Bulebosh City Council Presentation, Dec. 2008

Kiel Public Library The Little Library That Does Big Things Presentation to the Kiel City Council By Nanette Bulebosh December, 2008

Have you seen what we’ve been up to?

Guitar Hero on our new Wii console, April 2008 (Purchased with a $1,000 grant from MCLS)

Bowling with the Kiel City Council Super Smash Bros II

Winners of teen film festival , June 2008 Library Assistant Rick Amelse (right) coordinated what we hope becomes an annual event

Police Chief Funkhouser at storytime during NLW May 2008

Youth Art Month, March 2008

Genealogy research group, March 2008

Santa visits during Christmas Walk, December 2007

Kiel Fish & Game Fishery June 2007

Edwin J. Majkrzak Historical Research Center Kiel’s historic photographs went online in 2007 Big Streets in a Little City: Street Scenes 1860-1980

A few stats about your library

Number of books in collection: 35,424

Audio books: 1,176

DVDs & Videos: 1994

5 daily newspapers & 98+ magazines

Ed’s local history notebooks: 100+

Registered borrowers: 4,426

(2063 city residents & 2,363 non-residents)

* From 2007 Annual Report to the state

A few more stats

2007 circulation: 81,052

* Up from 76,256 in 2006

Number of adult programs: 31 (527 total participants)

Number of youth programs: 167 (7303 total participants)

Number of times PACs were used in 2007: 9,308

Estimated # of visitors per year: 55,000 to 60,000

(More than 1,000 per week)

And don’t forget we have WiFi

KPL Board of Trustees

Jacqualine Ungrodt, president

Carolyn Johnson, vice president

Faye Billmann, secretary & school rep

Will Foerster, treasurer

Scott Vogel, director at large

Ron Meyer, city council rep

Katherine Ristow, newly appointed

Julia Davis, Manitowoc County rep

Darlene Werdeo, Manitowoc County rep

Current KPL employees

Nanette Bulebosh, city librarian

Joie Baldock, youth librarian

Terry Kuske, technical coordinator

Sheila Draxler, library assistant

Rick Amelse, library assistant

Steve Thiry, library assistant

Five student pages, age 14-17

Don Krupp, custodian/maintenance (8.5 hrs per week)

2008 Budget Funding Sources Kiel: $152,034 Manitowoc: $92,073 Calumet: $5,399 Grants: $3,000 Fines & Misc: $2,500 TOTAL: $255,006

What’s next for KPL

More free films: Dec 12 & 26

Family gaming day: Dec 30

Monthly book discussion group at Stoelting House. Next session is Dec. 15 A Christmas Memory

Poetry “open mike” in early January

More outreach, teen advisory board, author visits

What else?

Picturing America display & lecture

Literacy initiatives for infants and toddlers

More teen programming

More gaming events, hopefully involving people of all ages (Wii Fit?)

Additional databases – Career Track & Career Testing, Heritage Quest, Morningstar

We’re going to “Get Creative” next summer, and we hope you join us

What else?

Outdoor Education Center overlooking the river

Boy Scouts Matt Scott & Isaiah Grybush Pack leader Jim Scott (left )

And finally … Long-Range planning A visionary but financially viable response to the Lawson report of November 2008 A six-month Needs Assessment process involving statistical analysis, three community forums, on-site visits, comparisons with state standards for a population our size, etc. Included three public forums in Sept. 2008

What we learned

Our 6,470 sq.ft. facility, built in 1972, no longer meets our needs

Computer resources are limited by space and infrastructure

Severe lack of seating and worktables

No room for teen area, youth dept needs much more room

Public complains of noise, disruptions from other users

Our book shelves are full to overflowing, despite aggressive weeding

What else we learned

# of borrowers jumped 37.5% since 2002

Circulation is up 12% overall, 25% just counting rural patrons

Program attendance is up 16%

Parking remains a major complaint from the public

Access for special needs patrons is well below what it should be

No elevator, no ADA accessible computer stations

KPL’s number of books meets state standards.

But our # of audio books & videos is “basic”

Lawson report recommends

14 public computer workstations

10 staff workstations and more space for efficient workflow

66 seats (currently we have about 30)

Meeting room with seating capacity for 100 (1450 sq ft).

Possibly meeting room with outside entrance

Better use of natural setting, river view

Better connection between adult and youth rooms

Better sound-proofing, maybe study rooms

Total square footage: 17,903 to 19,280 sf.

When do we want to do this? How will we do it? How much will it cost? Who’s going to pay for it? Please tell people that we’re nowhere near that point, (you can hold on to your wallet) And why bother anyway? Won’t the Internet make libraries obsolete?

NorthStar study of Wisconsin libraries

Economic Benefits in tough economic times

$4.06 return on every dollar

Two types of economic value:

Direct economic contribution (created jobs, spending by library visitors and employees, library purchasing from local vendors, etc.)

Services provided to Wisconsin residents, including the value of books, recordings and videos, as well as computer use, reference services, programming, etc.

We’re asking the public to help …