"The noise was glorious." *

Whenever I think about summertime at the Ashburn Library, I'm reminded of that line from Ramona the Pest * by Beverly Cleary. And this from Pink Floyd's "In the Flesh":

"To feel the warm thrill of confusion, that space cadet glow."

The warm thrill of confusion pretty much captures the spirt of the place from my point of view. For me, as you can see, SRP is just peachy, and despite all the problems, I enjoy the chaos. I'm wondering about those veterans of summers paging in the past--How do you feel about the time between mid-June to mid-August here at Ashburn? Any caveats for your uninitiated colleagues?

Process Review

Chrissy writes, "..I suggest that the current Pages write down things that we would like covered during training (things that take a while to pick up, or things that may seem confusing, or things that have been missed during training in the past)".

I agree with Chrissy's suggestion; we should review these procedures from time to time, especially with Page input. Let's start with the opening/closing process--Is there anything in this list you would like to add, delete, revise?
Opening/Closing Checklist

Every other weekend?

If you could work every other weekend (instead of having to work exactly 12 hours per pay period), would you be more inclined to work weekend shifts?

Talk amongst yourselves . . .

Lead Page?

Would it be helpful to have a lead page (or one for each supervisor) that would be responsible for training new pages and disseminating information to the rest of the pages?

Discuss.

Bysshe

"... be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free:
Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but Mutability."

If you haven't heard--L. has left us, B. is graduating, and J's last day is 5-14.

Homework

Hello, Ashburn Pages!

I'm taking a course through the County's Human Resources Dept., and we have been asked to do a project in our own agencies. My goal is to address our unique difficulty of having a Page conversation--the library is staffed over 52 hours weekly and all pages work part-time. Meetings are not possible. This blog will last at least the length of my training (mid-June), maybe beyond if there is interest and utility.

This blog will not take the place of e-mail; Steven and I will continue to e-mail both to the group and to individuals. What this blog can be is a forum for the page team to make suggestions, ask questions you think all might benefit from, and to raise concerns. If you wish to post something, respond to a post (like this one) by clicking the Comments link.

Tony