Shelving assignments and meeting date

I have finished the shelving assignments. There are a few sections that are not assigned, such as the oversize books. Some areas are still for everyone to shelf read and shelve in. These areas are:

Audiovisual Materials (music, dvd's, audiobooks, etc)
Oversize books (circulating and non-circulating)
Reference books
Paperbacks
Storage
New books and rentals

I've based the sections on circulation statistics so some of them are broken up quite strangely. I've included the circulation numbers on your assignment sheet so you can see what I gave you and why I gave you what I did. I tried to go mostly by what you had requested earlier in your shelf reading list. Those were not set in stone, these are.

If you have problems with your sections including getting them finished please let me know. If you want to change sections with someone else, you both will have to come talk to me about it. I tried to make the areas as even as possible as far as circulation goes. Some of you may have bigger areas but those areas do not circulate as much. These sections are yours and yours alone, for now do not help each other shelve. If you run out of things to do there's always shelf reading and working in the unassigned areas.

These assignments will begin this Saturday, the 19th. That will also be the meeting date. I have a program that day as well so it will have to be a semi quick meeting, Camila I will have to catch you some other time. We will meet in the auditorium at noon this Saturday the 19th.

If you have questions/comments/complaints etc please let me know ahead of time so I can answer or address them as quickly and easily as possible during the meeting.

Meeting

Edit: Brain fart, i'm not even here on Mondays. I'll have to reschedule the meeting which unfortunately means It will be another week, probably the first week in December. Sorry Guys.

If there is anything in particular you want to discuss please send it to me through this blog, email, or leave a message for me in the folder at my desk. I also want all of you to re-read the page manual. I may just try to catch groups of you as I can and talk to you about things. I know it's not the best way to do things but with all our schedules being so crazy it might be the only way to do this.

Page Meeting and more gripes.

Be forewarned, there will be a mandatory page meeting soon so I can gripe at you in person. It will probably be next Saturday if no one has that day off already. I'll put more information about that up when I figure out when it is. Now on to the gripe!

If you put a cart together shelve it. Period. Do Not leave carts all over the place made up. If you don't have time to shelve a cart that you've made up then don't make the cart up, go shelf read or do something else. The only carts that I want to see that are already made up are fiction carts because there is no place else for them to go. Why you ask? Well because the carts on the second floor sit there for days and during that time nice patrons go along and decide to rearrange the books for us, or add or take books away making it almost useless to put them there in the first place. Then we have to go behind and put them in order again. Clean up carts are exceptions. It's OK if the sorting room has books in it. That's what it's for, to hold the books until you can get them shelved.

While I'm in a griping mood.... I also want to remind you that I expect each and every one of you to do your assigned tasks. I don't care if you don't like the first floor/second floor/children's shift, if you're assigned something on the first/second floor/children's shift, do it. That does not mean conning someone else into doing it for you.

Page Notebooks

You can stop doing your notebooks now. Thank you for keeping them for me.

Extra Hours Available and a small side rant...

Since Valerie is on Maternity Leave, and Oscar is going away for a few months, we have some hours we can allocate until they both return. I have 36 hours a week up for grabs. If you are interested in any of those let me know. I have to limit it to 10 per person. Some of this time will be spent in the teen center.

Also, when you do dvd's make sure you put away as much as you clean, and don't forget to do the audio-books as well. There are stacks up there that have been there for a while.

One more thing... This Saturday is Oscar's going away party and the birthday party day so if you want to bring goodies please do so.

Thanks for all your hard work :)