May day...Well, in Cappy Dick's world of the sea, May day is what you call out when the ship is sinking, but it looks to me, what with all your hard work, this branch is ship shape, and since May Day is also international worker's day, consider yourself celebrated on Tuesday, and I extend a big thanks for all you are doing to keep us afloat!
Ok, here's the weeks updates: For the month of May we have a new display on Gardening, so please add any gardening books that are returned to the display and of course look there if you are seeking gardening books for the pulls list. Also handily, this week the subject for the story hour is also gardening so another place to seek J gardening books might be at my desk. I have put some of them on the display as well, facing the children's area. And if all else fails, you can always ask me.
Out with the old/in with the new: The "new book" pull date for May is 11, so please remove any pre-11 stickers from the book spines and shelve them as per usual. I have noticed a number of New books with stickers interfiled with our regular books so do be sure and check the spines when you are shelving and if they really are new titles put them on our new book display.
Most importantly, we are finding a lot of books that are supposed to be going to other branches on our shelves, and much as I would like to plump up our collection with some new titles, this really isn't the best way, so I am asking that when you are shelving, you please open the book and look at the branch designation penciled in the upper left hand corner to make sure it really is a Capitola book. There may be some large print copies with numbers instead of a branch, so if you get these, just run them through check-in to be sure they do belong in our branch, and shelve them as usual.
And that's all for this week. Thanks again for all your labors.
Cappy Dick
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Saturday, April 21, 2012
BAYWATCH OR BULLDOGS?!
Hey all,
Monday, April 23 marks the anniversary of BAYWATCH, and who could forget the "Hoff" sprinting along the beach on his way to rescue some bikini clad babe...just seemed apropos for Capitola by the sea and this beach weather we had over the weekend. But if Baywatch doesn't suit your fancy, April 23rd is also National Bulldogs are Beautiful day and personally I would rather look at a Bulldog then David Hasselhoff any day...
At any rate, regardless of the day, lets make everyday this week a Celebration at the Capitola branch!
Here's the latest:
We have a new collection of adult playaways now. We have had young adult and J playaways for awhile but this is the first we've gotten the adult titles on playaway. They are currently being shelved on our new books shelving, below the books on the inner shelves..
New books are arriving pre-labeled with big YELLOW tags on the spines instead of our usual orange, so if you see these don't assume they are for another branch. Since they are pre-processing them at HQ they use the yellow labels for all the branches.
Our current subscriptions of People and Time have expired but we will start receiving new issues in June, so if patrons ask you can let them know that or direct them to the service desk where we will tell them the same and request copies from other branches.
We have been finding a huge number of books "in transit" on our shelves. Please please please wait for the very slow turtle to show up or check the check in titles on the screen to make sure the item was actually scanned and that it belongs to Capitola, before putting it on a cart. Hopefully when we actually get our wiring enhanced the turtle won't be quite so slow, but we all need to get in the habit of double checking the screen.
The story time subject this week is Frogs, again. (actually it wasn't the subject last week, i just got confused about the date) so if you need Frog books for the patron or the pulls list they are still on my desk.
The friends of the library are now accepting e-readers, so if anyone asks or gives you one, please put them in the black friends crates in the workroom. Somehow i don't expect a flood of these to come in anytime soon, but you never know.
The library will be closed this Friday for staff day. We will put a big sign on the door and Gina is going to show up and discharge whatever comes through the book drop so we shouldn't be too impacted, although there may be some disgruntled patrons. Customer service is the focus this year so maybe those of us who attend will get some tips on how to handle them.
That's all for now. Ahoy and all that,
Cappy Dick
Monday, April 23 marks the anniversary of BAYWATCH, and who could forget the "Hoff" sprinting along the beach on his way to rescue some bikini clad babe...just seemed apropos for Capitola by the sea and this beach weather we had over the weekend. But if Baywatch doesn't suit your fancy, April 23rd is also National Bulldogs are Beautiful day and personally I would rather look at a Bulldog then David Hasselhoff any day...
At any rate, regardless of the day, lets make everyday this week a Celebration at the Capitola branch!
