Neighborhood Libraries Directory

See https://hplnet.hpl.lib.tx.us/depts-neighborhood.html on the Intranet for a new roster of Neighborhood Libraries staff. The roster will be updated as staff changes occur.

Suzanne

Password for the Print Release Station

When the Print Release Station computer was replaced, it was set up to require a password to re-boot the computer. The password can be found in the Reference Notebook at the reference desk.

Suzanne

Print Cards

Because we are not able to exchange dollar bills for coins from the Smart Money drawer, the natural instinct is to want to find another way to help customers who do not have bills to purchase or add money to print cards. However, since doing this means staff will be using their own funds to change coins for bills, and it is not always possible to do this, it is probably not a good practice to get in the habit of doing.

Keeping the Circulation Desk neat

A reminder to everyone- please try to sort books that come in while you are at the circulation desk so that the desk will be neat for the next staff member.

Suzanne

Meeting Room bookings

As we all know, there frequently is some confusion with meeting room bookings. Following are a few things that should help:
* When putting a booking into the meeting room calendar, please indicate with the description of the event if we have a meeting room request form or if one still is needed. The easiest way of this is to put "needs form" if one has not yet been filled out. Make sure to delete "needs form" when one is filled out.
*Please put your initials with the description of the event in case there are any staff questions about the event.
*Due to heavy demand for the room on Saturdays, please ask groups to limit their bookings to two hours.

Michelle has volunteered to oversee the meeting room bookings now that Maria is no longer here; she may come to you if she has any questions.

Hopefully what is listed above should make the process run a bit smoother.
Thanks in advance.

Suzanne

Computer Class Schedules

We are not able at this time to print multiple copies of the month's computer class schedules. Copies are posted on the bulletin board near the copiers, at the crculation desk,and there are two copies at the reference desk for customers to view.
I have printed out some copies of Collier's classes this month, and put them at the reference desk.

Suzanne

Summer Reading Registration

The following comes from Sandy Farmer-


"Registration for Summer Reading begins May 1st which is this Sunday. The password remains the usual staff password and you must now enter a User Name which will be Staff.



Please remember that children ages birth to 18 may register for the program. They will not be able to log their books until June 1st and you will not see a log for them until June 1st.



Two new features are available for our customers this year.



One is a mobile site that works well on smart phones. If the customer accesses the site through their phone or other mobile device they will get the mobile site automatically.
The reviews may have a link to Novelist giving a customer reading the review who wants more information and easy way to access it. I am working on making this work now. I may succeed…. Eventually. To that end I have added an ISBN field to the log. Customers do not have to fill this in at all but if they do it should make some things a lot easier for Craig Bertuglia who clears all of the reviews."



Suzanne