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To: Renee Dougherty, Library Director
From: Winnie Coyne – Library Clerk
Subject: December Operational Report
Date: December 29th, 2020
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, November 30th was the last
day to order for the 2020 fiscal year.
D. Book Display: There was no display this month since we are encouraging patrons to limit
their time in the building to 90 minutes and seating by the fireplace is blocked off.
E. Weeding Projects: Renee and Bri are regularly giving me books to withdraw.
F. Withdrawn items: Books are withdrawn from the system each week and are placed in a box
to go to Better World Books, a charitable bookseller. If the books are not accepted by Better
World Books or are in very bad shape they are recycled.
II. MAINTENANCE
A. Fire extinguisher: The fire extinguishers were checked December 7th.
B. Security gates: Security gates were checked twice a day. Due to COVID-19, our limited hours,
and no in-person programming the gatecount numbers are lower than at this time last year.
C. Public Works: This month Public Works was here checking on items that staff had sent in
tickets for, and checking in with a fire-alarm technician doing an annual inspection.
D. Month End Statistics: The statistics for the previous month will be totaled and sent to
staff by Wednesday, January 6th.
E. 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. There are new notices up about
CareerForce and library virtual programming.
F. Reading: Shelf reading assignments were done by the pages.
G. Website and Facebook: Periodic updates of both Facebook and the web page were
completed. Both pages feature recurring events, one-time events, and information about what
services we are offering right now. Storytime is on hiatus so we are sharing staff-
recommendations for picture books and board books each Monday morning. This engages the
same age group that Storytime is geared toward. We also created events for programs in
December and January.