Circulation basics
Our library catalog and what you use to check things in and out.
What is Koha?
Your supervisor, or the person who would be happy to answer all of your questions!
Who is Karlyn?
Cannot be worn while working at the desk.
What are headphones?
Where the reserves books are located.
What is next to the front desk?
Floor where the film collection is located.
What is Floor 1A?
The collection that contains items available for specific classes, often with specific loan periods (2 hours, 3 hours, etc).
What is the reserve collection?
Our user services librarian, who manages library instruction and also moonlights as the college archivist.
Who is Andy Prellwitz?
The tool that we use to communicate at the desk
What is Slack?
The floor that the Silent Study Room, the Archives, and two conference rooms are located on.
What is Floor 4?
Books that a patron has requested to pick up at the front desk.
What are holds?
The loan period for students checking out books from the stacks.
What is the entire semester?
The director of the Franzen Center for Academic Success.
Who is Brenda Gabrielson?
The tool you use to request shifts off and to sign up for someone else's shift (often far in advance).
What is the shared circulation Google calendar?
Where the Quarto books are located.
What is Floor 2?
Where to look if you have a question but Karlyn isn't here.
What is the procedures manual?
Information we never give out at the desk.
What is the item(s) a patron has checked out and/or who has what items checked out?
Our budget and acquisitions manager, who also manages cataloging and your timecards.
Who is Amy Stephens?
The daily task that we use the iPad for every hour on the half hour.
What is patron count?
Where to put Chromebooks returned when librarians are gone.
What is the filing cabinet in the library workroom?
Popular devices that can be checked out for 1 week at a time (previously 3 days at a time).
What are Chromebooks?
Books that we borrow from other libraries for our patrons.
What is interlibrary loan?
Who are Karlyn and Andy?
The maximum number of missed shifts per semester.
What is five?
Room where the comfiest couch in the library is located.
What is the Silent Study Room?
The classification system the library uses to catalog and organize its books.
What is the Library of Congress?