Community Liaison Contact: Carol Van Baalen
LOCAL NEWS
Friends of the Des Moines Library
Wednesday, June 12, 7pm
Friends of the Kent Library
Thursday, June 13, 12noon
Friends of the Woodmont Library
Thursday, June 13, 6:30pm
Summer
Reading Program 2013
June 1 – August 31
Children’s
and Teen Librarians from Des Moines, Kent, and Woodmont Libraries will
be partnering with local schools and parks in their communities this
summer,
through the Let’s Read program (more details below in this
newsletter). Next month’s newsletter will give a complete list of sites
and dates for the program in our area.
Program
Highlights at your local library:
Rick Browne, Ph.B (Doctor of Barbeque Philosophy)
Sunday, June 23, 2pm
Kent Library
The author of
Grilling America, The Frequent Fryer Cookbook, The Barbeque America Cookbook
and 1001 Best Grilling Recipes: Delicious, Easy-to-Make Recipes from Around the World
is a pitmaster and host of the PBS television show,
Barbeque America. He will share tips, secrets and recipes to make
your backyard gathering a barbecue spectacular with hints for creating
rubs and sauces, grilling wild game and even how to make mouth-watering
desserts on your barbeque grill. Demonstration
and tasting included.
Homemade Beer: The Basics of Homebrewing
Tuesday, June 25, 6:30pm
Des Moines Library
Pop the cap and pour yourself into the
world of homebrewing. A local brewer will present the basics of brewing
beer: the ingredients, the equipment and the beermaking process.
Space is limited to 25 participants. Please call starting June 11 to register, 206.824.6066.
Many more programs for all ages are happening at your library this month. For a complete list, click here: http://www.kcls.org/programs/
SYSTEM HIGHLIGHTS
FROM THE
May DIRECTOR’S REPORT
As a result of being awarded a Race to the Top grant, the
Community Center for Education Results
(CCER) has committed
to raising the reading scores of children in the Auburn, Federal Way,
Highline, Kent, Renton and Tukwila school districts by asking parents of
kindergarteners, first and second graders to sign a Summer Reading
contract and read to their children through the
summer. Each child will receive a packet that contains a KCLS Summer
Reading Log matched to the closest KCLS library within their district, a
“Let’s Read!” refrigerator magnet and a door hanger reading tip sheet. A
total of 10,200 Summer Reading Logs are being
printed for the program. CCER hopes to be able to track the number of
children who participated in the program in each school and district and
provide the data to KCLS.
The Federal Way School District,
which is a participant
in the Let’s Read program, will offer an additional program this
summer. The District has turned two decommissioned school buses into
mobile feeding units. The vehicles, nicknamed Fred, will visit six sites
near schools that have 96% of students who qualify
for free or reduced-price lunches. As a project partner, KCLS will
provide promotional reading materials and staff members will conduct
reading programs during site visits. School staff will visit the sites
four times per week and reach at least 100 kids per
day. The project is jointly sponsored by the Federal Way School
District, City of Federal Way and the United Way of King County.
KCLS will distribute 12,500 Summer Reading Logs for
Reach Out & Read,
the program that partners with pediatricians to prescribe
books and encourage families to read together. The Reach Out & Read
logo will be printed on each Summer Reading Log and library staff will
attempt to track these logos when children redeem their Summer Reading
Logs for prizes.
KCLS saw a healthy 5% increase in
circulation during the month of April, which made up for previous
months’ decreases. Year-to-date, System-wide circulation is now even
with 2012. Circulation at the Enumclaw Library continues to grow but,
more importantly, the percentage of its circulation
from items placed on hold is up 26%. This puts the Library on par with
the rest of the System and indicates that Enumclaw residents are
availing themselves of the entire KCLS collection.
A Place at the Table
programs are averaging 20 attendees and libraries are collecting an
average of 750 pounds
of food per week. In total, 6,500 pounds has been collected, providing
more than 4,000 meals to food insecure residents in King County. The
summer issue of
A Place at the Table program guide will be released before June
featuring nearly twice the number of programs. New partners include PCC
Markets, Washington State Dairy Council and AmpleHarvest.org.
