<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">We struggle with this too-- and the staff hours is definitely a guideline. We try to program for events (Halloween, Christmas, SRP, March is Reading Month, etc.), to answer community demands,(crafts, science for kids, adult speakers), more-or-less- by categories: Weekly: 1 storytime in-house, and 1 off-site minimum</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Monthly: 2 take-home craft kits, plus 2 kids craft/activity, plus 2 adult, plus 1- gaming and 1 bookclub. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Quarterly: 1 STREAM event (minimum), plus community events tie-ins</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Yearly: SRP, Banned Book, Library Card, Pride, Juneteenth,etc.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Special: Eclipse, Elections, Parades, Farmers Markets, etc. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">This is never as firm as we'd like it, but....<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 12:18 PM Andrea Ingmire via Michlib-l <<a href="mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org">michlib-l@mcls.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-3922742400041003645">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Do you have a method for figuring out how many programs you are targeting in a certain period of time? We’re having a cheerful(ish) debate on our staff regarding how much programming is too much… and it seems to me that this all falls
back on how many staff hours we have to devote to programming. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just wondering if anyone has a good ‘rule of thumb’ with regard to this
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Andrea<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif">Andrea Ingmire<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif">Library Director<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif">Peter White Public Library<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Jean Fellows</div><div dir="ltr">(she/hers)<br><div>Programming Coordinator</div><div>Grand Ledge Area District Library</div><div>131 E. Jefferson St.,</div><div>Grand Ledge, MI 48837</div><div>517-627-7014<br></div><div><br></div><div><i style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">The Grand Ledge Area District Library is situated on ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples-- land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. For more information, see the article from Central Michigan University Library:<a href="https://blogs.cmich.edu/library/2019/11/26/the-1819-treaty-of-saginaw/#:~:text=In%20the%201819%20treaty%2C%20the,living%20on%20the%20ceded%20territory." target="_blank">https://blogs.cmich.edu/library/2019/11/26/the-1819-treaty-of-saginaw/#:~:text=In%20the%201819%20treaty%2C%20the,living%20on%20the%20ceded%20territory.</a></i><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>