WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:06.400 And good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. 2 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:10.160 It is time now for our City Matters programming. If 3 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:12.400 it matters to you, it matters to the city, at 4 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:15.759 least it should. Anyway, We've got our assemble to crew 5 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:19.960 here today and Laura Sanders is the assistant city manager. 6 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:22.120 What do we have going on today, young lady. 7 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:22.480 Morning. 8 00:00:22.679 --> 00:00:23.679 Yeah, lot's going on. 9 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:26.679 So just because it's a holiday week doesn't mean that 10 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:27.879 things slow down for us. 11 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:28.960 We were like. 12 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:32.479 The energizer bunnies. It just keeps going and going and going. 13 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:37.439 And so this week we do have some different schedules 14 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:41.399 for the holidays, so most city offices will be closed 15 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:44.880 on December twenty fifth and December twenty sixth, and then 16 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:48.520 also again on January first and recognition of Christmas, and 17 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:52.759 then the New Year's holidays. We are told that residential 18 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:55.439 routes will not be impacted by this because both the 19 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:58.479 Christmas holiday and the New Year's holiday fall on Wednesday, 20 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:02.240 and that is not They don't run on Wednesdays anyway, 21 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:03.240 so it's not impacted. 22 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:05.799 This is great. You get them bones and ribbons and 23 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:07.120 everything disposed of. 24 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:11.519 Due time exactly, so every other thing's business as normal 25 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:14.920 on both of those weeks. I was told that the 26 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:18.920 commercial routes will be serviced on a different day because 27 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:22.000 we still service commercial routes on Wednesdays, So those will 28 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:25.400 be on December twenty fourth and December thirty first instead 29 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:31.120 of on Wednesday. Okay, so we've got that going, and 30 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:33.120 I do want to give an update because this has 31 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:35.560 kind of been a hot topic. We've got our police 32 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:38.760 department is hosting a flock safety forum and so that 33 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:42.599 is on January sixteenth, and we ask all citizens to 34 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:45.359 mark their calendars and plan to attend at six pm 35 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:49.000 January sixteenth. It will be at the Oakwoo Lion Hall. 36 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:52.719 They're on twenty two to oh one Silver Lake Road 37 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:56.599 in Bartlesville. And if they have specific questions that they have, 38 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:01.400 they can submit them ahead of time to bpd Q 39 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:05.439 and A at Cityofbartlesville dot org and so you'll see 40 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:08.319 that information coming out there. If you don't have CITYBAT, 41 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:12.159 I would encourage residents to subscribe to City Beat because 42 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:14.120 that's where you can get your information, and all of 43 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:16.919 this information is out there as well. So if you 44 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:20.520 go to our website at Cityofbartlesville dot org and put 45 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:23.280 in your name and your email address. You will have 46 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:27.199 city information sent to you weekly, so we do encourage 47 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:30.080 people to do that. I'm going to pass it on 48 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:34.039 to Kylie, she is our library and history museum director, 49 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:36.319 and we're going to talk about the history of the 50 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:38.039 library for those that don't have it. 51 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:42.000 Thank you. Yeah, so very exciting stuff. 52 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:45.159 I know the history of the library, but it is 53 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:50.159 exciting because Bartlesville's library is actually has a very robust 54 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:53.360 history starting all the way back to eighteen ninety eight. 55 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:58.520 So in June of eighteen ninety eight, Bartlesville established its 56 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:03.560 first ever reading room by the Fortnightly Club, which was 57 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:06.800 later known as the Tuesday Club, and it was in 58 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:11.120 a storefront on East Second Street. 59 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:15.159 Then in nineteen eight, the renamed. 60 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:19.280 Tuesday Club public library room was open on Fridays from 61 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:24.319 two pm to five thirty pm, so not a ton 62 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:27.400 of time in that reading room, but it was available 63 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:30.199 to the public, and the city decided to begin funding 64 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:34.960 that with a maintenance fund of just two thousand dollars so, which. 65 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:37.159 In that time was a lot of money to. 66 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:41.759 Be able to afford books and materials in nineteen oh eight. 