Day 1

Well, I managed to catch the bus and get the right one. Guaranteed I got off at least 2 stops early but at least I made it. Got in early so went for a walk around the "town". This area has a large Asian population based on the shops in the main street. I haven't made it as far as the shopping centre yet.

Well...what did I do and what did I learn.

I have a new idea.......Trace, don't moan as they are always a good idea.
Lets have a "Perfect Order" library. What I hear you say. Well really its a fancy name for shelf checking but each bay is numbered and each staff member has to check 1 bay per day. What do you think.......I love the idea and think that Perfect order is much more positive than shelf checking. I was excited to do it but I don't think I would be if it was called Shelf checking. Maybe we could change the name of this task every 12 months so we get excited to do it.

What else did I learn. The library I am going to (I won't use names as I don't want to) uses Spydus (same version as us). They use the workflow manager instead of placing reservations and using a pick list. Works for them but I feel it takes quite a bit of staff time doing this rather than printing a pick list and collecting it but now I think about it, maybe it takes the same time. It also means that items are collected rather than being on the list day in day out.

I also helped with the intransit items. Wow....2 deliveries per day and today we had around 8 crates each time. The intransit status is removed automatically so I guess that makes it easier. All staff shelve however shelvers come in to do the adult nons, adult fiction and junior fiction trolley. They have a paperback collection for each age group which is on spinners - no order but they also have a fiction collection for each.

This afternoon I watched a session on AskNow. This is quite interesting and a bit tricky as the 2 questions we had were by uni students. This wasn't the hard bit but their questions required database searching. It was difficult to know what databases they have access to as we aren't even sure what state they are in as to what access they have.

Looking forward to storytime tomorrow :)