Slideshow for training teen volunteers at Gere Branch Library, 2013

1. @ Gere Branch Library

2. Fill out the Volunteer Agreement

3. Application
• Email:
• Please use an email address
that you ACTUALLY check –
otherwise, **indicate** the best
way to reach
you…text/call/smoke signals
etc.
• Special Interests/Skills:
• Ex. Can leap over tall
buildings/make chocolate
appear out of thin air/have
memorized entire Dewey
Decimal system
• Education/Training:
• Have you volunteered at
another library?

4. Understanding
• Performance of tasks
• You‟re agreeing to perform these
tasks accurately. The two biggest
elements of this are:
• 1. If you aren’t sure…ASK!
• 2. Before you start a new task –
ASK!
• I WILL harp more about this later.
• Dress appropriately
• This is not a gym workout or a
reality show. Dress sensibly, neatly
and in a manner that would not
shock your grandmother.
• Time Frame
• Plan to complete your hours in one
to three months.

5. These and ONLY These Materials

6. Quick Vocabulary Lesson
• Bins – the large square boxes on • Label – the printed label attached
wheels that sit underneath the to an item containing SKADS of
return slot. This is the first place important info. Look for it!!
your stuff lands when you return it. • Spine – the binding of a book, the
From there it gets put onto a Cart hinge of a DVD or CD case. The
or into a Tub… part that faces OUT when the item
• Tubs – Hard plastic (blue, green, is shelved.
red) portable book containers that • Spine Label – Look at the spine of
can go in delivery to other an item for VERY informative
branches. Also used for JPBs labels.
• Carts – on wheels, books go here • Weed – like weeding a garden.
to be FIRST checked in, then We remove the items that are old
SECOND reshelved. Note the or not circulating and send them
So you have a clue position of the book on the cart! downtown.
• Circ – Circulation. The process of •
what the heck we‟re stuff being checked out, used, and
In-house Use – Material that is
removed from the shelf and used,
talking about. checked back in. but not actually checked out. Must
• PBs – Paperbacks. JPB – be checked back in before
Juvenile Paperbacks reshelving.
• J or Juv – “Juvenile” or for Kids • LCL – Lincoln City Libraries
(babies up to upper elementary) • Branch – There are eight (8)
• YA – “Young Adult” materials for Branch libraries, of which Gere is
older kids one.
• Adult – Stuff for grownups (and • Pages or Aids – The folks who get
big kids) paid to shelve materials, empty
• Checked In – The process of book drops, check in, process
scanning the item on the holds, etc.
computer that takes it OUT of the • Trust me there are more silly
patron‟s name and puts it back words, but this is plenty for now. If
into “To-Be-Shelved” or “Available” somebody says something that
Status sounds like English but doesn‟t
• „To Be Shelved‟ – The item has make sense – ASK!!!
been checked in and is ready to

7. Types of Material You Will
(and WILL NOT)
Be Handling
Unless you have been
SPECIFICALLY trained
Because if you goof it by ME
up, I get yelled at,
and you might not to shelve a specific type of
get to finish your material,
hours. 
off a specific cart…
you are
NOT TO TOUCH IT!
Oy vey with the threatening red text..

8. Types of Material You Will (and
WILL NOT) Be Handling
There are (as
of last year)
850,131 items
You want to finish
circulating
your hours, right?  through Lincoln
City Libraries.

9. Types of Material You Will (and
WILL NOT) Be Handling
• It takes months…even
years for staff with
If you goof it up, I get
bounteous amounts of
yelled at. I am plenty
capable of doing higher education to learn all
things to get myself
yelled at without your the pesky little nit-picky
help, thank you very
much. details about each type of
material.
You have 90 minutes.
If you are interested in learning about the other 800,000 items, please go to library
school, get your degree, and come back and apply for a job here in 4-6 years. We’d
love to have you!!!

10. Types of Material You Will Be
Handling
1. Juvenile (j) and Young Adult (YA)
Paperbacks
1. Board books
2. Picture books
3. First readers
4. Rigby Readers
Do it right and I 5. Series Paperbacks (including jpb
swear I‟ll shut up graphics)
about it! 6. Non-series Paperbacks
7. j and YA Non-fiction Paperbacks
1. J and YA8. J and YA Graphic Novels
Non-Print 1. Adult Non-Print
1. DVDs 1. DVDs
2. Books on CD 2. Books on CD
3. CD-ROMs 3. CD-ROMs
4. Music CDs 4. Music CDs
5. Magazines 5. Magazines

11. Types of Material You Will Be
Handling
Juvenile (j) Paperbacks
The CORRECT cart looks like this.
If they‟re not on a cart that looks
like this? DO NOT SHELVE
THEM!!
*Items on this cart have been checked
in.
*If you start shelving stuff that hasn‟t
been checked in, then we get angry
patrons SWEARING VEHEMENTLY
and often loudly, that they brought
their stuff back on time and why the
heck are they getting overdue charges
and what kind of dirty rotten so-and-
so‟s do we think we are anyway?
*So. Not. Pretty.

