Lots of hours available next week!

Hey everyone, please let me know if you're interested in working part or all of any of the following shifts:

Monday, August 27th, 7:30AM 10:30AM-5PM

Wednesday, August 29th, noon-8PM

Friday, August 31st, 8AM-noon

Shift available today -- Thurs. Aug 16th

If you're interested in working today, please give me a call, drop me an email, or just come by. We need someone from now until 4PM. Thanks!

Library extends hours

Starting in the Fall semester, the library will be open until 7:00PM on Fridays and until 9:00PM on Saturdays.

Fall '07 Library Hours

Monday: 7:30AM-11:00PM
Tuesday: 7:30AM-11:00PM
Wednesday: 7:30AM-11:00PM
Thursday: 7:30AM-11:00PM
Friday: 7:30AM-7:00PM
Saturday: 11:00AM-9:00PM
Sunday: Noon-11:00PM

Some policy changes for Fall '07

Please read and initial/comment on this entry.

This year, we're revising the way we schedule circulation desk coverage. Last year, we had 40 people working at the circulation desk, some for as little as one or two hours a week. Although we love to give students jobs, this hasn't been the most efficient staffing model for the library -- training and shift changes take up way more time than they should. Other libraries in the FLO system that are open for a similar number of hours have more like 10 or 20 students who cover the desk.

This doesn't mean we're instituting layoffs or anything -- if you worked for us in Spring '07 and you want to continue working in the library, we want to schedule you this Fall. We are getting a bit pickier about what we expect from you, though.

Scheduling policy
First, we're making a few changes to the way student workers are scheduled.

• Students will be expected to work for at least six hours a week.
• No more one-hour shifts. Students will not be scheduled for shifts of less than two hours.
• Some exceptions may be made to these rules for exceptional workers or in cases of exceptional need on the library's part, but overall we'd really like to stick to this.

Communication
At the beginning of the Fall semester student workers will be asked to fill out a contact information form. If you wish to work at the library, you must provide at least one way to contact you that you check at least once a day. Preferred contact methods would be:

• Frequently-checked email address, from MCPHS or another provider
  
• Mobile phone number (and provider, if you are willing to receive text messages)
• Local home phone number where we can leave messages that you will actually receive
  

But if you don't use these services regularly we might also consider an IM screenname that allows offline messages or something else that works for you. If we're having trouble getting in contact with you, we will ask for additional/other methods of reaching you.

Student workers will also be expected to check this blog. Please plan to take a look at it whenever you work at the circulation desk, or if you use an feed reader, consider picking up our feed here. Some blog entries are more important than others, and the most important ones will be tagged must-read. You are expected to read all must-read entries and leave a comment with your initials to indicate that you have read them (you do not need to log in to leave a comment -- leaving an anonymous comment with just your initials is fine, although if you want to leave a more extensive comment or log in, that's great too).

Welcome back!
We're planning to have an excellent Fall semester in the library, and we can't do that without excellent student workers. For many MCPHS community members, the circulation desk is the only place where they interact with library staff, so it's important to the whole library that the people behind that desk are as knowledgeable, professional, and helpful as possible. Thanks for being part of a great library -- let's try and make it even better!