Adult Services Board Report
Provided for: July 13, 2026 - Regular Meeting
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- Service Desks (Ref, Computer, Info, Saratoga Room and Volunteers) = 3,084 service interactions
- Notary Appointments: 30
- Interlibrary Loans: 23
- Electronic Databases:
- ABC Mouse, 394
- Ancestry, 656
- Book Browse, 116
- Consumer Reports, 519
- EBSCO, 248
- Heritage Quest, 227
- Mango/ Little Pim, 76/0
- Morningstar, 2
- NOVEL, 79
- ProQuest NYT, 236
- Tech-Talk, 47
- Value Line, NA
- Electronic Periodicals:
- I do not have stats for electronic periodicals this month.
- LibGuides:
- During the month of June our 150 LibGuides were viewed a total of 4,776 times.
- Top guides
- Summer Reading 2026 for Kids and Teens guide with 812 views.
- Teen Services guide with 713 views.
- Emily’s Book Club is my Alibi guide with 277 views.
- Electronic Databases:
- ABC Mouse, 394
- Ancestry, 656
- Book Browse, 116
- Consumer Reports, 519
- EBSCO, 248
- Heritage Quest, 227
- Mango/ Little Pim, 76/0
- Morningstar, 2
- NOVEL, 79
- ProQuest NYT, 236
- Tech-Talk, 47
- Value Line, NA
- Electronic Periodicals:
- I do not have stats for electronic periodicals this month.
- LibGuides:
- During the month of June our 150 LibGuides were viewed a total of 4,776 times.
- Top guides
- Summer Reading 2026 for Kids and Teens guide with 812 views.
- Teen Services guide with 713 views.
- Emily’s Book Club is my Alibi guide with 277 views.
- On June 3, Katie attended the Saratoga County Volunteer Alliance. They discussed different volunteering topics during each session, hoping to help other local organizations engage our community. This month’s discussion was about how we recruit volunteers and a general overview of each organization’s onboarding process. Katie mentioned that our recruitment is very much word-of-mouth, especially since libraries are naturally seen as hubs for volunteer opportunities. Kate, who is the volunteer coordinator over at Gateway House of Peace, mentioned that she uses Idealist to post volunteer opportunities at her organization, and this is something that Katie would like to explore and bring up to management after doing some more research.
- Rebecca was approached by a woman at the end of Bagels and Barks who thanked her for organizing the event and said she has met other grandmas there and now they all hang out together outside the library with their grandkids – so cute!
- Kali and Jamie interviewed 4 candidates for the vacant part-time computer clerk position with Kelly from Human Resources.
- Katie is reading On a Quiet Street, by Seraphina Nova Glass.
A year after a devastating death in their quiet neighborhood, three women are presented with a mystery that affects all of their lives in ways that they never would have expected. The author does an excellent job of connecting these three very different lives, offering a worthwhile ending.
- Kali is reading The Stars Look Like Home, by TJ Klune.
Emily’s summary of The Stars Look Like Home made me want to read this book immediately, so I downloaded an uncorrected digital copy of the book from Netgalley. So far, it is a very touching story; just the thing I needed to read right now.
- Jamie is reading Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke.
Unfolding in dual timelines, a modern day, “tradwife” believes she has woken up in 1885. This book was a wild ride from start to finish and left me thinking about it long after I closed the cover. A truly unlikable and unreliable narrator.
- Caitlin is reading The Johnstown Flood, by David McCullough.
Published back in 1968, it’s about a flood caused by a dam break in the Appalachian Mountains in Pennsylvania in 1889. It’s full of information about industry during the era, Andrew Carnegie, the Pennsylvania Railroad, dam construction, and journalism, while still being very readable and suspenseful. I would suggest it to fans of Erik Larson and David Grann.
- Rebecca is reading Honey in the Wound, by Jiyoung Han.
Very well written historical fiction with magical realism blended in about multiple generations of women in a Korean family during the Japanese occupation of Korea.
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