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To: Renee Dougherty, Library Director
From: Winnie Coyne – Library Clerk
Subject: October Operational Report
Date: October 31st, 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’s display is about National Novel Writing Month which takes
place during the entire month of November. The library is hosting a write-in on the first
Saturday of the moth and the display has information about the event as well as displaying
books written during NaNoWriMo that have been published.
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F. Withdrawn items: Books are withdrawn from the system each week and are placed in a box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. If not or if they are in very
bad shape they are recycled.
II. MAINTENANCE
A. Fire extinguisher: The fire extinguishers were checked Wednesday, October 31st.
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 adjust the building
temperature and check on the sink in the staff break room since there was no hot water for a
few days.
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
Friday, November 2nd.
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: Pages have been assigned new shelf reading sections.
H. Website and Facebook: Periodic updates of both Facebook and the web page were
completed. Both pages feature recurring and one-time events. Special events like our two-part
birdwatching event for adults and the Youth Fine Read Down were featured.