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What a Year!

2016 at Calgary Public Library

 

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Part of the new Early Learning Centre at Village Square Library

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January

  • 50@150 Art Exhibit

  • Baconfest Urban Design Film Festival

  • Family Literacy Day

  • Launched 2016 Year of Reading Guides

  • Read for 15

  • TD Community Book Drive (Foundation)

 

February

  • Family Day

  • Freedom to Read Week, Feb.21-27 (featuring Saga by Fiona Staples)

 

March

  • Book Truck Launch at Alex Munro School

  • Fish Creek Early Learning Centre (soft launch)

  • We continued our partnership with the Hotchkiss Brain Institute with Think Big

 

April

  • Junior Junos

  • Library Cards for Indigenous Communities (NOTE: this was not formally announced until later)

  • National Poetry Month

  • National Volunteer Week

  • Nicholls Family Library Grand Opening (with $1Million donor announcement)

  • Placemakers Event

  • Shaganappi Library Closed

  • Volunteer Recognition Event

  • We Recommend Collection

 

May

  • Bill’s TEDxCalgary talk

  • Calgary Local Music Library (CJSW)

  • e-resources made available to CBE staff & students (pilot –formally launched on Oct.31)

  • Employee Engagement Survey

  • Idea Igniters

  • In-Library Experiences Survey

  • Nose Hill Renovation (started May 1 and ended mid-Dec)

  • Responded to Fort McMurray fire (staff outreaches to those relocated to Calgary)

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June

  • Aboriginal Book Club Month

  • Glenmore Square Library closed (June 18)

  • The New Adventures of Engine 23 Launch

  • Online Library Experiences Survey

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July

  • Canada Day T-shirt competition

  • CBC Stampede Breakfast

  • Idea Rodeo

  • Historic Calgary Week

  • Launch of Flipster

  • New Central Library Service Planning begins!

  • Quarry Park Library at Remington YMCA opened (official opening took place Sept 10)

  • Read & Play Early Literacy Kits

  • Stampede Parade Day Engine 23 Storytime

  • Summer Learning (TD Summer Reading Club, Youth Read, Million Question Challenge, School’s Out at Forest Lawn Library)

  • Village Square Renovations (for Early Learning Centre)

 

August

  • Library internet changes to unfiltered access

  • Library PRIDE

  • Library Tours

  • Sun Life Financial Arts + Culture Pass relaunch

  • Net Promoter Core (NPS) survey in the field (“How likely is it that you would recommend Calgary Public Library to a friend or family member?”)

  • Newspaper Direct becomes pressreader

 

September

  • 2nd Annual Soccer Challenge in Red Deer vs Edmonton Public Library

  • 2016 Author in Residence Launch: Micheline Maylor

  • Coding Classes for the entire family

  • Idea Lab Launch

  • Library Foundation moves to Hillier Block

  • Lido Pop-Up Library

  • Library and Wordfest Sidewalk Poetry event

  • Official opening of Remington YMCA (including Library)

  • Words & Wiggles

 

October

  • Bill’s Book Café – the first one took place on Oct.28 at Quarry Park

  • First E23 Talk (video)

  • Great Debates – beginning with Oct.27’s The Green Line

  • Joint Library and Wordfest Announcement

  • Partnership with Wordfest

  • Southwood Library’s 50th Anniversary

 

November

  • Imperial Oil Announcement (Read and Play Early Literacy Kits)

  • Foundation Gala with Bret “Hitman” Hart raised $286,000

  • Launch of Lynda.com

  • STAR event

  • Survive and Thrive after Job Loss (with Chartered Public Accountants of Canada)

 

December

  • Brrr! It’s Cold Outside

  • CBE Teachers’ Breakfast at Nose Hill Library

  • Engine 23 Holiday Storytime with Mayor Nenshi

  • Foundation Breakfast

  • Indigenous Communities Liaison hired

  • National Child Day

  • Winter Word Fair

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And more!

  • 145,000 new memberships in 2016

  • Library staff made 694 visits to daycares, reaching 14,306 children in 2016 as part of Library Month at Your Daycare

  • The Library store managed a $1000 a day in sales in December

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Foundation Campaign Totals 

  • Campaign Raised YTD 2016 =  $6,163,167

  • Campaign Raised total = $301,114,340

  • Number of Gifts = 31,797

  • Number of Unique Campaign Donors = 11,707 

  • Number of 2016 donors = 5,146 (as of December 28)

 

 

Did we miss anything? Drop us a line at dangerous@librarybulletin.ca and let us know!

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