Non-stationary cart...redux
Just had a friendly chat with Olivia, this morning, about how to handle getting the non-stationary-stationary cart emptied and reshelved. She followed up with the following memo to all the pages and the head clerks:
"As you know, there is a cart in the Children's Room where stray items are put to be re-shelved. From now on, when the top of that cart gets full, the Library Assistants [or, presumably, whoever is working at the gazebo] will find a page and ask him or her to bring the cart up to the Circulation Desk. The items on this cart should be sorted back onto the Circulation Desk shelves immediately so that they can be found easily and re-shelved later. The Library Assistants [or whoever is staffing the gazebo] will ***make sure that they give this cart to you well before closing time*** so that it does not interfere with the rest of your closing duties."
In other words, the task of rough-sorting should be given by one of us to a specific, individual page; don't leave a full cart up behind the circ. desk with a sign asking "someone" to take care of this task. I'm probably most guilty of this action, but it will help if, as we all come and go at the start or end of a shift, we check whether the cart is laden enough to ask for help. I know I'm also guilty of handing a page a full cart right at closing, and Olivia was very specific in asking that we leave a cart like this for a morning page to handle...but then someone needs to find a morning page to take care of a full cart. After tomorrow, this will be mostly me (four out of six days/week), so I just want to assure evening gazebo staffers that it's not a problem to leave a full cart behind.
In fact, my hunch is that if it weren't for that Weinert woman, this whole system would work incredibly smoothly. But I don't want to hear your suggestions for how to fix THAT! (I can hear my husband hinting, "Nothing one bullet wouldn't fix...")
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