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!
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