A FINE KETTLE OF FISH!!

Ahoy Mateys,
  Special Thanks for April Zilber for providing this week's blog title. I am thinking of having a weekly contest to take suggestions for sea faring post titles as my brain certainly feels like a fine kettle of Boiled fish by the end of the week when I am supposed to write the next post. Do feel free to email any suggestions!
  So, this was our first week sans Galina, who is off in the wild steppes of Russia, and we hope, having a wonderful time. Donna is filling her shoes, doing a fine job dealing with our myriad damaged and missing pieces returns, so do continue to leave those items on her desk.
  Carolyn is off to New York for the week and a little, so various subs will be taking her opening shifts, so be aware if you find things mis-shelved, since not everyone is as familiar with our shelves as we are. Also we should try not to kill all the plants she has looking so nice around the branch, in her absence.
   Speaking of shelving, a couple of things have come up: firstly the DVDs. Please shelve all the 791.43s  including those that have more numerals after the .43 as if they were only 791.43's.. Just shelve them alphabetically as 791.43. We often can't read the rest of the numerals on the spine so its pointless to separate them out. The same is true of the 460's. If the DVD says 460. just shelve it as a 460, again ignoring any numerals after the decimal point. These are all spanish language titles and should be shelved together. 
If this is all too complex to understand, Barbara, or myself will walk you through it.

Also speaking of shelving, special thanks to Riley for his excellent shift of the mysteries. There should be plenty of room for a little while for any new titles we are getting. And do let me know, you who shelve, if you see areas that are particularly tight and I will attempt to get some weeding done.
Currently I am waiting for a weeds list for biographies and large print. because I know these are two areas that need attention and room for new incoming titles.

Barbara and I have reconfigured the children's room by splitting up the tables and rearranging the rug and furniture a bit, just for a change of pace since we can't expand the building
This will also allow parents with laptops to use the outlet under the graphic novel shelving if they have children in the play area.
I have also placed a request with Lit to get another power strip between the internet stations 1 and 2 to allow a patron to sit there with a laptop, since our branch is so outlet challenged and we are seeing more and more patrons looking for somewhere to plug in. If we do get that powerstrip, I will move the large dictionary and the sign up sheet elsewhere but for now it will stay where it is.

 Evidently our plan to add shelving to the tops of the J fiction and YA shelves has fallen through due to stability issues, so we will have to try and get even more creative with our use of space. We have eliminated one shelf of NEW YA display to make more room for that collection and we seem to be ok for the moment.
Whoops! Addendum:  Cappy Dick was misinformed (big surprise!)  I came in the branch on Tuesday and VOILA! We have at least 3 1/4 new display shelving installed on top of the YA AND J Fiction shelves that we CAN use for display purposes (not for regular shelving because its not strong enough), so Barbara shifted some things on both sides to allow us to make the best use of our new space. 
The New J Fiction is now above the regular J fiction (instead of on the New books shelving) and the New J NON-Fiction  display is on the lower shelving at the far end of the same row. (we aren't sure if the shelving is going to be finished on that end, so for now we are using the dropped down shelving for display purposes...this may change if they add the last piece to our topper.)
  The YA non-fiction has been moved next to the YA Honor system books (near the YA media), to allow for more space for the adult playaways on the opposite end of the shelving. 
Adult Graphic novels are now on top of the shelving as are the YA New titles.

The most important change is that we have finally separated out the fairy tales (J398.2s) like most of the other branches. This is an area that was getting overlooked so this new section should highlight some of our really good titles. All the fairy tales are now housed in their own section BEFORE the J non-fiction.
Go take a walk around the branch and give it a gander, sos you know where things have moved too.
Signage is on the way!


Both of this month's displays for children and adults is Gardening so do feel free to replenish those displays as you find appropriate materials.

The story hour theme this week is Mothers and Mother's days (HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY all you MOMs and also to  those of you who have Mom's) so look for those titles near my desk.

New starting this week, we have added Tales to Tails on All Wednesdays now, as well as the first Saturday of the month.
  Janice also sent out a list of summer reading programs starting in June throughout the branches and I have printed it and highlighted events at Capitola. It is posted on a clipboard on the back desk as well as at the sit down reference station should patrons have questions. I am sure there will be an on-line calendar as well as print copies when the dates get closer.
  ok, enough of this blarney. I've got to go back out and swab the desks!
 Cappy Dick