Today we opened the drive-up window for service. One of our regular customers at the old building was the first one there at 9am. The circulation staff was a little surprised that there was a fairly regular stream of customers, about one every 5 minutes. Many customers seemed confused about which direction to go through the drive-up. We may want to paint the words "Drive-up" with an arrow on the asphalt to help with this.
We continued to mark shelves today. We also unpacked the bookends, cleaned them and then put them on the shelves. We're using metal bookends with cork bottoms on flat shelves in nonfiction and plastic bookends on slanted shelves in the adult fiction, young adult and children's fiction collections. We ordered shelves with dividers for adult & teen graphic novels, romance, westerns, and talking books. I plan to use the dividers to separate the series romances and graphics.
It took me until today to realize that I could have ordered slanted shelves for the bottom base shelves all throughout fiction. The sections with divider slanted shelves have a slanted base shelf, but the regular slanted shelves have a flat base shelf. When I made up the order for the shelves, I couldn't tell from the catalog that slanted base shelves were an option. We really like the slanted bottom shelves. We also wish we had ordered slanted shelves for the entire new book area.
We started shelving our adult and children's magazines today. These are the only things we can shelve until the end panels are installed on all our other stack shelving. Tomorrow we should be able to start shelving some adult and children's DVDs since we have some of the DVD units and children's CDs.
Some of our staff have been shopping for a sofa for our staff room, and our event groups have continued to plan for our tea and community day.
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