Grafton Public Library

Weekly Report: Dec 26-31, 2022

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Library Weekly Report

Week of December 26-31, 2022
This week we circulated 2,157 items, received 300 items in transit and sent 446 items. We requested 359 items and filled 219 hold requests; registered 7 patrons for library cards, and added 154 new items. The most popular book this week is Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. We hosted 6 meetings in our conference, study, and tutoring rooms for 21 people, including Boy Scouts Troop 107 Astronomy Merit Badge Class, as well as private work, study, homeschool, and tutoring sessions.

Admin
Beth submitted the Library’s draft FY23 budget, wrote the Director’s note for the Library’s January newsletter, completed items on her Trustee task list, reviewed a list of outstanding minutes for Building Committee (mostly from canceled or postponed meetings), worked on a non-fiction book order, scheduled meeting room use and confirmed a facility rental for a piano recital (2pm Sunday January 8, open to the public), worked on the Library’s 2022 Annual Report, and met with the Construction Team. She worked on the 2023 Food Permit Application, building inspection documents, and scheduled the annual inspection of the alarm system. She addressed a museum pass issue and made website updates. She reviewed meeting minutes and agendas for upcoming meetings, reviewed policy and December incident reports, and corresponded with IT regarding domain issues for transferring to Office 365. She covered breaks in the Children’s Room and at Borrower Services for staff on leave. We dealt with an ongoing leak in the Community Room and ongoing HVAC issues. Beth is preparing a letter of intent, to submit an application for the MHC community preservation grant round in March 202 for restoration of the Library’s cupola, and is working on the final report for the MPLCP grant, due Feb 1, 2023.

Eileen ordered periodicals for 2023. Debby compiled the Weekly Report, collaborated with CR staff on upcoming social media posts, worked with Benchmark to inventory and order Xerox toner cartridges and completed payroll, scheduling, and Board of Library Trustees’ tasks.

Borrower Services
Staff managed service desks, delivery, museum passes, the lobby, room reservations and Automatic Materials Handling equipment. They assisted patrons, placed holds, performed readers’ advisory, and supervised volunteers.

Kara performed troubleshooting on the AMH, took down last month’s Jane Austen display, set up the January endcap display for Public Domain Day, and sent December’s OverDrive MARC records to CW MARS. Jane continued updating links on the library’s site in conjunction with the new Town of Grafton website, collected items with alerts for cataloging corrections, posted the New York Times Best Seller List for print and audio fiction and recommended titles for purchase, corrected records for patrons with the wrong home library, and gathered local materials and prepared the staircase display and endcap display for January. Allie created the January endcap poster “Art Browsery”, reviewed the training form for New Year’s goals, adjusted the font for the Evergreen print templates, wrote screen reader descriptions for graphics in the e-newsletter, created a printable adult January events calendar and Museum of the Month poster, processed new adult fiction arrivals, emailed Bibliotheca about a problem with the external return window over the weekend, performed troubleshooting on the Children’s Room’s RFID plate, and retrained in CLIO. Sandhya and Ranjita were out this week. We can’t wait until they get back!

With schools being on holiday break, we have had a lot of families using the room and taking out materials.  Keeping the room clean and tidy has taken a bit of work.  Sarah has been enjoying a much-deserved vacation. Jen has worked on the January newsletter and prepared for the New Year’s at Noon event. Cyndi has gone through the fabric donation and is slowly washing and organizing the fabric collection for the sewing club and continues to work on updating the Library of Things Binder. Stacy ran Winter Arts. Kristin is preparing for the book clubs while Mare has been in close contact with our volunteers about holiday closings and their holiday plans.

Teen Services
This week Allison worked on a Dusty Titles report and prepared the January Teen Newsletter. Sarah helped patrons with readers advisory and worked on shelf reading nonfiction.

Reference Services
Heidi and Eric assisted with tech and reference questions as well as circulation. Heidi hosted the Inspirational Book Group (and guided meditation) discussion of The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact by Chip and Dan Heath and worked on program planning and PR. Eric worked on weeding the non-fiction collection and planned book displays for January.

Technical Services
Cynthia worked on ordering new books and unpacking new books and DVDs. She cataloged new adult fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novels and worked more on the bookplates that were part of a recent donation to the library by printing and adding them to the donated books.

 

 

 

 

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