Lane Libraries Staff Site

The other library system serving Butler County, Middletown Public Library, recently migrated automation systems, going from Classic Dynix (what we had prior to Horizon) to Innovative Interfaces' Millennium. They are using the catalog front-end product Encore, which you can demo here: http://encore.middletownlibrary.org/iii/encore/app.

Kerri Doll (Page - FFB Circ) was the winner of the October 2008 Employee of the Month drawing. The person nominating Kerri wrote "Kerri has served as a page for a long time. She still maintains a steady work pace and shelves items in an accurate and timely manner." Also nominated were: Brittney Small (BKM), Connie Yeager (Tech Serv), Danielle Cope (OXB Circ), Fran Meyer (LPL IS), Heidi Patterson (Systems), Joe Berry (LAC Maint.), Judy Reed (LPL Circ), Kathie Hild (HR), Kim Cole (Systems), Rhonda Wiseman (FFB C&T), Shana Rosenberg (OXB IS) and Tracey Jipson (LPL Children's).

We will begin the Halogen process Wednesday. Access to your self-appraisal form will be available sometime before 10:00am. Supervisors, you will be able to begin making multi-rater assignments and working on staff appraisals sometime before 10am as well.

Supervisors, I encourage you to view the following screencasts (w/ your sound on) before beginning the process if you need a refresher.

Making Multi-rater assignments

Split-View Screen (for viewing peer review and self-appraisal data)

I will be available for most of the day at x.624 if you need assistance. The following staff at each location may be able to help if needed:

FFB - Jennifer Stapleton
LPL - Wendy Dunn
OXB - Eric Johnson

STEP  -- DUE DATE FOR STEP -- CUMULATIVE DAY IN PROCESS

Jimmy Sparks (LPL IS - M.O.R.E. Clerk) was the winner of the September 2008 Employee of the Month award. Jimmy receives his choice of 4 extra hours of vacation or a $50 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music. The person who nominated Jimmy wrote: Jimmy Sparks is truly a great employee.  He has a huge task of dealing with the M.O.R.E. requests at the Hamilton Library. He deals with many details so he is always concentrating on the work at hand, which can be challenging in an open office environment.  He is always pleasant to everyone.  I really appreciate the positive attitude that he brings to his work.  He is a consistent role model for his great attitude and solid work ethic.  Congratulations, Jimmy!

Also nominated were Danielle Cope (OXB Circ), Debbie Niewerth (FFB IS), Emmy Piatt (LPL Circ), Heidi Patterson (Systems), Jennifer Kidd (LPL Circ), Kat Hildebrand (BKM), Kathie Hild (HR), Katrina Bate (LPL IS), Margaret Winstead (Tech Serv), Patty Logan (FFB IS), Suzanne Oswald (OXB Circ), Suzanne Oswald (OXB Circ), Terry Beck (SML) and Tracey Jipson (LPL CT).

Last Bib Deletes for August 2008 have been posted on the Collection Development page, as well as a link to the current Automaticaly Yours/Inspirationally Yours author lists. (Automatically Yours is a program from B&T that sends us a set number of "permanent" copies on standing order for popular authors we specify.)

PT Library Assistant - Children's Services - Oxford

We are staying with Brodart/McNaughton for our book leasing program through 2011.

Our cut-off price will remain at $30/pt, with 2 pts deducted for books between $30.01 - $40. Each additional $10 increment will require 1 additional point. Effective January 1, 2009, our retention benefit increasing from 30% to 50%.

Systems will be glad to deliver McNaughton weeding reports upon request.

Valerie Elliott (Head, Smith Library of Regional History) was the winner of the Supervisor of the Quarter award for the 3rd Quarter 2008.

The person who nominated Valerie wrote: "As head of the Smith Library, Valerie Elliott is an expert in local history and our community/patrons benefit from her dedication and knowledge.  Valerie uses every opportunity to promote the resources of the Smith Library and because of her efforts the library is acknowledged as one of the best."

Congratulations Valerie!

Fairfield begins charging for printing Thursday, September 18. Aside from one problem with a coin box this morning that will be repaired shortly, the implementation has gone very well. Many patrons have already printed (and paid) succesfully. One thing that is nice that we didn't expect: a print job can be paid for and released from any print release station. If a printer goes down, the print job remains available from any other release station/printer. This way, patrons print jobs are not lost and we do not have to go around re-assigning clients to new printers. As previously announced, we plan on installing at OXB next, sometime after their new PCs are installed later in October. We'll do LPL as the renovation reaches completion. Thanks to Heidi Patterson (Systems) for coming in early to prepare the clients this week and working with Millenium Printing during this transition. Thanks also to FFB IS and Children's Dept. staffs for picking up the new process so quickly.