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!