WE MADE IT THROUGH WEEK 1 THANKS TO ALL OF YOU!!

Whoa Nellie, that was a fast first week in our new positions! We were hecka busy on Tuesday after the Holidays and  I want to thank Emily for keeping our Holiday discharges under control by working on Monday, and also to thank Gina and Barbara for helping me figure out where all the things in the branch were hiding when I was trying to lay hands on them! And for general moral and staff support. I don't think David and I could've survived Tuesday without all of your help!
   It looks like the library aide/routing station is working well.  Please do let me know if you are running low on supplies, including routing slips, or if anything is lacking at that workspace.

  The computer in Heather's office is now loaded with the correct profile and  available should you need to log on to check the blog, your e-mail or do Kronos, so if the other work station is full, feel free to use that one.
  There are  a couple of changes that i wanted to alert you to:

We will no longer be doing in-house mending of items so if you see items in need of repair please put a green (books) or white (audio) damage slip in them and leave them on David's desk unless you know how to route them to CMS MENDING.  The slips are above the routing slips at the discharge station and I will also put some in the back at the Library Aide workspace.

Periodicals may now show up on our pulls list. If the request is for our current issue in the magazine binder, ignore it. Otherwise go ahead and fill these requests.

Tax forms for 2011 are under the DVDs. Whatever is out is what we have available. If a patron does not find the form they are looking for, direct them to the internet. Most of the forms are available on line from the IRS.  The Downtown branch may also have more forms.

There is now a g-mail account for all the library aides and on-calls at Capitola.
The address is service-cap@santacruzpl.org.  
I will put the password in your in boxes at the branch as I probably shouldn't publish it on the blog.
If you are not familiar with g-mail, please see me or David and we will walk you through it.

 You can also send email to cap@santacruzpl.org, and it  will go to myself, David, AND service-cap.  Oncall staff and Library Aides working at Capitola can use this Google Account to send email while they are working and will be able to receive email sent to the branch.

We will be getting a few more volunteers over the next month. I will try and introduce you if you are here when they are, but if you see someone wearing a volunteer tag that you don't recognize, please introduce yourself. They will mostly be shelving and doing route-ins, and are supposed to have been trained, so if you start encountering many mishelved items please do let me know. 

Thanks again and I think we are off to a wonderful start for the new year.

Jonell