Category: Fun and Social

Staff Shout Outs!

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!

Shout out to Val and Desiree for helping a co-worker and keeping it positive. Val and Desiree were hugely helpful with finalizing ideas for Adult Summer Reading. They stepped in, lent their creative minds, and kept me on track as we all tried to organize a simple yet engaging and enjoyable Summer Reading Program. From Ally.

Shout out to Andrea F. for coming up with a new idea. The Summer Reading Kick-Off Event was a perfect Friday-night community event full of fun music, tasty cupcakes, and engaging neighborhood organizations! Almost 350 people attended and many commented on how nice it was to have the community together. Many staff members lent their time and creative minds to help organize, but kudos to Andrea F for spearheading the idea and pushing through various obstacles and last-minute changes and pivots. It all turned out beautifully and was a successful start to Summer Reading! From Ally.

Shout out to Louise for helping a co-worker and being creative. Louise helps package the Library of Things and she has come up with some creative packaging. She is always willing to step up and I appreciate it. Thank you! From Michelle.

Staff Shout Outs!

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!

Shout out to Judy T. for going above and beyond and solving a problem. Shout out to Judy T. for brainstorming ideas on how to move the Covid tests before they expire in July! She thought that since a lot of patrons come straight to Children’s and do all their circs up here without stopping at BS, we could hand them out, too. It’s a great idea since kids are so germy! From Children’s Team.

Shout out to Rebecca, Jocelyn, and Melissa for helping a co-worker and solving a problem. Rebecca, Jocelyn, and Melissa sprang into action when an unscheduled watercolor class popped up last Friday. Teamwork made the whole thing less of a debacle and more of a fun Friday surprise ; ) Thanks for your cooperation and muscle power. From Andrea F.

Shout out to staff who worked May 23 for going above and beyond, helping a co-worker and leading by example. The internet went down and RPL was on a skeleton crew. Thank you to everyone who communicated, tested, communicated again, and had patience. NOBLE – Town IT – Library staff: it all got working again! YAY! Thank you from anonymous.

Shout out to Olivia, Lisa, and Andrea for going above and beyond, coming up with a new idea, and leading by example. Word on the street is that Lisa, Olivia and Andrea crushed it at MLA! Thanks for sharing your shine with other librarians around Mass! From Cate and (Michelle-who is tagging on to this shout-out and can tell you, they were all AMAZING.)

Shout out to Ally for leading by example and solving a problem. When the week isn’t easy for soooo maaaaany reasons, Ally is a guiding light. From Cate.

Shout out to Olivia for coming up with a new idea and keeping it positive. Olivia brought the glitz, the glam, the rainbows, the sporty spice, and Harry to our first Spirit Week! From Cate.

Shout out to Smritha for keeping it positive. There is no better smile than Smritha’s and she shares it freely. Thanks for making us laugh, letting us attend prom vicariously, crushing carts, and all the rest that you do with good cheer! From Cate.

Staff Shout Outs

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!

Shout out to Cate for leading by example and keeping it positive. This might be a little meta, but shout out to Cate for always being supportive and making sure we feel seen and heard! And for all the shout-outs she shouts out! From Anonymous.

Shout out to Andrea Fiorillo for solving a problem. A shout out of gratitude to Andrea for defending the intellectual freedom of libraries by speaking out about the bias curation by Hoopla of their ebook collection. Some of Hoopla’s collection development practices are in direct opposition to those of public libraries by offering materials containing misinformation and outright lies. See the article highlighting this disturbing discovery. From Anonymous.

Shout out to Lisa & Michelle for going above and beyond, helping a co-worker, and keeping it positive. Thank you to Lisa for taking over Toddler Time!!! You are truly a wonderful coworker and team player to just do a storytime two minutes before it starts because I couldn’t get it together. Thank you thank you thank you. And thank you to Michelle for the validation, comfort, and handing out the tickets so that I could step away! I can’t thank you both enough for having patience with me and stepping in!!! From Olivia.

Shout out to Lisa R, Olivia, Susanne, Susan, and Desiree for going above and beyond and helping a co-worker. Thank you for working on Mothers’ Day!!! From Cate.

Shout out to Children’s & Suzy for going above and beyond, helping a co-worker, Shout out to the Children’s crew and Suzy for hauling boxes of props off to multiple open houses in the schools and representing all of us! From Anonymous and Michelle.

