Collier
Staff Meeting
Wednesday
4/8/2015
Present: Djuina Hammett, Julia Bradley, Rose Siegal,
Teresa Eshelman, James Diederich
1.
Statistics
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Please remember to record statistics for
delivery, holds, paging, and bins. As a reminder, every question at the CSD
gets a hash mark, even if the questions are coming from the same patron. These
stats are important; they provide justification for our staff levels, and are
reviewed every month by Mayor Parker.
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One suggestion (Julia) is for there to be
separate boxes on the stats sheets for each category
(delivery/holds/paging/bins) so that it is obvious if one has inadvertently been
left blank.
2.
Self-Check
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Last month, 97% of our materials were
checked out using the machines. This is excellent. Thanks to everyone for the
big effort in achieving this!
3.
Cleanup
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It’s not the responsibility of the GSD
staff to wipe down kitchen counters and clean up the microwave. We need to wash
our own dishes and art supplies. Within a week, the items in the sink should be
gone or they will be removed permanently.
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We can all do simple things to keep our staff
room looking neat. These can be things like closing the cabinets and lining up
carts. Every once in a while, give the staff room (and the library) a fresh eye.
Ask yourself why we do things a certain way, and if there might be a better way
of doing them.
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If anyone has any ideas for storage or
general organization, please bring them forward. We can always put things to a
vote.
4.
Staff Development Day
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Everyone must be there.
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We have a poster board we need to
complete as a team before Staff Development Day.
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After-the-fact note: Amethyst has
provided a whiteboard in the staff room with questions to help us brainstorm
content for the poster. Amethyst will compile and artistically express our
ideas, so please contribute by Friday, April 17th.
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We can get up to four photos printed in color
for the poster board.
5.
Thanks-A-Lotto
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Julia received a Thanks-A-Lotto card.
Julia: thanks to staff for being awesome and supportive.
6.
Library Card Campaign
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Keep promoting our MyLink cards! If a
patron still has a Power Card, we can gently steer them toward replacing it,
even if it has not yet expired.
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Please shred the Power Cards once they
are exchanged for the MyLink cards.
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Continue to solicit patrons’ stories for
the MyLink Campaign. Programs like Open Job Lab are great places to recruit stories.
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Feel free to solicit stories from
patrons verbally, if you think they might not go submit the stories online
after you’ve spoken with them. You can say something like, “Do you mind if I share
that with the rest of the library?” Ask for their name and contact information
or, if they’re unwilling to provide contact info, at least their first name.
7.
Miscellaneous
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For transparency, Djuina wanted to share
with us just some of the things she does while she’s in her office:
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Kronos maintenance
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Trainings
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Weekly, bi-monthly, and monthly meetings
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Weekly and monthly reports
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Reviews and evaluations
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Responding to customer comments
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Collection management
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Mentoring
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Consulting on previous locations
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She
tries to do at least a couple of hours on the floor daily, depending on staff
levels.
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If
anybody would like to shadow Djuina for a half or full day, she is happy to
accommodate that. If she is scheduled to be in a meeting on a particular day
you’d like to shadow, and the meeting is appropriate for you to attend, she
will try to seek approval for you to come along.
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Teresa:
Thanks and appreciation to Djuina for being very hands-on.
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Laptops:
Please do not lock them in your overhead compartments. All laptops need to be
locked in the carts, inside their respective locked storage rooms. Djuina must
file a police report for any laptops that are unaccounted for.
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Passports:
We may be starting passport services at Collier. If so, we’ll use the
Conference Room for processing. James and Djuina have done passports before, so
they will be the go-to staff for passport services at first.
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James:
From experience at a location that does passport services, we may have to address phone staffing, since we will get a lot more passport-processing-related
calls.
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After
School Zone: We are discontinuing ASZ for the time being, as our numbers are
consistently low. Our would-be feeder school, Clifton, already has an
after-school program. If anyone has any suggestions for outreach that will draw
participants to ASZ, Djuina is happy to open it back up again in the Fall.
