PARSONS MUSIC LIBRARY POLICIES AND PROCEDURES: N-O

When Alma, our circulation system, loses its connection with the network, there is a way to keep a record of check-outs and returns on our local computers.  It's a little complicated, so please ask Melanie or Linda to set up offline circulation for you, if the need arises (this will be very rare).

Here is the procedure for Managers to open the Music Library:

1. Check out the front door key from Boatwright Library (add 15 minutes to your time to cover this additional work responsibility).
2. Enter the Music Library (from either door), locking the door behind you.  Then enter the CD storage room and retrieve the key lanyard from the designated location.
3. Retrieve the book return keys from the designated location.  Go out the Booker door, open the book returns, and remove any library materials.  Remove the laminated signs from the envelope on the right side of the CD return unit and attach them to the front of each unit using the velcro dots. Lock the book return units, enter the Music Library, and put the book return keys back in the designated location.  Keep the lanyard keys with you.
4. Turn on the lights in the reading room, using the switches and panel to the right of the big windows.
5. Turn on the computers in the reading room.
6. Turn on both circulation computers and log on to one of them. Log into Alma and return any library materials that you found in the book return units.
7. Turn on the digital signage monitor with the remote behind the desk.
8. Check paper in photocopier/printer; replenish as needed from the supply room.
9. Check the phone for messages (PW is the UR zip code) and write down anything that needs Linda's or Melanie's attention.
10. Unlock the Booker doors to the library (both sides) and open them until the wall magnets engage.
11. Unlock the Modlin door to the library by turning the botton on the handle to the vertical position.
12. Unlock the patio door (March-October only)
13. Return the front door key to Boatwright when your shift is over (add 15 minutes to your time to cover this additional work responsibility).