 Welcome to the next session of Big Talk from Small Libraries. Those of you who are with us this morning, this was supposed to be this morning and due to my error it was the time zones all messed up. So we are doing it now. So thank you so much for agreeing to come in this afternoon. So we are going to hear from Page Public Library of the 2023 Best Small Library in America from Library of Library Journal. This is an award that has been done for a long time, 2005 or so was the first one. And we have usually always had the Best Small Library in America award winner on Big Talk from Small Libraries. But when the pandemic started in 2020, they stopped doing the award. So haven't had anyone for quite a few years. But they brought it back last year, I think, yay. And so we have Debbie and Sarah who are going to talk about their library, who is the most recent winner and congratulations to you for winning. Yay. Thank you. Thank you so much. So my name is Sierra, I'm the Children's Coordinator here at Page Public Library. I have been here for just about three years prior to this I was a preschool teacher for three years and I got my degree in elementary education. First, I just want to thank you guys for giving me this opportunity to present and I'm going to be presenting on behalf of both the Children and Teens Programming that we have here at our library. Some advance. Here are some of the partnerships that we have here. Community partnerships, we work with Hot and Sweet Donut Shop. It's our local donut shop here in town. They partner with us for library card sign up month. Also summer reading program prizes and our trunk retreat costume contest prizes. We also present or we also partner with our Walmart and Safeway Walmart helps us with our life skills that we have here in both the Children and Teens department. Our pumpkin carving events and our summer reading kickoff that we have. And I will speak more on the kickoff. It is so much fun. I'm sure all of you guys have some type of summer reading kickoff, but I have a fun video to show you guys when we get there. The Safeway also helps us with the pumpkin carving event and our summer reading kickoff. We also partner with our local police department and fire department. I have two pictures here that just show the life skills that they helped us with the kids were actually really, really excited for this. The police officers, we had a kid that was very, very afraid of police officers and at the end of the program felt comfortable to be around a police officer and engaged with the police officers. So it was really nice. They also come for story times as well here that we have at the library. The next one that we have that partners with us is our page food pantry. They help provide snacks for our young patrons so after school we get tons of kids that come in. And I will talk about the meal program that we do later but we also snack them with the snacks that are provided from the food pantry. They also provide our patrons with fresh fruits and vegetables, which is really, really nice for them sometimes water and drinks as well. If they have excess from there they ask if we would like that donation and we just have a table set up in front of our circulation desk, and we have bags that patrons can take as much as they want to much as they need. We also have we work with the city so the one person that I did want to highlight is our mayor. I don't know if you can see the arrow but he's the little guy right there. He's really, really sweet. He loves doing story time here at the library and one thing I do love about him is that he gets down to the kids' level to read with them. He's not standing above them or anything like that. He really takes the time to read and engage not just with the kids but with the parents as well. So we love having him here for our story times. Coconino Health, they also come for our health fairs which I'll talk about in a little bit that we have here and they also help us with our life skills that we have. So they're awesome. Fitness Odyssey is our one and only local gym that we have here. They also help provide programming for our life skills that we have for the teens. So they come in, they teach them some basic gym exercises that they can do, things that they can do at home just to stay fit and healthy. So it's really, really nice to have them. We also partner with Bank of America. They came and did a life skills class with our teens to teach them how to open up a bank account and to help kind of manage their own accounts. So that's much needed. We're trying to get that, see how we can do that on the younger patron side. The children that I work with, the 0-11 age group, not zero year olds, the middle school probably age group, but to do banking for that age group to kind of just set them up to know how to handle money. We're noticing that kids don't actually really know what money is. They don't know paper money, coins, those types of things. So we're trying to get those life skills into that age group as well. Stay grounded coffee and brew it, coffee to go. They help us with our pumpkin carving event. They give us prizes, grand prize, or prizes, donations that will go towards the costume contest. So they help us with that. They also participate in a lot of our events that we have. The teen program, they have partnered with the community garden and we've actually been able to take teens down to our local garden to grow vegetables and fruits and just learn how to do that. We are a community where we are surrounded by local reservations, but you get to anything bigger than Page, which we only have two stores here. Grocery stores, it's a two hour drive either up through Utah or down towards Flagstaff. So it's just us up here. And we also partner with Rancho Squirrel. They are a local restaurant here, and Debbie and I will both kind of talk about what they've partnered with us in later slides, but they're another one of our community partners for the children. Let me just advance a little bit. Some other partnerships that we have are with the schools. I've listed all the schools here that we have. We do many things from Read Across America, which is coming up. One of the biggest things that we do all staff try to get a turn to read to a classroom. We try to hit as many, if not all the classrooms as we can. We also help them with their family nights that they have going on or their health fairs back to school fairs that they have. We participated in the different homecoming graduation parades that they've had. The high school does a health and wellness fair for the teens. It's to focus on mental health issues that we're noticing the incline in the youth. So we participate in that programming. We also offer school tours weekly. So we have schools that are coming in for programming and for book checkouts. The schools have to where the kids aren't able to check out books outside of their school. So it stays within the school classroom. So we partner with them so that they're able to come here to the libraries that they're able to check out books