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To: Renee Dougherty, Library Director
From: Winnie Coyne – Library Clerk
Subject: August Operational Report
Date: August 30th, 2018
I. COLLECTION PROJECTS
A. Magazines: Magazine labels were typed for newly received magazines.
B. Damaged Shelf: Items older than 1 month were cleared from the shelf this month.
C. Paperback order: One paperback order was sent this month.
D. Book Display: This month the display is still centered around the new PBS show ‘The Great
American Read’. It features books from the PBS list of 100 and invites library patrons to check
out a book from the list. There are a number of entries in our favorite book ballot.
E. Weeding Projects: Renee and Bri are both giving me books to withdraw semiregularly.
F. Withdrawn items: Books are withdrawn from the system each week and are placed in a box
to go to Better World Books if they are accepted by the company. Any books in good condition
that are not sent to Better World Books are prepared to go on our sale-cart.
II. MAINTENANCE
A. Fire extinguisher: The fire extinguishers were checked Wednesday, August 29th.
B. Security gates: Security gates were checked twice daily to record the gatecount.
C. Public Works: This month, Eric Hanson from Public Works was here to fix our cooling system
when it malfunctioned. Public works has been working on building a berm at the west side of
the parking lot to help with flooding.
D. ILL Drawer: The ILL drawers were maintained and a weekly count of filled requests has
been kept.
E. Month End Statistics: The statistics for the previous month will be totaled and sent to staff
by Thursday, September 6th.
F. Bulletin Board: Old notices are removed once they have expired or have been up for thirty
days and new notices are put up as we receive them.
G. Shelf Reading: The shelf-reading assignments from May will continue through August.
There will be new assignments out in October.
H. Website and Facebook: Periodic updates of both Facebook and the web page were
completed. Both pages feature recurring and one-time events. We did not have a lot of
programming in August so other community events were featured online.