Press Release Archive

Over the past month we have discussed on the MyMetrolibrary forums the four responses and eight goals we are considering for our next Strategic Plan. I find it extremely beneficial and exciting to be able to hear from others on the forums and thank each person who has contributed. Based on my understanding of those discussions, the following is a draft of the responses and goals. Do you have any suggestions as we work to finalize this draft? I need to get it finalized by next week (April 16-20). Here are a few questions to consider:

As part of the duties of temporary Human Resources Director, the Security Department has been reporting directly to me. This is a permanent change. Human Resources will no longer be connected with Security. Linda Hyams remains as manager of that department and you should continue to direct your security questions and requests to her.

Dear Staff,

On Thursday, December 9th, the Metropolitan Library Commission approved changes to MLS leave policies. These changes were made as a result of the Comp/Class/Benefits Study by the Singer Group.

The major changes included the elimination of doctor/dental leave and the earn rate for sick leave was reduced from 10 hours a month to 8 hours a month. These changes will go into effect on January 1, 2012.

With the introduction of self-pickup of reserves, there has been an increase of customers taking reserves that don't belong to them, taking the labels off and then bringing them to the circulation desk. When self-pickup was first introduced, both VCirc and the Express Checkout did not let customers check out reserves that were not reserved on their card. However, staff requested that this be removed from VCirc because family members checked out for each other and they felt the block was more of a problem than a help so the block was removed from VCirc.