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Summer Closing
Everyone is asking whether we will close over the summer holidays. We didn't close last year, but I don't think so many people were going away on holiday last year. This year, people are travelling again, so it's making filling shifts much more difficult. To help us...
Holidays and Three Rings
It's the holiday season (which is great!) but it means that lots of you are away and shifts are harder to fill as a result. To help with planning, it would be useful if you could log in to update your availability on your Three Rings profile. To do this, on a desktop...
Newspaper Deliveries
For some reason best known to themselves, Monros have started delivering the newspapers to the Book Return Box. If you can't find them in the mail box, check the book return box. As a reminder, papers are delivered Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
Instructions to ‘Take inventory’ on Tinycat
From the TinyCat Admin page, go to LibraryThing, and under 'Cataloging' click on 'Your books'. From the drop down menu next to 'Covers', choose the 'Take inventory option': 3. Once the 'Take inventory' option has been selected, it will look like this: 4. Go through...
Air Conditioning/Heating System
In this really hot weather, it's nice to open the doors of the library to the open air. The last advice you had on this was that it was not allowed, due to causing problems with the heating/air conditioning. Since the system was serviced in April, we now know how to...
NEW FOOTFALL COUNTER
From Saturday 1 July (the first day of Quarter 3 2023), we are moving to using a new format footfall counter. This is it FOOTFALL COUNTER. I have printed 100 copies. When they run out, you can print more by finding the file on the hard drive here:...
Library Reading Events Calendar
The suggested reading events for the year can be found below. They have been compiled from a list prepared by Sally Long, events suggested from the UN list of observances: https://www.un.org/en/observances/list-days-weeks, and reading events from the National Literacy...
Instructions for writing review on tinycat
If you have read a book from the collection and would like to write a review, please feel free to do this through TinyCat. Instructions for writing review: Go to TinyCat Admin and click on LibraryThing Go to ‘Your books’ Search the book you want to review in the...
Library Desk Tasks
Reading the shelves. Make sure books in Fiction, Classics, Chapter Books are in alphabetical order by author surname. Check to make sure books are facing the right way and are on the correct shelves. If unsure where book goes then you can find where it...