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Albert Pless, Director of Equity and Social Justice, will lead our January 2025 training session. Please let him know what DEIAB workshop/learning you would like best. You are also welcome to call or stop by Albert’s office to share other ideas on diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and belonging in the workplace.
Please use the stylus pen on the touch screen at the print release station.
Also, TBS updated the credit card machine today. If you notice any issues, please let me know.
One of our test library cards is named Chris P. Bacon. Please enjoy the following video of his namesake.
Please continue to work on (or start work on) your Cybersecurity Training. The platform is “KnowBe4” and doesn’t send reminders to your email. There is an app available if that is easier for you. This is a shorter program (6 months instead of a year).
IT recently briefed us on the number and frequency of security issues, including scams. There are many bad actors out there, and their tactics are getting more sophisticated. IT can barricade the doors, but that doesn’t help if we (the users) go around opening all the windows.
Also – when you receive suspicious emails, please forward them to IT support.
Hi everyone, I’d like you all to watch the following Communico tutorial, read over my directions, and practice booking meeting rooms in Reserve. Directions for adding library events to Attend are located here.
I’ve bookmarked the Communico Control Panel browser on the ground-floor desk and Borrower Services computers. The login should be saved on both, but if not, it is the rdgcirc and the wonder.. password. If you have your own login, feel free to use that too.
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.
It’s that time of year when folks are getting organized. Employees may purchase their own work planner or desk blotter calendar and request reimbursement (not including tax) for up to $15 for work planners or $20 for desk blotter calendars within a 12-month period. Please submit receipts to Meaghan C. and notify your Division Head.
If the planner or blotter calendar is less than these amounts AND is available from Amazon, Staples, or WB Mason, RPL will purchase it for the employee on our tax-exempt accounts. Please send requests to Meaghan C. and your Division Head.
Happy planning!
Facilities—via our custodians—manage the building’s opening M-F, and are responsible for closing and setting the alarm any day we are open. Like any other team or department, Facilities and the custodians have last-minute staffing emergencies. Therefore, sub or fill-in custodians sometimes have to cover multiple buildings and may not be onsite at opening/closing.
OPENING: If you arrive before 8:00 a.m. M-F, please double check that a custodian has opened the building and use the main entrance if the building seems empty. You may need to turn off the alarm!
CLOSING: If there is no custodian on site at closing, do your best to ensure the building is empty and then leave. The building automatically locks. A custodian is responsible for closing and making sure the building is secure.