Hooray! It's Cappy Dick's Favorite holiday; the one where you get to set off cannons and blow things sky high and you don't even have to stop to come to work since we all get the day off! Happy 4th of July! (please remember to have your Kronos done and approved by Tuesday morning as Cappy D has to approve them by Tuesday night!)
Hopefully you all come back to work on Thursday with your toes and parts intact as its hard to manipulate the keyboard with missing digits. However, if you do have an accident, at least you won't have to write out the holds slips anymore as we now have receipt printers attached to the back computer where our route ins get done as well as the one in the aides' workroom, and also, of course on the front desk. They have all been formatted to print out the patron's first/last letters and the hold expiration date so there's another place where you won't need all your fingers to count up 10 days to figure it out. Simply choose print on the "turtle" page, but do remember to choose the star cutter option when you select a printer.
Unfortunately, the formatting does effect all things evergreen so now if you want to print the pulls list in a legible form you will have to log onto a computer without a receipt printer to print it out. The computer on Donna's desk is usually available in the morning and as she doesn't work until the afternoon it shouldn't cause any traffic jams (uh, or is that "printer" jams?:)
The summer reading program is off to a walloping start. We have had two very successful programs so far and we now have some special goodies to hand out with our reading logs. The owner of the local Papa Murphy's pizza came by and left us a stack of bribe bookmarks that you can hand out with the reading logs when people sign up. Basically if a child reads 10 books and then takes the bookmark to Papa Murphy's they receive a free bag of cookie dough. The only thing is please remember to stress that this is a generous offer from Papa Murphy's and NOT connected to our library program. We also now have both teen and child legoland passes as well as a free personal pizza coupon redeemable at round table to hand out when we sign kids out of the reading program. You need to be sure and stamp the pizza coupons when you hand them out and its one per customer, please.
This July's adult display is All American featuring a wide variety of all things American including politics, eating habits (BBQ)(Corn on the cob), biographies and history. Basically if you can't find something on the pulls list remember to check out all the displays cuz chances are you will probably find it on one of them. The children's area display will continue to highlight SUMMER VACATION so feel free to add any appropriate titles to that display, including J DVDs and other media.
We are entering a new month so do pull any "new" titles that have the number 1 on the spine to make room for all the new titles that usually come flooding in in mid July.
The story hour theme this Friday is food so look for those J titles near my desk and add any you might come across as well.
Cappy D will be off next week after Tuesday so there probably won't be another blog post until July 13th, but do keep an eye on the Cap-service desk email as well as the clipboards on the back counter behind the desk as I keep relevant things posted there as well.
ok, set off some jing-tinglers and some razzabazza booms but make sure you don't get caught unless you know how to request an aesop absence from jail.
Cappy D!
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Saturday, June 22, 2013
HAPPY FIRST WEEK OF SUMMER!
Ahoy Mateys,
Welcome to the first week of summer! We are off to a good start, what with a packed house pretty much every day from the minute we open to the minute we close our doors. There are a few lulls now and then but really they seem few and far between.
With all this activity is is particularly important to remember that accuracy is preferable to speed, so please please pay attention to what goes where. We have had almost two carts of books over this last week that belonged at other branches. Luckily our aides are catching most of these mistakes before they get shelved, but we all need to pay close attention when we are discharging. The turtle does not consistently work (if you notice this, log off Evergreen and start it up again), so we have to watch the screen, please!
NEWS FLASH: HOORAH!! We have finally gotten the long promised ability to print holds slips for requests. This will only happen on computers with receipt printers attached but I have requested printers for the aide work room and the volunteer computer where most of the requests are processed.
When running the item through check-in, the turtle should appear and you must choose print from the bottom left corner of the screen, and then choose ok when prompted to print (same as our regular receipts. The hold slip shows the patron's "nom de plume" as well as the hold date and the barcode of the item (handy for when the slips fall out).
Many things are happening this Friday.
Instead of story hour the Surfin' Magician will be performing OUTSIDE in the playground at 10:30 for all comers.
Kari will be hosting her second school age crafts session for the summer reading program from 2:30-3:30
And Teresa will be here at 1:30 to meet with any staff for a brown bag lunch session. This is a great time for any of you who are interested to go and chat with her about anything on your mind, or just use it as a chance to get to know her. You can do this on work time (doesn't have to be your lunch time) and we can take turns covering the desk if need be. Please do take advantage of this opportunity if it is something you wish to do, as its hard to visit with her one on one otherwise due to her busy schedule.
