YAAAR!! TALK LIKE A PIRATE!!

Ahoy Mateys,
This week is the long awaited TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY on Wednesday, Sept. 19th! Maybe Tales to Tails will bring in a parrot for the kidlets to read to, but if not, well we can say YAAR and order Riley to Swab the Decks (just kidding Riley!) etc. If you really want to know more about this important holiday, here is a link: TalkLikeAPirate  but I will forewarn you, some of the Pirate pick up lines are a bit salty...
 I have a poster I will put up that day and I am compiling a stack of Pirate books to put up on display in the children's area also on Wednesday.  Of course the Story hour subject this week is Pirates as well, so as per usual, if you are looking for pirate books and you can't find them in their usual spots, check the display or my desk.
  We also will continue to showcase Galina's wonderful display of books adapted to movies, so when you are shelving, keep an eye out for books made into movies or DVDs of books to replenish her display. And don't forget to add any of your favorite adaptations to her on-going list.

  This week is TYPICAL STATISTICS WEEK at the branch (this happens quarterly), so I am placing Stats sheets at each of the circ computers. Please remember to make a hash mark for any kind of questions you have to answer or help you have to provide. This includes such exciting questions as Where are the bathrooms? What are your hours? either by phone or in person, so if you are out on the floor and someone asks you anything library related, please remember to mark it down on one of the sheets.

We also have to do another "items shelved in 24 hours" so we will do this count on Wednesday as this actually is a count of how many items we typically shelve in a day.  I have left detailed instructions for the aides, but basically this means that everything to be shelved needs to go on a cart (no walking items to the new or display shelf) and that whomever wheels the cart out onto the floor needs to do an item count and record it on a piece of paper and attach it to the cart.  Aides, when you finish shelving a cart, please remove the count paper and put it on my desk.

If anyone should inquire about completing volunteer hours for school, please refer them to Community Service Days at the Aptos, BC, Downtown and Scotts Valley Libraries. We have a poster for this with more information on the Young Adult side of our new books shelving area (right before the encyclopedias) or you can refer them to the Volunteer Office at 427-7700 ext. 7615.

Donna is officially DONE with her training but we all know that we are all in training all the time, as fast as things change around here, so everyone please continue to help each other out and lend a hand wherever it might be needed. I  am proud at how well we are all working together and I for one am learning new tricks every time I come to work, so big thanks!

Yarr then, lets look smart and  show them landlubbers what we're made of, and all that....
Cappy Dick