Bernardsville Library Staff Information Blog

Jim has put a new computer at station 1 at the circ desk. It has windows 7 on it so things look a little different. Karen V is working on making the desk top look as similar as possible to the old one but be aware that Polaris is looking a little different. All the functions are still there but the look is different.

Pat

Since we have a lot of naked bears left, Kathy has extended the program until Dec. 8. Available bears will be in my office after December 1, since the display is changing. Thanks.

Mr. Butler's wife called today. He was in here on Sunday and may have lost his wallet here, either inside or outside. I checked in the usual spots where he hangs out and did not find it. If any one finds his wallet, please give them a call (as I know you would). I told the Mrs. that I would alert everyone. MH 11-29-10

Carpet in the entire building will be cleaned on Thanksgiving Day, starting very early in the morning. For those working on Wednesday, at the end of the day, please lift up as much as possible off the carpets to make the process faster and more efficient.
Let me know if you have any questions.
M.E.

YS will continue to check-out Juvenile DVDs, the only change rather than filling the cases for the patron we will take the security case to circulation to unlock. This will eliminate the necessity of purchasing a second security device.

Little Pim is a bit more involved. I would like every one's input regarding the orange # stickers. Do you think it is helpful or harmful to the patrons to have the orange stickers on the display slip case?

Please let me know your opinions by 12/1.

Thanks,
mc

After consultation with Evelyn I decided to do the following with the DVD cases. This plan is to get the use of cases done as quickly as possible and the plan may change down the line but for now here is how we will implement their use.

1. All the video circuit DVDs will be in cases.
2. All the children's DVDs will be in cases.
3. Any DVD returned from now until we run out of cases, there are plenty more in the back, will go into a case rather than the book except the following:

• The pay videos
• The British collection
• The TV shows if they are 3 or more disks

Any questions? This should help to alleviate the large number of cases under the desk and also to get as many DVDs in cases as possible. By putting the returned DVDs in the cases we may be targeting the most popular items. That will be helpful on the pulling DVD side as well.

When putting the returned DVD into the case please make sure that the correct disk is in the case. Once you put it in the case we have no way to check if something is missing unless someone tries to take it out again.

The teen who is coming on Friday should be shown how to put the DVDs into the cases If there are no DVDs to put away pull some children's DVDs and let the person pull them from book and put them into cases. Friday staff can work that out with Michaele. She has agreed to put children's DVDs into cases.

Thanks. If you find this is not good idea or have a better way to do this or a better idea how to implement the use to the cases more quickly please let me know. I am open to any ideas.

Pat

Bernardsville Library will have a new student volunteer from Ridge High School's job shadowing program. The teen will begin his "shadow" on Friday, 11/12 at 12:30 pm. He will help at circulation with the media.

His schedule will be as follows:
M, T, F 12:30-2:30 pm

I will introduce him to everyone tomorrow and again on Monday. Anne or Felicia will handle introductions on Tuesday.

mc

We have cancelled Andrea's workshop tonight - no sign-ups.
M.E.

http://overdrive.com/files/ebook-cheat-sheet.pdf

Margaret and Linda's idea is fantastic about keeping the list of DVDs that have gone missing in the books.

In addition. Would everyone also mark the "space" in the book with a post-it, to show it is missing as well? Sarah starting doing it, and it really helped us in T.S. when we were trying to match up cases and discs.

RB

This may be something that affects your getting your webmail emails and also check with patrons who complain that they are not getting their overdue reminders all of a sudden.

We just got the following from Jersey Connect which handles our email:
"We have recently become aware that the JerseyConnect hosted webmail stie is being incorrectly labeled as unsafe by Internet Explorer 8 You can prevent this from occurring by setting Internet Explorer to trust webmail. Go to :
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/SmartScreen-Filter-frequently-asked-questions

and follow the instructions for: 'Can I create a customized list of trusted sites for SmartScreen Filter?' You could also use another browser, like Firefox, to access webmail. Anyone that uses a mail clinet like Outlook, will be unaffected by this issue "
RB

Two black gloves were found after the Children's Book Fair on Sunday. If anyone calls about loosing black gloves, they are in the YS office.

mc

FYI:
Linda will not be able to make her appt. w/Soleda on Nov. 13, but is willing to come in this Saturday, the 6th. I called Soleda and left a message for her to call us back.  Please update when she does.

The teddy bears and a few dolls are now in the display cases and can be "checked out" for dressing. They are due back before November 30. The usual forms are in the Circ. drawer under the cash register.

Please be advised: The library bathrooms will be cleaned at 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday, November 3. The kitchen and YS rear office floors will be cleaned Thursday, November 4 after closing.

Recently Margaret and I had patrons who brought dvd cases to the desk for check-out but the discs were not in the books. We spoke to Pat and decided to start a list of the missing numbers so that anyone who is filling cases can look for them. The list is posted on the wall to the left of the books by the entrance to the cubby.
Where would be a good place to leave the empty cases? Suggestions welcome.
Thanks. 11/01/10