to take home to read. So those are some of the things that we do with them. We also have a volunteer program that allows students to acquire their volunteer hours needed to graduate high school. So we have that here as well. It's just been really nice. We've had kids that taken advantage of that for both the breaks that we've had so far, the fall and the winter break. That's been really, really nice. Glen Canyon Outdoor Academy, they are a new school. This is the second year that they've been about right here. They, they are partnering with a lot of stuff and they really use our resources really, really well. I will talk more about them in further slides. Okay, some of the family programs I'd like to highlight. This is a big one is our page health and resource fair. This started in spring of 2022. We call it spring into health. And we partnered with Blue Cross Blue Shields Health Choice and also Flagstaff, Flagstaff Dentistry for kids. So they service patrons ages one through 18 years of age. And they give them free x-rays, dental cleaning, fluoride treatments and sealant application provided by a licensed dental provider. Guardians are able to set appointments needed for further evaluation if they need or follow up care. This is, we also include local preschools, the NRTA, childcare resources and referral, first things first, Coconino Health and other local agencies that we have in our community to help show families what we have service wise for them. This, this part of it does health screening so we've had those who maybe need to be seen for an IEP be able to get evaluated here at the library to see if they qualify for those services. Mental health information, car seat safety, we've done prizes and giveaways at these events. So our first event we served 120 patrons and our community and 60 of those were able to get dental care. So that was our first event. So in 2023 we saw that there was a need. So we coordinated to provide it twice a year. So we have the spring into health and resource fair and we also have one six months later fall around the fall time. So we call it fall into health. And so now patrons are getting that six month check up and they don't have to travel outside of page to get the dental care. Granted that they don't need extended care to go actually to the dental cares and flag staff. We also right here, you can see some tables that are full of clothing. So we were donated a bunch of gently used a new new clothing diapers and we also we have like puppy pads there as well winter coats. We were able to give out all these free clothes to families in need at that next event or this event. It was really, really nice and needed. There's families that were able to get. Like I said, we only have two stores here. So we have to travel two hours to get or order online to get clothing for our families here. This event that we had served 300 patrons and 125 of those were receiving dental services. So our dental services is two days. It's Friday and Saturday and the resource fair is typically just on Saturday. But we saw that it's continuing to increase in the need of service. So this year in April we are going to do our third health fair and we are going to do the resource fair on both that Friday and Saturday. So we extended it the extra day to get that information out to families. So this is one of our bigger events that we have for the children's department. Next, I was going to talk about our movies in the parking games. This event is a lot of fun. It's not too much work. As you can see, we have like this. Someone has a question about something you've talked about a little while ago. So I want to jump on that before we are ahead. Yeah. Someone just wants to know. So yeah, just reminder, anyone you have any questions at any time, go ahead and type it in. I can grab them from you for you, for the presenters, for speakers, whenever they want to know what kind of life skills are included for the younger kids. Ooh, if you don't mind, can I talk about that in a little bit just because I have a whole slide for that. Oh, perfect. All right then. Perfect. Okay. Yeah. All right, no problem. Thank you for that question though. I'm excited now to talk about that. But for the movies in Park, so Debbie is the master at getting grants here at our library, and we were able to get this gigantic screen that you see here. It's nice. It's only I think blown down one time. So we found out how to stake it right so that way it doesn't blow away with we call it page wins because it does get windy here. But this started out, I feel like the first time it was it was like smaller is kind of hesitant. Now it's a huge program that we have in the summer. We do offer this four times. So by weekly we do it during the summertime. The first part of the day at 5pm, we have lawn games that are available. So we have nine square volleyball bubbles, water games, chess checkers, etc. We do let the patrons know that these items are available for checkout at our library so that way they can also use them if they were to set up, you know, family functions or anything that they might need these for. So we start out with that and then the movie starts at dusk so we do close the games at that time so that way everyone can enjoy the movie without hearing all the fun that's going on. And we also invite vendors to sell food and we set up a donation table for popcorn. That money does go towards programming to earn to further fund like again the popcorn and all of that for the next movies that we have. So last year we had approximately 1200 that attended those programs that we had. So I love those programs and we're already planning for this summer's movie on the park program. So that one's a great one. Page preschool parent roundup is something that actually I just listened to the patrons in our community they ever talk about they didn't know how to sign up for preschool when preschool was signing up. So I just kind of made this a program after a tiny top program which is the 0 to 5 age group so that way the families are already here when they were done or kind of in between they can go to any of the preschool tables and kind of get information or sign up right there on the spot. So for that one we do have the free notary services printing services health screens as well. So if their child does feel like they need an IEP we all we have that a zip provider there that's able to help evaluate the child or at least set up a time that they can be evaluated. And then the schools give out their school information that that way the families aren't trying to go here there and everywhere. So those are that that's the third program I'd like to talk about an advance. Okay so another one that's pretty big is for Native American Heritage Month we do. It is essentially a fry bread day so we kind of we teach the kids how to make fry bread traditionally they get to eat it and they not just the kids their families come as well to make it. So we just focus on the beauty of Native American culture we do songs and yeah just have a good time to eat and I don't