October: Down Syndrome Awareness Month

Check out our teen display this month.

October seems to be the month of awareness.

We have Breast Cancer Awareness, Domestic Violence Awareness and Down Syndrome Awareness. With so much attention on breast cancer awareness and domestic violence, I gathered some fiction novels on the subject and came up with this display on Down Syndrome which is also prevalent in our community.

 For more information of Down Syndrome visit DSAH.org.

National Night Out @ Yes Prep!

Community Engagement and Collier Regional Library partner to represent HPL at this annual event in the Collier service area. Pictured below are Jayla Parks, youth librarian and assistant manager at COL; Marcos Martinez, manager at COL; and Clementina Nunez, Community Engagement.

Incentive from NL Admin for Staff's Hard Work

NL Administration's Team Leaders gave out HPL tote bags and USB flash drives to each NL team member as a way of saying thank you for all the hard work.

 

 

Pictured Above: Ms. Lourdes Bradford, Sr. LA at COL. She is shown here happily receiving her new HPL tote bag / backpack and HPL USB flash drive.

Tweens Read Display

Our  teen display for September is promoting the Tweens Read Festival.

We selected some of the authors and displayed their books for checkout. 

-AT

For more information, see below:

"HPL is a partner with the Tweens Read Festival and will be represented there.  It is a great event where tween authors (authors for ages 10-14, roughly) speak to kids (and any adults who come) as well as sign books.  We have been making sure that the authors who are coming are represented in our collections and hope that you will encourage kids to come (you might consider making a display, for instance).   

The authors represent a pretty stellar bunch:

http://www.tweensread.com/authors.html

If you would like to attend the festival for your professional development, it is well worth it.  You would need your supervisor’s permission to count it as work time. 

Finally, we no longer have an HPL member on the Tweens Read committee.  If you are at all interested, please talk with your supervisor and let me know.  Meetings tend to be on the southeast side of town during the day (after school).  They begin meeting in the summer and continue up until the festival."

--Sally

#MYLinkCard

Collier Regional Library Team is pumped and ready to rock this campaign!

 

HPL Commercial Shoot

Lights, cameras, action!! COL manager, Marcos, and fellow staff shooting for commercial package for the HPL My Link Card Campaign (HEB crew on set!). #MYLinkCard

Chinese Community Center - Library Assistants

Our wonderful Library Assistants from the Chinese Community Center (CCC), Thanh Nguyen (right) and Dong Le (left), are pictured below. The COL Team appreciates the work they do and the assistance they provide with maintaining collections, greeting customers, and helping customers on the floor and in programs.

Thank you for all that you do!

-M