Well, y'all had a repreive from Cappy Dick's blog for a couple of weeks but all good things must come to an end so here we go again....I have to say that the branch was in fine shape upon my return and for that I credit the competence and dedication of my excellent staff! A big thanks to all of you for handling everything, including an incident and the requiste report that went with it! Well done!!
It's been a whirlwind week since I returned; it feels like we are busier then ever most of the time, but beginning this week we have slightly longer open hours so maybe the tide will come in slower instead of these tidal waves we have been getting hit with. Donna has one more week of training but Galina and I should get to start our "regular" schedule so hopefully we will all figure out when we are coming and going with less confusion by the end of the month. For now, thanks for bearing with us!
I have put out the open hour handouts with all the new hours reflecting changes system wide as well as posted our new hours on the door. (Thanks Galina for great signage!)
Story hour starts up again this week. Capitola will be having a story hour for pre-schoolers (3-6) every Friday at 10:30 before the branch is open.
There will also be a Tweens & Teens story hour on Thursdays @ 3:00 pm starting Sept. 20th,
as well as a monthly Tea and Talk program for adults on the second Wednesday of the month starting Oct. 10th. This will be an opportunity for attendees to decide what they would like to discuss or do at these meetings.
These last two programs are new to our branch so I have put out flyers at the front desk. Please let any of our patrons whom you think might be interested, know about these. Kari Gunn will be leading all these programs and if anyone has questions they can call her at 427-7700 ext. 7680. Her number is on the flyers also.
Tales to Tails will continue on Wednesdays at 3:00pm as well as the first Saturday of the month at 9:30am. Patrons do have to sign up for this ahead of time so if you have inquiries direct them to the programming phone # and remind them to leave a message with their return phone #. Jeanne O'Grady is the contact person for this program now.
The theme for Story time this week is Grandparents so I have compiled a stack of books on this subject at my desk. Please feel free to take any you might need to fill the pulls request list or if a patron is inquiring.
Due to popular demand we have installed a red cart near the book drop where we can place CAP books until we have time to take them to the check-in room and sort them onto the appropriate carts for shelving.
Also we have placed a tall chair out front for whomever would like to get off their feet and we have a wonderful new red "perch" on order for the front service desk as well.
For those who are new to our branch and our strange ways: the purple paper slips are to be used ONLY for 3 day holds. This way we can easily identify them if they are not picked up in a timely manner.
Also, Capitola is the only branch that shelves the MCs as if they were in fact MC (not MaC), and we also shelve our adult Fiction and genre titles in alphabetical order by TITLE if there are multiple books by the same author.
We are still finding an inordinate number of library materials for other branches on our shelves and our carts.
When you are checking in, PLEASE WAIT FOR THE TURTLE before assuming a book goes to our branch and double check the screen to make sure it really is a CAPITOLA book. If you are checking items in at the front desk during a busy time, give priority to our patrons and give your full attention there. Multi-tasking is not all its cracked up to be and things will get done as they do. Better slower with less mistakes then frantic with many.
Thanks to our diligent aides for catching a lot of these by checking inside the book for the branch designation.
Please remember if you are helping patrons that we have some excellent databases. Mango in particular is a wonderful resource to those who are learning languages (and then we have Donna who speaks Spanish and Cantonese, and Galina who speaks Russian, and uh, me,. well, I can swear like a sailor!).
And also if they have kidlets we have the Discover and Go program that gives discounts on many of our local and not so local venues. The Exploratorium in SF has a great discount on that site and there are many others as well, that I don't think our patrons know about.
Ok, enough blather for now...Happy Indian Summer.
Cappy Dick
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