[Publib] Desk scheduling

[Jane Carle]

I have done the schedule for my staff of 7 part-time and 7 full-time employeees since 2000.  In that time I have only made changes when I have had to hire a retiree replacement(3 times)or new pages (every summer).  I have people that have worked the same schedule since well before 2000!  This makes life incredibly easy for me, I know.

Except for pages (they will graduate from highschool & go away to college!) turnover is not my problem!

Jane Carle
Kirtland Public Library
Kirtland, Ohio

--- On Thu, 5/21/09, Diedre Conkling <diedre08 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Diedre Conkling <diedre08 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Publib] Desk scheduling
> To: publib at webjunction.org
> Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 3:29 PM
> Ever since I began doing schedules
> I have done monthly schedules.  I have always actually done
> 3 months at a time knowing that the following months may
> need a lot of revision.  This has seemed to help staff with
> planning ahead and they can just write on the calendar
> changes they would like to make.
> 
>  
> When on the current month I have always expected staff
> to make their own changes on the calendar and trade with
> others as needed.  They come to me if they need help but
> most of the time my help has not been needed.  Staff did
> need to know who were the appropriate people to trade with
> but that was pretty easy for everyone to learn.
> 
>  
> Of course, now I work in an office where little of
> this matters and we only put up the calendar to give us some
> idea where the others working out of the office might be
> that day.  
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:35 AM,
> Deb Messling <dlmessling at pburglib.org>
> wrote:
> 
> I schedule all the public
> services desk - circ, adult reference, and children's -
>  at our smallish library.  Although I write a Saturday
> schedule each quarter, I write a weekday schedule every
> week.  A friend employed in another field asked me why I
> don't write a monthly schedule "like everybody
> else."  Is anyone in the library world doing this?
> 
> 
> 
> Deb Messling
> Phillipsburg Free Public Library
> 200 Frost Avenue
> Phillipsburg, NJ 08865
> (908) 454-3712
> dlmessling at pburglib.org
> 
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