67 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:45.120 Also in November of that year, the Bartlesville City Commission 68 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:49.039 decided to request a twenty thousand dollars grant from the 69 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:52.879 Carnegie Foundation for a library building, which we all know 70 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:57.599 the Carnegie Foundation is who built most libraries in the 71 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:03.719 United States. And then in January of nineteen oh nine, 72 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:08.080 seventh and O. Sage was selected as the new library site. 73 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:12.280 The owners of that site were the Pembertons, and they 74 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:16.600 donated two thirds of that land. It was eighteen hundred 75 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:20.720 square feet and the donation was accepted by the city. 76 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:24.399 And then in nineteen twelve, funding for the new library 77 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:28.120 building was secured and contracts were signed for the construction 78 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:32.040 of the new building, and twelve thousand, eight hundred of 79 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:34.839 that came from the Carnegie grant, so we did not 80 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:38.439 receive the full twenty thousand, but we did receive twelve 81 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:43.399 thousand of that, which was significant, and through other private 82 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:48.439 donations they were able to establish that first public library building. 83 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:55.800 In March of nineteen thirteen, the Bartlesville Carnegie Library was 84 00:04:55.839 --> 00:05:00.439 opened and the library contained twelve hundred books. 85 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.079 Twelve hundred. 86 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:04.920 I will tell you what our now number is later on, 87 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:08.800 but twelve hundred, which was a good number back then. 88 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:13.399 And Miss Mabel blake Sey was the librarian who was 89 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:17.800 our first librarian of our first established Bartlesville Public Library. 90 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:23.639 In between nineteen sixteen and nineteen nineteen, Miss Myrtle Weatherhold 91 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:26.399 was the librarian her annual book report. 92 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:28.480 So every year, the once. 93 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:30.720 You're established as a state library, a public library of 94 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:34.120 the state of Oklahoma, you have to report your annual 95 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:36.399 statistics to the Oklahoum Department of Libraries. 96 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:39.279 So that was the first year that we. 97 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:40.920 In nineteen nineteen was the first year that we were 98 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:44.120 able to submit those reports. And at that time we 99 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:48.360 submitted that there was a circulation of fourteen thousand, so 100 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:52.240 fourteen thousand items checked out over that time period, we 101 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:57.519 had fifteen hundred people with library cards in the area, 102 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:04.040 and we had two cataloged books in the collection, so 103 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:05.399 we had gone up just a little bit. 104 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:08.040 In nineteen nineteen, Miss. 105 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:12.160 Ruth Brown was hired as librarian of the Barlsvil Public 106 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:15.199 Library and she held onto that position until nineteen fifty. 107 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:20.199 Miss Ruth Brown was very famous in the library community 108 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:24.920 and just in history overall. And we'll talk about why 109 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:27.600 here in a minute. But while she was the head librarian, 110 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:31.399 the Bartlesvil City Commission and the Library Board decided to 111 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:33.839 move the library to the north wing of the Civic 112 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:37.720 Center in addition to the East wing east. 113 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:38.160 Side of the wing. 114 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:41.079 It was approved by the City Commission in nineteen thirty one, 115 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:45.560 and now the library contained twenty five thousand volumes, So 116 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:49.199 we went up from two thousand to twenty five thousand 117 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:54.879 in just a matter of you know, twenty years. And 118 00:06:54.959 --> 00:06:59.319 then in nineteen fifty, Miss Ruth Brown was accused of 119 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:04.680 purchasing communist materials for the library and promoting integration, which 120 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:07.759 was still very new at the time, and the City 121 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:11.600 Commission asked that the library board fire Miss Brown. When 122 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:14.120 they refused to do so, the city Council dismissed the 123 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:18.800 board and fired Miss Brown on July twenty fifth, nineteen fifty, 124 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:22.439 and a new library board was then appointed. So as 125 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:26.680 a result of that accusation, the American Library Association's Intellectual 126 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:30.120 Freedom Committee began working with Miss Brown. In addition, the 127 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:33.000 Oklahoma chapter of that committee was created as a direct 128 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:36.040 result of her case and then partially due to its 129 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:39.040 timing during the height of the McCarthy era. The case 130 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:43.079 received national attention and later a movie based on Brown's 131 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:47.240 experience was made called Storm Center, and it starred by Davis, 132 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:49.480 which you can check out from the library if you're 133 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:52.800 interested in learning more about that. And then this is 134 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:55.680 actually very interesting because I just received a call last 135 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:59.920 week from the historic Circle Cinema that's located in Tulsa. 