[Publib] Saturday scheduling?

[Darin Butler]

Rebecca,
For the entire year, all staff work alternate Saturdays.  This can mean
that several people will have several three-day weekends.  To make this
fair, in some of our branches (depends on the branch manager), we trade
at the end of the year if it looks like the same team will have the
advantage.  The team that had the advantage then works, for example, the
last Saturday of the year, and then the first Saturday of the next year.
So this year they would work Saturday, December 27th and then Saturday,
January 3rd (2009), and then Friday 1/9 then Saturday 1/17 and so on,
alternating Fridays and Saturdays.

This system has worked well for us, changing at the end of the year.

Darin L. Butler, Manager
Salt Lake County Library Services
Sandy Library
10100 S Petunia Way
Sandy, UT  84092
(801) 944-7600
dbutler at slco.lib.ut.us

-----Original Message-----
From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Rebecca Smith
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 5:14 AM
To: PUBLIB
Subject: [Publib] Saturday scheduling?

Greetings, all,

I apologize for jumping into the current discussions with a completely
new topic but I would greatly appreciate information on how other
public libraries handle scheduling staff for Saturdays.

At our library (the only library experience I've had thus far), we
alternate Saturdays, fall through spring. For the past two years, this
has meant that each of the two teams has had two three-day weekends,
but I've noticed that in the 2008-2009 year, no three-day weekends
will fall on the non-work Saturdays for whichever team starts that
first Saturday after Labor Day. Ouch.

I'm sure there are other strategies to achieve an equitable
distribution of the four three-day holiday weekends, and I'd be
grateful to hear from other librarians as to how their libraries
handle this issue.

Thanks in advance for your replies, off-list or on.

-Rebecca


-- 

Rebecca Smith
Children's Librarian
read2yourbunny at gmail.com

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than
our abilities."
                             -Albus Dumbledore in
                                 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets


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