User Services Weekly Report
Date: Independence Day, 2012
Name: Dan Frostman
Circulation Services – Circ, Reserves, and Stacks
Statistics:
• Total circs, 2011 vs. 2012: 212,423 vs. 192,177
Highlights: (Progress towards Goals, accomplishments)
Armstrong:
• Activity picking up a bit
• Lots of early morning printing
• Started Thursday am shift at Breadloaf
• Bi-weekly supervisor meetings
• Monthly search lists
Davis Family:
• Summer has started – much busier
• A number of staff attended the “Hello, Overdrive” session
• Lots of printing questions
• Sending people to bookstore to buy adapters and small equipment (we should be getting commission!)
• Students are amazing
• Lots of new equipment to add to the collection!
• Monthly circ meeting with special guests Mike Roy and Joseph Watson
• Work on area and workgroup goals
• HEAT replacement demos scheduled, invites will go out today
Stacks:
• Cleaning up shelf label files, relabeled some shelves
• Shifted and cleaned HM-L section of REF
• Shelving increasing
Reserves:
• Lots of LS reserves and ERes coming in
• Created small book display at Davison for summer guest speakers
Challenges:
• Everything at Davison: walk-up computer, phones, EZ Proxy, Banner, Moodle
• Network outage Sunday morning
• Power outage Monday
• Film screening issues (people not following procedures)
* Found a BUNCH of DVD cases unlocked in the stacks