136 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:03.480 They're going to be doing a new documentary the spring 137 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:08.199 that will play at the Circle Cinema regarding public libraries 138 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:12.480 in Oklahoma, and the Ruth Brown case specifically will be 139 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:17.199 highlighted there with some new input from the American Library 140 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:22.160 Association and people who held office and things. There will 141 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:26.000 be some interviews included in that, and they have reached 142 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:28.439 out to our library to ask us to be a 143 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:31.800 part of it, so we're really happy about that. In 144 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:35.080 nineteen fifty one, according to the new City Charter, the 145 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:38.960 library became an administrative department of the city and it 146 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:41.840 was subject to control the Library Board of six residents. 147 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:45.559 And then in nineteen fifty three, Herbert gene Winn was 148 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:48.960 hired as the lead library and then served until nineteen 149 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:54.279 eighty three. In nineteen fifty seven, so it was another 150 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:57.559 year that we reported statistics to the state. Our circulation 151 00:08:57.639 --> 00:09:00.360 had gone up to one hundred and twenty thousand, and 152 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:04.279 we had thirteen thousand, seven hundred library cardholders at that point, 153 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:07.679 so a very steep increase. You can start to see 154 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:11.639 as the timeline goes on, more and more people beginning 155 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:14.200 to see the value of their public library here in 156 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:19.559 Bartles Zone. In nineteen sixty, after failing twice, a bond 157 00:09:19.559 --> 00:09:22.919 election passed for the rebuilding of the enlarged and enlarging 158 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:27.639 the library. In nineteen sixty October of that year, the 159 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:31.519 Eticquotte Foundation extended a twenty thousand dollars grant for a 160 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:35.679 self development center to be placed inside the library. The 161 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:38.480 center contained a fine arts room, a reading lounge, and 162 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:42.519 a information room. In nineteen sixty one, the Frank Phillips 163 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:45.799 Foundation issued thirty five thousand dollars to refurbish the American 164 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:48.960 Legion Room above the library into a community history room, 165 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:52.039 and then in nineteen sixty two that same foundation gave 166 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:56.039 another fifteen thousand to furnish the history room. Then in 167 00:09:56.120 --> 00:09:58.759 nineteen sixty four, so two years after that we actually 168 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:02.720 were able to open history room, which now has become 169 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:07.240 the History Museum, which is located in City Hall. In 170 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:12.039 nineteen eighty seven, plans began for a new library facility. 171 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:16.559 Nineteen eighty eight, the newly appointed Library Trust Authority took 172 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:20.200 its first oath of office and was charged to design, build, 173 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:24.600 and equip and maintain our public library. So in nineteen 174 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:27.679 eighty nine, ceremonies to kick off the Build a Brighter 175 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:31.480 Tomorrow campaign were held at the library. A bond election 176 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:34.080 was held for the new library facility, and the bond 177 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:36.759 called for the demolition of the old library and the 178 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:39.799 Civic Center and the construction of a new library on 179 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:43.879 the existing site. The project cost total four million dollars. 180 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:48.320 Of the costs, one point five million was private donations. 181 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:50.799 And the election passed pretty well. 182 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:54.759 In nineteen ninety demolition began of the old library and 183 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:57.960 the Civic Center, and then in nineteen ninety one, groundbreaking 184 00:10:58.000 --> 00:10:59.559 ceremonies began for the new. 185 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:02.360 Library, the SI Facility, which is the library that we 186 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:03.600 have today. 187 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:06.840 In nineteen ninety two, the new Barlsville Public Library and 188 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:10.000 History Museum it was still combined at that time, opened 189 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:11.919 its doors to the public with a crowd of more 190 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:15.559 than twenty five hundred in attendance. The building was designed 191 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:21.399 by the firm mccroy Olsen Coffee Association and mister mccroy's 192 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:24.279 final project It was his final project before he retired 193 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:29.960 as an architect. In nineteen ninety seven, access to the 194 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:33.639 Internet was made available can you believe it? I know, 195 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.960 in nineteen ninety seven, and then in April of ninety seven, 196 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:41.759 we granted full graphic access to the World Wide Web 197 00:11:42.200 --> 00:11:45.799 and made six public terminals available where people could come 198 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:49.600 in and actually surf the Internet in nineteen ninety seven. 