Congratulations! Ms. Sharon Chase

The Winner of Scenic Woods Thanksgiving Basket Giveaway

 

 

 

SCENIC WOODS CIRCULATION ENHANCEMENT THANKSGIVING BASKET GIVEAWAY

 

Patrons checking out 10 books or more at Scenic Woods Library have a chance to win this beautiful Thanksgiving Basket.

Welcome

Back

 

Kimbretta

(Kim)

Gibson

 

to

Scenic Woods Regional Library

AND THE WINNERS ARE...

The Winners of the Breast Cancer Awareness Basket and the two Fall Harvest Baskets have been selected.

 And they are...

 

Johnnie Williams of Park Place

Breast Cancer Basket

 

John Toule of Central

Fall Harvest Basket

 

Virginia McCoy 

 Fall Harvest Basket

 

 

Thank you to everyone for their participation for this worthy cause!!!

Congratulations

We would like to say...

CONGRATULATIONS

to

MS. DEBRA DAVIS

for being the Employee of the Month for all of her hard work and effort in creating the beautiful baskets! Since Ms. Debra is the Employee of the Month, she is now able to park in reserved parking for the entire month!

 

Job well done!!! Keep up the good work!!!

 

 

Kudos

to

James Lawrence

for being an Extra Miler in the Houston Savvy this month!!

 

Way to go James!!!!

 

The Scenic Woods' staff is Proud of you :)



Breast Cancer Awareness Basket

Check out the Breast Cancer Awareness Basket that you can have a chance to WIN if you purchase a raffle ticket! ($1.00 for 1 ticket and $3.00 for 5 tickets.) All proceeds will go to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the American Cancer Society!

Scenic Woods Regional Library Basket Giveaway!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

         Buy your CMC Raffle ticket today and increase your chance to win!

Update on Wellness Events

Hi Everyone,

Please see below Gwen Walters email concerning City of Houston Wellness Events that enable City of Houston employees to accumulate  points for their medical plans.

 

 

Hello All,

 

Following is a listing of COH Wellness Events that will be held at the Houston Public Library for subscribers to the City of Houston’s Cigna Health Plan. You are welcomed to participate in these events and earn points for a discount on the medical plan. Our primary points goal is to earn 500 points by December 31, 2013. Your participation allows you to save money, improve your health and win prizes!

1. Wellness Education Scheduled at HPL – October 1, 2013, 12-1pm

Tuesday, October 1, 2013, everyone is invited to attend a Wellness Education Presentation hosted by the COH Wellness Team. This session titled “Eating Healthy Without Dieting” will be held in the Program Place Meeting Room on the 4^th floor of the Jessie Jones building from 12 noon until 1:00 p.m. Pre-registration is not required. By attending this session you will earn 50 points.

2. HPL’s  Wellness Fitness Class Scheduled at HPL – Starting October 8, 2013, 1-2pm

HPL’s  Wellness Fitness Class, “Intermediate Boot Camp”, is open to all HPL staffers and COH employees who would like to attend. This class starts Tuesday, October 8^th. Classes will be held in the Concourse Level Meeting Room of the Jesse Jones building every Tuesday and Thursday during the months of October and November from 1:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m.  By participating in this Department Specific Class you can earn up to 250 points.

 

3. Biometric Screenings Scheduled at HPL – October 9, 2013, 8:30-4pm

 

The City of Houston Wellness Connection has scheduled another Biometric Screening Event that will be held at the Jesse Jones Library Building Plaza Area on Wednesday October 9, 2013, from 8:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. You are also welcomed to attend Biometric Screening Events at other COH locations . For a complete listing of these locations and dates of events please visit, www.healthfair.com/houston  or call 866.461.4502  By completing the Biometrics & Health Assessment you will earn 250 points.

4. Flu Shot Clinic Scheduled at HPL – October 9, 2013, 12-2pm

Wednesday, October 9, 2013, the Houston Public Library will host a Flu Clinic at the Jesse Jones Library in the Program Place Meeting Room from 12 noon until 2:00 p.m. This COH Wellness event is open to active employees who have Kelsey Care. You do not need to preregister for this event. Just bring your Cigna Identification Card to show clinicians when you arrive.  By taking a flu shot, which is in the category of Disease Management you will earn 125 points.

