Opening Routine

Opening the Circulation Desk:

  1. If not already done, move Key board from Supervisor’s office to reserve shelf area.
  2. Start up both Circulation terminals. Click on the Chrome icon and log in to the WorldShare circulation system (logins and passwords are taped on top edge of drawer beneath the terminal if needed).
  3. Unlock cash drawer if not already unlocked.
  4. Pick up items left lying around on all three floors. Books and magazines may be reshelved immediately. (If there is reason to believe a book may have been checked out, return it to the Circulation Desk for check in, then shelve in the pre-shelving area.)

Opening the Entire Library:
Keys needed: Submaster, Jean key
NOTE: Pick up items and straighten up chairs while making rounds

Upper Floor:

  1. Unlock center stairs doors to upper floor
  2. Turn on entryway lights (6 switches behind public access computer)
  3. Turn on gallery lights (circle knob by bathrooms) and bathroom light switch
  4. Turn on floor lights at panel next to elevator (turn/leave #5 [Rare Book Room] off)
  5. Descend center stairs to lower floor

Lower Floor:

  1. Unlock center stairs doors to lower floor
  2. [Light switches behind OPAC may be left off; they add little additional light to the space.]
  3. Turn on gallery lights (circle knob by bathrooms) and bathroom light switch
  4. Turn on floor lights at panel next to elevator
  5. Make sure door to the Digital Multimedia Center Lab is unlocked and the lights inside are on
  6. Make sure lights are on inside Room 120
  7. Turn on light switch next to handicapped bathrooms
  8. Ascend to main floor

Main Floor:

  1. Turn on light switch next to time clock behind circulation desk
  2. Open Eddy’s Office (keep door locked but open) and place key board on back of reserve shelves (if you haven’t already, pick up  Submaster keys)
  3. Turn on two circulation desk computers and let them start booting up
  4. Turn on floor lights at panel next to elevator (on weekends, turn #5 off)
  5. Turn on copiers if not already on
  6. Turn on the lights in the back corner (microforms area) (2 switches plus 1 switch at water fountain)
  7. Unlock Help Desk call center (leave door shut but unlocked) EXCEPT on Saturdays, wait until noon when call center opens to unlock door
  8. Turn on gallery lights (circle knob by bathrooms) and bathroom light switch
  9. Make sure Hovde is unlocked
  10. Turn on TV/digital sign
  11. Turn on sitting area lights (4 switches near the clock heading towards the computer lab)
  12. Unlock the cash drawer
  13. Click on the Chrome icon and log into WorldShare circulation system (If login and password do not show up automatically, they can be found taped to the top edge of the cash drawer)
  14. Unlock front doors
  15. Turn on light switch next to fire alarm pull at front door
  16. Return SubMaster and Jean keys to keyboard