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City of Columbia Heights | Library]
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To: Renee Dougherty, Library Director
From: Winnie Coyne – Library Clerk
Subject: December Operational Report
Date: January 8th, 2019
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: No paperback orders were sent this month since ordering for 2018 ended
in November
D. Book Display: This month’s display is about Cozy Mysteries. This is a popular genre of
mystery without much graphic imagery where the main character is an amateur detective.
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F. Withdrawn items: Books are withdrawn from the system each week and are placed in a box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 January 8th, 2019.
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 check on the boilers
several times since they have been shutting down occasionally.
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, January 10th.
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 Noon-
Year’s Eve Party for kids, and a photo album from our 90th Anniversary party got a lot of
attention on Facebook this month.