5. HPL Blood Drive Scheduled at HPL – October 22,  2013, 7:30-1:30pm

HPL’s next Blood Drive will be held on Tuesday, October 22, 2013 from 7:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. at the Jesse Jones building in the Concourse Level Meeting Room. All donor names will be placed in a drawing to win two free tickets to the Texas Bowl, December 27^th at Reliant Stadium and a football gift basket. To schedule your appointment, visit www.giveblood.org.  *New! By participating in this HPL Blood Drive Event you will earn 25 points.

 

Here are three Resource Links that are very helpful…

A.   Improve Quick Start Guide – gives the numeric point value for all wellness activities.

B.   Improve Physical Activity Log – allows you to log in your personal physical activities (running, walking, swimming, etc.) to qualify for points. This completed form should be faxed/sent to the COH Wellness Group so that your points are credited to you. fax# 713.837.9490.

C.   Improve Reporting Form – this form is to be completed by you and signed by an authorized care giver for any of the activities you complete listed on this form. This completed form should be faxed/sent to the COH Wellness Group so that these points can be credited to you. fax# 713.837.9490.

Thank you for your participation in the Wellness Programs of the City of Houston. For more information about the Improved Wellness Plan please visit www.houstonwellnessconnection.org, or visit  wconnection@houstontx.gov. If more discussion is needed about any of the information shared in this email, please feel free to respond or give me a call.

Kind Regards,

Gwen Walter

Hi Everyone!

With the upcoming month of October quickly approaching, we will be having an exciting program here at Scenic Woods to assist in enhancing Scenic Woods' Circulation. Ms.Yvonne has kindly donated Halloween items and Ms. Debra has created beautiful Halloween baskets that our patrons can have the chance to win!

Two weekly drawings will be held every Tuesday and Thursday. Patrons do not have to be present to win. So.. make  every effort to promote this exciting program to patrons!

       

                            Ms. Debra is so creative! Thanks for making these boo-tiful
                                                             Halloween baskets!

Customer Surveys

Hi Everyone,

Steve Hill sent out some clarification about the Customer Surveys we are to distribute this week. Please see below:

The print version of survey is only to run one week, September 22-28^th. Please have your staff send me the completed surveys no later than Oct 1^st.

Unused print surveys should be discarded Monday September 29^th.

The online survey will be on HPL’s website one additional week, until October 7^th.  

Thanks!

 

HPL Customer Survey

Hi Everyone,

Please view this email form Steve Hill concerning the HPL Customer Surveys that we need to encourage patrons to complete:

This is a reminder that the HPL customer survey will begin this coming Sunday, September 22^nd.  It is accessible via the rolling banner on the homepage or on the About tab of our website. http://www.houstonlibrary.org/survey

Please encourage your customers to use the online survey, which is available in both English and Spanish. For those customers who are reluctant to submit their surveys online, use the print version, which each location should receive on or before Friday.

As ever, your role in the process is critical, so please contact me with any comments questions, or concerns you may have.

Thank you for all the great work you do!

Wellness Health Assessment

Hello Everyone!
 
If you haven't done so already, you may want to complete your Wellness Health Assessment by Sept. 30th to receive 250points. If you acquire 500 points by December 31st, you are entitled to a discount on your health insurance!
 
The City of Houston has set up a Biometric Screening for employees at the following two places (by appointment only- 866-461-4502):
 

Friday, September 20, 6 a.m. – 5 p.m. at 6200 Wheeler.

Friday, September 20, 2 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. at 5614 Neches.
 
You will need to include the following on your health assessment:
 
- Height
- Weight
- Waist circumference
- HDL
- Total cholesterol
- Blood pressure

 
So... don't delay and complete the Wellness Health Assessment today!

Hi Everyone,

As of today, we will need to mark tally marks for any Holds that staff comes across on the appropriate sheet at the Reference Desk. Simply mark the tally for the correct day.

Thanks!

Hi Everyone,

Please see Syma's message to staff about Sirsi:

I anticipate this will be my last All Employee Update regarding the migration to SirsiDynix. We still have numerous issues that we are working to correct but the major process is complete. Future updates will be sent to the various group lists (NL staff, Central Services staff, LMS staff, etc) as changes occur.

We are working to get the Holds Reports to print out in a more logical order to facilitate pulling materials.

We are working on a series of short “how-to” videos for customers on logging in to their accounts, changing PINs, searching the catalog, etc. We hope to do these quickly and have them available by the end of the month.

Several people reported that the spreadsheet of overdues did not produce overwhelming results. That is fine. Even if only a few customer issues were resolved by doing this, it was worth the effort.

