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Corona City Library introduces sensory-inclusive kits and outlines National Library Week programs
Summary
Library staff announced receipt of Culture City signage and five sensory-inclusive kits, new quiet/headphone zone signage, a March 31 1Legacy organ-donation booth and a weeklong National Library Week schedule of family and adult events.
Library Manager Danielle Whittington told trustees the Corona City Library has received Culture City signage and five sensory-inclusive bags to support patrons with sensory needs.
Whittington said the bags include fidget toys, sensory glasses, feelings cards and noise-dampening headphones. Four kits are available at the children’s desk and one at the adult desk; staff said they can reallocate or acquire more if demand requires it. The weighted lap pad currently at the adult desk has drawn interest from the children’s area, Whittington said, and items are wiped down between uses.
Whittington described quiet and headphone zones: the Heritage Room is designated a quiet area for researchers, while the community room and children’s room are labeled headphone areas. Staff also said environmental cleaning protocols are used after each checkout.
Trustees were given a schedule of National Library Week programming the library is calling “Decades of Discovery.” Planned events include a movie marathon (staff-selected films from different decades), a family sock hop, a tie-dye maker activity, an ’80s-themed story time and an adult ‘‘millennial prom’’ event. The Heritage Room will host a technology-and-decades exhibit throughout the week.
The library will host representatives from 1Legacy (organ and tissue-donation ambassadors) at a display on March 31, with a longer April exhibit for Organ Donor Month, Whittington said. She also reviewed top-circulating titles for February, noting Pokémon and My Hero Academia led fiction checkouts while primary phonics led nonfiction. Whittington said e-book statistics were not available at the meeting and would be provided later.
On incidents and materials concerns, Whittington said the month was “somewhat quiet”: no suspensions were necessary, a small incident involving drugs or paraphernalia was reported to staff, and the library received a parental concern about a Sarah J. Maas series. After review against the library collection-development policy, staff decided to retain the teen-oriented titles in the teen area and shared the collection-development policy with the parent.
Trustees asked for details on kit numbers and patron feedback. Whittington said one patron had already checked out a kit and staff observed positive use but had not conducted formal follow-up.
