User Services Weekly Report
Date: 12-08-2010
Name: Dan Frostman
Circulation Services – Circ, Reserves, and Stacks
Statistics: Number of emails regarding student scheduling in the last week: 57 (over eight per day)
Calories in a snack-sized bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos: 150 (70 from fat)
Highlights: (Progress towards Goals, accomplishments)
Armstrong:
• Busy ILL
• Busy student scheduling
• Lots of returns
• Lots of plotter use
• Google calendar testing for J-term student schedules
• All seats full in the library most days
• Student lunch meeting
• Completed Gov Docs project
Music:
• Still very quiet
• Moderate ILL, Nexpress is slowing down
• Bound periodical measuring, calculating 10 years growth
Davis Family:
• Lots of student scheduling work
• 24/7 in full swing – aside from the front doors, no major issues
• Some gaps in schedule filled by supervisors
• Planning for Spring schedule sign-up after the break
• Temp pay cards for 24/7 ready to be submitted
• Contacted 3M regarding pricing and options for locked DVD cases, RFID self-check machine
• Met with Ilsley staff to help clean up billed, lost and paid items in their catalog
• Circ subs huge help with shelf measuring and reshelving
Stacks:
• Flood of returns (Not an actual flood, which would fall under “Challenges”)
• Shelf measuring continues – G, Ref, and bound periodicals done, P’s being finished today. VHS and laserdiscs and Language collections remain
Reserves:
• Prepping for J-term, organizing lists, ERes
CT team: two info sessions on LMS pilots (Learning Management Systems – not to be confused with Lunar Module Spaceship)
Space Team: Met with Music faculty; continued work on Music Library scenarios
Challenges:
• Misshelved reserves
• Browsing DVDs shelved behind the circ desk
• Students don’t want to get paid – not submitting time sheets
• A lot of people in the library who clearly have not been in much this semester – lots of help required
• Incident involving a student worker, an LCD projector, and Public Safety – resolution unfolding today.