[Circulation] Some Reminders

[Olivia Rossetti]

Hi everyone,

In preparing to open this morning, I'm noticing some discrepancies in 
our book quarantine procedure that have carried over from yesterday that 
I want to note and correct moving forward. This email is long, but 
*please read this in its entirety.* This is all going to sound very nit 
pick-y, but it has been set up to ensure that any COVID virus that 
happens to come into the library on incoming materials (no matter how 
small that chance) has an opportunity to die before we reshelve it or it 
goes out to a patron.

First: *Any incoming or returned materials should be laid flat, in one 
layer.* I know that on Mondays, we get a lot of materials through FCD, 
which should be laid out to quarantine on the brown table to the side of 
the InfoBar. If that table fills up, *do not stack items. *Research that 
we have been following shows that it takes longer for the COVID virus to 
die on surfaces if library materials are stacked on one another with 
surfaces touching. If you run out of room, *use the open reserve shelves 
as overflow space.*

Second: *All incoming returns should be laid flat on the CD stacks just 
beyond the New Books shelf.* This morning, I found some returns on the 
returns shelves behind the InfoBar designated by school, which we have 
used in past semesters. However, as I mentioned in the last paragraph, 
books need to be laid flat during their quarantine period, so those 
shelves are, for now, defunct.

If you're wondering where all of this is coming from, it is coming 
straight out of our ~official~ documentation, implemented this semester, 
for processing all incoming and outgoing books from the InfoBar. *I am 
leaving a copy of that documentation by the headcount binder, please 
read through and ask questions to myself, Suzanne, or Sam during your 
shifts this week. *

Warmly,
Olivia

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Olivia Rossetti
She/Her
Access Services Associate: Interlibrary Loan and Knowledge Commons Supervisor
Hampshire College Library
893 West Street
Amherst, MA  01002
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phone: 413-559-5764
email: orossetti at hampshire.edu

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