Your Library and your Library Director are busy right now! We just had our first staff training day, we’re wrapping up the information gathering portion of our strategic planning, I’m preparing for a trip to Chicago to be part of a study on library bandwidth, and my family is fostering two adorable puppies from the shelter.
Our staff training day on October 8th (when we are normally closed) was a lovely success if I do say so myself. We got a refresher course on ebooks, wifi, Google Drive, and our online resources. We also got to eat delicious snacks, feast on Remy’s, and play some fun team building games. I am so happy and lucky to work with such wonderful people.
Now that we have most of the information we need for our strategic planning, I will take this information to the Library Board of Trustees and we’ll get busy setting goals and writing a plan to achieve those goals. It has been fun to collect the information and see what library services our community use and what they value most. I am hopeful to have our strategic plan written by the end of November and to start implementing it at the beginning of 2019.
My trip to Chicago later this month will be an exciting one. Your Pryor Library will participate in a study conducted by 
Simmons College and Internet2 to determine how measuring internet speeds and capabilities can help libraries ensure they are serving the internet needs of their communities well. Only 10 – 12 libraries have been invited to participate at this stage of the study. I’m excited to be one of them!
I had forgotten how much work having a puppy is! And we have two of them! They are adorable fluff-balls, so if you’re looking to adopt a puppy (or an older dog, for that matter), call Rockin’ G. They’ll hook you up with the four-legged love of your life.
