Workforce Development - Open Job Labs

Hi,
Due to the short turnaround time for several special reports, I am requesting that Open Job Lab statistics be entered into the blog on the day of the program from July forward. This will save you from recording and reporting the statistics twice. In addition, it will permit me to access statistics quickly to fulfill the special requests I receive.

If you have any questions or concerns, please discuss it with your Team Leader or Coordinator of Extended Hour Locations. Thanks!
Best regards,
Mary Wagoner

Ideas and Innovation

I attended a really interesting session at ALA on innovation in your library. The Orange County Library System in Florida has a really interesting blog that they use to share ideas called Orange Seed Ideas. It is similar to our suggestion blog here, but they have different pages for ideas in different stages. They also have an Innovation Champions team that helps ideas happen. Here's their blog http://blog.ocls.info/orangeseed/

And the powerpoint presentation for this session can downloaded here: http://ala12.scheduler.ala.org/node/304

I'd like to see our suggestion blog look more like Orange Seed Ideas. I like how you can see where the idea is in being implemented-there's even a section for ideas that maybe aren't right for right now, but there could be something there that could be revisited and implemented in the future or built upon.

If you have questions about the presentation, feel free to get in contact with me!

Sara Pope
Heights Neighborhood Library

List of "Home" Locations

Would it possible to have a list of where NL staff, or at least Managers and Assistant Managers, "live", that is where their office/desk is located and where they prefer to receive items through delivery.

For example, I work one day a week at Blue Ridge and one day a week at Bracewell, spending the rest of my time at Vinson, which is where I maintain my office. Occasionally I get items sent through delivery to one of the other locations. If something arrives for me at Bracewell on a Thursday, I probably won't see it till I'm next there, which is on the following Wednesday.

Thanks!
John Merullo, BLU/BRA/VIN (but please send my mail to VIN :))

Skateboard lockers

At Heights, it seems like we are having to turn away a lot of customers who come in with skateboards. I think it's unfortunate that we don't have a way to accomidate them like we do with patrons who come on bikes (there's a bike rack they can lock their bikes to, but that doesn't work for skateboards). Since many of the customers who come on skateboards are teens, it makes it seem like we are hostile to teens. There do exist skateboard lockers like this http://www.schoollockers.com/specialty-lockers/skateboard-lockers or this http://www.parkabike.com/locking-commercial-skateboard-racks.html
Lockers like this would make the library more friendly to teens and others who use skateboards as a form of transportation! Please consider a solution like this for Neighborhood Libraries!

Thanks,

Sara Pope
Heights

FRA needs Spanish-to-English material. Hu says the following NLs have the following low circulating items. Please send any of the following to FRA when you have the time:

CDs:Easy English Vocabulary – ISBN 9781400024612 (BRA, FIF, TUT)

Pimsleur quick and simple ingles – ISBN                 9780743517744 (COL, MOO, MAN, SMI, WAL) / According to the catalog Frank has two copies of this on the shelf.

Books:Inglés para latinos : curso completo : ¡Énfasis en la conversación! – ISBN 9781603969413 (ACR, FLO, MNT, SCE)

Speak English like an American = Hable Inglés como los Americanos – ISBN 0972530010 (HEI, LOO)

Inglés en 100 días. – ISBN 1598203584 (LOO, MAN, PAR, STE, VIN)

ESL Beginner : English as a second language made nice and easy! – ISBN 9780738604671 (ALI, JUN, KAS, RIN, TUT, WAL)

Thanks

PMT

Post minutes from managers' meeting to share with staff

In the interests of transparency, can we post the minutes from the managers' meeting (even an edited version) that can be shared with staff?

Karen Luik, Kendall

City computers are for City business

Please remember that City computers are for City business.

This is very important to remember when you are in public view. Since many phones have cameras and video it is very easy for citizens to document their complaints. And nobody wants to end up on the news in a picture or video.

So unless you are on Face book, shopping, watching a video or listening to a recording to show a patron something related to a reference question, please don’t do these activities on City computers in the public areas on work time.

Couple of other reminders

When on the public floor remain conscious of volume and content of conversations because the customers can hear us and they don’t always get the context of the conversation.

And as the holidays approach remember we cannot accept gifts or tips.

Also remember there is no solicitation on city property. That includes collecting person information, selling, fundraising or begging for money.

Thanks in Advance
Kitty