Circulation Services http://sites.middlebury.edu/circservices Staying Connected Wed, 22 May 2013 13:27:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Weekly Report 5-22-13 http://sites.middlebury.edu/circservices/2013/05/22/weekly-report-5-22-13/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/circservices/2013/05/22/weekly-report-5-22-13/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 13:27:01 +0000 Dan Frostman http://sites.middlebury.edu/circservices/?p=8072 Continue reading →]]> User Services Weekly Report
Date: 5-22-2103
Name: Dan Frostman
Circulation Services – Circ, Reserves, and Stacks

Statistics:
• So many books…
Highlights: (Progress towards Goals, accomplishments)
Armstrong:
• Busy
• Still poster printing!
• Lots of student shift subs, missed shifts
• All LIS meeting
• Meeting with Mike, Bob Cluss, Wendy, and Carrie to discuss space in Armstrong
• Taking down spring reserves tomorrow
• Checking on equipment inventory
• Goodbye to seniors
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Davis Family:
• ALL LIS meeting, congrats to Janine
• Training new summer students
• 24/7 ended without a hitch
• Web Help Desk – trainings, importing assets, entering old HEAT tickets
• Helping with re-shelving
Stacks:
• Returns and carrels and lockers
Reserves:
• BL lists. NM is set, still waiting on 12 from VT
• Will hold library orientation sessions the day before classes start at BL

CT Team: Planning LS curricular tech workshops

Challenges:
• None

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Date: 5/15/13
Name: Dan Frostman
Circulation Services – Circ, Reserves, and Stacks

Statistics:
• Circs in April: 19379
• Billed items in April: 31 (down from 160 a year ago!)
Highlights: (Progress towards Goals, accomplishments)
Armstrong:
• Lots of plotter use
• Hired 3 new students for Fall
• Work on fall schedule
• Returns starting
• ILL slowing
• Lots of activity, equipment borrowing
• Missing equipment has found its way back!
• BNB shipment done
Davis Family:
• Dan up to his eyebrows in WHD
• Busiest Saturday in recent memory
• 24/7 underway and going smoothly
• Rare ILL book that was claims returned was actually returned
• Prepping for BL
• Lots of returns
• Quite a few new books
Stacks:
• Lots of returns
• Carrel returns, cleaning out, procedure for next year
Reserves:
• Kellam on vacation, Dan covering
• Still some stuff going on for Spring!

Challenges:
• iPad not checked out properly (showed as available), but did get returned!

]]> http://sites.middlebury.edu/circservices/2013/05/15/weekly-report-5-15-13/feed/ 0 Importance of Being Equipment Cautious for Check-outs http://sites.middlebury.edu/circservices/2013/05/13/importance-of-being-equipment-cautious-for-check-outs/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/circservices/2013/05/13/importance-of-being-equipment-cautious-for-check-outs/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 02:15:56 +0000 Janine McDonald http://sites.middlebury.edu/circservices/?p=8065 Continue reading →]]> Greetings Supervisors and Sleep-Deprived Students!

This is a friendly reminder to take your vitamins and eat your spinach! Last night I realized  iPad #3 was listed “available” in Mill, yet I could not find it anywhere. Today I began to really worry. Fortunately, a little lucky goblin returned it to the red equipment cart when I wasn’t looking, but when I did see it, I exclaimed “Voila!  I was so worried you grew feet overnight! I am so happy you came back.”

This was a good lesson for me to relay how careful we should be when checking out our media items. You know better than anyone that this is absolutely our uber busy end-of-semester season so it is very easy (and dangerous) to rush out a (non) checkout. But when it comes down to iPads, camcorders and cameras, we really need to make sure to confirm their checkouts. Well, you know what to do. Please make sure you look at the Mill screen when checking out all items.

I thank you for your continued diligence and razor focus while working at TCD (the circ desk).

 

]]> http://sites.middlebury.edu/circservices/2013/05/13/importance-of-being-equipment-cautious-for-check-outs/feed/ 0 Weekly report 5-8-13 http://sites.middlebury.edu/circservices/2013/05/08/weekly-report-5-8-13/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/circservices/2013/05/08/weekly-report-5-8-13/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 13:27:35 +0000 Dan Frostman http://sites.middlebury.edu/circservices/?p=8062 Continue reading →]]> User Services Weekly Report
Date: 5/8/13
Name: Dan Frostman
Circulation Services – Circ, Reserves, and Stacks

Statistics:
• Days in a row I have neglected to run monthly statistics: 8
Highlights: (Progress towards Goals, accomplishments)
Armstrong:
• End of term busy-ness and business
• A few poster sessions still happening
• Inventoried equipment
• Lots of student sub requests
• ILL slowing down some
Davis Family:
• Lots of equipment loaning
• Lots of returns
• Busy Saturday
• Still doing some training with newest hires
• Soliciting for summer projects
• Good weather = perky circ students
• Attending librarian candidate presentations
• WHD testing
• Prepping for switch-over to making available books requestable
Stacks:
• Staying on top of returns
• Carrel key return procedure
Reserves:
• Awesome vacation
• Following up on 20 BLVT/NM faculty reserve lists
• Davison schedule for BL
• Updating BLSE subsplus page