know if you guys can see the picture but we have learned not to let the kids be in control of how much powdered sugar they put on their fry bread because they are very hyper after. There is all powdered sugar. That's all powdered sugar on their faces yeah is all powdered sugar so if you do an event like that just maybe you guys control it because you'll have to better just bouncing off the book stacks. Not literally. The next event that we do is our family pumpkin carving events I love this event this one like I said is Walmart and Safeway do contribute to this one year we did have a local. Like I guess it's not even like a farmer it's just an individual that had pumpkins that they were growing in their garden and donated pumpkins. So we're able to let families carve and just have that time together to carve pumpkins we supply all the carving utensils that they would need the stencils for it. And then of course the pumpkin so just depending on the family size is dependent on how many pumpkins that they're able to. Take for their family just because that is like a donation a donation type of program whatever we get donated is how many families were able to serve. That one's always full within the first two weeks of putting registration out there that one's already already full and they all come so we love that program. Another one that we have is Christmas at the ranch which used to be our super Saturday. So it's kind of essentially to two of the same things I think Debbie's going to talk a little bit more about this one too but this one is one that we do our choice for talks party but also we have partnered with that ranch house grill. They decided to open up their restaurant for us to be able to give patrons free pictures with Santa Claus. Food we do gingerbread gingerbread house making so we supply all the kits for them they just literally show up eats bill take pictures have fun Pepsi also sponsors all of the drinks for that. In this past year we actually were able to get little Caesar's pizza to donate pizzas for that event. We also have a cookie bake off that we do in December so we have patrons that baked cookies for that event and it goes for the choice for tots but we actually it's like it's the best part of the the whole cookie bake off as we get to sample the cookies before but also it's also the hardest part because you're tasting so many different cookies that it's a sugar rush in yourself so that's a fun event that we get to do prior to bringing those cookies over for this event that we have. We get a lot of people for that one I'm sure Debbie has the number for how many were able to serve for that one. So that was just another one of the family programs that we do here at the library. I'm in advance so we do night out with pops I kind of tried to do a lot of programs focusing with the fathers because in our everyday programs I do see that it's a lot of the mothers that are coming we do have fathers as well but it is mostly majority. Mothers grandmothers that are coming so we do try to highlight. Our hardworking fathers grandpa's uncles any father figure that there is for the children in our community to spend the night with their. Spend time with their adult male figure so we for this event we had a popcorn bar so we popped popcorn and had a bunch of different toppings that they can put on. We also cater to one of our local restaurants bread house for them to have food we have lots of arts and crafts for them. We do something very similar when we have our father's day event as well. But this is a popular program that also registered within the first week registration we were full for that one as well. Another family program that we do is we do monthly movies we do get a lot of families for this one actually we we kind of look at the school schedules to see if there's any Friday that the kids are not in school. Or we just look for a Friday that works best for us as well but we just have a movie that's playing we give patrons popcorn and they're able to come in with their families and just enjoy a movie without going and having to pay to go to our movie theater here in town. Okay. One of our big programs that we do is the trunk retreat event so this we actually do for the entire city this is one of the big ones that we have. We started in our parking lot and we grew to the city park. We do have registration for trunkers to be able to provide candy for the community. They also get to decorate their trunk and be voted in by popular vote so the community gets to vote on what their favorite trunk is. At the end of the trunk retreats treat day they will get like a certificate or a gift card whatever we did we're able to get that year to be presented to them for winning that we also do a costume contest as well so we do one for the kids teens adults and then we also do most original or like homemade costume so we do that as well. This is a very very big event for our town last year our number was 4,795 patrons attended this our library is or our page is like a tourist area so this wasn't just patrons that were in our community a lot of it was people from out of state out of town that just saw the flyer like at hotels and just decided to come for this event so that's one of our our biggest events that I would say that we have is our truck retreat section. That's amazing I love it. And my two kids. And this was the children's coordinator before me. Alrighty so I'm going to dance. These are so much fun if you don't do this at your library I highly suggest even thinking about doing it we do a teen and children's after hours. This, we have a nerf war so okay it's after hours so what's when the library closes. We do ours for the children's we do it for two hours, and the teens do it for three hours. And so what we do is with a waiver signed and everything they're able if you see that I'm pointing without the cursor they have little wristbands that lets us know that they're able to to do the nerf wars itself. We have a whole big collection of nerf guns and nerf bullets that they're able to just have a war with each other and it's so much fun they do have to wear goggles, or the glasses to be able to actually participate in that part of it. We also have like photo photo booths that they're able to go to gaming areas we have karaoke pizza music it's just a time for them a safe place for them to enjoy each other's company without. I mean our library is like the only thing we have in town for the kids so it's a safe place for them to just have a night to them and and not have to worry about anything that might be going on at home or anything like that so Oh yeah yeah oh and so what our older patrons love is they always love when we have these programs because I wouldn't even say the next day it's like the next week to like the next month they're finding them the little nerf bullets around the library within the book stacks so they love when we have these events themselves it's so funny so for this event we usually average 80 to 100 patrons for this event. It just depends on the age group fits the children's