Since there is no story hour there will be no story hour subject this week so you won't have to worry about looking for missing titles at my desk, however, Galina has added some Vince Flynn titles to the Adult display to honor his passing, so if those show up on your pulls list be sure and have a look on the top shelf of the display.
I think that's it for this week and that is more than plenty.
Enjoy these summer days, whatever weather they bring.
Over and out,
Cappy D!
Welcome to the first week of summer! We are off to a good start, what with a packed house pretty much every day from the minute we open to the minute we close our doors. There are a few lulls now and then but really they seem few and far between.
With all this activity is is particularly important to remember that accuracy is preferable to speed, so please please pay attention to what goes where. We have had almost two carts of books over this last week that belonged at other branches. Luckily our aides are catching most of these mistakes before they get shelved, but we all need to pay close attention when we are discharging. The turtle does not consistently work (if you notice this, log off Evergreen and start it up again), so we have to watch the screen, please!
NEWS FLASH: HOORAH!! We have finally gotten the long promised ability to print holds slips for requests. This will only happen on computers with receipt printers attached but I have requested printers for the aide work room and the volunteer computer where most of the requests are processed.
When running the item through check-in, the turtle should appear and you must choose print from the bottom left corner of the screen, and then choose ok when prompted to print (same as our regular receipts. The hold slip shows the patron's "nom de plume" as well as the hold date and the barcode of the item (handy for when the slips fall out).
Many things are happening this Friday.
Instead of story hour the Surfin' Magician will be performing OUTSIDE in the playground at 10:30 for all comers.
Kari will be hosting her second school age crafts session for the summer reading program from 2:30-3:30
And Teresa will be here at 1:30 to meet with any staff for a brown bag lunch session. This is a great time for any of you who are interested to go and chat with her about anything on your mind, or just use it as a chance to get to know her. You can do this on work time (doesn't have to be your lunch time) and we can take turns covering the desk if need be. Please do take advantage of this opportunity if it is something you wish to do, as its hard to visit with her one on one otherwise due to her busy schedule.
Since there is no story hour there will be no story hour subject this week so you won't have to worry about looking for missing titles at my desk, however, Galina has added some Vince Flynn titles to the Adult display to honor his passing, so if those show up on your pulls list be sure and have a look on the top shelf of the display.
I think that's it for this week and that is more than plenty.
Enjoy these summer days, whatever weather they bring.
Over and out,
Cappy D!
Friday, June 14, 2013
SUMMER RUNNING?! PROGRAM...
Ahoy Mateys,
well if this last week was any kind of example, I can say that the MOVE part of the Summer reading theme (eat, move read) is certainly apt, at least for the staff trying to keep up with the huge numbers of patrons coming in looking for items, returning items, and requiring help at the desk! If this keeps up we all WILL have to eat MORE, and then fall down at the end of the day and hopefully get a chance to read. Good thing we are earning the REAL dollars and not those counterfeit summer reading dollars everyone else has to make do with.
If you haven't yet had a chance to familiarize yourself with the summer reading program, how to direct some one who is inquiring or how to sign someone out, please do review the SR clipboard on the back desk.
Basically any member of staff can hand a Summer reading log to ANY inquiring patron who is interested in signing up a child. The child does not have to be present but the patron must understand that a responsible adult (parent or guardian) needs to sign the reading log before it is turned in to redeem the SR dollars. Sign ups are to be done by the patron either at one of our computers or remotely. The most important thing to stress for patrons when they are signing up is to record the summer reading # on the inside of the reading log as this is the easiest way for us to find them when they return the finished log. Participants may read ANY number of hours, they do not have to complete 20 hours (although that is the maximum they can earn dollars for) and they may return the logs and redeem them for $ any time between now and the end of the program. The last day to turn logs in is on the July 28th, and participants may turn in their logs at any of the branches. They are not required to return them at the branch where they signed up.
If for some reason a patron is unable to sign up and staff is unable to help them, please make use of the white slips attached to the summer reading princeton file, fill it out and put it in the file. Programming will handle it from there. The patron will not be given a SR # at the time they fill out the form but we can look them up by name if need be.
