Grafton Public Library Publishes Weekly Report For August 23-27

Press release from Grafton Public Library:

August 26, 2021

The Library remains unable to open to the public as planned on Monday August 23, 2021 due to delays in raw materials, fabrication, and shipping.

Staff attended a training on the Xerox copier.

Library Director Beth Gallaway worked on PR, the annual ARIS report (required for State Aid), Trustee meeting prep, contacted Bibliotemps about temp staff, reviewed applications for three of the four vacancies, and began scheduling interviews. She attended two donor tours, Construction team, Policy Committee, Friends Board, and Board of Library Trustees, and a staff meeting as well as had many impromptu conversations around issues related to IT, security, alarms, policy, procedure, and logistics.

The Children’s staff looked at collection flow and rearranged shelving to create a more intuitive browsing experience. They also measured shelving in the program room storage closet and calculated the number of storage bins that would be needed for craft material organization.

Sarah continued to refurbish library carts and began compiling Summer Library Program stats for submission to MLS.

Mare continued to prepare her paperwork for the para librarian level 2 application due this fall and attended the “State of Reader’s Advisory” webinar.

Jen worked on booking rooms for upcoming programs later this fall/winter and the Children’s Room newsletter.

Allison took some vacation time and worked on new fall challenges on Beanstack and the September fall newsletter. She also put out this week’s activity kits at the temporary location. This is the final week of summer programming!

Heidi answered reference questions, questions about library accounts, passwords, holds, where they can return materials, what happened to the book I returned in the AMH and why isn’t it off my record? She updated library accounts and made new ones for patrons – we had a record 51 new library card registrations in July.

Donna added 319 items to the system, packaged, processed, and cataloged the 5 hotspots from MBLC and continued to organize the Tech Services office.

Eileen worked on bills, called newspaper delivery to find out why papers are not arriving at the new location, canceled the fax line at 53 N. Main Street, and provided some ARIS stats to Beth. Circulation staff continue to unpack as far as we are able, pending shelving and storage space.

Allie has been working on the Body-Mind-Spirit canvases (while listening to our next Readers Advisory selection!), after much research on the best type of adhesive system, painting the boards to match the walls, and organizing the paintings. Allie was designated the Princh point person, and she spent time setting it up on the staff computers. IT needs to set it up on each patron computer. Allie also completed the September newsletter.

Sandhya and Jane spent time reorganizing the magazines, PB FIC books, fiction and non-fiction graphic novels, and paperbacks in the Reading Room. Sandhya also updated museum pass information on Tixkeeper, helped organize the Friends’ area, labeled furniture to be moved, and looked through Comcat and Clio records.

Jane unpacked boxes and organized supplies, moved chairs, labeled furniture to be moved, and attended a webinar: MLS Live: Library for the Commonwealth, helped organize the Friends area, and transcribed training notes into the Google drive.

Susan oversaw the Reading Room shifts, organized her desk space, communicated with C/W MARS and Optima about our changed opening dates, developed a work plan for the week for our page, Taylor, ran a report of all material due between 8/24-31, and also ran a report on all of our material that is non-holdable.

Taylor shelf-read and his mom repotted library indoor plants. Thank you to Carolyn Dee!

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