Staff Shout Outs

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!

Shout out to Susan for going above and beyond and helping a co-worker. Shout out to Susan for always being willing to help her co-workers and for having every supply we could possibly need. From anonymous.

Shout out to Lisa R for helping a co-worker. Lisa stepped in to run Kids Jam! and she’s jamming, wotcha-wa, hope you like jamming, too! From Cate.

Shout out to Meghan M for going above and beyond and helping a co-worker. Meghan stepped up to help the Children’s Room team during our Hula-La concert. She was the nicest bouncer I’ve ever seen in action! Thank youuuuu! From Cate.

Shout out to Cate and Andrea F for going above and beyond, helping a co-worker and keeping it positive. Staff do so many invisible tasks that often go unrecognized despite the amount of time and care put into them. Shout out this week to Cate and Andrea for their endless help, big and small. Whether it’s coordinating welcome and farewell lunches and brunches that seem to have become a regular occurrence at RPL or creating mood boards for programming ideas while simultaneously chasing down pieces of your storyboard that blew away, they are simply not paid enough for all that they do 😉 From Ally.

Shout out to Olivia for going above and beyond, exemplary customer service, and solving a problem. Olivia rocked April school vacation week with Hula-La crowds, Messy Fun wind, crazed seagulls on her commute, and other general full-moon-ness. Thanks for facing it all with a smile on your face (except for that one time….). From Cate (and Michelle because she thinks so too.)

Shout out to Ally for leading by example. You are the wiiiiind beneath our wiiiiiings! So grateful for all of your support, encouragement, nudges, pokes, reminders, call-outs, ideas, and shared Harry Styles obsessions. From Cate.

Staff Shout Outs

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! And I KNOW there are more shout-outs from other departments!

Shout out to Chrissy at Borrower Services for helping a co-worker out. A big thank you to my coworker, Chrissy, who really helped me try to find a LOT today. Everyone here is so easy to work with and patient. Thank you! From Kathleen Wilcox.

Shout out to Andrea, Kath and Melissa for going above and beyond and helping a co-worker. They participated on the hiring committee for RPL’s new local history librarian. It takes a lot of time and thought to participate in this process and it’s always easier when you have some awesome people around you to talk things through and make difficult decisions. And we are very excited for our new Local History Librarian, Jocelyn Gould to start on Tuesday! Thank you from Ally.

Thank you to Cate and the Children’s Team for going above and beyond. The Displays in the Children’s Room for April are glorious! Led by Cate, the Once Upon a Rhyme and Ode to the Ode are perfect for National Poetry Month! They’re engaging and fun. Nice job! Thank you from anonymous.

Staff Shout Outs

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! And I KNOW there are more shout-outs from other departments. Let’s see them!

Shout out to The Children’s Team for going above and beyond, coming up with a new idea. We rocked the March Newbery Madness brackets in the Children’s Room and on social! It was a tourney full of favorites, fiction, and some flat-out surprises—16 Newbery-winning books competed for the best Newbery of the past 100 years. Megan came up with the idea, Olivia created all the graphics and the posts AND counted the votes, Ashley troubleshot the in-person voting, and the rest of us talked up the books. If you want to know what title won, you have to visit the Children’s Room! From Cate.

Shout out to Everyone who donated cans to Melissa’s crafty cause for helping a co-worker. With your help, I have all the cans I need with plenty of time to make a sample windchime! From Melissa.

Shout out to Melissa, Andrea H., Valerie, Judy T, Desiree, and Lauren for going above and beyond, and coming up with a new idea. This inspired group developed a fun idea – reading tournament/brackets/March Madness/March Hare and turned it into a stunning lobby display (Alice in Wonderland themed). And, when the opportunity arose, participated with other libraries in a 6-town reading tournament – Minute Madness! Extra kudos to those working on interesting & attractive displays in the lobby, the delicious food/cooking-themed one on Express shelves, and throughout the library. From a fan.

Shout out to Louise for going above and beyond and for exemplary customer service. Louise went racing down the stairs and into the parking lot to give back a photograph to a patron who had been using it as a bookmark. That’s going above and beyond the call of Borrower’s Service duty!! From anonymous.

Shout out to Susan B. for going above and beyond and helping a co-worker. Shout out to Susan for always being willing to help her co-workers and for having every supply we could possibly need. From anonymous.

