Almonte

Human Resources – Lori stated 89 people are participating in the ‘Lighten Up Challenge’. MLS staff has lost a total of 228 pounds thus far.
Monday, April 1st begins the new ‘Move-It Challenge’ and HR has begun taking orders for new Actipeds to until Friday, March 1st.
Lori also reported the Human Resources Department is in the process of filling eight open positions.

MAC – The Marketing Department is finishing up work from previous weeks.

Average turnaround time for new titles in Cataloging in January was 1 working day; average for the FY13 is 1.25 working days.

In December, the average turnaround time for borrowing materials in ILL was 8.46 calendar days.

ILL has recently been made aware of an issue with a particular borrowed material. The problem involves a social work textbook titled The strengths model by Charles Rapp. The title has been published in different editions with varying subtitles since 1997, most recently in 2011. ILL has received numerous requests for various editions of this title in the last few months. The most popular edition seems to be the 2006, with the subtitle Case management for people with psychiatric disabilities. At least one copy of this edition is now 60 days overdue; the replacement cost ranges from $250 for a used copy to $750 and up for a new copy. Given this information, ILL will no longer attempt to borrow any edition of this title for MLS customers.

Human Resources – Lori reported the Human Resources Department is focusing on ACA (Affordable Care Act) at this time previously known as Healthcare Reform.

MAC – Marketing is working on a video for Jones Library to showcase their fundraising efforts. The video will be in a scripted format about 3-5 minutes long and will include interviews from Jones Library visitors.

The Marketing Department won 6 Addy Awards. The eMedia commercial was amongst the winning selections. The 47th Annual Addy Awards Ceremony will take place Saturday, February 23rd at the Coca-Cola Events Center.

Kim discussed the stats from the MLS eBook commercial advertisement.

Information Technology – The IT department has prepared and printed W2s and given them to the Business Office.

IT is also working on configuration of routers and switches that will replace equipment that is no longer supported by Cisco.

Jimmy has been working on software that will assist with the layout of shelving at the Almonte Library.

Self Pick-up of reserves begins at Warr Acres and Capitol Hill on January 7th and Choctaw on January 14th.

The RFI for a new ILS system was sent to vendors on January 3rd. The vendors have until January 18th to ask any questions and they are due to be returned to MLS by February 8th. The RFI will then allow IT to prepare and issue RFPs.