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Good Bye Materials Selection, Hello Collection Development!

Submitted by sarah.peterson on Wed, 07/26/2017 - 10:17

On Wednesday, July 26th, Materials Selection will officially become Collection Development, and will be moving from the Downtown Library to the Service Center. 

Please route all mail to the Service Center marked for Collection Development OR for the specific person to whom you’re sending the mail.  Our phone numbers will not change. 

Kellie Delaney and Greg Bennett, also part of Collection Anywhere, will remain at the Downtown Library, though Kellie will be moving from her current workspace into the Marketing office early in August. 

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Collection Anywhere, Collection Development

Database Highlight #4: We've got the City for That

Submitted by sadie.bruce on Mon, 07/24/2017 - 12:25

How can you build a better world without seeing it first? Take a virtual vacation with this week’s database highlight – A to Z World Travel. 

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Databases

Simple Navigation Update

Submitted by admin on Tue, 07/18/2017 - 10:46

Hello Everyone!

We updated the navigation under About > Committees to be grouped under division with a few stand alone committees.  Committees who no longer meet are now listed under Other Committees.  The links and content will stay the same, they are just organized differently. 

Please comment with any questions.

Hello, BoardDocs - Where You Can Find the Commission Packet

Submitted by victoria.stephens on Mon, 07/17/2017 - 14:08

The spot where you would normally find the commission packet has changed. Instead of viewing the PDF commission packet files on the intranet or metrolibrary.org, you will now view them on BoardDocs.

You can visit BoardDocs from the intranet commission page where you would normally go under, “About”, “Commission”.

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Commission, Commission Packet, BoardDocs

Summer Reading Challenge (Updated Daily)

Submitted by victoria.stephens on Mon, 07/17/2017 - 10:19

Summer Reading Challenge

Today launches the first day of our challenge to increase the average minutes read per SRP participant! I am excited to start this challenge with each of our fantastic library teams. We will update the numbers each day on this post, so you can update your posters. You should receive your posters today. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. Happy summer reading!

Database Highlight #3: We've Got the Hobby for That

Submitted by sadie.bruce on Mon, 07/17/2017 - 09:27

This summer the Metropolitan Library System invites members to “build a better world”. We’ve got a database for that (you knew we did)! This week’s database highlight goes to Ebsco’s Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center.

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Databases

Let the Games Begin: Summer Reading Staff Challenge Launches Monday, July 17th!

Submitted by victoria.stephens on Fri, 07/14/2017 - 17:15

On Monday, we will launch a little friendly competition to measure the largest jump in minutes from July 17th to July 31st at each library location. The good thing about these games is that the odds are in everyone’s favor! Your challenge over the next two weeks is to increase the average number of minutes read per person for your location. So, it does not matter if you are a large library or a small library. It does not matter if your circulation numbers are the highest or the lowest. It does not even matter where your numbers are up to this point in the summer reading program.

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Summer Reading

Update on Department Moves Timeline

Submitted by victoria.stephens on Wed, 07/12/2017 - 15:03

Morgan has been working on the logistics of the upcoming department moves – affecting the downtown library and the service center staff primarily. The below dates reflect the current look of things in terms of time, as it requires coordination with IT and some moving of furniture.

This information has been communicated to managers, and they know what steps to take in preparation for the move. Any questions can be directed to your manager or Morgan directly.

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Alignment Project

Keep Climbing – WE ARE Building a better World

Submitted by victoria.stephens on Mon, 07/10/2017 - 14:38

keep climing - keep readingGOAL: 16 million minutes read

CURRENT NUMBER OF MINUTES READ: 8,419,996 minutes read

Let’s be honest, 16 million is a huge number. But, a goal is meant to be challenging, right? And we aren’t working alone. There are about 870 thousand people in the Metro area. Imagine the minutes we could get if each person read just 20 minutes– that would be over a million minutes above and beyond our goal! And if those same people read 20 minutes for each of the 22 days remaining in the summer reading program – that would be over 300 million minutes above and beyond our goal!

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Summer Reading

Database Highlight #2: We've Got the Ice Cream for That

Submitted by sadie.bruce on Mon, 07/10/2017 - 11:17

July is National Ice Cream month! This week’s database highlight goes to Culture Grams.

Culture Grams is your one-stop shop containing state and country profiles, graphs and tables, photos, biographical articles, and unique information like recipes from around the world. There is a version of this database just for kids and a version for everyone else.

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