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To: Renee Dougherty, Library Director
From: Winnie Coyne – Library Clerk
Subject: November Operational Report
Date: November 28th, 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. On display are published books written during
NaNoWrMo and nonfiction books about writing and publishing.
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F. Withdrawn items: Books are withdrawn from the system each week and are placed in a box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, November 21st.
B. Security gates: Security gates were checked twice daily to record the gatecount with the
exception of November 24th through the 27th because the gates were not working.
C. Public Works: This month, Eric Hanson from Public Works was here to check on the sink in
the staff break room since there has been no hot water. Public Works also hung art in study
rooms and staff areas.
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 Tuesday, December 4th.
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 not made much progress on their shelf-reading assignments so
they will keep the same ones for the next month to make sure the assignments are completed.
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 holiday
book drive for SACA and information about voting were highlighted.