or the teens. Alrighty, this is the fun page. Okay, so our summer reading I know we all do summer reading programs. Last year was so much fun for us because it was all together now so our vision for the summer reading program was to incorporate our community into it because we are such a small library we're so far away from everybody. It's really just we have to be a community we have to work together to be able to have just a safe place for all of our patrons so for the summer reading kickoff we have the page fire and police they volunteer to grill hot dogs do our snow cones, and we have a couple volunteers that help us pass those out because we're inside trying to get families registered get library cards made for those who might not have them to be able to do the summer reading event. One year we're able to take, as you can see right here we're able to take a group of kids to the river trip they did have to qualify for it by reading it just depended on their age group they had to meet a certain milestone to be able to attend that. We also were able to take the kids to a trip to St. George for the Children's Museum who are able to give families healthy food classes. This one we did like a parfait. It was, I feel like a lot of patrons kind of just stumbled in and they didn't know that it was happening so they were like oh you guys do this and we're like oh yeah once a week we're doing healthy food classes so we really grew we're able to grow that and be able to teach the young patrons that they don't need many things to be able to create a healthy food for them that they can eat at any time so it was really really nice. Of course we have the grade and age level programming. We did an adopt a grandparents event which the whole community loved. Essentially what they did is we went to our our beehive senior center thank you our local senior centers and we got names of the elderly that were that are in their care. And then we're able to let parent or we got like information as what size maybe clothes they were or socks what foods they were able to have things that they might need hygiene wise those kinds of things. And we were able to make up these tags and then families would come in pull a tag and then they would essentially adopt the grandparent get those items for the grandparents and then we delivered them to the senior center so that ones. That was one of my favorite programs that we did over the summer. And then of course the summer reading party. This is the children's these three pictures is what I had for the children's of how big our party was we had an awesome phone machine. Put a pool underneath it maybe or something or might kill your grass. Our maintenance guy wasn't too happy with me but I learned to put a pool under it so we're good now as you can see there's a pool now. And then if I can I would like to show you guys our kickoff video this is what how we promoted the summer reading program to our community and a fun way is that okay. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Yeah, switch over to the video or it's I think it'll just Yeah. Yeah. Hey guys it's almost time for the 2023 summer reading program here at the library. This year our theme is all together now and what that means is friendship, kindness, unity. So on May 25 which is the last day of school from one to two 30pm we will be hosting our summer reading program kickoff here at the library. We'll also have the fire department and the police department here serving you guys hot dogs and snow cones. And on that day you can sign up for the summer reading program, which if you do you will be entered into the raffle for that day we can win a free prize. So mark your calendars for May 25. Hi everyone my name is Sierra and I'm the children's coordinator here at Page Public Library. Hi my name is Dawn I am the children's librarian assistant. Let's talk about our reading goals. For infant and kid it is eight hours. For first year third grade you have to complete 12 hours. For first and fourth and fifth you have to complete 16 hours. You'll also have a chance to win small prizes throughout the reading like steak part passes, personal pancakes and and moaching. If you complete the summer reading program you'll be invited to the summer reading program party where you can raffle for big prizes like fights, Nintendo Switch, and more. Our programming will be on Monday for kindergarten first from 1pm to 2pm. Tuesday will be second and third from 1pm to 2pm and fourth and fifth from 2.15 to 3.15. Wednesday will be our final under from 10am to 11am. And Thursday will be an all family program for all ages at 10am to 11am. So make sure you join us for our summer reading program. Okay, I'll figure out how to exit. Okay, we're going to leave that one and go back to the presentation. Okay, that was awesome. That was a great video. I have to send, is the link in the slides here or you have to send that along. So if people want to, is that somewhere publicly where people can view it? Yeah, yeah, so it is actually posted to our Facebook page, but I'm also able to provide that link to you guys. If you guys would like to see it on your own time. So the thing about that is, is every year we kind of up it in a way. So this year we've already had people saying we expect something great. We're trying to brainstorm at the moment how to do that. But that was on success. Yes. It was really fun. It was really fun to get the community engaged in that and just the willingness to have like the police department, the local donut shop. If you saw the girl with the donuts in the beginning, the police department and the fire department just for their willingness to be able to participate in that kind of just speaks to how, how our community operates. So I love that one. That one. Yeah, I love the dancing. That's why I want to see the video because yeah, I don't know how it went to other people, but sometimes when you're broadcasting videos through webinars like this, they're a little choppy. Oh, okay. But we could hear it and see it. I definitely need to watch that again. Okay. Yes, I will definitely. Someone did a question about that, which I'll ask right now since you just mentioned the fire and police department. How did you get them to participate? Did you call them? Did they offer? How did you make that happen? Yeah, so they are, they're big partners with us and a lot of things that we do. So we easily, we kind of just went down there and showed up and said, hey, we're doing this video for a summer reading program. Would you guys like to participate? The fire department actually right there on spot. Oh, yeah, they were cleaning their trucks and they're like, we'll be done right after this and we can, we can record with you and we're like, oh, okay. Like, it was just like right away, they're willing to do it. And then we actually did have to schedule, which is understandable, but we had a schedule with the police department to be able to get officers that were able to do that program or do that video with us. So that's just part of having already a really