User Services Weekly Report
Date: 6/22/11
Name: Dan Frostman
Circulation Services – Circ, Reserves, and Stacks
Statistics: number of minutes to unpack the Davison Reserve boxes: approximately 72 (new World Record)
Number of computers in Davison that needed some kind of work done to them: all of them
Number of theses packed up and shipped to the bindery: 195
Money collected by the Café Tuesday night: $7.00
Highlights: (Progress towards Goals, accomplishments)
Armstrong:
• Fairly quiet
• ILL steady
• Shawn up at BL all week to help with tech stuff
• First shipment of shelf-ready books arrived
• Training two new students
• Students working on shelf-reading
Davis Family:
• Quieter than expected, especially at night
• Added more computer speakers to the collection
• Cleaned several reserve DVDs
• Swapping out re-imaged fac/staff PC’s
• Training new students
• Still going through the DVD re-casing project
• Language carrel map updated in the wiki
• Monthly circ meeting today
Stacks:
• All CD shelves inserted, numbers call-number-labeled
• Set up shelves in the new DVD area
• Re-shifting the N’s
• Relabeling A-L to match the rest of the collection
• Straighten books in PQ’s
Reserves:
• BL set-up, training
• Smattering of LS reserves, eres
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CT team: contacting LMS hosting vendor references
Space Team: zzzzzzzz…wha? Jus fivemoreminnussszzzzz….
Challenges:
• Computer and printing issues at Davison
• Waiting on recalls
• Several Davison staff absent from training
• No exercise equipment for circ (work-life grant denied)
• Communication/scheduling issues for Davison circ desk
• Summer students entered at the wrong pay level by SEO