Thanks to all you Bright Spots!

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David Vinjamuri of ThirdWay Brand Trainers will visit Northside Library on Tuesday, September 21st and Southwest Library on September 22nd. You'll see him walking around with a camera, laptop, and very thoughtful facial expressions as he evaluates our public spaces and considers ways we can utilize them more effectively. David's method is to walk though new spaces as a first time visitor without any pre-conceived notions about what works and what doesn't. We haven't shared our "troubles" with him at all. He's meeting the space like a new patron would. After he's completed his walk though on his own he'll tour staff spaces and storage areas to see what other spaces we have and then he'll talk with managers about what they see as space challenges.  So please greet David warmly and welcome him to KPL, but let him navigate the branches his own way so we get the best space audit possible. 

This week's Bright Spots are plentiful- 

• Aaron for our beautiful parking lot pole signs
• Brandi for organizing a terrific Library Card Sign-up Campaign
• All you who volunteered to go out into the community to get library cards into people's hands! Linda reports, "PS staff issued 38 library cards in two hours at Carthage College and 33 at UW-Parkside in two hours while out at National Library Card Sign Up Month pop ups this week. At Carthage we had Lori and Martha. At UW-Parkside we had Daisy and Phillip. Daisy shared with me that several of the UW-Parkside students didn't know KPL was available to them. "
• Katie Meeker for helping me correctly book a meeting room for a DPI group without even being asked! 
• Sandy, Linda and Brandi for coordinating Thanksgiving in September
• Michelle for leading us though a wicked Wednesday morning (don't ask!)
• Michaela for braving a very scary event on Thursday evening
• Tessa for kindly bringing us an opportunity to help the Afghan refugees housed at Fort McCoy
• The entire YFS Team for another amazing summer learning program!!!
• Marcia and the Outreach Team for a great Clean Water Kenosha series
• Shawn, Erin, Shannon and Marcia for getting their WLA programs accepted. You're going to make us so proud!
• Zander for launching the 60 for 30 Project videos
• Jennifer for bringing us the Immigrant Journeys exhibit
• Sue Vaal for launching Senior Read-Alouds
• Max, Brent, and Rob for rebuilding a server after a power outage. Thanks for keeping us connected!