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Pilot Project Voting is OPEN!

Submitted by meg.hunt on Mon, 08/15/2016 - 10:38

Thank you for all of your pilot project submissions. We truly appreciate your innovative ideas and your energy for growing our communities in new and exciting ways. The Budget Team (assistant managers on up) reviewed all submissions and ranked their top five choices for implementation. This group also evaluated each project’s alignment with our core values and strategic goals. Lastly, they indicated whether they’d like to see our organization implement the project, and whether they believed the project would be cost-effective.

Attachments: 
Pilot Project Finalists.pdf
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Pilot Projects

Xchange: Staff morale

Submitted by tim.rogers on Fri, 08/12/2016 - 15:39

In an attempt to identify some activities that will help address the morale issues identified by staff across the system, the members of the XChange group (all library supervisors) met on July 19th and came up with action lists that they would discuss with their colleagues back in their departments and libraries. Please click Read more....

Attachments: 
MASTER LIST.pdf
AL - Beckham.pdf
AL - Giles.pdf
AL - Smith.pdf
BI - Currie.pdf
BI - Emmons.pdf
BI - Welke.pdf
BUS - Lovely.pdf
CH - Webb.pdf
CL - Ingram.pdf
CL - Stofle.pdf
CT - Beach.pdf
CT - Podzemny.pdf
DC - Hall.pdf
DC - Newyear.pdf
DIR - Hunt Wilson.pdf
DL - Delaney.pdf
DN - Stout.pdf
DN - Ballou.pdf
DN - MatthewsJ.pdf
DN - Sargent.pdf
DN - T Matthews.pdf
DVS - Zeoli.pdf
ED - Kellogg.pdf
ED - McConnell.pdf
ED - Merriman.pdf
ED - Suhrstedt.pdf
HUM - Dowd.pdf
HUM - Hoffman.pdf
IT - Fischer.pdf
IT - Utley.pdf
MAC - George.pdf
MC - Attalla.pdf
MC - Gerfen.pdf
MC - Robertus.pdf
MC - Tocco.pdf
MSL - Brooks.pdf
MSL - Charter.pdf
MTC - Ray.pdf
NW - Kitchen.pdf
NW - Kopchick.pdf
NW - Schuster.pdf
NW - Sykes.pdf
NW - Walker.pdf
OUT - Dent.pdf
OUT - Walton.pdf
OUT - Walton2.pdf
OUT- Rickey.pdf
RE - Gillespie.pdf
RE - Simpson.pdf
SO - Adams.pdf
SO - Gonzalez.pdf
SO - Wayland.pdf
VI - Fried.pdf
VI - Goldbach.pdf
VI - Mead-Harvey.pdf
VI - Nguyen.pdf
WA - Beasley.pdf
WA - Litteral.pdf
Kennedy Brooks Rahhal McConnell Fulwood.pdf

Capitol Hill groundbreaking

Submitted by admin on Wed, 08/10/2016 - 11:40
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Capitol Hill

Announcing the Value Awards!

Submitted by tim.rogers on Tue, 08/09/2016 - 08:16

As you may have heard through the grapevine, in addition to presenting the longevity certificates and pins at FOCUS this year, we will also be unveiling the Value Awards which acknowledge the effort and results of staff members based on their commitment to our six Core Values. Each award will be bestowed to a staff member whose behaviors, contributions, and overall attitude openly reflected and embodied our Core Values.

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value awards

ONEcard FAQs

Submitted by meg.hunt on Mon, 08/08/2016 - 08:34

Good morning and Happy Monday, Metro! Starting September 1st, we'll be offering a new account type called ONEcard. Staff trainers have been assigned in your region and will be sharing more information with you. Please get to know ONEcard by watching this introduction:

ONEcard from metrolibrary on Vimeo.

The attached information sheets will provide you with talking points, answers to some of your FAQs, and resources for educators (with built-in links-- thanks to the staff at NW for your work on this!). Please let us know what questions you have, and thank you for your part in making ONEcard a success.

 

Attachments: 
Databases for Educators.pdf
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ONEcard

Evanced Update

Submitted by admin on Wed, 08/03/2016 - 11:25

Evanced has released several updates today to our SignUp site.  Here are a list of the updates:

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Evanced, Calendar

Pilot Project Update

Submitted by tim.rogers on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 13:21

Thank you to everyone who submitted a Pilot Project idea!  I continue to be impressed by the creativity of our staff and look forward to see the implementation of the final projects.

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Pilot Projects, Library Unbound

Pokémon Go

Submitted by ewilliams on Tue, 07/12/2016 - 14:48

Hi everyone! If you have some questions about Pokémon Go (like, "what is it?"), here are the basics: public areas like libraries may be marked as special places in the newly-released augmented reality game Pokémon Go. The game is a free app played on smartphones. You may have kids (and adults!) coming to you and wandering around the building with devices, trying to catch or battle Pokémon.

Here are some articles you might find helpful:

Check out our newest books about libraries

Submitted by sryan on Mon, 07/11/2016 - 11:00

Need to recommend a nonfiction read to a 103-year-old? Want to know about emerging technologies and how they're being used in libraries today? Learn about these topics and more with these recent additions to our collection.

Attachments: 
Recent library literature acquisitions 2016.docx

We want to hear your IDEAS for new projects

Submitted by vicki.thompson on Wed, 07/06/2016 - 12:54

The library has allocated a portion of the budget to fund new and innovative products, services, and experiences. The Leadership Team is looking for pilot project ideas that would help advance our strategic goals (Library Unbound and SOaP). The pilot projects will likely be implemented in one, two, or three libraries (but not system-wide, unless it is a departmental project).

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Pilot Projects, SOaP, Library Unbound

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