One year of Creation Station

With BOB

For you Administrators

• Everything is GREAT!• No problems at ALL!• This was a piece of cake!

• Have a great day, go enjoy another fun break out session.

For the rest of us….

• Everything WILL be fine• We can handle these problems• This was a lot of fun

• Let’s take a look back at how we started

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1440: Printing Press

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2014: Creation Station

Throwing out Numbers

Customer Count

# of classes

# of class attendees

# of Tours

# of Tour Attendees

# of Outreach

Events# of staff

Total Volunteer

Hours

Total Number of

objects printed

# of Staff job

rotationsJan-15 1,504 0 0 1 3 2 1 13.5 164 1Feb-15 1,340 1 1 4 10 2 1 92.25 142 4Mar-15 1,000 7 37 3 6 1 1 139.5 298 2Apr-15 1,364 10 54 4 11 3 1 170.75 283 1

May-15 1,094 8 34 9 25 1 1 104.25 349 1Jun-15 1,615 11 117 2 3 6 1 187.25 118 1Jul-15

Aug-15Sep-15Oct-15

Nov-15Dec-15Totals 7,917 37 243 23 58 15 1 707.5 1,354 10

Standard Monthly Statistics

Throwing out Numbers – In the Lab

• Staffing– Temp Workers and Volunteers

• 708 hours from volunteers in 6 months• Job Rotations, at least 1 per month, 10 total

• Customer Count• 7,917 total• +1,300 per month

• How many classes and attendance– 37 classes, 243 attendees– Only 4 months of classes

Throwing out Numbers - Out of the Lab

• Tours and attendance– 23 groups with 58 people

• Consultations– Detroit, Connecticut, Florida

• 15 outreach events– BCL– Tampa– FLA– SEFLIN– FATVillage

Throwing out Numbers - Printing

• How many print jobs?– 1,354

• What do we allow?• Samples of cool things

Challenges

• Maintaining Macs• Not enough hands for all the tasks• Changes in staffing and service models• More ideas than time to do them

• Success creates higher profile and greater expectations

Successes

• Several great new contacts– Growing connections with:• Other libraries• The community

• Main Library Studio Productions

Questions…

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One Year ofCreation Station

Bob Anstettranstett@broward.orgcreationstation@broward.org

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