To sign a patron out, you must access the SR admin. site which is bookmarked on our circ desk computers. Simply click on the sign out icon on the upper right side of the page. Initial the upper right corner of the reading log, give the participant the applicable number of SR dollars earned,(the summer reading $ have been separated into piles of $20 so if someone is earning that amount you can hand them a rubberbanded bundle without having to count them out) as well as a free pass for the festival of the book (do not cut in 1/2), a legoland discount coupon and a bumper sticker with the SR logo on it.
(there are legoland passes for either child or teen. Currently we only have the passes for children, but i am attempting to obtain teen passes as well.)
There is more detailed information on all this on the clipboard so please feel free to refer to it should you be confused.
Another program which you are going to see is the REACH OUT AND READ PROGRAM. of this literacy program that was started by pediatricians and has been in place for 15 years, adopted more recently by pediatricians at
the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. At every well child checkup, children between 3 months and 5 years are given a book to take home. The Library was invited by a PAMF pediatrician to partner with local
PAMF clinics. A Friends of the Library grant was obtained to support this new program. Children are first given library card applications (a simplified form specific to the program) at the clinic, after which parents bring the application into the Library. The library issues a library card and gives out a board
book, available in English or Spanish. There is just one book that children will receive. The title is Book! by Kristine O’Connell George.
The applications do not look like our standard applications and in exception to our policies! we do not require proof of address before giving out the card.
There is an example of the application on the SCPL clipboard on the circ desk back counter. Please check it out so you aren't surprised when someone walks in with one. There is supposed to be an updated version of the application being distributed which has a place for the library card number but if you get an application that does not have a space for that, please write the number on the application. There is one copy of the book we are to hand out on the shelf near the summer reading logs. We are expecting more copies.
Our first program the Fratello Marrionettes was a huge success last Tuesday evening. Thanks to Donna's nephews who leant us their muscles for moving furniture to and fro to accomodate all 114 patrons who showed up to squeeze into our tiny children's area and watch the show!
The next program we will have besides our weekly story hour is a school age children's craft program. This is for children ages 5-12 and we have a flier at the front desk. It will be on Fridays at 2:30-3:30 on a drop in basis and will run until 4PM.
Galina has made a nice display for the adults honoring Fathers for the month of June, so if you find any relevant books, either fiction or non-fiction please feel free to add them to her display.
The children's area display continues to celebrate Summer Vacation so remember to look there if you are missing titles on the pulls list and replenish the display with any titles you find that might fit that broad category.
I think this is more than plenty to absorb so lets all take a deep breath and get ready to hit the decks running.
Ciao for now,
Cappy D.
well if this last week was any kind of example, I can say that the MOVE part of the Summer reading theme (eat, move read) is certainly apt, at least for the staff trying to keep up with the huge numbers of patrons coming in looking for items, returning items, and requiring help at the desk! If this keeps up we all WILL have to eat MORE, and then fall down at the end of the day and hopefully get a chance to read. Good thing we are earning the REAL dollars and not those counterfeit summer reading dollars everyone else has to make do with.
If you haven't yet had a chance to familiarize yourself with the summer reading program, how to direct some one who is inquiring or how to sign someone out, please do review the SR clipboard on the back desk.
Basically any member of staff can hand a Summer reading log to ANY inquiring patron who is interested in signing up a child. The child does not have to be present but the patron must understand that a responsible adult (parent or guardian) needs to sign the reading log before it is turned in to redeem the SR dollars. Sign ups are to be done by the patron either at one of our computers or remotely. The most important thing to stress for patrons when they are signing up is to record the summer reading # on the inside of the reading log as this is the easiest way for us to find them when they return the finished log. Participants may read ANY number of hours, they do not have to complete 20 hours (although that is the maximum they can earn dollars for) and they may return the logs and redeem them for $ any time between now and the end of the program. The last day to turn logs in is on the July 28th, and participants may turn in their logs at any of the branches. They are not required to return them at the branch where they signed up.
If for some reason a patron is unable to sign up and staff is unable to help them, please make use of the white slips attached to the summer reading princeton file, fill it out and put it in the file. Programming will handle it from there. The patron will not be given a SR # at the time they fill out the form but we can look them up by name if need be.
