We have engaged the services of Katie Hunt, an employee of Account Temps, to be trained by Ruth in Paychex and Fixed Assets before Ruth's departure this Wednesday.  Katie is a very quick study, and ran today's payroll under Ruth's excellent tutelage.

I am sad to announce that Ruth Mondragon is leaving PCCLD, on to greater adventures in her new job.  Her last day will be next Wednesday, May 21.  Attached is an invitation to a coffee we're having that morning.

Representatives from Bibliotecha were out this week updating the self checks, replacing the rfid reader, and other fine tuning. I discovered that we are not shutting down the kiosk optimally for the software and hardware.

We are doing a great job!  Our Key Results are "out of this world" so far in 2014.  Here's the lowdown.  Circulation is 19% ahead of last year's pace with 641,451 circs to date in 2014 compared with 537,375 last year.  Library visits are up 27% with 489,825 through April 2014 versus 385,227 during same period in 2013.  Digital use has increased 30% this year compared with last, 266,630 in 2014 and 205,094 in 2013.  Finally, program attendance is up a whopping 39% with 36,124 recorded in 2014 compared with 25,985 in 2013.  

In partnership with CSU-Extension Service, PCCLD opened its seed library yesterday! A seed library is designed to share seeds from successful plants grown in our locale, eventually developing strains localized to our special climate.

Foundation work at the Greenhorn Valley Library is substantially complete, and the building is framed up. The foundation slab has been poured and framing commenced at the St. Charles Mesa Library. The East Side Library foundation footings are finished and slab pouring is imminent there.

Hi folks,

Each Branch will have 3 bike locks to check out to customers.  This will hopefully be ready by July 1st so kids who ride to the library can lock up their bike.  The locks will check out for one day, and are for use while at the library.

Hello, all!  Just a quick reminder that if you're a supervisor, and you approve a request through Paychex for time off for one of your employees, you do NOT need to manually enter the time into the employee's Paychex page.