US Leader Weekly Report –
Date: 23 July 2008
Name: Dan Frostman for Elin Waagen – Workgroups: Circulation, Stacks, Reserves
Highlights: (Progress towards Goals, accomplishments)
• continued training of new Main Circ students
• figuring out staff coverage and gaps for August
• busy weekend at Main
• Plenty of weekend activity at Main despite the midterm break
• Equipment continues to be heavily used by LS fac, students, and staff
• schedule planning for post-LS and pre-Fall term
• Ariel remains down at Armstrong. Worked last week with Morgan and Rachel to come up with a work around
• Armstrong: Working on the final piece of the VT topo map inventory, checking all the border states and Quebec. Carrie and I will go over replacement for out dated and missing maps.
• Armstrong: Looking next at having students help label the cleaned up reference area
• Armstrong: Finished student budget proposal for 08-09
• Music: Dan back from vacation – Music Library still in one piece
• Music: shifting/dusting project continues at record-pace. Space becoming a real issue in the scores
• Music: Student budget proposal completed
Challenges:
• a few missing items from Davison (one recovered)
• printer breakdowns
• Continued issues of no ID cards for LS students, some borrowers not in Mill or directory
• updating summer student schedule…lots of challenges
• media screening continues to present challenges, trying to decipher FMP and following up on messages
• Odd item types from NExpress causing loan rule problems
• OCLC problems affecting ILL updating