We're On A Roll

We began using a new system for shelving material since we haven't always been successful conveying to everyone the 4 things we have to check before shelving a box of material. Librarians unbox material onto a cart and check it for errors, new book label, etc. then they set it aside for volunteers, CAs, or other BCPL staff to shelve. This seems to get material shelved more quickly, as long as the librarians can keep ahead of the shelvers. We left about 6 carts ready for shelvers first thing in the morning. We're really thankful that our 51 brand new carts arrived yesterday.

We began pulling duplicates today due to packed sections in fiction. We'll end up doing this in most sections, I'm sure. For some titles we got as many as 16 copies so, of course, we don't want to open with all of them sitting on the shelves. We still have about 18 or so pallets to unbox from the Ingram order. Once that is shelved, I guess our Maintenance staff will bring the new material that our Technical Services department processed, boxed, and sent to off-site storage. Only after all new material has been unboxed will we begin unboxing material from old Perry Hall.

We've been finding quite a few items with no spine labels as well as incorrect spine labels. So far, I've packed up 3 full boxes, and we have 2 more almost ready to seal. We've also started a box for items with cover issues--no jacket, weird half covers that cover up the call number, etc. These items are sent to Technical Services. We've also found some damaged items which we will send to Collection Development.

We found out late today that the end panels for our main stack area, which were being painted in Canada, have to be repainted, and we may not get them until the first week of March. We still haven't received the furniture for our children's activity room, the DVD unit, or the CD browsers either. We should receive a shipment of 900 book ends for our nonfiction any day now.

The saga of our phone and data lines changes daily. I don't believe any dates Verizon gives us anymore. Our Technology Support department came today to set up our staff computers in the workroom, although there's only so much they can do without data lines.