Here's the latest:
We have a new collection of adult playaways now. We have had young adult and J playaways for awhile but this is the first we've gotten the adult titles on playaway. They are currently being shelved on our new books shelving, below the books on the inner shelves..
New books are arriving pre-labeled with big YELLOW tags on the spines instead of our usual orange, so if you see these don't assume they are for another branch. Since they are pre-processing them at HQ they use the yellow labels for all the branches.
Our current subscriptions of People and Time have expired but we will start receiving new issues in June, so if patrons ask you can let them know that or direct them to the service desk where we will tell them the same and request copies from other branches.
We have been finding a huge number of books "in transit" on our shelves. Please please please wait for the very slow turtle to show up or check the check in titles on the screen to make sure the item was actually scanned and that it belongs to Capitola, before putting it on a cart. Hopefully when we actually get our wiring enhanced the turtle won't be quite so slow, but we all need to get in the habit of double checking the screen.
The story time subject this week is Frogs, again. (actually it wasn't the subject last week, i just got confused about the date) so if you need Frog books for the patron or the pulls list they are still on my desk.
The friends of the library are now accepting e-readers, so if anyone asks or gives you one, please put them in the black friends crates in the workroom. Somehow i don't expect a flood of these to come in anytime soon, but you never know.
The library will be closed this Friday for staff day. We will put a big sign on the door and Gina is going to show up and discharge whatever comes through the book drop so we shouldn't be too impacted, although there may be some disgruntled patrons. Customer service is the focus this year so maybe those of us who attend will get some tips on how to handle them.
That's all for now. Ahoy and all that,
Cappy Dick
Friday, April 13, 2012
SHORT AND SWEET...
Well Cappy Dick's brain is still on vacation so this will be a pretty innocuous blog but that's OK because it was pretty obvious upon my return from my time away that everything ran smoothly and you didn't need me around any how! Fine by me, I guess I will schedule lots more vacations! Seriously, Thank you for being such a reliable and competent staff!
The only upcoming item of interest is Poem in your pocket day, which is officially Monday, but which we will be celebrating starting Tuesday. This is part of National Poetry Month and is part of a program initiated by our programming staff but implemented by us. We will be receiving many pocket size poems which we are to strew around the branch in secret and not so secret places. I will attach some book pockets filled with poems to the side of our poetry display as well as let our Junior Volunteer Jenny Bui place some around the branch. There are both adult and kidlet style poems, and some about dogs for our Tales to Tails gang. At any rate, if when you are shelving you come across a poem or two don't be alarmed; you can leave them be as a surprise for our patrons.
Also, if you check in poetry books you may add them to our Poetry display near the new books.
Speaking of new books, we should start receiving those from HQ with the spines already labeled with the new date stickers, so they can go directly to our new book display area. I am not sure when this is going to start however, so in the meantime, keep an eye out for new books (2012 or later 2011).
Next Friday's Story hour is Frogs so look for any frog books that you can't find on my desk. As always you are welcome to take them for the pulls list or for patron requests.
I think that's all for now. May we all have a grand week!
Cappy Dick
The only upcoming item of interest is Poem in your pocket day, which is officially Monday, but which we will be celebrating starting Tuesday. This is part of National Poetry Month and is part of a program initiated by our programming staff but implemented by us. We will be receiving many pocket size poems which we are to strew around the branch in secret and not so secret places. I will attach some book pockets filled with poems to the side of our poetry display as well as let our Junior Volunteer Jenny Bui place some around the branch. There are both adult and kidlet style poems, and some about dogs for our Tales to Tails gang. At any rate, if when you are shelving you come across a poem or two don't be alarmed; you can leave them be as a surprise for our patrons.
Also, if you check in poetry books you may add them to our Poetry display near the new books.
Speaking of new books, we should start receiving those from HQ with the spines already labeled with the new date stickers, so they can go directly to our new book display area. I am not sure when this is going to start however, so in the meantime, keep an eye out for new books (2012 or later 2011).
Next Friday's Story hour is Frogs so look for any frog books that you can't find on my desk. As always you are welcome to take them for the pulls list or for patron requests.
I think that's all for now. May we all have a grand week!
Cappy Dick
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