The interns are all pretty much on autopilot these days. They know what needs doing, most of them are working on their display projects, they’re working together on the group project…
The group project they chose is to really honor the memory of Evelyn Crowder. She’s the lady that left nearly one million dollars to our library. I won’t go into details — that’s for the interns to blog about.
I’ve been off since the middle of last week. It was supposed to be a great deal of fun for me, but I got some gawd-awful flu. We even re-scheduled Survivor-in-a-Day for July 11th. We’re hoping to improve on the not-stellar TSR turn-out this year by having this popular event on a week-end. I’ll be asking the interns to help me plan and execute some guerilla marketing with me. I’m thinking the teen groups that meet during the summer — cheerleaders, band, football… and places like the city pool (swim team?). Experience has shown us that newspaper and T.V. aren’t the way to reach our audience, and we’ve had good results catching them where they are during the school year.
None of the interns took advantage of the college credit available through CSI for their internships. We did get is set up at the last moment. So maybe next summer, with more time to enroll, our new crop of interns will finish the summer with credits.
These five young people have made a great deal of difference in our library already — and it’s still June!
