circ. assist.

Hi All,

Take time to look at the Circulation Assistant when performing circ. tasks, particularly when discarding items.

I have put some helper notes on the side of monitors with pads, refer to these as mistakes are still occurring.

The key to successful discarding is not having Manual selected, this should never be used. 

 

 Nathan

study group arrangements

In relation to this study group arrangement, I have made the students up a little card each that they should present to library staff as well to make the whole process a little bit quicker and easier. I will be giving these to Denise in FLO to hand out to the students, and will be asking that they bring them each time they come in. (Please note that if they forget to bring it, I still have a message on their record saying that they are allowed to be in here, this is just to make it easier for everyone).

You will need to double check the name on their access card corresponds with their ID card so that other students don’t take them and use them. Thanks Karla

errors in shelving

There have been a lot of errors in the re-shelving recently. Please be careful when re-shelving to ensure that items that belong in a specific collection, i.e. Youth Collection or Parenting Collection, are put in that area rather than the general collection.
Conversely, (just in case casuals are not aware) our teenage non-fiction belongs in the general collection with the adult non-fiction, not in the Youth Collection unless it has a Youth Collection sticker.Karla

changes

There has been movement in the children's area if you haven't already noticed! The toy shelves have been moved so the recreation and sports library is now where the OPAC was (and this has been removed) and the graded readers are now on the slated shelving on the back wall. Jo

Just letting you know, in case you haven’t been around during the whole shake-up, that there have been a few changes made in the workroom and CKI room.

Shelving has been removed from the collections area and put in the CKI room. The purpose of this, is to house spares of items that don’t necessarily need to live in the workroom. This includes spare cases for CDs & DVDs, the little inserts that go inside these cases for extra discs, slip printer rolls, display acrylics and book stands,  community information brochure spares as well as library brochure spares. I have labelled most shelves, and have plans for the empty shelves, so if you could try to keep to this it will remain tidy and effective. The partials are now there too. Karla

coffee machine use by students

Just a reminder that the coffee machine near the newspapers is not for student use during school hours by request of the school.

Please, if you see students using it, let them know that they are not to use it during school hours, and let me know if they ignore you and use it anyway. Karla

placing holds

If a customer requests a title that is a SAPL On Order record and Onkaparinga do not have a copy on order, you can still add our customer to the request list. The SAPL ON Order item type was created especially to allow all customers to reserve any item on Symphony regardless of their home library. Even though in principle our customers would have to wait the 90 days, we actually run regular reports to check the SAPL on orders against our customer holds so that we can order copies for them. This way we can manage our customer holds and orders. Susan B

lost property

I have been through the lost property and culled its contents. Thanks to those people who had stuck notes to items with the date the item was found, this makes the process much easier. If you find anything, please stick a note to the item with the date (if the note isn’t staying on properly, please write on your note what the item is too, so we can match the items up with notes if they fall off).

I have moved the Lost Property box into the Check In room under the desk. I have also put a note on the box where you can write the date you check it, so we can keep a track of when it was last checked (anyone can check it!). Any items tonight that did not have a note, I am giving the benefit of the doubt and have put today’s date on, so if they are still there in 3 months you can dispose of them.

Any items older than 3 months that could not be given to the Salvos etc, have been put in the bin. Karla