good partnership and good relationship with them to start with. Yeah. And don't be afraid to ask. Like, I always, when it comes to like asking for donations and stuff, it does kind of feel scary at times, but my mind said it's for the children in our community. And this is, they need these things. So I don't have a problem asking. I just go and ask. The worst they can tell you is no. Exactly. Yeah. Okay, so that's our summer reading. Let's see. Okay. And then we do provide baby playtime and tiny tots. They're essentially kind of about the same thing. Baby playtime is for ages zero to three. So I did see that there was a lot of babies in our tiny top programs and they were kind of just getting trampled over and just, it just wasn't safe for them. So I decided to split up the programs and create the baby playtime. So we do a lot of sensory, of course, storytime song, social emotional, the fine motor skills. We do pancakes and pajamas. Of course, they learn through play, early literacy tips for parents and guardians. We also, with that, provide parenting classes and CPR classes. And when we do those things, we offer that time for us to be able to watch their child because they don't, we don't have that care. We don't have, we don't have anywhere for people to just drop their kid off. We don't have like a kinder care. We don't have anything like that. So we were able to watch their children as they participated in those types of classes, the parenting and CPR classes. So that way they were able to come. So that was, that's really, really nice. I noticed after COVID, I'm sure you guys did too, is that there was a new social norm for the children. They're very timid. They're very shy and interacting with each other, especially the infant through the preschool age. They just didn't know how to interact with each other. They were just glued to the hip to their provider. So I'm really big on social, the social aspect, the social emotional aspect of my programs. Of course, I do include the story and the songs. But I do a big portion of my programming. I do for the kids to be able to interact with each other. I provide the sensory tables. I provide arts and crafts, just a bunch of different things that they're able to learn to play with each other. And actually this has been not just beneficial for the babies and the tiny tots, but it's also very beneficial to the parents. As you can see, there's parents that are able to communicate and talk with one another in a setting where their kids are learning and developing as well. So I don't know about you guys, but I just feel like after COVID that was a big thing that I just wanted to implement into my programs. I've been to other programs where they don't do so much interaction as far as having these things out for the entire first part of the programming. It's they read a book and then they do a craft or anything or maybe small group settings afterwards. But I have seen kids that in the beginning, like right after COVID when I first started here, that they were not interacting at all. And now you would never know that they had any social emotional skills that weren't developing. So this has been something that the families love. And like I said, we don't have much here in our town. Like the parks is all the families can go to so be able to get this time in here and already have activities and those kinds of things planned. They really have taken advantage of it and they definitely are requesting more days than what we already are doing. We're doing two times a week between the both of the ages. But with all the other programming we're doing at this time, it's hard to give more than that, but they do still come. We have early literacy section in our library that they do come and they're able to explore. It's just not a program that's planned. They just come on their own. So they're doing that as well. I'm going to advance just because there's a couple of things different we do for the tiny tots. So for the tiny tots, we also do offset offsite programming. So we do go to the parks or we go to the local donut shop to have programming there. So those ones, because they are a little bit of older age group, we do programming like that as well. One thing that I implemented in these programs is low key programs, kind of like calm down programs. So to help kids calm or for kids that maybe have a sensory issue with so much noise or the lights, we do programming that's dimmer and calmer. So those have been a hitman that's open to anybody to come as well for those age groups. I'm going to advance. After school programming. I didn't even write notes because I feel like I can talk about after school programming for days. We have the new We Are Water exhibit here at the library. It's provided a lot of programming for our kids that involve water. So hands on water or just water issues that we have. We're right next to the dam. So a lot of our kids do use the lake for just their luxury usage, if I may. So just the safety around water and all of that they're able to explore our life skills. You guys were asking about some of the classes that we do for life skills. So we've initially started with Page Life Skills Kids. And when that grant was over, we went to we're now on A to Z Life Skills Kids. It's another grant that we have. We do so many different things. So we do monthly hygiene kits. Like I said, we are surrounded by local reservations. So we do have a lot of homes that still don't have running water to their homes. So not all the kids are getting their hygiene needs. So we are providing kits. The kids can include deodorants. They include toothbrush toothpaste. They include a comb. They include body soap. They include, I'm trying to think there's a lot of things that mean a hand sanitizer tissue, just to fit as many as those basic needs as we can. There is sanitary pads for the girls if they do need it. So we're able to include those in them. And the teens also did a similar life skills. A to Z Life Skills Teams is what it was called. And they did like homemade laundry. They did the banking, self-care, health and wellness. So they were able to get like fitness Odyssey to come in and do a program. They were able to do hair care as well. So we had a barber that came in and taught the kids hair care. And he also gave out free haircuts to kids with parent permission. So the boys that needed haircuts, they were able to get a free haircut as long as that parent permission was there. We also have done dental programs. So to teach the kids how to properly like floss your tooth, which we use just like a Lego and Play-Doh and we got some floss and showed them how to floss their teeth. We do a lot on social skills. I feel like nowadays these kids are really big into social media. So their social kids, their social skills and with interacting with each other can be a bit difficult for them. So we have tried to implement different things. We have a lot of like things for checkout as well, like games that they're able to do. Or we do like journaling. We do just a bunch, whatever the money