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We’ve begun promoting our first Halloween costume swap. Costumes can be donated throughout the month of September. Donors will receive a coupon to exchange for a new costume on the “donors-only” swap-day on October 4th. Anyone can choose a costume on the other swap-days -October 5th & 6th. We’ll discuss the event in more detail at the August staff meeting.

Electricians will complete their work on the UPS removal project (ask me or Maurine if you’re intersted in what this is) tomorrow morning at 7am and will be cutting power to parts of the building for about 30 minutes. If you have your own work PC (and get this message before Friday morning), please be sure it’s shut down by close on Thursday. Dreama will ensure public and circ. PCs are turned off.

YA materials (YA Fiction, YA Paperbacks, Graphic Novels, and YA CD Books) are now pre-shelved by check-in staff to a white cart. 

This change made room on the checked-in shelves for Juvenile Paperbacks, Juvenile CD Books, Juvenile Graphic Novels, and Magazines to be moved up one shelf.

Dreama

Leading up to Art In the Barn on September 19th, the Friends of the Library are hosting a painting party fundraiser Thursday, September 4th at 5:30pm. This event will be held in the meeting room. Registration costs $40 and includes admission to Art In the Barn. Registration must be done online at http://catalog.johnstonlibrary.com/paintingparty more information here.

Lost and Found items will now be held for just 14 days instead of 30. 

The Lost and Found bins have been moved to the north of the Circ 2 computer,  on the shelves under the Suggestion Box.

Peg

Effective this week, our police department is moving into our new Public Safety Building.  The phone, fax and email information will remain the same but the physical address is now 6373 Merle Hay Road – Johnston – IA  50131.

Lori F. and I installed a receipt printer at the YS Desk today.  This printer is connected to the PC Reservation console so that staff may print Internet guest passes.  Continue to log guests into the Games PCs using Games1/6700 or Games2/6700.

In order to get the receipt printer to work properly, I had to change the settings in PC Reservation to print a barcode as well as the login number/PIN.  On the YS receipt printer, you will see a barcode, the login number, and the PIN.  On the Ref Desk receipt printer, you will see the login number inside two asterisks in a large font, the login number a second time in a smaller font, and the PIN.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Dreama

We recently purchased a different module for booking meeting rooms.

I’ve changed up the options under “Meeting Room” on the main website page as the availability and booking are now one in the same.

I would encourage all of you to take a quick peak at it and even send me a fake reservation to try it out so you can all answer questions about it.

PLEASE make sure I know it is a fake reservation.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Thanks all!

Cheryl

Staff,

Below are the contest winners for this year’s J. D. Great Summer Adventure contest.  The prize winners have been notified to pick up their prize here.  The prizes are locked in the money cabinet.

Each prize has a “cover sheet” which is an email message I printed out with their address and team name on it.  The envelopes with the prizes are stapled to the email message.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Cheryl

Grimm    $50.00/Hyvee
Fito    Stoney Creek Inn
Higby    $20.00/Dahls
Fab Four    $10.00/HyVee
Team Johnson    6 movie tickets
Bolton    $50.00/Encore
Geerts    $10.00/HyVee

Good rainy morning!

Timesheets are due today, Wednesday, August 6.  Please turn them in as soon as you can, as I am only here until noon on Friday.

Thank you!

Missy

In an effort to tidy the Circ Desk area, I have moved the cut pieces of scratch paper from various boxes and stored them in the card catalog drawers.  I will label the drawers soon.

Peg

Under the When to Work schedule in the Check-In area, we have been accumulating a supply of “spare parts.”  You’re welcome to look through the stack and take anything that you can use in your area.

What’s left at the end of August will be heading off to trash or recycling.

Dreama

Our plastic bag supply is beginning to dwindle.  If you happen to have any unused bags that you’re willing to bring it, that would be great.  Please place them in the tub under the cash register.

Thanks,

Peg

Art In the Barn tickets are now available at the checkout desk and online at art.johnstonlibrary.com. A binder below the Foundation drawer has tickets and sheets that list ticket numbers. In the binder, please write the name of the purchaser next to the ticket number(s) they’re given. Those who purchase tickets online will not receive a physical ticket -they will receive an email confirmation and a list of their names will be at the event.

Cash and checks for Art In the Barn tickets and totes should go in the manilla “Art In the Barn” envelope in the Foundation drawer.

Dreama will be visiting with circ staff about accepting credit cards for tickets and other Friends/Foundation sales.

Eric

Our phone system had to be reprogrammed following electrical work yesterday. The Paging/Intercom function can now be accessed by dialing 88, waiting for the beeps, then dialing 00.

Minutes for May-July staff meetings are now available via the first link included below (only accessible within the library).  

http://catalog.johnstonlibrary.com/staff/docs/staff-meeting-minutes/

Some electrical work this morning required shutting power down to some areas of the building. This affected our clocks, which are now an hour slow, and our phones, which cannot call internal extensions. We are awaiting service on the phones; the clocks should fix themselves overnight.

I installed two new PCs to replace YS1 and YS2.  The new PCs use Windows 7 (just like YS3-5). 

The new PCs are a smaller size than our traditional towers.  I have set them up horizontally (the way the DVD drive opens) and placed them under the monitors.

If you have any questions about the new PCs, please let me know.

Dreama

A copy of the new city-wide employee manual has been placed in your mailbox. Please fill out the top sheet and return it to the box on my desk.

thanks,

 Eric