12. Types of Material You Will Be
Handling
1. Board Books
1. JPB with no underline
2. Hard cardboard covers and
hard cardboard pages are
difficult for new readers to EAT.
Seriously. It‟s just
tears and
recriminations all
around.

13. Types of Material You Will Be
Handling
1. Board Books
1. Board books are shelved here:
Shelve them here.
Where the signs say
they are. See?
Picky Picky Picky

14. Types of Material You Will Be
Handling
2. Picture Books
1. The larger size of a regular
picture book, but in paperback
form.
2. JPB with a BLUE underline
Notice how all
these books have
LABELS on them?
This is an
important plot
point.

15. Types of Material You Will Be
Handling
2. Picture Books
1. The BLUE underlined JPBs are
shelved in the west side of the
bin NEXT to the Board Book
cubes.
They
The labels give you go
important here.
information…like the On this
underline color for side.
example!
Not on this
side.

16. Types of Material You Will Be
Handling
3. First Readers
1. Smaller than a picture book
2. JPB with a PURPLE underline
Just the right size for 3-4
year old hands. Isn‟t that
smart? 
“Saw the whole thing, dude.
First you were all like "whoa",
and we were like "whoa", and
you were like "whoa..."

17. Types of Material You Will Be
Handling
3. The PURPLE underlined First
Readers are shelved in the spinner
racks directly in front of the Youth
Services Desk
If you have time, you
can group these
together…like, all
Star Wars stuff, and
all Dora stuff etc
etc…
Right
here &
here

18. Types of Material You Will Be
Handling
4. Rigby Readers
Are a special type of First Reader.
They are noted “RR” They come in
two unique sizes, and have two
different types of labeling (grr
The two types of labeling argh).
are admittedly a pain in
the patootie. Just get the
like labels together and
don‟t try to insert any
logic into it, it‟ll just
frustrate you.
Put all the
Red circle
3-5‟s
together
Put all the
“Yellow 6”s …and all the
together “Magenta
1”s together

19. Types of Material You Will Be
Handling
4. The Rigby Readers are shelved on
the back side of the First Reader
spinner.
RULE OF THUMB: They‟re
shelved
If you can‟t figure out
where something
over here
goes… ASK! Don‟t on this
GUESS!! side.

20. Types of Material You Will Be
Handling
5. Series Paperbacks have a GREEN
underline
By “Series” in this
case, we mean a
series that has more
than, say, SIX titles in
it...and in some cases,
it‟s more like a
bazillion – give or
take.

21. Types of Material You Will Be
Handling
5. Series Paperbacks have a GREEN
underline
The Series Name is
labeled on the
shelf…but sometimes,
it‟s hard to figure out
which series a book
belongs in. WHEN IN
DOUBT…ASK!
Series name is here
on this book.
Might also be on Shelves are here on
the spine. the left, next to the
wall.
Shelf is labeled
with Series

22. Types of Material You Will Be
Handling See the “H”? That‟s the
first letter of the author‟s
last name.
Find the
corresponding
letter on the shelf
6. Non-Series paperbacks have a HERE
RED underline
These are books for
upper elementary kids,
not a part of a large
series. Shelved
alphabetically by the
Author‟s last name.
RED
The red underlined
pb‟s are in this bin
on the “To Be
Shelved” Cart

23. Types of Material You Will Be
Handling
Notice the JPB,
the Yellow, and
7. J Non-Fiction the NF.
Non-Fiction could be
a quiz book, a book
about lions, a movie-
tie-in book
Shelved on
this cart in
the Youth
The yellow underlined Area. This
pb‟s are in this bin on is the ONLY
time you‟ll
the “To Be Shelved” be
Cart organizing
anything by
TITLE

24. Types of Material You Will Be
Handling
8. J Graphics
Graphics can be
Manga or comic
strips. Be careful,
there are both J and
YA graphics. Shelve
d here
– back
These have the green wall of
underline, and they are jpb‟s
specifically noted as
GRAPHICS.
Note the graphics series label on the shelf

25. Types of Material You Will Be
Handling
9. YA Non-Fiction & Graphics
YA Items are on a
DIFFERENT
To-Be-Shelved Cart!!
In addition to the labels on the front of the books, YA items will
have a spine label with the first letter of the author‟s last
name.
Magazines: Newest face out,
older issues behind or
beneath.
YA Items are all shelved in the TEEN ZO

26. Types of Material You Will Be
Handling
Different to-be-shelved carts
Different labels (spines not front)
Slightly more complex shelving
Non-Print:
This includes DVDs,
Books on CD, Music
CDs, CD-ROMs, and
oddly
enough…magazines.

27. Types of Material You Will Be
Handling
Books on CD

28. Types of Material You
Will Be Handling
Music CDs

29. Types of Material
You Will Be
Handling
Magazines

30. Types of Material You Will Be
Handling
Basics:
1. Priorities:
1. Shelve the PBs first
2. Shelve the JUV non-print second
3. Shelve the Adult non-print last

31. You knew you
weren‟t going to be
able to avoid it
forever, right?