199 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:52.279 Which is a really big deal back then. 200 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:56.360 It was yes that year our annual report to the 201 00:11:56.440 --> 00:12:01.240 Oklahoma Department of Libraries saw that we had a circulation 202 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:06.679 of three hundred and eighty two thousand items, Our total 203 00:12:06.799 --> 00:12:10.799 number of library cardholders were twenty seven thousand, and the 204 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:13.919 collection size had gone up to ninety two thousand. 205 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:14.879 Materials in the collection. 206 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:18.919 So again, just continued growth, continued growth, and a lot 207 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:22.799 of that really came from those private donations for people 208 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:26.279 who started to see the number of library cardholders increasing 209 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:30.320 in our city and believing that education was so important 210 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:34.519 and access was so important, and began giving back. In 211 00:12:34.679 --> 00:12:37.960 spring of two thousand, the Bartlesville Area History Museum moved 212 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:42.639 into its permanent quarters that the Phillips Annex. The library 213 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:46.840 was awarded a Heismith Award for Outstanding Library program from 214 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:51.559 the American Library Association. In twenty fifteen, we circulated four 215 00:12:51.639 --> 00:12:55.639 hundred and sixty seven thousand items and hosted forty four 216 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:59.000 hundred and eighty eight programs with twelve thousand, five hundred 217 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:02.399 people in attendance. So that was really the time frame 218 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:06.200 where libraries started to become more than just a place 219 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:09.080 to check out materials and to have books and do research, 220 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:12.320 but a place where people could come and meet, to gather, 221 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:15.919 to have programming, and to spend time with each other 222 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:22.159 and be really a community hub. In March of twenty sixteen, 223 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:24.960 a third meeting room was added to accommodate all of 224 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:28.159 the groups and organizations that want to meet at our library, 225 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:32.279 which is still extremely busy with meeting room groups. In 226 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:36.039 twenty seventeen, a laptop bar was installed for the teens, 227 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:39.480 so we went from ninety seven just having the internet 228 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:42.799 to now bringing in laptops and Wi Fi and all 229 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:49.159 those things. In twenty eighteen, our Library of Things collection 230 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:53.399 was installed, which we've talked about here before, but items 231 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:57.200 like sewing machines, telescopes, laminators, and musical instruments can now 232 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:01.879 be checked out from the library. Eighteen thanks to a 233 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:05.919 health literacy grant. The library now offers exercise classes, taichi 234 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:09.399 and yoga classes year round. In twenty nineteen, a grant 235 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:13.039 from Kannico Phillips created the Creative Corner, which has art 236 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:17.159 supplies for crafters and teachers. And then in twenty twenty 237 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:21.399 we had to close, like everybody had to close to 238 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:24.679 the public due to the COVID nineteen pandemic. We started 239 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:27.559 curbside right after that so people could come by and 240 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:31.320 still check out materials. So there was that, you know, 241 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:35.759 spatial awareness during all of that time, and we opened 242 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:39.600 for limited services in June of twenty twenty. But today 243 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:42.519 our library is thriving, and I'll give you a couple 244 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:44.720 of updates. We just talked about all of those numbers. 245 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:47.159 This is what our numbers look like today in twenty 246 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:51.440 twenty four. So three thirty six, three hundred and ten 247 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:55.440 people have library cards today, which is pretty incredible when 248 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:58.879 you take the actual population of Bartlesville is about thirty 249 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:03.080 six thousand people. That means that our library services communities 250 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:07.399 outside of just Bartlesville. You can pay to have a 251 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:11.200 guest pass at our library. It's a yearly cost, and 252 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:14.679 then people from outside of Bartlesville can also use our 253 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:17.639 library services if they don't have libraries in their communities. 254 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:22.639 One hundred and sixty two thousand, six hundred and eighty 255 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:23.519 two people. 256 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:24.919 Walked through our doors last year. 257 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:28.279 That comes out to approximately forty eight people entering the 258 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:31.840 library every single hour, So every hour that we're opened, 259 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:35.039 there's about fifty people coming in and out of the library. 