Ahoy all,
Well it was a sad week in that we lost Emily off to the wide world (she graduated and moved to San Diego to get her accountant's license) and Gina off to work at SV and DTN. So Riley, Barbara and Sandra are having to shelve like demons to keep up...well actually we are getting a few subs to help out and we have our wonderful crew of volunteers so we aren't falling apart completely at the seams. I am hoping to fill the vacant hours by beginning of July. There are still permanent shifts available so remember to let me know if you are interested.
Our summer reading program started on Tuesday, and all went smoothly. It has been pretty easy to direct people to the public computers and have them log in and we have plenty of reading logs to hand out, behind the desk. We had our first summer reading "event" on Wednesday, with a 'Stuffie sleep over" with about 11 kids bringing with their stuffed animals to spend a couple of nights in the library. They picked them up on Friday and got to watch a slide show of all the shenanigans their "progeny" had been up to in the meantime. I was happy to see that none of them had slipped into the cell phone recycling tube as had occurred on a previous sleep-over!
Our next scheduled Summer Reading event is this coming Friday at 11. Blindini the magician will appear and if we are lucky perhaps he will make some of the less circulated items disappear so we will have more room for new titles. Check the summer reading clipboard for any relevant updates)
I have gone ahead and decided to help him out a bit by doing some weeding in the audio area for the adult and the YA collections, so you may notice that those items have shifted a little bit and there is more shelving room. Currently the bottom shelves are empty so in the future we will have some "growing room" for the ever increasing YA and YA Graphic novels collection as well as adult CDs. And thanks to Barbara's suggestion I have relocated the encyclopedias to the area on the other side of our new books shelves and integrated our YA media collection with the rest of the YA collection. Hopefully this will increase the circulation of these items.
There is also now a YA NEW BOOKS bay with many titles on display, so if you are shelving new YA titles please put them there. (Please continue to interfile new YA Graphic Novels however, as there isn't quite enough room to display them at present.)
New J easys and also New J non-fiction can go on display above the JEASYS if you think they are worthy or they can be interfiled as you see fit . Just remember when you are doing the pulls list to look in all the displays if you can't find an item.
Do feel free to let me know if you find space getting too tight in any of our collections and we will see what can be done about it. We are about to outgrow this building but until Capitola forks out some cash for a new building we will have to make do by weeding out uncirculated titles.
And a final shelving reminder, please remember to re-file local titles (either by local authors or about Santa Cruz county, Capitola and surrounds) in our READ LOCAL display near the new books. They are circulating a lot but if we forget to reshelve them there our display is going to get pretty skimpy.
On a final note: we have a few new routing slips for DTN and CMS. These are the new designations for Central and TS, so if you have the new slips available use them first and then revert to the old ones. Eventually we will get all new routing slips with the correct designations. Place your items in the same crates as always. I am investigating getting the correct signage to place in the full crates. Continue to use the old ones for now.
The first day of summer is this Wednesday so get ready for those beach crowds! Speaking of which, today I had to remove a kid that was sitting IN the sandbox, which when you think of it shouldn't be all that surprising, I guess. Still...rumor is we only have the sand pit for one more month and though its well loved, there are days I am sure we won't miss it too much.
over and out,
Cappie Dick
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