Ode to the Ode

For our April interactive bulletin board, we are featuring the beloved ode and we want YOU to write one. Your ode should be kid-friendly & relatively short (though we don’t want to stifle any creative passion) and should celebrate a person, place, thing, or idea. Please email your ode to rdgchild@noblenet.org and we will display it along with the object of your affection (if it is small) or a photo of said object. As inspiration, please enjoy:

Ode to the stapler
You, dear stapler, surpass all other fasteners,
even the brand-new, super-tight binder clip.
Your solid, reliable “ker-chunk” works magic
through thick and thin, through paper, cloth,
and much, much more.
Your wee staples sometimes break skin, but
I forgive, for you remain faultless. It is I who
cannot seem to use your little claw remover successfully.
Fasten on, oh stapler, because you know your job
and do it so well. You remain ever present, ever full,
ever better than a paper clip.

Staff Shout Outs

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! And I KNOW there are more shout-outs from other departments. Let’s see them!

Shout out to Chris for keeping it positive. I look forward to her Irish soda bread every March 17th and it NEVER disappoints. Thanks for the tasty treat! From Michelle.

Shout out to the Borrower Services staff for exemplary customer service and keeping it positive. As we pass the 2nd anniversary of the pandemic, I want to give a shout-out to our Borrower Services staff who have consistently rolled with every pivot, all with good humor, kindness, and hard work. It does not go unnoticed. From Michelle.

Shout out to Cate for going above and beyond. Cate did a fantastic, fantabulous, wondrous, most lovely job putting together the March Gladness event! Thank you so much for getting us all together to try new things and have fun! From anonymous.

Shout out to Lyndsay for going above and beyond and helping a co-worker. Lyndsay loaned us her Beach umbrella for our play space in the Children’s Room and it added such a fun prop for the kids! Many thanks! From Cate.

Shout out to Andrea H for going above and beyond. Andrea was outside before we opened this morning with a spade, fertilizer, and fierce lipstick getting the pollinator garden ready for spring! She has a green thumb and golden spoon! From Cate.

Staff Shout Outs

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! And I KNOW there are more shout-outs from other departments. Let’s see them!

Shout out to Nemaya for going above and beyond, keeping it positive. She came in on a day she wasn’t working to spoil us with the sweetest Valentine’s Day treats. But the best gift is getting to work with Nemaya! From the Children’s Room.

Shout out to Kathleen Wilcox for going above and beyond and exemplary customer service. Kathleen took charge when entering the library this morning. The alarm had been going off since around 3am(?) She called Kevin Cabuzzi (facilities) to make the awful ringing stop! This is my first time working with her and every interaction she has had with patrons has been positive & high energy. From anonymous.

Shout out to Cate for coming up with a new idea with the signs on the stairwell. There was high praise by a patron for such a great idea and learning tool!

Shout out to Desiree for leading by example. Desiree is always on top of the publicity for the library, and she also keeps me on track. We are lucky to have her! From Michelle.

Shout out to Ally for exemplary customer service. When we get push back from patrons outside of our state about Pride Storytime, Ally is there with a firm hand or an outgoing voicemail message. It’s a huge relief not to have to battle these people over the phone from wherever they are across the country. I simply press “forward call,” and I don’t have to think about it anymore. Ally taking the brunt of it and knowing exactly what to say shows what a strong leader she is! Thank you for dealing with all of that! From Olivia.

Shout out to Susan, Ashley and Ally for going above and beyond, coming up with a new idea and exemplary customer service: Ashley & Susan developed a brand new series for young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual and Developmental disabilities; the amazing new Nature Connection program–such a wonderful addition of services for these patrons and their caregivers!. Despite some bumps and rescheduling, AW & SB hosted their first program the end of March to an almost full house. A big nod to both of them for brainstorming this idea and working hard to pull all the pieces together to create something very special and important to the library and its patrons. From Cate (And Ally-two separate shout outs for this program!).

Praise for RPL in the local paper!

If you get a chance, read the column called “From the Inside” on page A2 of the Tuesday, Feb. 8 Daily Times Chronicle. It’s full of lovely praise for RPL — the building and facilities (“spotless and inviting”), the resources, and especially the helpful and friendly staff (“always have a ready smile or friendly greeting”)! Great job, everyone!