BTOP Match

Hello,

I forgot to mention BTOP match this morning.  If you entered the grant match information into Kronos for staff, you are welcome to remove it now.  In Cylenthia's original instructions, she said to use 9/30/13 as the end date.  If you used that, it will automatically be removed on October 1st.  If you did not do that part, then you will need to go in manually and add a new pattern the their schedule.  Unfortunately, you cannot modify/edit an existing schedule, you have to add a new schedule pattern. 

Thanks,

Laurie

Changes to Sick Leave for Employees

On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 the Mayor and City Council authorized an amendment increasing the availability of sick leave by City employees. This amendment allows more flexibility for employees in usage of sick leave by allowing employees to use sick leave for the care of a family member. Paid time off (PTO) used by Houston Police Officers is not affected by the change.

Currently, sick leave can be used as time off only for an employee’s bona fide illness, disease and off duty injury as well as to consult with or receive testing or treatment from a health care provider.  Beginning on Saturday, September 21, 2013, sick leave use may also be authorized for the care of a family member due to the family member’s bona fide illness, disease or injury. Family member includes spouse, child or step-child, and parent or step-parent of the employee.

Employees will still be responsible for managing their own absences from work as well as for complying with their department’s attendance policies. 

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) are available now.

Tech Blog

Check out the Tech Blog! 

The Central Tech staff have been working hard at revising powerpoints and handouts.  Please take a look and provide feedback.

Thanks,

Laurie

SMART Goals Working Document

Hello,

I have finally been able to type up the SMART Goals we started last week.  Thanks to Patrick Atkins who created the Serials and Delivery ones.  Please use this link:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GZCfAroV0Js-GPkz4Eax3A7e42AbmnNoMsl8VVgw9cs/edit?usp=sharing to view the goals that we already have.  You can log on as nlmanagers@gmail.com and edit the document if you would like to change or add other goals.

Thanks,

Laurie

My Link--New library cards

Fred sent this today:

Greetings all.

Early next week, your unit will receive a box of the new HPL My Link cards Dr. Lawson announced.  Each new card set includes traditional wallet card, as well as a key tag and a re-attachable adhesive barcode label.  The barcode numbers will continue to be 14 digits long, but the 5 digit opening sequence will change from 22477 to 77422. 

You will begin issuing the new cards on 09/12/13.  When the card/key tag set is issued, the staff member will remove the adhesive label from the set and adhere it to the registration form in the space provided for the barcode.  For a preview of the new card/key tag sets and a brief demonstration of how to affix the adhesive barcode label to the registration form, click on the link and watch the video: https://sites.google.com/site/hplstafftraining/new-hpl-library-card

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact the Circulation Administration Department.  We will be glad to assist you in any way we are able.

Thanks.

Fred Schumacher

Circulation Administration Manager

Evanced instructions and reminders

Hello,

If you need the instructions for using Evanced, you can find it on the Resources page of the blog.  Thanks to Marcos Martinez for scanning them and sending them to me. 

Please make sure to enter your events so they can appear on the events page and on your individual location pages.  Veronica Davidson has asked if staff would please use the same language when adding programs.  Do a search for your program and see what others have don and use the same kind of names and descriptions.  This is especially important for the computer classes as some of those classes are called by many different names.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Laurie

5 month HEAR reviews for new staff

Hello,

I hope that managers are working on their 5 month reviews for staff who started 3/18 and 4/1.  If you did not input templates earlier, you will now be limited to 4 job duties and 4 behavioral factors.  Please look at the existing job duties and pick the most important ones.  You may also combine a few if you need to.

Thanks,

Laurie