LONGEST WEEK OF THE YEAR!

Ahoy all
Cappy Dick is going to make this short and sweet because after last week we all need some time to recover. It was the longest day of the year on last Wednesday, but personally, it felt like perhaps the longest whole week in the year, as we were pretty swamped. I suspect that unlike a lot of the branches, Capitola by the sea gets busier during the summer months! We shall see.
On last Tuesday we got slammed with a gazillion returns( and the worlds slowest running Evergreen) and the Friday Summer Reading performance of the Great Blindini brought in over 168 attendees, but we persevered, and the branch is looking good, thanks to y'all.
 We are using subs to fill in a lot of our missing aide hours but starting July 7th we will have Carolyn Brycks, a SCPL on-call joining us as an aide and picking up a lot of Gina's former hours. We still have a 4 hour opening slot (9-1) vacant if any of you wants to expand your hours or you know an aide who would like to add more to their schedule.
    There seems to be constant new changes with the summer reading program, so check out all the info on our summer reading clipboard on the back counter to keep up to date. We have a scheduled family craft time every Friday at 11:15 and our next big event is a puppet show which looks pretty cool on July 13th, Friday at 11.
 
We have been asked to keep track of how many items we shelve in 24 hours so I have been having you fill out a count sheet attached to each cart as you move it out to be shelved, and we will do this once again this coming Tuesday to give us an average.

There are a few extra crates stashed in the staff kitchen area under the table near the bathrooms should you find you need any.

The giant sculpture of children of the world is going to be removed from our branch by the artist who created it in the next few weeks so if you need to sit on the top of the world, this is your last chance. Actually, don't do that. I don't want to have to write up an incident report. 

 And last but certainly not least: Please remember to check inside the books to ascertain that they really belong to Capitola. I have been finding a few too many items that aren't ours on the shelves. I will remind the volunteers as well.
    Over all I think we are doing an excellent job, so thanks again,
Cappy Dick