Ahoy mateys... In honor of St. Patrick's day I will write the blog in green this week! And don't forget that speaking of green, the first day of spring begins on Wednesday!
We've had various changes in the branch this week so take some time to cruise around and familiarize yourself once again.
I have shifted the Audio books to make more room for CD's on the back wall, and have relabeled all the shelving so it should be pretty self-explanatory. The only more radical change is that the Playaways are no longer in the back window, as they were getting melted, so they are now on shelving at the end of the audio cassette non-fiction but above the audio cassettes biographies (on the same shelving as the YA collection but closer to the window.) Also I have moved the Adult Graphic Novels to the shelving just above the Playaways, as this put them closer to the YA graphic novels where I think they will circulate more often as well as have space for the collection to grow.
We also have a MAGIC SCHOOL BUS display on the far end of the JEASY display area so if you are reshelving these titles or looking for them, be sure to check the display. Since the display was set up those titles have been flying out the door, so it is already quite popular.
Galina has updated her Women's day display, to a Women of Mystery display in celebration of Women's History month. She is highlighting female mystery writers so as you see these come back into the branch, feel free to replenish her display shelves. This is another very popular display so its tough to keep those shelves filled. The children's display is still featuring Girl Power so any titles that you feel demonstrate that theme can gladly be added. It is mostly Jeasys and a few biographies as I wanted to appeal to a younger age group than our J fiction readers.
We discovered that the receipt printers should be turned on before the computers they are attached to so if you are an opening person please remember to turn the printers on before the computers. Otherwise the printers don't sync well and sometimes refuse to print.
We now have a binder of reproducible Federal tax forms. It is labeled and resting on the table with our other tax forms.
There is a new newspaper in town, called Capitola/Soquel Life. It is a monthly and we can just leave a copy of the current month on the same table as our Register Parjaronian and Chronicle. When the month is over we can stash it in the back on top of our old Mid county Posts which are no longer being published.
The system supplies staff has requested that we put rubber bands on both the top and bottom of our stacks of routing slips before sending them back downtown. Evidently they were receiving some with only one rubber band. Shameful!!
The story hour subject this Friday is SPRING. I have gathered a few books at my desk but additions are welcome as it's slim pickings.
Ok this is enough blarney for now. I hope you all had big mugs of green beer on Sunday and found some lucky charms at the end of your rainbow!
Cappy Dick
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