US Leader Weekly Report –
Date: 12 Nov 2008
Name: Elin Waagen – Workgroups: Circulation, Stacks, Reserves
Select Stats from October 08 – (full stats available in shared folders)
Total Circs:
Media: 2133
Equipment: 4644
General Main: 15419
Renewals Main: 5900
General Music: 2202
Renewals Music: 486
General Armstrong: 1364
Renewals Armstrong: 368
Totals: 25,739
Total Reserves: 2675
Main Reserve Media: 905
Total web request: 714
NExpress:
Check-outs from Midd: 418
Check-outs to Midd: 498
Monthly Missing Report: 215
Gate Activity:
Main: 66141
Music: 3801
Armstrong: 19990
Armstrong ILL – Lending Activity:
Requests: 261
Requests filled: 247
Highlights: (Progress towards Goals, accomplishments)
• Eco bags being snapped up!
• Student labor reports:
o Main Circulation – 25.6 %
o Armstrong Circ – 25.2 %
o Music Circ – 28.2%
o ILL/Reserves – 31.5%
o Stacks – 11%
• Staff schedules – lots of flexing to cover absences at Main
• Ilsley/Midd meeting
• NExpress conference call
• Main: Moderately busy this weekend, especially Saturday; helpful to have experienced student employees on shift
• Searching monthly missing lists
• Paging activity up for Midd and NExpress requests
• Self-check functional and being used
• 24/7 planning
• Student schedules: Planning for WT and SP schedules at Main
• Reserves: Updating reserve procedures on the wiki
• Using new web 2.0 tools: blogs, wikis, toolbars
• Equipment: 15 new Canon Flash HD camcorders added to collection; updated go/equipment page with quick tips and link to user manual; flexing procedures to accommodate special requests
• Music – Music Sale: Sold roughly 60 items
• Stacks – 1 new assistant hired to replace 1; first phase of book shift moving along
• Workshops etc.: Tasty Tech Tidbits brownbag lunch; ALA TechSource Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium (conference report on blog); HR Inbox Zero Workshop by Mike Roy (happily enjoying inbox zero for at least one day); playing with both Men’s and Women’s glee clubs on Sunday at 3:00; commons dinner
Challenges
• Unexpected student schedule gaps; staffed with student worker unfamiliar with Main
• Equipment: PC firewire drives in heavy use with 3 being repaired; overdue equipment, bookings jeopardized; heavy demand for Macbooks: 2 placed on Reserve, 5 booked off and on this week and next by one borrower (preventing regular 2 week loans)
• Stacks: lost 1 – 2 student workers