will let us do. We do just a bunch of activities around the life skills for them. Cooking classes as well as you see down here. We're just doing simple ingredients that they probably have at home, cereal, bananas, yogurt. They made banana sushi that day. We've also done like egg drop experiments. So for our STEM and STEAM activities, one of our newer ones, I do have a slide for it, but it's cookies and complaining. This is one of the most popular, I mean, the kids come and talk to us about their day or complain about certain situations anyway. So I was like, hey, why not provide a program around this? So we do cookies and complaining where I give them cookies and juice and I am just there to listen. I don't give advice. Nothing like that. I'm just an ear to listen for them. The kids know it is a safe place. Nothing goes outside the walls and they are able to complain about whatever they want. The first program we had kids complaining about weather issues and climate issues. And I'm like, okay, but you guys are able to complain about your days. It could be about the library. It could be about anything. And now they look forward to that program. We have it monthly. So that's one of their favorite programs that we do. We also do a book tasting. I'm sure maybe you guys have done that before. A lot of kids love graphic novels and I kind of wanted to just have them be able to read beyond that. So we set up a book tasting essentially. It's just each table has a different genre of books that they're able to get a taste of. They read a little bit of it and then they get to switch. Actually, we kind of serve the books. So it's like a real restaurant. So we just take the books and go to the next table, bring them to the next table. And they get to read a little bit of each genre and they get to write about each one and what their thoughts were. We also, like I talked about before, do the family movies. We've done a science fair in the past. We're going to bring that back to life. And one of the newer programs I do, actually, these kids do want to read to us, which is really exciting. Their grade level or their reading level at least here in our town is a lot lower than what they should be at. So I just do a read for Red Vines program. Super easy. We have a container of Red Vines. I pick level one books that they're able to read. I picked two books that they have. So they have a choice of which book they want to read to me. And they read the book to me. They get three Red Vines. We do have some kids that are a little bit intimidated at first. I'll just help you through the book. It's fine. You'll do fine. And that's one of the favorite programs. And we do that weekly for the kids. Our after school meals is from Kids Cafe. Deb is going to talk more about like what funds the after school meals. I'm just going to kind of give you guys numbers on how many we're giving out. So after school meal program is a big program that we have. These kids, like I said, we're a small area. So we have a lot of them that come off the reservation. And if their parents are working, they don't come and pick them up till basically the library closes. So they need meals. So we give out about 80 to 100 meals a day. And that's just after school. So how we do that is we have a microwave. There's literally about three of us that are warming up meals. One warming up, one bagging, and then one delivering basically is what we're doing. Just delivering with the kids in the library. And we're giving out meals to kids. I think that's it. It's just a lot. I felt like there was more to that when I was talking. But I feel like when you're like here doing it, it feels a lot more. But it's a program that I would never want to go away because it's what the kids need. So yeah, we do have microwaves for that. We have a microwave and we have two freezers and a fridge here. We have multiple microwaves, not just one. We have multiple and we've gone through multiple microwaves. I think we're on our fourth microwave just because we're warming up for like over an hour at a time to get those meals out. So I just want to highlight some of our favorite checked out materials. So we have a teacher check out. We do have a book here at the library. It's just a binder that we've printed just pictures to show teachers what they have access to. They have access to everything we have, but we also have other material that are in the back for them that they're able to use for their classrooms. We also have launch pads. These are very, very popular. These do not need Wi-Fi. So like I said, we are two hours away from a bigger city. So there's not a lot of connection there as far as like mobile connection. So they don't need Wi-Fi for anything for these. They're able to travel with them. So a lot of families check them out while they travel. We also have our early literacy kits, our life skill kits. So those life skill kits I was able to get with those grants. A lot of them are games that families can do. Most of them are actually games that families can do. And then just our kids in general. Three towers and two bookshelves full of kits that are available to check out. Anything from early literacy, actually brain boxes. So like the baby age group all the way to I do 11 years of age. So we have family games. We have popcorn machines. We just have a ton of things in our kits that are available to check out. And then of course our books are actually big. We just got new shelving for the kids. So they're able to flip by looking at the cover of the books. They're able to flip through the books. And we increased our bookouts by like 100 checkouts or checkouts, sorry for books by 100 and our in-house checkouts. So we have the Nintendo switch and tablets that are available to kids. We just have some things in-house. Those are very, very popular. And kids are always checking them out here in the children's department. Some new programs that I have going on. So we have a, you're not going to have a lot of time to talk. I'm sorry I'm going to go fast so that we can talk to you guys. I didn't know it was going to be this long. Good. That's kind of good though. We have our first school outreach. I'm doing a read stuff for pizza challenge. So we are going to allow the classes that we're going to have the classes come in to check out books. And then whatever class reads the most books, depending on age, it's by the book or by the minutes, those classes will provide a pizza party for them. I did go over the cookies and complaining. That's one of our newer programs. And then we have an art festival coming up. So I have this idea called let your voice be heard. So essentially a lot of our kids have a hard time reading. And they also with that have a hard time writing. So what I have as a canvas for them, they're able to create their art on it and then tell their story. So I will capture their voice via audio with parent permission. And then we'll display a QR code by their painting at the art festival. So that way people patrons can go around, just scan that QR code. And they're able to listen to