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City of Columbia Heights | Library]
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To: Renee Dougherty, Library Director
From: Winnie Coyne – Library Clerk
Subject: January Operational Report
Date: February 5th, 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 but there will be at least one
next month.
D. Book Display: This month’s display is still ‘Cozy Mysteries’ but will be changed in February.
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F. Withdrawn items: Books are withdrawn from the system each week and are placed in a box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 February 5th, 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 Wednesday, February 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: Shelf reading is no longer being assigned to pages each shift. The shelves
are looking good lately; from now on shelf reading will be assigned as needed. All staff are
asked to pay attention to the shelves and bring it to staff attention if an area needs work.
H. Website and Facebook: Periodic updates of both Facebook and the web page were
completed. Both pages feature recurring and one-time events. Our STEM Saturday program
about birds was featured as well as information about where to go to stay warm during the cold
snap at the end of the month.