Student Duties
The items that must be put away ASAP after their use, usually by a curator.
What are vault items?
The device selected to annoy the active page into checking Slack.
What is a walkie-talkie that doesn't go on the charger until it is dead?
Location where outbound SCA material is placed for pickup by digital.
What is the pink cart by Paul's desk?
A searchable index of books, photos, and documents housed by SCA and its related western schools.
What is archives west?
Curator Bonus: Tasks of the curator on call.
What is:
1. Connect with the student on the desk at the start of your shift in the reading room slack channel. Pick up radio (pager), and change your slack status to Curator on Call.
2. Be available on slack and turn on notifications. Respond to @s in the reading_room channel within 5 minutes.
3. Page needed material and assist patrons as needs arise.
4. Respond to requests on other slack channels including sca fulltime and library specol.
Procedures carried out by desk staff to prepare the reading room for visitors at the start of each day, or to repair the reading room at the end of a day.
What are the opening and closing checklists?
The calendar that opens upon launching Chrome at the desk.
What is the visitor calendar?
Location where inbound SCA material is returned from digital.
What is the black cart by Paul's desk?
A description of a material about specific topics along with a brief history of that topic.
What is a lib guide?
Student Bonus: Offshoot rooms in the reading room.
What are the LJA, Ellsworth, Fife, and Hatch rooms?
Security procedures executed by desk staff that result in documentation of each patron, the preservation of material, and the communication of rules and expectations.
What is the patron arrival checklist?
The primary digital communication method for all reading room discussion, including paging and announcements.
The Slack "reading_room" channel.
The reserved zone between the vault and the cooler.
What is general cart parking?
These colorful items indicate who has an item missing from a shelf in the stacks.
What are the yellow, orange, blue, and purple flags?
Copies of SCA material that leave USU campus through a process documented on duplicate tracking forms. The material itself temporarily leaves SCA for scanning.
What are ILL (Inter Library ad Lending) requests?
A method of communication with other library departments and non-physical patrons that must be monitored by the student at the desk.
What is chat?
Under the left side of the main desk and for emergencies only.
What is the panic button that summons USU PD?
A place hidden between broadsides and range 95 of the Folk collection that houses some of our largest items.
What is port shelving?
Documents of a sensitive nature whose departure must be noted in a specific binder, and can only be requested through direct communication with Kelly.
What are personnel files?
A record of upcoming desk staffing and support schedules.
What is the SCA "desk, page, and chat" calendar?
Located on the second floor and 100% accessible to the public, no questions asked, with light tables near by for convenience.
Where is the newspaper microfiche?
A database where desk students document all interactions they have with patrons that DO NOT result in a material request.
What is LibAnswers?