Written by: Angela Barratt
In attendance: Angela Barratt, Julia Bradley (presiding), Melinda Campbell, James Diederich, Teresa Eshelman, Cyrano Machey, Rose Siegel, Isabel Veloz.
1. Database Training: Brainfuse
- Angela and Cyrano walked us through a lively and fancy presentation of Brainfuse.
- Here is a link to their classy color handout, and here is a link to the in-depth guide to Brainfuse that they created. You can also access these documents on our shared google drive (collierregional) by clicking on the left-hand link in drive called "Shared with me."
- Great job keeping everything looking fresh, especially with the NYT bestseller list
- For new books (depending on demand and popularity), try to keep only the current month and one month previous, but if you have to go further back to fill the display it's better than nothing (we talked about the fluctuation in new books and how it's impossible to predict the genres/amount that we will get)
- Please keep an eye out while roaming, particularly at the display under the TV in front
- We talked about perhaps using that space to display a specific genre, like nonfiction or romance. We decided to try romance and see how it goes.
- Side note, Angela here: I just want to put in a bit on this subject from Julia's glowing email earlier this week:
- "you should feel really proud of the respect you show our customers through presentation, neatness, organization, and awesome displays—regardless of whether you think anyone from the ELT is watching. Keep up the awesome work."
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- For training opportunities at the LDC, you need to submit a request through the training portal for funding reasons. You can read all about how to do that right here on the training portal under "Training Credits".
- Julia will support anything you want to study to the best of her ability
- If for any reason you need to submit training certificates, send them to Leilany before April 21; she will be taking an extended leave starting around then
4. Party $
- Questions put forth by our fearless leader: do we have 2 small parties? Or one MEGA Party? What will we eat at said party? What entertainment shall we hire? (okay, I'm editorializing a bit)
- Apparently none of us wants to have a party because we were pretty reticent to share ideas.
- Pizza seems to be generally pleasing (personally I find even gluten-free vegetarian pizza quite pleasing)
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- Julia will start an email thread regarding pizza parlors we might use. Please chime in with any druthers. Also, if any other inspiration hits regarding types of food or other party business, please don't hold back.
5. Planning Time
- This was the opening to an ongoing discussion about planning time.
- Melinda is doing an awesome job with the schedule, but she can only do so much without feedback from you. Feel free to let her and/or Julia know if you are finding that you don't have enough time, or if you have too much time. We talked about how some things are unpredictable, like number of library card apps or serials that come in each day. So if you need to talk about planning time in terms of weeks instead of a standard amount, that is fine.
- Melinda said that on Friday she has scheduled people for what they asked to work on. Use the catch-up hour for whatever you need. If you finish everything you need to work on, please shelf read.
- Melinda congratulated staff on doing such a great job with roaming in the past few weeks.