the story that goes with that painting. So that is coming up. And then my revive programs is the science fair we're going to be doing next month. We're going to do the science fair and then our thousand books. So we just had a thousand books before kindergarten. So I've added a thousand books and things before kindergarten, a thousand books and things before third grade, and then 500 books and things before sixth grade. So those are some of the revive ones. And then I'm going to let Debbie hop on and then we can, if we have time we can do questions. Thank you guys. Thank you, Sarah. Yeah. Okay, how do I do this? I'm going to have to go to my canva. Is this mine or yours? That's yours. Yeah, we do have a couple of questions, but you did answer some of them. We can ask the questions while I'm trying to get into my email. For the teen and children's, the lock ins, I believe the after hours. I lost it. How does that work? Does the parents just drop off their kids or pretty much? Yeah, pretty much. So we do have a registration form that needs to be signed prior to that event or at the events. But yeah, guardians just drop off their children for that event. So we have them for that a lot of mild time, if it's the two hours or three hours, and then they just have to be back to pick up their child. So we just make sure each child gets back home safer back to a guardian safely. We've never had an issue where we've had a call like the officers because the parent hasn't showed up or anything like that. So that's been fortunate on our side. Okay, awesome. All right, go ahead, Debbie with your present day. So I'm Debbie when locked the page public library manager. So one thing I got to tell you is that we have, we do lots of programming inside and outside and we really big about going out into our community. So we can hear what our community needs are. So one of the things that is really important that I, is that when we interview anybody at the library, we tell them, you know, we do outside activities in the evening and on weekends, are you available to work those times? I really think that's big because, and we also cross train in every area. So every staff member will work in every area. So we make sure that we let people know that because sometimes we end up hiring people and then they don't want to work at night at movies in the park or do those things because libraries don't do movies in the park. But we do. We'll talk about some partners. Our community today faces many complex challenges. So we need minds to find solutions, same minds to find solutions. So partnering with all these agencies, not only help us do programming, but they help us provide, we get grants from them or we get their services and their knowledge to do these programs. So I'm going to go over a couple of few programs here. So Glen Canyon Conservancy and the PAL Museum and Archives. We have monthly lectures here at the library. We either have authors or people from the dam come in and do presentations monthly. And then we also have a symposium that we do on the weekend, one weekend out of the year where we do lectures, quite a few lectures during the day, but then we also go out in the field. So we'll go to the lake or we'll just, we'll just have field trips for that weekend. The Canyon Club page also partner with them and we do a lot of outside lectures with them also. The Page Unified School District, we do tons of things with them, including a Grand Circle Storytown Festival where we have all these authors come in or these storytellers come in and they tell stories. We do that at the school that we invite everybody and then they go into this classrooms to do their storytelling and try to encourage kids to tell their stories. We also partner with them for poets and authors readings. So they come into the library, we bring poets from all over to do that. In Indigenous days, we have schools from all four corners, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, come to Page to do singing, dancing, Native American arts and crafts. It's a huge evening of celebrating our Indigenous people. We partner with First Things First, who is an Arizona organization that supports healthy development of learning for children from birth to age five. So they are the kids, sorry, they are the ones that provide our first aid CPR for parents and even for teens. So we have a teen parent class. We also have a babysitting class for the teens and then they're able to take the CPR and first aid class also. Then we do Toys for Tots at the Ranch House Grill, as she said, and Pepsi helped us do that. Last year we gave out, this last December we gave out 835 toys. We had over 300 people attend the party and our businesses gave us about 200 toys. We're donated to our program. The rest of the toys come from Toys for Top Program in Flagstaff. We have a job fair that we do with Marriott and Coconino Community College. We do that yearly. We have over 400 participants come in. We provide laptops and printers for people to print their resumes. We also have a staff member there to help them write their resumes if they need to. The businesses get to interview. We have an interview room. They interview people and people get hired that day. It's a big day for the businesses and people looking for jobs. We also provide free tax preparation and with AARP every year for three months. We do that for three months. The St. Mary's Food Bank and Circle of Page they give us mills. Last year we provided 12,647 mills. They also do backpack mills, which are mills that are provided for the weekend for the weekend families. We provided 1248 of those last year. The Circle of Page Food Pantry, which she said also gives us fresh fruits and vegetables to give up to our community. AZLA, the Arizona Library Association has some wonderful grants that we were able to receive. We were able to do some fun summer reading programs like Going to the River. I won't talk about that much. The city events that we attend are like the 4th of July. The library provides a big part of it. We have a pie eating contest, a watermelon eating contest. We have tons of water games going on. You can see those pictures. What is the art festival? We had a color by number, a big poster here. It was a fundraiser. They paid a dollar to color some spots in. By the time they were done, it was our horseshoe bend that we have here in Page. We think it's really important that we don't just talk about things that are needed. We like to walk the talk, I guess. Some of the services that we provide are free notaries. We have to go outside of the library to do that. We will go to homes for people that are bedridden. We've gone to the rodeos because the rodeos need notaries for the participants. Some of them don't ever get that done until that day. We've started our first page. We did our first page con this last February. People wanted to go to the big ones. We are two hours away from the next big city. A lot of people don't have transportation so we had our first page con, as you can see. We had over 500 participants join us that