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Playaways are Coming!

Playaways are coming! Next week... Wednesday, January 25 to be exact.

What's that you say? It's kind of like an mp3 player that has a full audiobook already on it.  No downloading. No CDs to load. Nothing. Just press play. They are so cool and so tiny!  You can easily fit one in your pocket.

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Press Release & System News

Leave Changes

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.

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Press Release & System News

Class and Comp Study FAQs

Compensation, Classification and Benefits Study: Background

In late 2010, Metropolitan Library System hired The Singer Group, a Baltimore-based human resources consulting firm, to conduct a study to review our compensation and classification systems as well as our benefits programs.  The ultimate goal of the study was to ensure that all of these systems were internally and externally equitable, allowing MLS to recruit and retain staff successfully. 

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Press Release & System News

Changes to VCirc regarding System Reserves

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.

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Press Release & System News

Class and Comp Study Update/Appeals Process

Dear staff:

All along in the classification and compensation study the administration has indicated that no employee’s current pay would be affected.  No one would earn less than they currently were.    I’m now in a position to talk more about compensation and how it will affect future pay.

As you will recall from information that was previously sent to you, five positions were recommended by the consultants to be lowered one grade. 

There are currently nine employees in the five positions with these job titles. 

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Press Release & System News

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