- This document summarizes the first year of Broward County Library's Creation Station program. It provides statistics on customer count, classes/attendees, tours/attendees, outreach events, staffing levels, volunteer hours, and items printed from January to June 2015. It notes challenges around maintaining equipment, staffing levels, and keeping up with ideas. It also highlights successes like new community connections and partnerships with other libraries. The document concludes with contact information for more details.

1. One year of
Creation Station
With BOB

2. For you Administrators
• Everything is GREAT!
• No problems at ALL!
• This was a piece of cake!
• Have a great day, go enjoy another fun break
out session.

3. For the rest of us….
• Everything WILL be fine
• We can handle these problems
• This was a lot of fun
• Let’s take a look back at how we started

4. Climb Aboard the Time Machine!

8. 1440: Printing Press
8
2014: Creation Station

9. Throwing out Numbers
Customer
Count
# of
classes
# of class
attendees
# of
Tours
# of Tour
Attendees
# of
Outreach
Events
# of
staff
Total
Volunteer
Hours
Total
Number of
objects
printed
# of Staff
job
rotations
Jan-15 1,504 0 0 1 3 2 1 13.5 164 1
Feb-15 1,340 1 1 4 10 2 1 92.25 142 4
Mar-15 1,000 7 37 3 6 1 1 139.5 298 2
Apr-15 1,364 10 54 4 11 3 1 170.75 283 1
May-15 1,094 8 34 9 25 1 1 104.25 349 1
Jun-15 1,615 11 117 2 3 6 1 187.25 118 1
Jul-15
Aug-15
Sep-15
Oct-15
Nov-15
Dec-15
Totals 7,917 37 243 23 58 15 1 707.5 1,354 10
Standard Monthly Statistics

10. Throwing out Numbers – In the Lab
• Staffing
– Temp Workers and Volunteers
• 708 hours from volunteers in 6 months
• Job Rotations, at least 1 per month, 10 total
• Customer Count
• 7,917 total
• +1,300 per month
• How many classes and attendance
– 37 classes, 243 attendees
– Only 4 months of classes

11. Throwing out Numbers - Out of the Lab
• Tours and attendance
– 23 groups with 58 people
• Consultations
– Detroit, Connecticut, Florida
• 15 outreach events
– BCL
– Tampa
– FLA
– SEFLIN
– FATVillage

12. Throwing out Numbers - Printing
• How many print jobs?
– 1,354
• What do we allow?
• Samples of cool things

13. Challenges
• Maintaining Macs
• Not enough hands for all the tasks
• Changes in staffing and service models
• More ideas than time to do them
• Success creates higher profile and greater
expectations

14. Successes
• Several great new contacts
– Growing connections with:
• Other libraries
• The community
• Main Library Studio Productions

15. Questions…

16. One Year of
Creation Station
Bob Anstett
ranstett@broward.org
creationstation@broward.org
www.robertanstett.com
www.Linkedin.com/in/anstett
@r_anstett
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