Department Heads Meeting Nov. 7, 2007

From ADCOU:

• United Way forms are due Friday
• Except for "city charities"-notification will be on the staff blog
• There will be a staff breakfast for Inventory Day at Central. I have also talked to Haruyo about a 2nd floor lunch for that day
• TEC Tuesday- will be done again in the spring with some repeats
• If you have a patron trying to download a PDF from a library database and the computer will not allow him- write down the name of the database and the sub-domain name (ask Mary) and send to automation
• CYPUBJ02, 03, and 04 will be replaced on th enext lease installment

Sandi will be off the week of Thanksgiving.

It was a short meeting!

Online Training Help

In the evaluations everyone has asked about training opportunities, here is an excellent site that offers online course (Sandi told me about it). I will add the address to the YD blog:

http://www.webjunction.org/do/Home

and

http://al.webjunction.org/do/Navigation?category=372

Department Heads Meeting, October 24, 2007

From ADCOU

• There will be a new statistical training session on Nov. 8th at 9:30am in the RLCC. Mary can you attend?
• FYI- the spine labels for YA will change from "YA" to "TEEN"
• The Birmingham Historical Society will be having a luncheon on Sunday Nov. 4th.
• The United Way kickoff has kicked off- we should be getting some more information soon.
• Alabama Bound Committee will be meeting Oct. 29th @ 9:30am- contact Linda if you wan to be on the committee.
• There is a page wiki- ask Cheryl for details.
• Contact Tobin if there is a database problem (not Debbie or Elizabeth).
• Sandi will be taping at BrightHouse on Nov. 5th- I will probably be there to tape a part of my Tech Tuesday presentation and/or seasons reading.

Departments

• InforCirc: Karyn and her staff want tours of each department. She will contact us when she wants to set one up in Youth. She is also training her staff to look/use the library blogs. Take a look at the BPL Staff Blog- it has usefull information.
• BST- Karen created a Small Business Resource Page that is very good.

Department Heads Meeting, Oct 10, 2007

• Pam will attend some of the dept. heads meetings (like today).
• SH is short staffed this week, they might need help.

ADCOU

• Ben Franklin will visit Dec. 31st 2008 when the exhibit will be delivered. The exhibit will be here thru February 27, 2008. The exhibit will be on the 4th floor gallery.
• The garage sale earned a good bit of money- (1,300 IIRC).
• Personal mail delivery is prohibited from the library address.
• Janine is looking for help at the library booth/book walk at the Fiesta in Linn Park on the 20th. Contact Sandi to volunteer.
• There will be a meeting of the Adult Programming committee after Coll. Dev. on Oct. 17th.
• BPL at Nite is next Thursday night.

Staff Training Day

• If you wanto go on the library vann- contact Linda W.
• Remember that you can donate toys and nonperishable goods at staff day.
• Staff Day committee members will be working on the 17th and after the program for setting up/cleaning up.

Other

• You cannot combine 15 minute breaks unless you are working 12-8 on Mon. or Tue.
• The NCCJ walkathon will be this Sunday at 2pm. If you wan tot volunteer to walk, contact Pam.
• The dumpster will not be here for much longer.
• The people from LEAD (library paraprofessional training) will be presenting Debbie D. will a special award next week. If you are a parap. and took the training course, please consider attending.
• Gambling sites are being blocked and should not be unblocked.
• BST- Karen is creating a small business resource page.

Department Heads Meeting, Sept. 22, 2007

Here are the highlights from the DH meeting:

• Please tell patrons that rosetta Stone is changing. They will have less languages (5). ALso we might be getting a newer and better product. Stay tuned!
• ECommerce is coming to Central and Hoover libraries. This will alllow patrons to pay fines and make donations using their credit card online.
• Take a look at alabamamosaic.org- it has a collection of digital resources concerning Alabama.
• The new administration assistant's name is Stephanie George.
• Sandi will be the new "Adult Services Coordinator". She will help coordinate adult programing. If you are interested, contact Sandi.
• If you attend Tec Tuesdays, that counts as training.
• The Southern History Inventory is finished. Yeahhhh!!! There will be a party sometime in October.
• When doing deposits (for copier, printouts, and other items), please send a copy to Sandi of the deposit slip.
• Little Alla (Alabama Library Association) membership forms are due mid October- there is an early discount.
• If you want to attend a JCPLA conference- then you need to join JCPLA
• Overdrive Training- if you signed up for Overdrive Training, there will be held in a special place for these times:
• Oct 3 @10am- in the boardroom
• Oct 11 @2pm in the boardroom
• Oct 17 @ 2pm in the boardroom
• Oct 25 @?? will be in the Social science conference room

If you have a session not at these times you will go to the computer center- and will need headphones.

• Sandi asks that we do an informal survey of our afterschool kids again.

Thats All Folks!!

Department Heads meeting 08/29/2007

Here are my notes:

• It is time to turn in information for the annual report. If there were any projects that you would like to report, or if there are any ongoing projects, please email them to me or Sandi.
• Staff Day is October 18th
• If you are a greeter, please be cheerful. If you are not feeling well or chipper, then contact Sandi.
• Overdrive training will be available on Wed. and Thur., check your email and contact Sandi.
• Sept. 21st- garage sale

From Sandi

Friday, August 10, 2007

Adcou News 8/7/08
Hi all,We will not meet on the 15th. We will be filming Bright House that afternoon. Just a few notes from Adcou on Tuesday.

Output Measures will probably begin in September around the 10th and last until Oct 12. More to come.

Southern and YD's printers should be coming in next week. Please let me know if you do not get them.

Video Submissions for Staff day - Linda Wilson needs to know if you are planning on do one. I have already deleted the email from Donna DeMedics that gave the due date. Please remind your staff if anyone is planning to submit to let Linda Wilson know. She has not heard from anyone officially.

We need to submit and work on ours asap!!

Season's Readings needs more reviews. Please ask you staff to let Ellen Lawrence know if there is a title they would like to review.

Staff Day is October 18th at the Botanical Gardens. Registration will begin at 7:30. A light breakfast (pastries, fruit, etc. nothing hot) will be served from 7:30 to 8:30. The program will begin at 8:30 until 12 noon. There will be a boxed lunch for people to enjoy at the gardens, take with them, or return to their library.

August 20th at 2 will be our Roles and Goals meeting with Collection Management. I will check about the location for the meeting.

BPL @ Night is August 16th with the Cabaha Saxophone Quartet. They did a wonderful Brown Bag in June. It is going to be a great program.Thanks,Sandi

PS Dept Heads meeting 08/01/2007

Here are some of the highlights:

• No patrons may use staff computers!
• The CAPS service have expanded their hours on Saturday: 11am till 11pm
• Linda Wilson is looking for volunteers to go through some donated items-next Wednesday on the 8th. No air conditioning so you can dress appropriately. Check with Linda W.
• The budget is out and money is tight. Send any requisitions to Sandi
• August is "CLEAN UP MONTH"!!! Clean up your desks and pods.
• Make sure everyone is aware of the survey in the newest READER.
• SH Inventory is close to finishing- please volunteer some time to finish this project.
• August 25th is Stoking the Fire at Sloss. Contact Sandi if you want to volunteer
• There is no such thing as COMP TIME! It is called "Flexible scheduling"....
• Yearly evaluations are due
• If you wan tto volunteer for hosting a demo for "Tec Tuesdays" contact Sandi

Test Posting

This is the first post on the new BPL Youth Department Blog