To sign a patron out, you must access the SR admin. site which is bookmarked on our circ desk computers. Simply click on the sign out icon on the upper right side of the page. Initial the upper right corner of the reading log, give the participant the applicable number of SR dollars earned,(the summer reading $ have been separated into piles of $20 so if someone is earning that amount you can hand them a rubberbanded bundle without having to count them out) as well as a free pass for the festival of the book (do not cut in 1/2), a legoland discount coupon and a bumper sticker with the SR logo on it.
(there are legoland passes for either child or teen. Currently we only have the passes for children, but i am attempting to obtain teen passes as well.)
There is more detailed information on all this on the clipboard so please feel free to refer to it should you be confused.
Another program which you are going to see is the REACH OUT AND READ PROGRAM. of this literacy program that was started by pediatricians and has been in place for 15 years, adopted more recently by pediatricians at
the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. At every well child checkup, children between 3 months and 5 years are given a book to take home. The Library was invited by a PAMF pediatrician to partner with local
PAMF clinics. A Friends of the Library grant was obtained to support this new program. Children are first given library card applications (a simplified form specific to the program) at the clinic, after which parents bring the application into the Library. The library issues a library card and gives out a board
book, available in English or Spanish. There is just one book that children will receive. The title is Book! by Kristine O’Connell George.
The applications do not look like our standard applications and in exception to our policies! we do not require proof of address before giving out the card.
There is an example of the application on the SCPL clipboard on the circ desk back counter. Please check it out so you aren't surprised when someone walks in with one. There is supposed to be an updated version of the application being distributed which has a place for the library card number but if you get an application that does not have a space for that, please write the number on the application. There is one copy of the book we are to hand out on the shelf near the summer reading logs. We are expecting more copies.
Our first program the Fratello Marrionettes was a huge success last Tuesday evening. Thanks to Donna's nephews who leant us their muscles for moving furniture to and fro to accomodate all 114 patrons who showed up to squeeze into our tiny children's area and watch the show!
The next program we will have besides our weekly story hour is a school age children's craft program. This is for children ages 5-12 and we have a flier at the front desk. It will be on Fridays at 2:30-3:30 on a drop in basis and will run until 4PM.
Galina has made a nice display for the adults honoring Fathers for the month of June, so if you find any relevant books, either fiction or non-fiction please feel free to add them to her display.
The children's area display continues to celebrate Summer Vacation so remember to look there if you are missing titles on the pulls list and replenish the display with any titles you find that might fit that broad category.
I think this is more than plenty to absorb so lets all take a deep breath and get ready to hit the decks running.
Ciao for now,
Cappy D.
Saturday, June 8, 2013
SUMMER READING IS SO DELICIOUS AND BETTER YET, LOW CAL!
Ahoy Mateys,
School is out and the summer reading program has started (patrons can apply on-line from anywhere but they need to come in to pick up their official reading logs) so put on your running shoes as Capitola gets BUSIER in the summer months with all the tourists, beach goers and park users entering our doors. As for the tourists, don't forget the handy Soquel/Aptos/Capitola maps we have behind our circ desk and there are handouts in our free area about local events/classes/shopping etc. so you can direct them there as well.
The Summer Reading program theme this year is READING IS SO DELICIOUS (and lo-cal unless you read with a bag of chips and a box of bon bons nearby... )
If someone wishes to sign up please give them a Green reading log and an orange calendar of events and direct them to our catalog computers where they may sign up from our home page, or they can sign up from home. Remind them to record the # they are assigned when they complete the log in.
If they don't have access to a computer there will be an envelope on the Summer Reading Clipboard where you can collect their information on the salmon colored sheet and we will turn it in to the Programming staff when they come to our branch each week.
Upon completing the log the readers (or read to) are awarded a SR dollar for every hour completed, a free lunch pass for the Festival of the Book, a bumper sticker (for all those young drivers?) and 1 legoland discount ticket (as long as those last). I am sure there will be instructions about how to record this in the Summer Reading database, but we are not privy to that yet so lets hope we don't have any speed readers coming to our desk. If that happens I suggest someone call Programming for instructions.
Our first event will be this Tuesday at 6:30 pm. It is a wonderful rendition of Peter and The Wolf by the amazing Fratello Marionette group. If you haven't seen these guys I would highly recommend coming to watch (if you can squeeze in!). They are incredible and also funny.
