Staff Meeting September 26th 2018

COLLIER REGIONAL LIBRARY

STAFF MEETING SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

9:20-9:50AM

In Attendance: John Hong, Cyrano Machey, Teresa Eshelman, Kameshia Smith, Nichole Lewis, Richard Ford, Britney Scott, Janice Gomez

Birthday: Congratulations Nichole and Eric.  We will celebrate lunch with tacos.

Staff Meeting Activity: The purpose of the activity is to build leadership skills in our staff.  Staff can develop public speaking and planning skills.  One group will lead a meeting once a month.  Cyrano and Raymond will go first on October 24.  John shared the format for the activity to all staff.  Format would be either an ice breaker or team activity, discuss 2 library topics and 10 min open discussion.  Examples of library topics were; properly processing meeting room reservations or discussing solutions to keeping stats.  John said that staff will develop their own topics but it would be a good idea to request topics from staff for consideration (at least a week before the meeting).  Each partner should share the duties for each component of the meeting agenda.

Staff Appreciation Fund:We have $220 to spend for the upcoming holidays. Last year funds were split for two pizza parties.  Staff suggested purchasing a fried turkey for Thanksgiving and Mexican enchiladas in December.  John responded that funds would expire by March but it would be best to spend the funds earlier.  Janice suggested hosting Secret Santa or White Elephant this year.  Janice agreed to email the choices for staff voting and to handle the activity.  Staff agreed that it would be good to have a staff Halloween party where we would share spooky snacks.

Open Discussion: Kameshia said that Sam was no longer volunteering as a shelver.  She is currently interviewing a student volunteer as a replacement.  She mentioned that Doreene doesn’t shelve due to health issues.  Staff will have to pick up the shelving in the meantime.

Cyrano requested that staff enter their stats.  He has noticed that stats are down despite our busy days.  Teresa added that it is okay to record multiple questions from the same customer.  John said HPL uses stats to justify its budget to the City.  Library staff are only hurting themselves by not recording their stats.  Cyrano credited the passport agents for keeping up their stats.

John mentioned that we want to make a good impression with our visitors such as the new hires.  Thus, it was important that the Learning Lab is organized and clean.  Anti-clutter will be assigned on the schedule for staff to clean their desks and the surrounding workstations.  However, staff should start right away today when they are at their desks.

Thanks!