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Public Library News & Notes
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Serving Kentucky's Need to Know
| March 2016
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Greetings,
We are all looking forward to consistent spring weather, along with the arrival of monarch butterflies. Have you ever considered having a monarch waystation at your library?
Each fall, hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies migrate from the United States and Canada to overwintering areas in Mexico and California where they wait out the winter until conditions favor a return flight in the spring. The monarch migration is one of the world's greatest natural wonders, yet it is threatened by habitat loss in North America - at the overwintering sites and throughout the spring and summer breeding range as well.
Monarch waystations are places that provide resources necessary for monarchs to produce successive generations and sustain their migration. This month you'll read about such a waystation at the Adair County Public Library. Maybe this will be the year for your library to create one of these special habitats.
Paige Sexton
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Adair County Public Library and Adair County Garden Club Partner for Monarchs
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This photo was taken last year at the Adair County Public Library Monarch Waystation.
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Because of a very successful partnership between the Adair County Public Library and the Adair County Garden Club, last year the library was certified and registered as a Monarch Waystation.
Each fall, hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies migrate from the United States and Canada to overwintering areas in Mexico and California where they wait out the winter until conditions favor a return flight in the spring. The monarch migration is one of the world's greatest natural wonders, yet it is threatened by habitat loss in North America - at the overwintering sites and throughout the spring and summer breeding range as well.
Monarch Waystations are places that provide resources necessary for monarchs to produce successive generations and sustain their migration.
To create this special habitat, a dedicated group of individuals spent several weeks creating a monarch garden for the library. After weeding, hauling dirt, rock, mulch and planting of native plants, the library became home to the only certified Monarch Waystation within the city limits of Columbia.
The group also created a teaching garden for Ms. Aleina to use with the story hour children during all seasons. The children were able to harvest tomatos, peppers and pumpkins last year, and look forward to planting season again this year.
Library customers of every age are looking forward to the Monarchs return and the delicious harvest of vegetables.
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New Eastside Branch Opens Tuesday, March 15
 The Lexington Public Library's newest branch will open its doors to the public for the first time at 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 15.
The grand opening of the Eastside Branch, at the corner of Palumbo Drive and Man o' War Boulevard, will begin with a ribbon cutting followed by live music, workshops, and other special programs for adults and children throughout the day.
The Eastside Branch will replace the Eagle Creek Branch, which is off Richmond Road. The old branch closed for the last time at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26.
At about 32,000 square feet, the new branch will be the Lexington Public Library's largest branch library. It will include a drive-through window for pick up of holds, an expanded children's area, a teen space, a large meeting room, study rooms and a makerspace for hands-on workshops and creating.
The 15,000-square-foot building will also allow an increase in the number books and other materials. The building, located at 3000 Blake James Drive off Palumbo Drive, originally was a car dealership.
"We're happy that we were able to repurpose an existing building to expand our services to the Hamburg area while still remaining convenient for our current Eagle Creek customer base," said Ann Hammond, executive director of the Lexington Public Library. "The new Eastside Branch will be a model of a modern library, with plenty of materials, plenty of places to read, learn, create and meet your neighbors."
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Boyle County Public Library a Leader in Producing Marketing Materials
Boyle County Public Library employees Diana Draper and Jen Boutin are all-stars in the area of producing marketing materials to support library programs and events.
Last fall, for example, the library presented a six-week program series called UnPuzzling Poe. Over the course of the series, participants learned about Poe's life, his influence, his poetry, his tales, his 'puzzling pieces', and attempted to solve the puzzle of the genius who was so influential in literature.
Diana and Jen created a suite of marketing pieces for the series that provided maximum impact and drew visitors in to participate in the program. Weekly flyers were offered along with a Weekly Flyer Folder to keep the materials together. A card with a QR code was created and distributed widely so that individuals could scan the code for the complete schedule of events. An overall program flyer was also made available.
