Unattended desk

Please don't forget to shut and lock Patricia's office door if there will be no one at the desk for an extended period of time (more than a few minutes).

HUMIDIFIER

FYI Rick has installed a humidifier in the Children's office. Try to make sure you turn it off at end of the day. Whoever arrives first can turn it on if they wish.
Patricia

ENTERING PURCHASE REQUESTS

Something else I forgot to mention.
When you enter a purchase request, please put your initials in the "Selection Note line," along with your resource (catalog) or reason for ordering the item.
This helps me keep track of who's ordering what and why.
Thanks,
Patricia

END OF SHIFT REF DESK DUTIES

Just a reminder in case I already told you this.
At the end of your shift at the desk, please straighten books on shelves, push in chairs, put books found in the "Please put items to be shelved in this cart" cart in page sorting area, pick-up realia/toy area and log off the ref desk computer. This applies to any end of shift at the desk, not just at closing.

I understand that if you have patrons needing assistance up to the end of your shift that is not a closing time, you may have to hand this work off to the next person. Please let the next person know you didn't have a chance to pick-up. This is a rare occurrence, so I would be expecting the end of shift work to be finished the majority of the time.

To keep this from pilling up on you, you'll want to do a little straightening throughout your shift. I find this a nice break from staring into the computer.

Since check-out closes 10 minutes before the doors are lock, there should be plenty of time to straighten and take care of loose books. Loose books include any books in the stacks that are laying on top of books, stuck at the end of a shelf, on top of bookshelf or left on the tables and chairs. I usually start straightening after I hear the "30 minutes to close" warning over the speakers.

Let me know if you have any questions.
Patricia

Game Stats

Please disregard my long posting about Game Sign in and Ref Stats.
The Ref Question sheet is being changed (manually for now) so the Directional is divided into Game and Non Game Reference.

Thanks for the idea, Margaret and Nancy!!

REFERENCE STAT SHEETS

For the first time I notices a small problem with our Reference Questions Stat sheets.

Before I put a new sheet out in the morning, I usually add the number from our Game Sign Up sheet to the Directional section of the Ref Stat sheet. Now that everyone is doing such a good job of keeping track of Ref Questions, I didn't know if the Game number had be added already or not.

SO, if you could please move the numbers for Game Sign In to Ref Question sheet at end of day and put in a new Game Sign In sheet it would be greatly appreciated.

If you weren't able to get to this at close, please leave a note on the Game sheet stating that.

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