NIGHTLY TASK CARDS

Students who close the library at night: PLEASE DO THE TASK THAT IS ASSIGNED TO YOU FOR THAT NIGHT. 

Every closing shift you will be left a task card (on the closing check list) that has a cleaning or organizational task for you to do at some point during your shift. You are left two cards each night. Please do the card that is face up, if for some reason you can not do that card please do the card that is face down. At the end of your shift please place the card of the task that you completed on Kaitlyn's desk. It is getting to the point where night workers are signing off that they completed their task, without ever actually doing them. 

Please speak with Kaitlyn if you have any questions or concerns.

Do Not Save Personal Files & Documents on the Circulation Computers

Please do not save anything onto the circulation computers. When too many files are saved onto them the computers will begin to run slower that usual. Please be advised that Kaitlyn is going to go through both of the circulation computers next week and will delete all files that do not pertain to the library. You all will have until 8:30 am on March 5th to save your documents and files before Kaitlyn will delete them. 

You are more than welcome to save your documents to a flash drive and work on them during your shift. 

You are also more than welcome to work on your document/file and then email it to yourself. 

Please note that after March 5th Kaitlyn will be checking the computers periodically and will delete whatever personal files that she finds with no warning to the student. 

MAC'S ONLY PLEASE!

To make things easier on all of us we have decided to keep the bottom left hand shelf in the laptop cabinet reserved for the MAC computers ONLY. This way we can all immediately see if we have any MAC's available for checkout. Below is a picture of the cabinet for your reference. 

*Also just a reminder, PLEASE do not jut shove the computers into the cabinet and leave them looking like a mess. Please make the laptop cabinet look like the top picture whenever you are working.

If you have any questions please ask Kaitlyn or Noreen.

Shifting The Collection

As you may or may not have noticed the books in the MCHS Library have been moving about. For those of you who are not actively involved in this project, you still need to know the highlights so that you may best serve our patrons. 

1. The patient education literature (brochures and pamphlets) were all recycled.
1. If a patron is looking for these please refer them to Valerie Ward (5-6900) and she can help them.
2. The business collection that was once on the 3rd floor is now integrated with the general collection on the 4th floor. 
3. The general collection is moving to where the patient education literature used to be located.
4. The 3rd floor of the library is now exclusively the nursing collection.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to ask Noreen or Kaitlyn.

There are 4 items that should always be open on the computers while you are at work:

The first is the library home page 

to get to this page just place the URL (library.mchs.com) in the bar at the top of the page

The second is Libanalytics

to get to libanalytics go to: mccn.libanalytics.com

the username is: library@mchs.com and the password is: "welcome"

The third is the work study student blog

to get to this site go to: libguides.mccn.edu/workstudy
(to see the entire page you may have to enter in your firewall password)

The fourth program is Sierra

(this can be opened by clicking on the sierra icon)

the first page username is: mcw_mcir and the password is: m0uln8

the second username is: mcwss and the password is: mcaq1

If you ever come in for a shift and you notice that one of these programs is not open, please open it and log in. These are all important and necessary to your job. 

This Friday Feb. 2nd is Groundhog Day!

You may feel like Bill Murray today in the cult classic 90's film as Kaitlyn is going to give you another practice packet on how to make library accounts in sierra. 

A few important things to remember when creating an account in sierra:

1. the expiration date should be set for 1 year from the day you make the account

2. names should be entered in as last name, first name

3. university ID is the one that has mc at the end, and barcode is just the university ID without the mc

As always Kaitlyn and Noreen are here to help you, feel free to ask them any questions that you may have! 

Jan. 23rd is "National Handwriting Day"

That means that this is the perfect time for a reminder! If there is anything that you need Kaitlyn or Noreen to know please leave us a note. There should always be some form of scrap paper at the desk so please leave us a note if there is some thing that you think we should know. For example: A fine on someones account, if the library is out of a certain supply, if sierra did something unusual, or anything you want us to know in general. 

So please celebrate this holiday today, and every day when needed! 😄