260 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:39.600 Our collection contains eighty two thousand physical items and we 261 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:43.240 saw a total circulation of four hundred and twenty thousand 262 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:47.440 checkouts last year, which is really incredible. One hundred and 263 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:51.000 eighty five thousand of those were e materials, So after 264 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:54.120 the pandemic, we really put a lot of focus into 265 00:15:54.320 --> 00:16:00.039 having audiobooks, music, e reading, all of that available on 266 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.679 line so that people had another avenue of accessing materials 267 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:04.240 and learning. 268 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:06.399 Also, our database collection. 269 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:10.279 Is online as well, and that has been a trend 270 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:14.080 that just continues to grow and grow. We also lend 271 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:16.840 items to other libraries. Last year we lent out two 272 00:16:16.919 --> 00:16:21.240 hundred two thousand and four items to other libraries and 273 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:24.240 we only requested two hundred and fifty six items. 274 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:25.559 So we're part of a. 275 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:30.519 Consortium where people from other communities, other states, even if 276 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:33.639 they're looking for a particular item, they can go onto 277 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:37.200 the consortium website, see that Bartlesville has that item, and 278 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:40.240 they pay a fee and then that item gets sent 279 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:43.320 out to them. Our customers can also do that. It's 280 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:46.279 a way of just extending our collection beyond. 281 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:48.639 The walls of Bartlesville Public Library. 282 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:51.399 If we don't have something in our collection, a lot 283 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:55.320 of times you can go on to our lending platform 284 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:57.919 and find that and have it sent to you here 285 00:16:58.039 --> 00:17:02.919 in Bartlesville. In two thousand and twenty four, we also 286 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:07.720 saw twenty thousand logins on our public computers and seventy 287 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:11.200 two thousand Wi Fi sessions. So that's just kind of 288 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:14.240 telling us that the computers are still important to have 289 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:16.519 in place, but a lot of people are bringing in 290 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:19.079 their own personal devices and we see that a lot. 291 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:20.880 We have a lot of people who do. 292 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:25.200 Remote work from the library, do remote school from the library, 293 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:27.559 and they come in. We have lots of meeting spaces, 294 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:30.279 lots of quiet rooms where they can sit down with 295 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:35.039 their laptops, their phones and tablets and complete work that needs. 296 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:35.480 To get done. 297 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:38.920 We also hosted six hundred and fourteen programs with more 298 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:43.519 than eighteen thousand people in attendance last year, some big numbers, 299 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:46.799 especially for our library our size. We have a thriving 300 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:50.519 literacy department with one hundred and thirteen active learners working 301 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:52.200 with literacy tutors in our community. 302 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:52.920 Many of these. 303 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:56.119 Learners have gone on to pass their GED programs to 304 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:01.160 get driver's license or other certificates, and even US citizenship. 305 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:07.000 We've helped people work through their citizenship testing so that 306 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:09.599 they can become voters in our community. 307 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:12.240 And we have a seed library. 308 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:15.559 We can come and check out seeds for your garden, 309 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:19.079 and then once you've used up those seeds and you've 310 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:23.599 grown incredible, delicious vegetables and wonderful plants, you can drive 311 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:26.559 those seeds out and return them to your library the 312 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:28.720 next season and we'll put them back into the collection 313 00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:31.880 and they just get reused and recycled and we continue 314 00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:35.720 to buy new seeds for that lending program. Like I said, 315 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:37.400 we have a library of things, We have a three 316 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:40.799 D printer, We offer exercise classes, weekly story. 317 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:42.240 Times, so much more. 318 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:46.559 And now we are at the point where we're looking 319 00:18:46.599 --> 00:18:49.680 at what's going to be our next three to five years. 320 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:51.599 And so that's the next thing I want to talk 321 00:18:51.640 --> 00:18:55.359 about is our strategic planning. So the strategic plan currently 322 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:59.319 for the library ends this January, So we want to 323 00:18:59.400 --> 00:19:01.480 know what the public wants to see. 324 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:03.279 This library has adapted. 