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 :)

DVD's

Hi guys and gals, I've been thinking of changing dvd's around a little bit and making it like some of the other tasks. I was going to just assign dvd's during a shift instead of telling you exactly when to do them, like the rest of the tasks besides children's. What do you think about this? You should still spend an hour or so each time you're assigned dvd's but you can choose when to do them yourself. Or for those of you working 8 hour days you could split it up doing one hour in the morning and one in the evening or something like that. Also, next week is survey week so please be straightening today as you shelve, or just take a few minutes when you can and straighten wherever you are. Thank You!

One more thing...

Please Please Please pay attention to where you leave your walkie talkies. Cathy has been finding them all over the place and they are always dead. She found one up on the non-fiction shelves this morning, in the 900's. I don't want to have to start doing the check in/out sheet again but I will if I have to. So if this doesn't stop happening soon that's what I'll have to do.

Page Logs

Now that you've all had time to get used to doing your logs, I want to clarify some things. I've noticed some of you are doing great, others need a little more guidance. I'm going to give an example below but before I do, I want to remind/request you add some things to your log. Please add your days off, if they are not your normal days. For example if you have a Saturday off then in a couple of weeks I'm reading your log and you didn't put an entry for that Saturday I probably will not remember that you had that day off because I'm old and feeble minded. I also want to remind you to put your breaks in your log, what time you go on break and what time you come back. Keep count of how many carts you shelve or how many dvd's you clean/shelve. I count a cart to be full top rows on carts. Now... for the example of what to do!


Della's Pretend Page Day!

9:05 (5 minutes late couldn't find parking spot)
9:05-10:00 router 2nd floor
10:00-10:15 coffee break
10:15-11:00 cleaned 1 cart of dvd's
11:00-12:00 shelved 1 cart of dvd's
11:30 answered page call to front desk
12:00-1:00 put 1 non-fiction cart away

Della's Pretend Page Day 2!

5:00-7:00 Children's
7:00-7:15 break
7:15-8:00 dumped circ, put 1 fiction cart in order
8:00-8:30 shelved half the fiction cart
8:30-9:00 recovery (put rest of the fiction cart back along the wall outside sorting room)

These are examples, some of you are already doing this and more which is great! Some I'm not sure I was clear to when I spoke to you. Basically I want you to record everything and I want to know how long it took you to do it. When this is over I'll make all of you some goodies. Sarah I'll even try to make non-gluten stuff for you.. or maybe I'll bring you fruit :)

Also, some of you have told me you want to work club lib, so far I have Camila, Ryan, Josh, and Kim. If you want to work club lib and you haven't told me yet please do so this week. Now I need coffee... so in my log I would put break 10:34-10:49 and hope starbucks isn't busy :)