day. We do after hours for adults. Yes, we do gaming, we do board games, and yes, we do nerf wars with them also. Faith-based organizations have outreach to them. Next week I'm going to do a teen youth group. We're going to do planners. We're going to talk about the importance of organization. They all get a free planner to learn why it's important to be organized. They do adult scrapbooking. We do wifi, mobile hotspots, lending. We have tons of library things. Our small business assistants, we've gotten grants for that. We help small businesses with menus. We print their menus for them. We laminate them. We help them in just, you know, we look and listen to what their needs are. Because, again, we're two hours away that they cannot have large posters printed. It takes a week or two to get them done. So we provide that service free to them with our grant money. Hopefully we'll find more grants to keep that going. Along with that, our businesses end up giving us almost over $4,000 worth of services for the summer reading program adult prizes. So these are great, great partners. I can't just tell you how much partners mean to us and how strong that we've built them together, our relationships. We have a library project. We have the beehive where we go to home, the beehive, the senior homes, and we do a craft and a reading, and we take them books. So that's what I have for you. Did we make it? It's $259. You're fine, you're fine. Yeah. You want to, your camera looks got moved up a little. You want to tilt it down a little more so you can see it. Yeah. We have a lot of things, yes. I have lots of questions. A lot of comments, your library sounds wonderful. You're well deserving, definitely, of being the best ball library with so many programs and events and things you do. I think a lot of these are a lot of things that many libraries do. Some of these things we had presentations about earlier today. Memory project and after food programs and there's just so many things that all of us are doing. But you're doing so much with your community. And I think, like you've been mentioning, being so far away from anything else, it is, you are... That's why we're so... Yeah, that's why we're so honored to have been chosen because all small libraries are playing a vital role in other communities. So we know that it's all small libraries, but we're lucky to be the ones chosen. Absolutely. So I do want to answer, have a couple of questions here. We will go a little bit into the four o'clock hour. We have a few speakers here and ready to go, but we don't have anything after that. We have just our last session. So I just want to get a few questions out for you. Someone just wanted to know the beehives. Do you have beehives in your library rooftop or somewhere for people to see? How does that all... So the beehives is our senior center home. Sorry. So there are senior center homes, but we do have beehives outside our... But they're beehives. So it's our senior homes that we go into and do story times and crafts. Okay, okay. You mentioned grants a lot. And so there are questions about that, of course, that obviously is a lot of money to do all of these things. How do you... How have you been able to do this? Have the time to develop, write the grants? What is your budget to start with actually getting grant-wise if you know? Okay, so our operating budget and our... Our operator budget and our personnel are all paid through the city and some county funds. Everything else that we do, all the other programs we do are grant-funded or funded through the businesses that will fund stuff for us. So all these programs are grant-funded. And yes, I write a lot of grants. A lot of my time is spent writing grants. And it's just part of the job, I guess this is what you have to do if you want to do these things. That's part of being a library director. Does anyone else help you with this or is it pretty much your... I'm going to be coaching other people how to do them, but right now it's currently me. Great, great. Let's see. So the movies that you did outdoors, your outdoor movies on the screen there, how do you handle the licensing for that if someone wants to know? Businesses come in to help us pay for those. So each movie costs us anywhere from $450 to $550 to do. So we have to buy a license. Every movie we do outdoors. So you do it individually for each one, okay. I know that varies across the country. Here in Nebraska, through the library commission, we have funding through the state that covers the motion picture licensing for libraries here. They do have to sign up with us for it. So that's nice. That would save us a lot of money. Let's see. Someone loved your video. They're playing theirs for this upcoming summer. So I'm sure everybody's going to be excited to see what your next one's going to be. No pressure there. Oh, I did that. Let's see. Do you have somewhere on the slides here, do you have your contact info or is that on one of them or... Libraries just reach out to you through the website. Yeah, there we go. Yes, okay. So there is Debbie and Sarah's contact info for anyone who don't get to all your questions. I don't want to run too much into the next suggestion. Oh, good clarification. Someone just clarified for me and that's true. The movie license that we have through Nebraska does not cover doing things outside. So that is in the building. Okay. Let's try that also so we can show movies inside the library. So that's more affordable than the outside one. So if you don't want... We do have the movie licensing thing here but you have to do it in your meeting room or indoor somewhere. Not one of the big screen ones outside. I do have a small screen movie theater for outside. The first person that emails me and wants it, I will email it to them. Hey, anybody wants one of the screens? That's a smaller version. They will work with them on getting it shipped to you. Yeah. So if you have any other questions, any other programs, definitely reach out to Debbie and Sarah. So thank you so much, both of you. I am sorry about the snafu this morning. That was totally my bad with the time zones. I do this every year and sometimes after maybe 13 years, things are going to get a little messed up sometimes, I guess. Thank you for having us. It was great to hear from you. Congratulations. I think you've done some great work here. Lots and lots of ideas for the libraries. For anyone who has questions we didn't get to, definitely reach out to Debbie and Sarah after they'd be happy to chat with you about all the different programs that they are doing there. Yeah. So what is your annual budget each year that you get? Do you know how much... Your budget, your annual budget? It's 500,000 something. I'm not a fan, yeah. And that's most, like I said, most of it is probably 90% of it is personnel and then the 10% is... How many staff do you have there? I have nine. Okay. And your FD population, there's only about 7,500 for the... Yeah, so that's not... Yeah, that's small. All right. Great. Thank you so much. All right. We will see more from you all.