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Painting begins tomorrow in the Youth Services area, the story time room, and outside. Details linked below.

http://catalog.johnstonlibrary.com/board/2017-02/05%20painting%20overview.pdf

Please play around with the newly expanded faceted searching on the website. This feature is only “live” from staff computers as I’m not confident all the bugs are worked out. Let me know what bugs you find.

Our bi-monthly all-staff meeting will be held this Thursday at 8am. An agenda is linked below.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DEAF5QsCj7DXkJ_elP4Oi0tS8IaOmxjXN4Fti3aPanI/edit

If you haven’t already heard, we will be having a baby “showerette” and good -bye party for Bhavya following Thursday’s staff meeting.  It will be a short time to wish Bhavya well and have some goodies. We have been collecting gifts of books, socks, toys and other small items and we will give them to her in one big basket.  If you would like to add something, please place it on Lori E.’s desk by Wednesday night.  There is also a card on my desk that you may sign. Thank you!

On Wednesday, March 15, a mom reported that her son’s jacket was taken from the YS Area. If, by chance, the jacket is returned please feel free to call Akueba at 515.422.7301 for her to come and pick up her son’s jacket. The jacket is gray with a green lining. 

Thanks! Megan 

Des Moines Symphony will present Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique on April 1st at 7:30, and April 2nd at 2:30 at the Civic Center.  This will be a Beyond the Score presentation, which means there will be a little play and story about the work in the first half, and the second half will involve a performance of the work. 

If you would like my burger buns recipe, please let me know.  I’m glad we all liked them. 

I reset the system clocks this morning, but it will take up to 24 hours for them to reflect the correct time.

The lists of award winners on the website can now be viewed in a printer-friendly format via a “print” link on the right side of the page next to the list’s name. Example linked below.

https://www.johnstonlibrary.com/pac/?pac_page=lists&list=522

The city council approved department’s budgets Monday night. As I mentioned, this year we submitted a special request to turn our part-time teen librarian position into a full-time position. The request was approved. This means that Jessica will start full-time July 1, 2017. I am very excited for what this means for our services to teens–who, you may recall, make up our second largest cohort of cardholders when considered by age. Please give a high-five to Jessica when you see her.

Update for Book Bracket:

I’ve decided to just put tickets out by the jars where people will be voting for the Book Bracket. There are no longer tickets at the desks–you just go right to the source (the Archive Room window) to get your voting tickets. 

Please ask Beth if you have questions.

Thanks!

Hey all, 

For March, the Co[Lab], otherwise known as the Archive window, is going to feature a March Madness Book Bracket. For the first three weeks there will be two book challenges per week. For the final week there will be 1 book challenge per week. 

To vote, patrons are instructed to come to any desk and grab red tickets. The Circulation Desk, Reference Desk and YS Desk all have a container of red tickets labeled Book Bracket. Once patrons are given tickets, they will then place their ticket in the jar that corresponds with the book of their choice. During the first three weeks, patrons are welcome to vote for each challenge–which means that you will give them two tickets. 

Please do not feel like you need to moniter this in any way–if a patron asks for tickets, please just give them two tickets. If you know a kid has already voted, you can ask them not to vote more than once per day, but don’t stress about this. It’s just for fun–nothing serious at stake here. 

Please ask Beth or Peg if you have questions. 

Thanks!

Hi everyone!

Please add your current favorite adult titles to the list for a new Staff Picks bookmark. Please add both Fiction and Non-Fiction titles. For anyone who hasn’t added titles before, you can do this by going to our JPL Intranet page, looking at the left hand side and clicking on the “Staff Picks” link. I’d like to have a new one out for Spring!

Thanks 🙂

Allison

This morning, patrons with over $5 in fines received a message like the one shown below. You may receive calls from patrons with questions about their fines and about food-for-fines.

Pay your overdue fees with non-perishable food items during National Library Week (April 8-15).

One food item pays $1 in fees.

Fees for damaged or lost items cannot be paid with food.

Please reply to this message with questions. 

We have a new artist for the month of March. Her name is Sara Burrier and she is a watercolor and colored pencil artist. Her drawings are whimsy and colorful and very girly.

Take a peek.

http://www.sarabillustration.com/

After testing the panic buttons, we discovered that they are working incorrectly. Simplex will be sending a technician soon to correct the problem. Until then, do not use them.

As I mentioned in my review of last month’s board meeting, the Library Board approved a revision to the library’s Internet Policy that means the library will no longer restrict Internet access for minors at the request of a parent or guardian. A notice was sent last week to parents with children affected by the change. All accounts previously set to “No Internet” have now been changed to “Internet”. Once our PC reservation software has been updated to ignore this field, we will remove it from the Polaris patron registration screen.

The Johnston Public Library Foundation recently took over administration of the 5k For Karen run–a fundraising run held annually on the Friday of Green Days. Registration can be completed online or by submitting a completed registration form (via mail or in-person) to the Johnston Public Library. Proceeds from the event will go to both the Johnston Public Library Foundation and the Dragon Scholarship Fund.

More information is available at http://foundation.johnstonlibrary.com/?page=5k

The JPL Foundation met this morning and approved a change in book sale pricing: all paperbacks are now $1. Signage has been updated.

The travel backpacks have been pulled from the stacks due to lack of circulation. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6lTezDMYi83d3FMRWwzRkdHQmc/view?usp=sharing

We will continue to accept book sale donations through out the week. If it is a large donation on Wednesday, let me know and we can get them over to the Lion’s Club and included in this year’s sale. After Wednesday, we will probably just stick em in the book sale room and store them for next year or sell them in the commons. We don’t ever officially stop accepting books. 

Let me know if you have questions!