"These marketing materials absolutely contributed to the success of Unpuzzling Poe," said library director Georgia DeAraujo. "The striking image of Poe with the red and black along with the raven and black cat was displayed all around town. The image was painted on a store-front window on Main Street and remained there during the course of the series. There was no question that something exciting surrounding Poe was happening at the library. Each weekly flyer outlined the programs and events that contributed to putting the pieces of the puzzle together, it was a wonderful visual image."
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New Reading Room Completes Renovation of Library Floor
 The Lexington Public Library opened a new quiet reading room recently, completing a renovation of the Central Library third floor that includes an expanded local history and genealogy center.
The Adalin and William Wichman Reading Room offers a quiet, enclosed area with comfortable seating. It honors the Wichmans, for whom memorial gifts were given to fund it. Adalin Wichman was the artist who designed the Foucault pendulum and equine frieze in the Central Library rotunda, and her husband was a Lexington architect.
The reading room is adjacent to the newly-expanded Kentucky Room. With the renovation of the space last year, the Kentucky Room now offers:
* computers and scanners for digitizing photos and documents,
* a wand scanner for easy scan of books and documents,
* a collection of Kentucky-related fiction and nonfiction available for checkout.
These new features have been worked into a room that already offered 10,000 items on local history and genealogy as well as microfilm readers and printers.
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McCracken County Public Library Makes Creative Use of Grant
 The McCracken County Public Library was recently awarded one of 79 Curiosity Grants to present a program called Wonder Time. The grant proposal was written by Youth Services Manager Linda Bartley and the $7,500 grant is being used to create an engaging program that encourages curiosity and self-expression. The Curiosity Creates grant is administered by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and sponsored by Disney. Each month, children have an opportunity to "wonder" about something. Wonder Time is geared toward (but not limited to) children ages 6-14. This program takes place in Youth Services Department on the 3rd Thursday of the month, 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. The program is set-up on the floor (not in a room) so library users may walk by and see if Wonder Time is something that interests them. Various people from the community join Wonder Time to share local talent. During the program there are two events going on at once, a craft and an activity the partner brings. Wonder Time is designed so staff can facilitate the program both in-house and in the community for outreach programs. Receiving this grant and getting the opportunity to start Wonder Time has been a great learning experience for Linda and she is looking forward to taking this creative program to as many young people in her community as she can reach.
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Marshall County Public Library Program had Broad Appeal
 Craig Caudill, owner of Nature Reliance School in Central Kentucky, packed the library meeting room at the Marshall County Public Library @ Benton recently for a Survival Workshop. Marshall Co. Public Library hosted the free event inviting the community to come and learn about survival preparedness.
Ninety-five attendees filled the meeting room and listened in on suggestions from Craig on ways to stay safe in an outdoor survival situation. Craig did an excellent presentation that was easy for the audience to follow and take notes on the information he provided. It was one of the library's first events that incorporated a variety of age groups together with a common interest.
The goal was to provide a program that would get men in the library, but staff quickly found out this topic reaches a very broad audience of men and women. Over half of the attendees noted that this was their first time to visit the library for an event and it was because of the survival skills topic.
The library provided all in attendance with door prizes and fun refreshments such as chicken on a stick and campfire cones.
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Welcome New Trustees
KDLA would like to welcome the following new trustees: - Jennifer McComis, Boyd County
- Darlene Mann, Bullitt County
- Kimberly Burchett, Lawrence County
- Glenna Adams, Menifee County
- Veronica May, Shelby County
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The Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives helps libraries provide equitable access to quality library and information resources and services, as well as helps public agencies ensure that legislatively mandated documentation of government programs is created, efficiently maintained, and made readily accessible. For more information, visit http://kdla.ky.gov or call 502-564-1753.
Please send story ideas and articles for Public Library News & Notes to editor Paige Sexton at paige.sexton@ky.gov or call 502-564-1753.
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