CT Team: Adaptive testing updates

Challenges:
• Student shelving issues at Armstrong
• A few noise complaints in Davis at night
• Mac chargers and headphones run out every night
• Security guard leaving before he was supposed to – talked with Green Mt. Security and straightened it out
• Students dropping shifts
• Panicked and stressed patrons
• Still haven’t heard back about broken loaner Mac
• Trying to get back Northeastern Nexpress items
• Compact shelves broken on Main level

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Date: 5/1/2013
Name: Dan Frostman
Circulation Services – Circ, Reserves, and Stacks

Statistics:
• Students and staff on my billing list for today: 55
Highlights: (Progress towards Goals, accomplishments)
Armstrong:
• Lots of printing, people in the library
• Going through lots of paper and toner
• Taking inventory of equipment
• Shawn at IUG
Davis Family:
• Activity definitely picking up
• Summer hiring complete, working on schedule
• 24/7 starts Sunday
• Fall schedule looking good
• Spring check-in with Carrie
• Janine at IUG, back today
• Adding a few pieces of equipment
Stacks:
• Trying to keep up with returns
Reserves:
• Kellam out, Dan covering

Challenges:
• Missing power adapter from fac/staff laptop

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Date: 4-23-2013
Name: Dan Frostman
Circulation Services – Circ, Reserves, and Stacks

Statistics:
• Days till graduation: 34
• Current count of student sub emails, for the year: 2144
Highlights: (Progress towards Goals, accomplishments)
Armstrong:
• Very busy with Symposium
• Lots of poster printing
• Updated New Books table
• 3 new students hired for the fall
• Summer students hired, schedule set
• Shawn at IUG
Davis Family:
• Summer hiring done
• Friday was quiet due to the Symposium
• Party for Kim A. and Will
• Did our best to woo prospective students and parents (in a non-harassment sort of way)
• Covering for Todd at the end of the week
• Janine at IUG
• Met with LS coordinators re. summer
Stacks:
• Catching up on reshelving
Reserves:
• Met with LS coordinators re. summer
• BL reserves

Challenges:
• Ran out of Mac chargers last night for a few hours. No casualties.
• iPad booking confusion, case not returned, not factory reset.

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Date: 4-17-2013
Name: Dan Frostman
Circulation Services – Circ, Reserves, and Stacks

Statistics:
• Time it took Voyager 1 to get to Jupiter: 1.5 years
• Time it took Voyager 1 radio signals to reach the Earth from Jupiter: 45 minutes
Highlights: (Progress towards Goals, accomplishments)
Armstrong:
• Summer student interviewing and hiring
• Student schedules – lots of subs
• Poster printing for symposium
• Weeding project underway
• Painter coming tomorrow to fix water stain from leak
• Lots of scanner use
Davis Family:
• Prepping for IUG conference in CA – planning which sessions to attend
• Working on clarifying descriptions on HDMI related connectors
• Party for Kim A. (and Will) on Wednesday – they will be missed!
• Trying to keep up with student subbing requests while Kim is out
• Hopeful that we are set for the summer with students
• Meeting with LS coordinators Wednesday am
Stacks:
• Catching up on reshelving
• Manning the desk in student gaps, Kim’s vacation
Reserves:
• BLSE reserves: organizing lists and working on ERes for BLNM
• A few springs requests still coming in

Challenges:
• Armstrong printer down, part ordered, back up now.
• Rash of reserves and equipment not getting checked in at Armstrong
• Staffing gaps in coming weeks not getting covered…a sign of things to come in a post-Kim A. world?
• Broken student laptop – no word from patron

]]> http://sites.middlebury.edu/circservices/2013/04/17/weekly-report-4-17-13/feed/ 0 Research Desk this Friday (Spring Symposium) http://sites.middlebury.edu/circservices/2013/04/16/research-desk-this-friday-spring-symposium/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/circservices/2013/04/16/research-desk-this-friday-spring-symposium/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:28:19 +0000 Carrie Macfarlane http://sites.middlebury.edu/circservices/?p=8047 Continue reading →]]> In order to allow librarians to attend the Spring Symposium this Friday April 19, we have reduced our Research Desk hours. We recognize that some students will be doing coursework in addition to attending presentations throughout the day.  So, students can find us in person at the Research Desk early and late in the day, from 11 am – 12 pm and 3 pm – 4 pm. We’ll also be checking our email throughout the day.

If someone needs help from a librarian and you don’t see anyone at the Research Desk, please direct the student to our email form at http://go.middlebury.edu/askalibrarian.

As always, our hours and contact info can be found at http://go.middlebury.edu/askus. Our Find Books and Articles FAQ offers a number of good starting points too.

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