325 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:07.440 From a teeny tiny reading room in a small storefront 326 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:12.680 to an incredible thriving organization today, and we want to 327 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:15.839 know what the next three to five years are going 328 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:19.279 to look like. So we have a survey that's available 329 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:22.279 on our Facebook page, which is you can just search 330 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:24.400 Bartles of the Library on Facebook. 331 00:19:24.640 --> 00:19:25.200 It'll come up. 332 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:27.720 It's pinned right there to the top. You can log in, 333 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:29.680 you can take the survey. It takes five minutes. 334 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:30.440 It's only ten. 335 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:35.079 Questions, and it really digs into what are some things 336 00:19:35.079 --> 00:19:38.880 that interest you, What are things that you think would 337 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:41.480 be beneficial to our community. What are ways that we 338 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:44.480 can grow and continue to adapt to our community needs. 339 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:46.960 You still have that card catalog desk? 340 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:50.839 We have one with one. It's inactive. 341 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:53.559 It's really more just for show, but it has all 342 00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:58.160 the death notices and it is in our local history section. 343 00:19:58.400 --> 00:20:00.799 I have to tell the kids and grandkids that was 344 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:02.440 my search engine. 345 00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:05.759 Yeah, it is still pretty cool for historical purposes. You 346 00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:06.440 got to keep one. 347 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:11.119 Yeah, they call it hysterical because that happens. 348 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:17.519 But that's the history of our incredible library. It's good 349 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:18.880 to see the history of it. 350 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:21.599 I didn't know some of that, and to see that 351 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:23.400 transformation and see how much. 352 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:26.640 We've progressed and grown, it's awesome. Is he ready incredible 353 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:27.680 and we want to keep growing. 354 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:31.039 So please go and take the survey and let us 355 00:20:31.079 --> 00:20:32.640 know you know what you want from. 356 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:35.119 Your library in the next three to five years. All right, 357 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:38.839 thank you, Kylie. So next up we have Chief Call. 358 00:20:39.079 --> 00:20:40.640 He's going to talk to us a little bit about 359 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:42.119 holiday fire safety. 360 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:45.599 Yes, good morning, So we just want to start off 361 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:49.920 with reiterating the importance of smoke detectors, especially this time 362 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:53.160 of year. So usually, on average, more than twenty two 363 00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:57.799 hundred people die from unintentional home fires, and almost two 364 00:20:57.839 --> 00:21:00.240 thirds of these fire deaths occur in homes with no 365 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:04.480 smoke alarms or with smoke alarms that don't work. So 366 00:21:05.160 --> 00:21:08.799 a smoke alarms warning can reduce your risk reduce your 367 00:21:08.839 --> 00:21:12.599 risk of dying from a fire by almost half. So 368 00:21:12.839 --> 00:21:15.759 it's important you need to check your smoke detector batteries 369 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:18.960 twice a year. The batteries need to be replaced at 370 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:24.279 least once a year and smoke detectors do have a 371 00:21:24.319 --> 00:21:29.640 shelf life, so ten years we recommend as the industry standard. 372 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:32.559 After ten years, they need to be replaced. Even if 373 00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:35.519 they're working fine. That just make sure that they're up 374 00:21:35.559 --> 00:21:37.000 to date and they're going to give you the most 375 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:39.000 advanced warning that they possibly can. 376 00:21:39.799 --> 00:21:41.880 So a few other. 377 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:43.559 Things that we'd like to talk about this time of 378 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:48.960 year is Christmas trees. If you have a live, fresh tree, 379 00:21:49.880 --> 00:21:53.440 those were intended to be watered. If not, they will 380 00:21:53.519 --> 00:21:56.240 dry out and they become a pretty substantial fire hazard. 381 00:21:57.240 --> 00:21:59.440 We see a lot of that if they don't, if 382 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:03.000 they're not proper really maintained, they will dry out and 383 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:07.559 they can easily catch fire. So we want everyone to 384 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:12.400 just remember that in this time of year, just be safe. Additionally, 385 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:16.839 with space heaters when it starts turning colder. You know, 386 00:22:16.920 --> 00:22:20.160 space heaters aren't intended to be plugged into extension cords 387 00:22:21.079 --> 00:22:24.160 and they're not intended to be used in close proximity 388 00:22:24.200 --> 00:22:26.319 to something that's flammable. So just try to be safe 389 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:28.920 with your space heaters if you use a space heater 390 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:31.960 to stay warm this winter. So we just want everyone 391 00:22:32.039 --> 00:22:35.599 to be safe. The Fire Department does have free smoke detectors. 392 00:22:35.640 --> 00:22:38.000 If you need one, you can give a fire department 393 00:22:38.039 --> 00:22:43.559 a call on the website contact informations on the city's 394 00:22:43.599 --> 00:22:46.519 website for that. If you can install it, we will 395 00:22:46.519 --> 00:22:48.839 come out and install it for you. So we just 396 00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:50.839 want to try to make sure everyone's safe this time 397 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:52.079 of year for the holidays. 398 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:56.440 Well, thank you. Sometimes we become complacent with stuff like that. 399 00:22:56.559 --> 00:22:59.160 It's a good reminder to check our batteries and make 400 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:00.720 sure that we have those. 401 00:23:02.279 --> 00:23:06.880