Check out RPL’s new Library Lounge collection in the staff lounge. These books and materials are meant to enhance your learning and professional development.
When you get a chance, please take a look around your workspace and at home to see if you have any materials marked “Workroom” or any other relevant items from your personal collection that you are willing to share. Suggestions are welcome!
Please drop off any materials to Meaghan C. and Andrea H.
A male patron called today and asked for a number of book titles. The patron became inappropriate and staff hung up on them. This is okay. Do not feel that you need to stay on the line for this at all. This patron has called here and other libraries in the past for the same reason. They are being inappropriate.
Do not give your name. Forward to a supervisor if needed. Hanging up IS an option.
Shout out to Meghan for cleaning out the staff fridge! It looks great!
…. Can you come to my house and do the same thing?
RPL subscribes to Niche Academy for both public and staff use. Niche is an online learning solution with ready-to-use tutorials. RPL can also use this platform to create our own learning modules for public or staff use which we hope to begin doing over the next year or so.
Employees should have access to all the tutorials. However, you will be receiving an invitation to create a Niche account so you can track and save your progress. Topics range from DEIA/Belonging and Customer Service to Safety, Collection Development, and Ethics.
In the meantime, we have gathered a collection of tutorials created by Niche and other libraries for you to look at. There is also a Niche Market with hundreds more tutorials.
Give a whirl and please send comments, questions, or issues to Amy.
I am working to develop a collection of professional books and materials to eventually be available for internal use by RPL employees in the staff lounge.
When you get a chance, please take a look around your offices and at home to see if you have any materials marked “workroom” or any other relevant items from your personal collection that you are willing to share to help advance the professional development of your peers.
Feel free to drop items off to me in Admin or in my mailbox.
Are you ready for some shout-outs? If you’d like to submit a shout-out, fill out the form on the Forms page. Don’t be shy! Shout it out!
Are you ready for some shout-outs? If you’d like to submit a shout-out, fill out the form on the Forms page. Don’t be shy! Shout it out!
Are you ready for some shout-outs? If you’d like to submit a shout-out, fill out the form on the Forms page. Don’t be shy! Shout it out!
Are you ready for some shout-outs? If you’d like to submit a shout-out, fill out the form on the Forms page. Don’t be shy! Shout it out!
Employee Lounge: We will move the LARGE compost bin outside and use a countertop bin with small bin bags that can be taken out weekly. We appreciate your patience while we work on rearranging the counter space in the lounge.
Community Room: The Zoom hybrid meeting equipment will be left out in the room from now on. Most of the equipment is on a wheeled table, and the camera should remain near the piano. The goal is to minimize moving the equipment which reduces wear and tear.
