Happy Holidays!

All,

Thank you for all your hard work this year! It's not always easy, but we do what we do very well. I know the 2009 will be full of good things for all of us.

I wanted to take this opportunity to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season. I'll be back on the 31st. Patrick is in charge till I return.

See you soon and all the best this Christmas and always.

John

Princeton Review

Hello all,
Saturday Janurary 17th, at 1:00 pm Princeton Review is coming out to do a free SAT/ACT review test for any teen that wants to attend. The following week they will return to review the test with the teens. This is a great program, and it is free for us. If a teen was to take this elsewhere it would cost a lot. So, if you can please promote this with me. Thanks.

Time Sheets

Please make sure all changes in schedules for next week are turned into me no later than this Thursday morning.

Thanks
Renee

Staff computers in the back

Hola todos. Just a reminder, if you can please tell me, email me, write me, use ESP (Erik's special powers) or whatnot about what files we need on the computers in the back. I will back up everything that you tell me. At the end of the month Network Services will take away the log ins and the computers will be reset. This way we will not lose anything. Thanks. E

Holiday Parties

Folks,

Remember the systemwide holiday party is Friday, December 19 at 7 p.m. at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Remember to RSVP as soon as possible.

Since there have been no objections, I propose we have our party here at lunchtime on Tuesday, December 16. Do we want to do a Secret Santa? I'll check with everyone on Monday and see where everyone is on this.

Another Promotion!

More good news! Erik Wilbourn has accepted his promotion to Senior Library Service Specialist (Teen Services) here at Stella. He's actually belonged to Looscan, but now he's officially ours. Congratulations, Erik!

Booksale

We currently are over capacity for booksale donations. While we cannot declare a complete moratorium on accepting donations, we can politely decline and recommend to customers that they donate to another location, especially if they call on the phone. They can donate to any location they like, of course. Nearby locations that always need donations include Blue Ridge, Johnson, Smith and Young. If in-person customers have donations, we can accept them and then box them up, if necessary, and send them to another location via delivery.

I have offered some of our current items to some of the eastside locations that get few donations. These will also need to be boxed up and sent via delivery.

Please speak to Renee if you would like to assist with boxing items.

Thanks,
John