February 2010 Staff Meeting

Juvenile Books
Oversize books and juvenile graphic novels are shelved at the end of the nonfiction section. Juvenile large print books will be interfiled with other juvenile books.

Program Committees/Helpers
Katrina and Sue would like to have other staff help with programming -- from planning through execution. Katrina will post a sign-up sheet for help with upcoming programs and to help plan the summer library program.

Patron Fines
Remember to tell patrons when they have fines on their accounts and offer them the opportunity to read off their overdue fines. Be sure to review Read Off Your Fines forms before giving credit for them. (Rules are on the back of the form.)

Die Cut Machine
The public can use the die cut machines in Katrina's office, but they must bring their own dies and paper.

SHARE Problem Item Procedure
When an item belonging to another library is discovered to be damaged or missing parts, it should be returned to the owning library for repair before being given to a patron or sent on to another library. To do this, place a hold on the owning library's PROBLEM card. This card can be found by searching the word PROBLEM and limiting the search to the owning library. Make the hold 1st in the queue. Then trap the hold.

SHARE Item Pricing Policy
When a patron has lost an item belonging to another library or damaged it to the point where replacement is required, charge the patron (1) the price in the item record; (2) the price of another library's copy on the same record; or (3) the retail price found on Baker and Taylor or Amazon.com. Funds collected for damaged or lost items will continue to be sent to the owning library.

Smoking Outside the Building
There is no smoking allowed anywhere on city property, including the parking lot. Amber will order a sign stating NO SMOKING and NO LOITERING which will be mounted on the outside of the building.

In-Service Day
March 5 we will have a staff in-service day during which we will learn to use the new phone system, learn to clean computers, have our monthly staff meeting, and practice using Open Office. Lunch will be provided.

Movies - Juvenile or Adult?
Movies rated G or PG will be labeled juvenile (JDVD) and be kept in the Children's Library. All others will be kept upstairs.

DVD Check-in
Some problems with DVDs were discussed, "dot" procedure was reviewed, and we discussed server delays affecting WorkFlows.

Sue Stuff
Chairs were rearranged in the New Books and newspaper area to prevent "sitters" from blocking access to the books. The gold SHARE damage slip contains a block to be used for transmitting payments when we collect for lost or damaged items belonging to other libraries. When sorting mail, give things addressed to Youth Services or Children's Librarian to Katrina. Put bills and invoices in the two-tiered black & white tray on Amber's desk. Send LLS routed magazines on to the next library. Throw away magazine renewals for mags we get through Ebsco.

Payments may not be accepted at the Children's desk.

Book of the Month
Katrina presented The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb. Caelum and Maureen Quirk move to Littleton, Colorado, to work at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum travels to Connecticut to be with his sick aunt, Maureen finds herself in the school library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously she survives, but is unable to recover from the trauma. Caelum grapples with revelations from the past and struggles to fashion a future out of the ashes of tragedy. His personal quest for meaning and faith becomes a mythic journey that is at the same time quintessentially contemporary -- and American.

Circulation policy changes will be discussed at the next staff meeting.

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