Incentive from NL Admin for Staff's Hard Work

NL Administration's Team Leaders gave out HPL tote bags and USB flash drives to each NL team member as a way of saying thank you for all the hard work.

 

 

Pictured Above: Ms. Lourdes Bradford, Sr. LA at COL. She is shown here happily receiving her new HPL tote bag / backpack and HPL USB flash drive.

Tweens Read Display

Our  teen display for September is promoting the Tweens Read Festival.

We selected some of the authors and displayed their books for checkout. 

-AT

For more information, see below:

"HPL is a partner with the Tweens Read Festival and will be represented there.  It is a great event where tween authors (authors for ages 10-14, roughly) speak to kids (and any adults who come) as well as sign books.  We have been making sure that the authors who are coming are represented in our collections and hope that you will encourage kids to come (you might consider making a display, for instance).   

The authors represent a pretty stellar bunch:

http://www.tweensread.com/authors.html

If you would like to attend the festival for your professional development, it is well worth it.  You would need your supervisor’s permission to count it as work time. 

Finally, we no longer have an HPL member on the Tweens Read committee.  If you are at all interested, please talk with your supervisor and let me know.  Meetings tend to be on the southeast side of town during the day (after school).  They begin meeting in the summer and continue up until the festival."

--Sally

#MYLinkCard

Collier Regional Library Team is pumped and ready to rock this campaign!

 

HPL Commercial Shoot

Lights, cameras, action!! COL manager, Marcos, and fellow staff shooting for commercial package for the HPL My Link Card Campaign (HEB crew on set!). #MYLinkCard

Chinese Community Center - Library Assistants

Our wonderful Library Assistants from the Chinese Community Center (CCC), Thanh Nguyen (right) and Dong Le (left), are pictured below. The COL Team appreciates the work they do and the assistance they provide with maintaining collections, greeting customers, and helping customers on the floor and in programs.

Thank you for all that you do!

-M

Sept. Adult Book Display

Staff Picks brought to you by COL Team and coordinated by Trish Bratton and Judith (volunteer).

Monthly Meeting: September

Collier Team Meeting
September 3, 2014
Note Prepared by: Amethyst Taylor

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT MEETING: Community leaders are here for our first meeting. Across HPL, meetings with staff and community leaders are commencing in an effort to establish relationships and ingrain ourselves in the community. Right now we are starting at a local level; a group of leaders will be chosen and 4 to 5 of those leaders will be quarantined. HPL staff will then help these individuals however we can so that they can begin projects in the community. Such as fundraisers, neighborhood improvements and enhancements to the community.  Next September, all quarantined groups will come together and network.

HEB PARTNERSHIP: As you all may know, HPL has teamed up with HEB. We are launching a 2nd generation MyLink library card. An email was sent out with details on the partnership and what's to come. You all may want to refresh yourselves with the email.

• We're encouraging patrons to register for the 2nd generation MyLink card. Our goal is to reach 1 million registrations. Currently we have around 700,000 active users in our system. So we need to work hard to get those users and more to register for our 2nd generation card. 
• Some incentives for registration are as follows: 

• Each registrant is entered for a CHANCE to win 1 of 5 iPad Mini's. 

•  Amnesty period from 9/10 to 9/26 (see email for details) Also, a cheat sheet will be available for staff to refresh themselves with details.
• HEB trucks will be wrapped in the HPL logo.
• Dr. Lawson's announcement of the campaign will be heard in HEB stores.  
• HEB reusable bags will be distributed to customers during the kick off.
• During the week of 9/10 to 9/17, all staff is asked and encouraged to wear your red/white HPL t-shirt. All staff may not have enough shirts to cover the week so you are allowed to wear a red or white shirt/blouse (non-HPL). Campaign buttons will be distributed for staff to wear also. 

If you have any questions, please see the email sent out from Dr. Lawson or ask Marcos.

WELLNESS: New incentive for participation levels. Gift cards!
Deadline to fill out health assessment is October 31st, but you must do your biometric screening first. Please schedule your appointment. You are allowed to go during work hours, if so let Marcos or Jayla know so that they can schedule accordingly.

Please note that if you don't do the biometric screening first, they're are questions you won't be able to answer on the health assessment. Answers marked "unknown" or "not sure" will result in your assessment not counting.

COMMENTS:

• The front door is fixed. Hooray! 
• More than two people are needed at the CSD. Marcos and Jayla will work together to put this into effect.
• Volunteers could serve as Greeters in their downtime instead of staff, since they can't work the CSD. 
• Continue to push for self checkout! The front desk is reference/information desk only unless circumstances arise such as ID checkouts or Self Check issues.

Remember that our goal is 1 million 2nd generation MyLink registrations! Read the email from Dr. Lawson!