The past 16+ months have been a trying time with the COVID-19 pandemic in both our personal and work lives. At work we’ve had so many changes in how we serve customers and often, take on the stress from our customers. It can be challenging to find ways to cope with the stress and burden of it all.  

Circulation Forum has had ongoing conversations surrounding self-care during our meetings. We created a poster with different self-care ideas, as well as an Intranet page with more ideas listed on our Self Care page [1].  We also thought a self-care activity would be a fun idea to get all staff involved. We decided that a system-wide activity of bingo would be perfect! 

The goal of Self-Care Bingo is to encourage all library staff to find little ways to practice self-care at work.  

Staff have two options to participate:  

• Complete the classic five in a row bingo (up, down, diagonal)  
• Complete a full blackout 

Self-Care Bingo will begin August 1, 2021 and will end on August 31, 2021. Submissions of your completed Self-Care Bingo card must be uploaded to https://forms.office.com/r/58rSEfxmNN [2] by September 4, 2021.   Bingo cards will be available on Friday, July 30th, 2021.  Please check back for a link to the bingo card on this page.

All staff are eligible and encouraged to participate!  

Once bingo cards are received and confirmed, they will be entered into a drawing for completing five in a row OR completing a blackout. Staff will only be entered into one of the drawings (if you completed more than 5 in a row, but not a full blackout, you will not be entered in multiple times for completing a five in a row). 

Four levels of prizes will be offered:  

1. Single Bingo Grand Winner  
2. Single Bingo Runner Up  
3. Blackout Grand Winner  
4. Blackout Runner Up  
5. Winners will be announced via Intranet!  

Thanks, 

Circulation Forum Self-Care Subcommittee: Tricia Andrews (PSA), Brandon Beckham (AL), Crystal Easley (DC), Tracy Mabry (BE), Brittani Mulkey (BI) with additional help from Stephany Dowd (HUM) and Staff Association’s LaWana Morgan (RE).