Sunday, January 25, 2009

Public Services Meetings


Public Services staff will be meeting on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays at 11:30 a.m. Please put this meeting on your calendar. The first meeting will be Februrary 5 in the Library Conference Room, LL-112. More information about the meetings will be distributed soon. If you have any questions about this meeting schedule please contact Linda, Peggy or Pat.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Go Print and Customer Service


As we begin a new semester, there may be more changes with the operation of Go Print. Each new implementation can cause frustration and anxiety for students as well as library staff. Please remember that when you are on a public service desk, your one and only function is to serve the public. Everything else is secondary.

This may come as quite a shock to some of you. We sometimes carefully plan the kinds of projects we bring to the public service desk in hopes that we can get various tasks accomplished. That's great. What we must keep in mind is that the lasting impression our students and faculty have of our service is how they are treated when they approach a staff member.

We are all working hard to streamline the operation of Go Print. Sometimes it is through trial and error, and error prevails. Nevertheless, our goal remains the same - to provide excellent public service.

If you have any suggestions for improving our services, including Go Print, please let Judy, Peggy, Pat or me know. You can also just make a comment on this blog. We are listening and will try to make whatever changes we can.

Change in Policy for Making Change


Our policy of not changing $20 bills is a very old one, adopted at least 20 or more years ago when $20 was a lot more money than it is now. This is a barrier to helping our students with print or other issues. We will now make change for bills up to and including $20.00 at the San Marcos campus. At EJA in the Escondido Center, we will continue to have students go to Admissions for change.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Our Students Under Pressure

On January 13, Vice President Berta Cuaron was interviewed about the current budget crisis and how this is impacting our students. Click here to see the video.