New books and new book orders are slowly starting to flow through. Glitches still abound but progress has been made. AV materials are still problematic. We are hoping to have those start up again around Labor Day. I know customers are asking and we are working through the process as quickly as possible. Our priority has been on making sure circulation was functioning and the catalog displayed correct information. 

I will leave with one final detailed procedure on placing item level holds. These are to be used when a customer wants a specific volume from a series and all volumes are attached to the same record in the catalog. There is a bug in the Enterprise software so for now, you must place this hold for the customer:

1. Select the Place Holds wizard and enter the customer’s barcode.

2. Use the Item Search Helper to do a search for the title.

3. Find the correct record (make sure it is HOU locations and desired format).

4. Highlight the particular volume the customer wants. (Remember the hold will only be for the particular item you select so, if possible, find a copy that seems to be on the shelf or actively circulating.

5. Hit Place Hold. This brings you back to the Place Holds Wizard screen and inserts the item barcode in the Item ID field.

6. Make sure the pickup location is correct

7. In the box called Level/Range, change the radial button from Title to Copy

8. Hit Place Hold

You might want to practice doing this on older editions of the World Book Encyclopedia that have multiple circulating copies.

I cannot thank you enough for the hard work you have done and continue to do to learn new ways of doing things that were second nature to you in the old system and, at the same time, helping our customers who are having similar struggles. Continue to contact the HPL IT Helpdesk with issues you are facing and feel free to copy me and/or Fred Schumacher and/or Felicia Brisco. Thanks again.

Syma

Syma Zerkow

Chief of Library Materials Services

Houston Public Library

832-393-1484

syma.zerkow@houstontx.gov

Reminder of Display Cases Responsibilities:

Display Case Responsibilites for the SCE Staff:

September-James Lawrence
October- Yvonne Hitchens
November-Shanice Alexander
December-Maurina Powers

The Houston Fire Department Truck visited Scenic Woods! The firefighters were very friendly and informative about fire saftey!

                                                      It's so hard to say goodbye....

We will truly miss Mr. Raul Velez and Ms. Kimbretta Gipson, Scenic Woods' BTOP Instructors. They have truly been an asset to the library. We wish them nothing but success in their future endeavors!

Thanks for all your hard work! You two will truly be missed!

Week of July 29th - August 3rd activities at Scenic Woods Regional Library:

July 29th: Children's Movie - 1pm
July 29th: Houston Fire Department Truck - 2:30pm
July 30th: Crocodile Encounter - 10:30am
July 30th: Gaming - 2pm
July 31st: Children's Craft - 1pm
August 3rd: ESL Class - 10am

Cosmic Cathy gave an excellent presentation on science related experiments that wowed the crowd! Participants were thoroughly impressed by her demonstrations and learned something new about science also!

All About Turtles was very educational and interesting! Check out the various sizes of turtles that visited Scenic Woods!

We had so much fun with Mr. Greg Ruhe of Puppet Pizzazz! His puppets and performance were so creative and imaginative!

Kim Gibson, Our Scenic Woods Regional BTOP instructor went above and beyond the call of duty with her program, "KIDS CORNER",  Kim taught our 4th and 5th grade after school students basic computer skills.  The students also enjoyed game time. 

The Scenic Woods Regional Library is having a great time this summer

Majic Show



4th of July Craft

Majic Show

Let us welcome Yvonne Hitchens, our new full-time employee to the Scenic Woods Regional Library.  We are happy to have you join our staff! 

Events at SCE for the week of July 15th - July 19th:

July 15th Children's Movie-1pm (MJ)
July 16th Mad Science- 10:30am (MK)
July 16th Gaming - 2pm (KG)
July 17th Lift Off Houston - 5:30pm
July 18th Houston Fire Department Truck - 10:30am (JL)

CONGRATULATIONS !!!

ARIT IS NOW A PROUD UNT MLS GRADUATE

Let's all give her a hand for a job well done !!!!!

The Scenic Woods Library will be having the following events for this week.

06/17/2013 Children's Movie 1:00 PM
06/18/2013 TX SNAKES 10:30 AM
06/19/2013 Children's Craft 1:00 PM
06/20/2013 Board Games 10:30 AM

Display Case Responsibilites for the SCE Staff
May-Arit Ekpro
June-Michelle King
July-Maurina Powers
August-Debra Davis
September-James Lawrence
October-
November-Shanice Alexander
December-Maurina Powers

The Scenic Woods' employee of the Month for May is Kim Gibson! 

