1. Terry Ehle Youth Services Coordinator Lester Public Library
Two Rivers, WI
(920)
Read.
Discover.
Connect.
Enrich.

2. ME MY STAFF BUDGET Full time 40 (ahem) hours/week – 8 @ Help Desk
Part time
25 hours/week – Help Desk
2013 ~ 275 Programs
$19 / Program
BUDGET
Official Yearly Programming: $2337
Additional Summer: ~$3000

3. Two Rivers Population ~ 11,700 Service Population ~ 17,200
6 Full time staff
12 Part time staff
Manitowoc Calumet Library System
Manitowoc Public Library

4. My #1 volunteer is my husband.

5. I am not a scientist!

6. Programming Philosophy?
OK Let’s Try It

7. WHY DO WE PROGRAM? Because it’s fun?!
To bring patrons into the library.
To show what our library has to offer.
To connect patrons and community resources.
To connect patrons with other patrons.
To fill a need in the community.
To encourage patrons to read.
To encourage life-long learning.
To keep patrons out of trouble.
To keep funding and get more.
To teach.
To make our jobs easier.
Because it’s fun?!

8. What is your library’s mission?
Read.
Discover new things.
Connect people and ideas.
Enrich your life and community.
Does your program fit your library’s mission?

9. HOW DO WE PROGRAM?

10. What does a scientist look like?

11. THE LAB Table Plastic tablecloth Safety glasses / Lab Coats
Safety Rules
Instruction sheets
Paper / pencils
Experiment Materials
Wet Wipes
Towels / Gloves

12. Forces & Motion Design and Test a Parachute Balloon Noise Maker
Pencil Strength
Blow
Get Revved Up
Hot Wheels
Angry Birds Live
Balloon Hovercraft
Paper Airplanes
Testing Strength
Protect Your Peeps
Gravity Art

13. Hot Wheels

14. Angry Birds Live

15. Building

16. Protect Your Peeps

17. Light & Mirrors Flashlight Fun Prisms / Colored Lenses
Light Classification
Sky & Sunset Jar
Shadow play
Mirror Mirror

18. Measurements Does it fit? Which is heavier? Are you a square?
Bungee Scale
Measuring with objects

19. Our Senses Sight Sound Smell Touch Taste Spinning Colors Cup Telephone
Memory Game
I Spy
Optical Illusions
Nose to Nose
Sound
Cup Telephone
The Cone
Shaker Match
Hex Nut Balloon
Sound Waves
Squawking Cup
Sound Effects
Smell
Cotton Balls
Smells Around Us
Fruity Jars
Scratch & Sniff Art
Touch
Braille
What’s in the Box/Bag?
Touch Maze
Sensitive Skin
Slime/Oobleck
Test Reaction
Taste
Candy Check
Edible Fear Factor
Ice Cream Inventors
Cupcake Wars

20. Edible Fear Factor

21. Ice Cream Inventors

22. Cupcake Wars

23. Crazy Concoctions Fizzy Sidewalk Paints Alka Seltzer Lava Lamps
Invisible Inks
Henna Tattoos
Crayon Shaving Art
Baking Soda/Vinegar
Slime / Bouncy Balls

24. Henna Amy Wilde Phone: (920) 737-2995
Website:

25. Puking Pumpkins

26. Our Bodies Dominate Side Genetics Heartbeat Busy Body Challenges
Fantastic Finger Feats
Brain Science
Bet You Can’t
Minute 2 Win It

27. Minute 2 Win It

28. Classifying Magnifying
Sorting
Venn Diagrams
Living/Nonliving
Colors / Shapes / Textures
Magnifying
Close Up Pictures
Microscope
Tiny pictures
Diseases

29. Toilet Paper, Velcro, Banana

30. Bubbles Big Bubbles Little Bubbles Bubble Painting Bubble Tray
Bubble Bottle

31. Natural Science Science of Dirt Gardening Animal Adaptation Camouflage
Life Cycles
Rocks & Gems
Skeletons
Science Discovery Table

32. Science of Dirt

34. STATIC Magnets Magnet Maze What is magnetic? Paperclips
Balloon & Paper Pick Up
Salt & Pepper
Tinsel Orb

35. MISC. Chromatography Tie-Die What Floats? Flinkers What Dissolves?
Gummy Bear Science
Egg Drop
Ice Cube Melt
Mythbusters?
Robots
How many drops?

36. Terry Ehle Youth Services Coordinator Lester Public Library
Two Rivers, WI
(920)
Read.
Discover.
Connect.
Enrich.