991- 2010.  Now on display at the library on a table under the windows in the sun room.  Come see what you and your children have written and drawn over the years!  (These are not to be checked out -- on display only!)

NEW BOOKS on the shelves :

Sorceress by Michael Scott (J)

Driven -- a Photobiography of Henry Ford by Don Mitchell (J)

Candy Bomber by Michael Tunnell (J)

Pop!  The Invention of Bubble Gum by McCarthy (J)

Happy Birthday Sophie Hartley (J)

Pinheads and Patriots:  Where You Stand in the Age of Obama by O'Reilly (MCN)

Keeper:  One House, Three Generations, and a Journey Into Alzheimer's by Gillies (MCN)

Land of Blood and Honey:  The Rise of Modern Israel by Van Creveld (MCN)

Wicked Appetite by Evanovich (MCN)

Help by Stockett (MCN)

Lost Empire:  A Fargo Adventure by Cussler (MCN)

Cork and Fuzz Babysitters (J)

Making Shelter (J)

Spaceheadz #1 (J)

Lives of the Pirates (J)

The Lost Girls:  Three Friends, Four Continents, One Unconvenience

Crunch

As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth

How to Hug a Porcupine

Graceling

13 is the New 18...

Sarah's Key

Ship Breaker

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

New Moon, Twilight Saga, Book 2

Please Take Me for a Walk (J)

The Georges and the Jewels (J)

War

If I Stay (J)

Alchemy and Meggy Swann (J)

Never Smile at a Monkey (J)

It's Not the Stork:  A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies... (J)

The Knife of Never Letting Go:  Chaos Walking

Toby Alone

The Magician's Elephant

It's Perfectly Normal:  Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex...

Bear in the Air (J)

Mama, Is It Summer Yet? (J_)

Holes dvd

A Beautiful Mind dvd

The Jungle Book dvd

Up dvd

Alaska:  Into the Wilderness dvd

Life narrated by David Attenborough dvd

Percy Jackson & the Olympiains: The Lightning Thief (J)

and more... (NOTE:  There are a number of new donation books

 

WANT TO DISPLAY a QUILT or other Art AT THE LIBRARY?  Give us a call or stop by!

 

MUSIC:  Join us for BANJO every Monday afternoon at 5:00 p.m. (Beginners at 4:30) ; also for other instruments -- guitar, mandolin..

 

LEADon Youth Leadership Conference 2010 www.myspace.com/leadonalaska

What:  Youth lead workshops, Nationally recognized key note speakers, Hiking and major fun!

Why:  To promote peace and encourage youth leadership in Alaskan communities

Who:  Inspired youth ages 13-18, interested in peace and equality

When:  October 9-11th, 2010

Thanks to all of our FANTASTIC desk sitters and volunteers:  Charlene Morda, John Hawley, Dana Miller, Allison Banks, Heather Sellards, Lori Zimmer, Eileen Clark, Carole Baker, Rita Wilson,  Carolyn Elder, Adrianna Cahill, Aimee Youmans, Bonnie Harris, Robynn Jones, Celia Fortino, and Penny Woodall! Thanks to Library Board Members Eileen Clark, Artemis Bona Dea, Lynne Jensen, George Jensen, Jaenell Manchester.  Thanks to our City liason, Jim Mackovjak! THANKS also to Artemis Bona Dea and George Jensen for painting the outside of the library and flashing!

Help with Library "Weeding":  Every year the Library works a schedule of "weeding" out old, unread, broken books to make way for new donations and purchases.  This year, 2010, is a big year:  We will be weeding all adult and juvenile books in the 000, 100, 200, 300, 500, 600, and 800's. It takes 2 people to agree to the letting go of any one book.  If you would like to volunteer to help with this project, let us know at the front 

AUGUST LIBRARY STATISTICS:  During August, 2010, we had 1118 visits (adults, school children, preschoolers, jr/sr high, in-house computer users, library computer users), checked out 283 books, and 162 movies and CDs; for a total of 445 items.  Programs included:  Summer Reading Wednesdays; Bike and Hike Fridays; Reading Buddies reading; NPS presentations on Whales and Sea Lions; singing sessions;  piano lessons and piano playing; banjo, slow jam, and song sessions (with instruments); city meetings; internet use (inside the building and out!)

"Imagine all the people living life in peace.  You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.  I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one."  --John Lennon