Kim is our BTOP-Technical Instructor.  Kim does a wonderful job with her hands-on assistance in her computer classes with her students.  Kim has encouraged two of her students to purchase laptops.  Kim is very helpful and her students are learning new things about technology everyday. 

Kim also has a wondeful "Kids Corner" for our after-school students. Special kudos to Kim!!!!!

Staff Job Assignments

Shelving Assignment- Minnie Jackson

**Minnie Jackson**
All Adult Fiction
Large Print books
Classics
Adult Non-fiction 000’s-600’s
Adult Paperbacks
Testing Books
Adult Biographies

Shelving Assignment- Shanice Alexander

All Juvenile Books (Fiction and Non-fiction)
Juvenile Paperbacks and Display area
Juvenile Biographies

Other Shelving Assignment- All Audio – DD
700’s – 800s – NG
YA - MK
900 – JL
Spanish (Non-fiction) – FS
Spanish (Fiction) – AE

Staff Duties are as follows:

Debra Davis

Holds
Magazines
All Audio Materials
On the Fly items
Supply Orders – After NG

Arit Ekpro

Juvenile Book Ordering
Spanish Fiction
Library Applications
Monthly Statistics

 Naudia Griffin

Book sale Items
Discards
OnSearch slips
Supply Orders

 Michelle King

Event Center
Delivery
Job Postings
NOS slips
Discards
Desk Schedules
Book Drop – Alternating weekends

 James Lawrence

New Books
Book Drop daily
Discards – Assistant

 Franklin Smith

Paging Slips daily
Clear Hold shelf weekly
Meeting Room log
Service Maintenance log
Spanish (Non-fiction)
Newspapers
Quarterly Reports

Fire Warden – New Staff Responsibilities Coming Very Soon

Smart Money Duties

Mondays – DD/MP

Tuesdays – AE/NG
Wednesdays – MK/JL
Thursdays – FS/NG
Fridays & Saturdays– DD or MK (based on whose working)

 Remember:
Our Greatest Responsibility is helping our patrons in our public service areas and other duties should be completed during off desk time. (Everyone will have an equal amount of on and off desk time so all duties can be completed in a timely manner).

We will all function as one team: respecting and helping each other succeed in out tasks).

 RFID Assignments: Monthly

April – Debra Davis
May – Arit Ekpro
June – Shanice Alexander
July – James Lawrence
August - Michelle King
September – Franklin Smith
October – Maurina Powers
November – Debra Davis
December – Arit Ekpro

New Staff At Scenic

Let's Welcome our New Staff Members to Scenic Woods!!!

A special shout-out to Debra Davis for her wonderful job in training our new employees at Scenic Woods Regional.  Debra is our Senior Library Assistant who has been employed with HPL for 20 plus years.  She has excellent organizational skills and does a wonderful job training new staff with the policy and procedures of the library.  When the book carts are dysfunctional, without being asked, Debra put the carts in Dewey Decimal order and then shelves them.  Kudos to Debra Davis!! We really appreciate her going above and beyond the call of duty..

HPL specializes in smiles!

Let's welcome Naudia Griffin to the Scenic Woods Regional Library.  Naudia is a Senior Customer Service Clerk from Collier.  Naudia will be working at Scenic Woods until Collier reopens. 

HPL specializes in smiles!

Let us welcome James Lawrence, Customer Service Clerk to the Scenic Woods Regional Library.  James is our newest full-time employee!  Lets welcome James and assist him with any questions he may have.

HPL specializes in smiles!

Hello Staff,

As a friendly reminder, please be nice and helpful to the current and new employees of HPL.  We also would like to be very welcoming to the substitute staff.  HPL specializes in smiles!

Congratulations to Ms. Michelle King, she is the Scenic Woods Regional Library Employee of the Month for April!

Hello Everyone,

I want to take this opportunity to say goodbye to each and every one of you.  The years I have worked here are very special and each of you has helped to make it so.  With the aid of your encouragement and support, I not only performed my best, but also learned so many new things.  I will like you to know that I thank and appreciate the affection and camaraderie that you all have shown to me. 

I wish you all best wishes for a successful future.
Thank you for everything.



Yours truly,

Jacquina J. Sowell

Please take time out and welcome Shanice Alexander to the Scenic Woods Regional Library.  Shanice is our new part-time Customer Service Clerk.  We are glad to have her and if she needs any assistance please help her.