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!
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