A week of staff change news! Bridget has been successful in her bid to secure the Team Leader position at Woodcroft and Nancy secures the contract position at Seaford! So, just as one recruitment process is completed another has begun.
In our quest to be the library with the best furniture, we have ordered new 'convertible' tables for the meeting room (which should put us one step ahead of the rest). More mobile shelving has been ordered and the moving of 'fixtures' has commenced. Still not enough?...we are sourcing new shelving for the toy library collection and the purchase of more A/V equipment. Angela is plotting 'major' changes to the collection and with her collaborators will ensure that we strategically effect this change.
Next week we prepare for more customer service coaching to ensure we can become the best in customer service delivery...ah! perfection...
All this action...all this excitement...no wonder I'm turning grey!

This seemed to be the week of 'fix ups'. The airconditioning was looked at, the auto doors were repaired and minor maintenance was carried out in a few areas. Then we had hordes of students/teachers in for photos- and all of this on top of regular business (and the irregular and unwelcome loss of power). The new colour printer was installed in the workroom (which is very welcome news) but we have had less success with the student computers at the front desk (which aren't working well since the power problem). Interviews were held to fill Victoria's position and we will fill that position soon. It certainly felt like we had a lot of 'visits' this week and the library was busy and noisy. Past figures have shown that February is like that - very busy! ...only 2 more weeks to go then... :-)

Another busy week (being week 2 of school) but I think we're getting a handle on things! It was the launch of The Little Big Book Club and there was a lot of preparation to be done (not to mention gearing up for the Premiers Reading Challenge for 2006). Team coaching was delivered on Tuesday and thankfully staff from the Hub were able to deliver the Baby Storytime (thanks heaps!).
Now that most of the work is done (in terms of issuing material to staff and students for the beginning of the year, inductions and general familiarisation (for library staff and customers), we can now hopefully focus on getting other tasks on track (regroup for the next offensive!).
Hopefully, some changes to be implemented, new equipment and the appointment of new staff will help...

It was the first week of school and this is what happened:
John got really excited (and this was good because we don't like to see him grumpy).
The week started off being very busy and the 'busyness' just kept going. We had lots of casual staff to support us and through our efforts we were able to meet the demands of the staff and students (not to mention the community).
We moved the photocopiers to a new location (closer to the PAC's) and created the illusion that we had increased the Teenage Study/Lounge area (to the delight of some students). Students were also very happy that we had reinstated the lounge, together with additional PC's installed to one counter of the circ. desk - very 'spiffy'.
The PC Reservation station was dismantled with the printer and the OCR reader going to SCKO3 (allowing printing at that PC). All OPACs were converted to be able to be used as on-line PC booking stations. We're still ironing out the bugs but we will trial it for a while to see how it goes.
To finish off the week Albert, Bridget and Trish went to the school staff room to help teaching staff celebrate the 'first week' and boy! were the Margarita's good!