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Document #7Board of Library Trustees MeetingJuly 23, 2008

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Dow Jones & Company and the Special Libraries Association recognized RichardHuffine, national library coordinator for the U.S. Geological Survey, as the winner of the Dow Jones Leadership Award at the SLA 2008 Annual Conference in Seattle inJune. Congratulations, Richard!

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Tutor.com provides students with Live On-line Homework Help through theLibrary’s web site. Tutoring sessions increased 111% this year! More than 4,300tutoring sessions have been held since DCPL first offered this service in 2006. Over90% of students who used the service reported that it helped them completehomework assignments, improved their grades, and gave them more confidence abouttheir ability to achieve in school.

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, DCPL was the first library in the nation to offer popular audio-book titles in MP3 downloadable format, a format that is compatible with iPods and allother MP3 players. The collection is supplied by OverDrive, Inc., and includes morethan 700 popular novels, children’s books, foreign language learning titles, andclassic works. Available via the Library’s web site, all the audio-book borrower needsis a D.C. Public Library card.

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On July 10

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, at a ceremony held at MLK, the Library joined the Friends of theFrancis A. Gregory Neighborhood Library and the friends and family of Mrs.Gregory to unveil a portrait of Mrs. Nora Drew Gregory, which now hangs next to theportrait of her late husband in the fourth floor hallway at MLK. About 50 peopleattended, including Mrs. Gregory. Her son, astronaut Frederick Gregory, D.C.Council Chair Vincent Gray, and several other people spoke. Lunch was served. Itwas a warm celebration.

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DCPL will participate on Saturday, August 9

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Annual Stone Soul Picnicat RFK Stadium. This event is organized by five radio stations and has offered freeadmission to as many as 100,000 visitors to their noon to 6 PM party. Festivitiesinclude rock bands, food vendors, and information about services around the District.The Library will have a tent at this event for the first time, and the X-treme Mobilewill be there, too. Library services, including Tutor.com and Homework Help, will bepromoted, and those who come by will find library cards and fun give-aways.

Document #7Board of Library Trustees MeetingJuly 23, 2008

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In early June, DCPL hosted a training session on Visual Thinking Strategies led byeducators from the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA. Thismethod prepares library staff to improve reading motivation and achievement. Theworkshop included active engagement in the Visual Thinking Strategies process, andour staff left eager to implement new techniques at Storytimes throughout theLibrary. Staff member Wendy Lukehart arranged the workshop.

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At a workshop at the ALA Conference, a noted trainer for early literacy used the D.C.Public Library’s Reach Out and Read (ROAR) Activity Guide as an example of whatlibrarians can do to provide information for parents and caregivers about earlyliteracy skills and ways to incorporate them in their daily lives. ROAR is theLibrary’s early literacy program and the Activity Guide was developed by staff member Mary Phelan.

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There are 40 teens working at DCPL in the District’s Summer Youth EmploymentProgram on short-term, team-centered projects that introduce them to the diverserange of tasks that make a library operate. The summer program provides trainingevery two weeks in library and life skills. One project is to create PSAs for theLibrary in a video production class. In addition, 37 more teens are in the Library’sTeens of Distinction Program, which will include 100 participants this fall.

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Woodridge Library and the nonprofit Coalition for Economic Development are inpartnership for a weekly summer program to assist teens in defining the kind of work they want to do and learning how to meet that goal. The workshops are held atWoodridge. Participating teens get library cards and are encouraged to join the TeenSummer Reading Program and Chess Class.

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Eboni Curry of the Children’s Division at MLK was elected Secretary of the Black Caucus of the ALA and received the second highest number of votes cast.Congratulations, Eboni!

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The Library welcomes Associate Director of Neighborhood Libraries, Chang Liu.Ms. Liu was Central Services Division Chief at Arlington Public Library for the pastfive years and has worked at several other libraries. She earned undergraduate andgraduate degrees from Beijing University and the University of Michigan. Shereplaces Anne Menzies, who returned to Salt Lake City for family reasons.

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