Tuesday, September 23, 2014

#BannedBookSelfie

In honor of the American Library Association's Banned Books Week, the library staff and student assistants are participating in the #BannedBookSelfie campaign. Essentially, you pick your favorite banned book from the list using either the Banned/Challenged Classics list or the Top 100 Banned/Challenged list and either find it in our collection or bring your own copy to work with you.

Then we'll snap a picture of you reading your banned book and post it to the library's Instagram/Twitter/Facebook. If you're not following us you can find us on Instagram and Twitter at @oesterlelib and search for us by name on Facebook.

If you're interested in participating in #BannedBookSelife please let Heidi, Aimee, Lindsey, or Melissa know. Here are a couple examples:



Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Faculty and staff departmental charge for photocopies

If a faculty or staff member comes to the desk asking to charge photocopies to their department please give them a form from the "photocopy departmental charge request form" folder in the filing cabinet.  While they are doing that please get Jeanne or the staff member that is on the information services desk.

HELP!

Please take a look at the substitution requests and take any extra shifts you can!

Monday, September 15, 2014

HELP!

There are a few open shifts on the website already.  We have a very small staff right now and need all the help we can get.  Please sign up for them if you can!

Friday, September 12, 2014

Check in with me on Monday, September 15th

Hello!

I hope you are all excited to come back on Monday, I know I am excited to see you all.  Please be sure to check in with me sometime on Monday 7:45-5, or if I am not here talk to Belinda.

That means all students include ASCs and SCs.

Looking forward to seeing you soon!

Heidi

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Look at screen while discharging

Hello!

I know that we are all a little fried and that it's easy for things to fall through the cracks but PLEASE remember to look at the screen after every item is discharged before scanning the next item.  I have a had a handful of people come in saying they returned books but they were still on the person's account and it turns out they were right.  Please be sure to discharge an item, stamp it, resensitize it and put it on the cart IN ORDER!

We are going to start getting a lot of books back and we need them to be DISCHARGED and IN ORDER in the cart.  Don't just throw them on the cart.

Thank you and good luck!

Heidi

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Finals week and fall schedules

Your finals week schedules are up on the website. Remember, finals schedule starts Sunday, June 8th and finishes Wednesday, June 11th.

As always, the beginning of Fall Term will be a busy time here at the library. In addition to all of the usual beginning of term activities, we will be busy hiring our new student assistants for the coming year. Therefore, Belinda has created a special schedule that will be for the first two weeks of Fall Term ONLY! (The specific dates of coverage for this schedule are September 15-28.) This schedule will allow us to keep all essential operations going during those first, very busy, weeks of the term. By the beginning of the third week, we will have hired our new student assistants and given them at least some beginning training. You will then begin a more “normal” schedule for the rest of the term. That “week 3 through week 10” schedule will be given to you during the second week of Fall Term.

SCs, please note that your hours will NOT change after week 2.

For the first two weeks, ASCs will be working at the Information Service Desk with the Reference Services Librarian during their shifts rather than in the staff room. We will have just one other student assistant on duty during ASC hours, and that student assistant will be at the Periodicals Desk.

As always, please be sure to see Belinda or Heidi on Monday, September 15th to let us know that you are back on campus and to confirm your schedule. Also, it is very important that we learn of any changes to your availability for Fall Term as soon as possible. If for any reason you decide that you will not be able to work the following schedule for September 15-28, please contact one of us immediately so that we can make other arrangements for these times!

You can find your schedule by going to the student assistant website, click on the student assistant contact information, then click on your name and move the calendar to the week of September 15th.