Ahoy,
This will be a rough week as we have to say our goodbyes to David who is jumping ship to go be a boss man at the DTN branch. This is a great step up for him but also a great loss for us! He has been a huge asset to the branch and personally for me a wonderful co-hort in getting the branch up and running in its new incarnation under the service model of less staff. I know i would've flailed mightily and might have thrown myself overboard were it not for his support and his huge technical know-how.
His last day will be Thursday so be sure and say your adieus by then, and I am sure he would welcome visitations at DTN should you be in the area.
To fill David's big shoes we are getting 2 new employees!
I am glad to welcome back Galina Wells to the Capitola branch. She will be taking over David's position as second in command. She was once part of the regular staff at Capitola and I am going to rely on all her knowledge about this building and the quirks of the branch. She will be a wonderful asset and I think most of you already know her from her work at many of the branches as well as an on-call. I am sure many of our patrons will be thrilled to see her behind the desk again!
Also coming to our branch starting Sept.1st is Donna Barber, who has been working on-call as both a library assistant as well as a courier driver. She will be working 20 hours a week in the afternoons to give us the staff support we will need when we expand our hours in mid-September. She has lots of experience as a boardwalk security guard (among other things), so not only will she be inured to the sounds of all that screaming that comes from our tot lot, but she can toss out our problem patrons when we are trying to close!! (and you who work the closing shift know who i mean!).
Pre-school story hours have been discontinued until the week of Sept. 10th (when we increase our hours), should anyone inquire. I have posted signs on the door and also in the children's area. They will begin again that week on Fridays @ 10:30 for our branch.
Tales to Tails will also not be meeting for the next two weeks. There will be a session on Saturday morning Sept. 1st. If anyone has questions please refer them to programming. There is a phone number on one of the flyers.
We are not actually receiving our subscription to the San Francisco Chronicle yet so if you get random copies in the book drop, leave them on the lunchroom table for staff. I will let you know when our library copies start arriving and in anticipation i will make up a new check in chart as well as designate a shelf in the workroom as i promised in an earlier blog.
If you check in items that are damaged but not something a patron is responsible for (broken spines, loose pages, worn covers, etc), please fill out the appropriate damage slip (green for books/white for media). There are slips at both discharge stations. Then if you feel comfortable with the process, change the item attributes to send the item to cms mending and put the item in transit, or if you are not sure of this process leave the item WITH the damaged slip on David/Galina's desk. If an item is damaged by a patron (or missing parts) DO continue to put notes on those (not damaged slips) and leave them on David/Galina's desk as well.
We now are able to print some of the missing lists from Evergreen and our first search for items enroute too long from Capitola resulted in a couple crates worth of things that should not have been on our shelves. So, if you are shelving, please do pop open the books and make sure they say Cap inside. If you have questions, run them through check in to be sure they belong at our branch.
Also, if you are discharging, please don't let your DTN, APT, LO piles accumulate too high, but clear them off regularly and crate them up so things don't get confused and end up on our shelving carts.
This should alleviate the problem for the most part, aside from the usual warning, wait for the turtle when you are doing check ins.
I will try and run the lists once a week when we can get them to work (they are still in the trial basis) so we should be able to keep on top of this and it will also give us some space on our shelves for our own collection.
Ok, this is far too long but some weeks are like that. Hope you are all enjoying our real summer weather and thanks again for your great team work.
Yaarrr from the Cappy,
Dick
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