FLOATING RESUMED


Message from Sara Karow regarding floating:
Happy New Year, everyone!

Thank you all once again for bearing with us as we temporarily modified Floating send-in box counts during these past few months while our customers have been adjusting their library use patterns post-Harvey. It’s been an adventure!

Good news! Starting Monday, January 8, we will be returning, for the most part, to the weekly box counts per location that you were following before the storm.  Do continue any of your direct branch-to-branch partnerships as well.

                Open branches not specifically noted as exceptions – up to 3 boxes/week
                ALI, HEI, HIL, JUN – up to 10 boxes/week
                LOO, MNT, RIN, WAL – up to 5 boxes/week
               
As before, boxes of surplus Subscription Plan books being sent to Float Team do not count as part of your Float box limit.  Boxing them separately is really helpful to us. Damaged ones (unless nasty, of course) can go in the same boxes as the ones that are just extra, but please put post-its or something on them noting condition problems.  Not surprisingly, since Harvey we have received a great many with warped but dry pages due to water damage that hasn’t been noted, so please be on the lookout for that. Do hang onto duplicate Bluebonnet and Lone Star titles from this school year and last, in particular, as they are on Name that Book contest lists and will be up for voting. (**Conversely, if you are running short, put a request out on the Youth List.)

Naturally, closed locations will not be sending in anything until they reopen.  When closed locations do reopen in due time, whether closed due to Harvey or other reasons, we will fold them back into both send-ins and receiving floaters as is appropriate for their traffic level. 
As always, be sure to share this with all of your team members that work with floating at your locations.  Please contact me if you have questions and let me know if you have any particular collection needs that we might help fill. 
Sara Karow
Centralized Floating CoordinatorHouston Public Library | Library Materials Services500 McKinney St., Houston, TX 77002Office: 832-393-1480 | Email:  Sara.Karow@HoustonTX.gov 

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