Staff Association

Brenda is the staff association person at my branch.

And this is the last orientation blog post I'll be making!

IT Room

The troubleshooters at my branch are Brenda and Cindy.

The IT tech is Sherry.

And a CCPL wiki is the Summer Reading Team.

Operations

The most fascinating thing I learned about operations was that Scott has the best job in the entire system and that 77,000 items were processed by technical services in the last year!

Facilities Manager-Tom Sheets
IT Manager-Bob Kuntz,
Technical Services Manager-Elaine Adkins

Outreach Room

I saw the PowerPoint on the programing philosophy. Since I serve on the Summer Reading team and have done numerous story times I mostly already knew about the aims of programming, what's considered a program and so forth. However I thought the PowerPoint was very complete and helpful to somebody new who didn't know a lot about programming.

Booking a Meeting Room

I've booked the meeting room for all of the children's programs since I started. Its simple to book and quick. I really like the feature to book multiple dates for the same time, very helpful for booking it for storytimes. I already know how to delete the booking (or I think I do anyways). I called ILL and left a message. I believe you have the patron email or call ILL in order to delete it.

One thing I learned...

One thing I learned in the External relations room is that its all right to ask to call a reporter back so you can gather together what you plan to say.

Meeting Someone New

Somebody new I've met recently is Sam Eddington the new Adult Services Supervisor here at Mt. Airy. A couple of things I've learned about him are that he's in a band and used to work at a very small town.

Shelfari

Just wanted to blog about how wonderful Shelfari is. I LOVE it! I am using it to keep track of books to do reader's advisory, to plan what I'm going to read next and to plan for book talking with the others who'll be also book talking. Its a great resource since it gives you a way to organize books into three catagories: reading, plan to read and read. Library Thing doesn't offer this wonderful option, which I find very helpful to keep track of what I want to read in the future and books that I've already read. In addition you can give your books tags including mass tagging books. I tagged my books according to the age group that they were most appropriate and then further broke them down into tags for things like sports, non-fiction, family or orphans. I love Shelfari!

Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog

Winding Down

My LATI experience has been winding down. I've finished all the assignments except for the things for the final project and things are coming along nicely for it. I've received feedback on a lot of the assignments and it was all positive. I am shocked at how close to the end of my LATI journey I am. It's gone by very quickly although I do feel like I've learned a lot about library resources.

Wii Meeting

On Tuesday I got to attend a meeting of the Woodbine Rec Council who funded the purchase of our Wii. The branch manager and I talked about what we were doing with the Wii and then let the members try it out. Although most were reluctant a couple brave ones did get to play a few games with the Wii. I think they enjoyed this presentation and they seemed pretty happy with the Wii.
Everything for LATI is coming along in a timely manner although it does feel a little bit much right now with so many deadlines not very far away. I am surprised how far along I am in the LATI journey the time has flown.