Our pre-school story hour will continue on Friday mornings at 10:30 thru July 26th and we will be having an afternoon craft session on Fridays @ 2:30 for school age kids which will start on June 21st.
A couple of technical details:
-We are no longer able to delete items from Evergreen. Instead the item barcode is to be added to a Capitola Deleted items bucket (Delete_item_CAP) and CMS will eventually delete them from there.
Once you have added the barcode to the bucket you can go ahead and discard the item, as per usual.
(if you notice more than 25 items in that bucket, please alert me, as i will alert CMS that it is about to overflow.)
-Please check all the display areas (new and on-going displays) carefully before marking an item missing. I have found numerous titles on the missing list that have been on in our displays.
-Also please take the time to really look at the spine label before shelving. We are finding regular and oversized titles mixed in both sections as well as mystery and fiction together. This means that someone is reading the call number correctly but missing an important detail which will make all the difference when we are searching for an item. Slow and accurate is better than fast and misfiled.
-Please feel free to add any titles to the kid's display of Summer Vacation that you think would be appropriate. We are particularly low on chapter books for this display so any thing that you read in the summers of your youth and enjoyed are welcome there.
This week's story hour is Father's so those books are at my desk should patron's be searching for any.
Ok, let the bon bons begin! Happy Summer Reading Y'all!
School is out and the summer reading program has started (patrons can apply on-line from anywhere but they need to come in to pick up their official reading logs) so put on your running shoes as Capitola gets BUSIER in the summer months with all the tourists, beach goers and park users entering our doors. As for the tourists, don't forget the handy Soquel/Aptos/Capitola maps we have behind our circ desk and there are handouts in our free area about local events/classes/shopping etc. so you can direct them there as well.
The Summer Reading program theme this year is READING IS SO DELICIOUS (and lo-cal unless you read with a bag of chips and a box of bon bons nearby... )
If someone wishes to sign up please give them a Green reading log and an orange calendar of events and direct them to our catalog computers where they may sign up from our home page, or they can sign up from home. Remind them to record the # they are assigned when they complete the log in.
If they don't have access to a computer there will be an envelope on the Summer Reading Clipboard where you can collect their information on the salmon colored sheet and we will turn it in to the Programming staff when they come to our branch each week.
Upon completing the log the readers (or read to) are awarded a SR dollar for every hour completed, a free lunch pass for the Festival of the Book, a bumper sticker (for all those young drivers?) and 1 legoland discount ticket (as long as those last). I am sure there will be instructions about how to record this in the Summer Reading database, but we are not privy to that yet so lets hope we don't have any speed readers coming to our desk. If that happens I suggest someone call Programming for instructions.
Our first event will be this Tuesday at 6:30 pm. It is a wonderful rendition of Peter and The Wolf by the amazing Fratello Marionette group. If you haven't seen these guys I would highly recommend coming to watch (if you can squeeze in!). They are incredible and also funny.
Our pre-school story hour will continue on Friday mornings at 10:30 thru July 26th and we will be having an afternoon craft session on Fridays @ 2:30 for school age kids which will start on June 21st.
A couple of technical details:
-We are no longer able to delete items from Evergreen. Instead the item barcode is to be added to a Capitola Deleted items bucket (Delete_item_CAP) and CMS will eventually delete them from there.
Once you have added the barcode to the bucket you can go ahead and discard the item, as per usual.
(if you notice more than 25 items in that bucket, please alert me, as i will alert CMS that it is about to overflow.)
-Please check all the display areas (new and on-going displays) carefully before marking an item missing. I have found numerous titles on the missing list that have been on in our displays.
-Also please take the time to really look at the spine label before shelving. We are finding regular and oversized titles mixed in both sections as well as mystery and fiction together. This means that someone is reading the call number correctly but missing an important detail which will make all the difference when we are searching for an item. Slow and accurate is better than fast and misfiled.
-Please feel free to add any titles to the kid's display of Summer Vacation that you think would be appropriate. We are particularly low on chapter books for this display so any thing that you read in the summers of your youth and enjoyed are welcome there.
This week's story hour is Father's so those books are at my desk should patron's be searching for any.
Ok, let the bon bons begin! Happy Summer Reading Y'all!
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