Community and Access Services Open House

On Friday January 30, 2015 the Community and Access Services (CAS) Department hosted an Open House for Library staff. We have a goal to share information about our individual departments so we better understand the jobs of our co-workers and how each job fits into the overall mission and operations of the Library. The Open House provided an opportunity for Library staff to learn more about our department and individual jobs as well as share some great food and fun.

Community and Access Services serves patrons in a number of areas including the Help Desk; circulation (checkin and reshelving) and patron accounts; Volunteer Program; displays; public relations, graphics and marketing; and outreach services. If you've ever checked out a book, volunteered at the Library, looked at a Library display, followed the Library on social media, or attended a Library program held in the community, chances are good you've met a CAS staff member or interacted with something we worked on. It's a great department and we had fun sharing information about our job assignments.

As a part of the Open House we also had a little fun by hosting a contest to see who was the fastest book sorter in the Library. There were two categories - Fiction and Nonfiction - and CAS staff could not participate because we've had a lot of practice with sorting :)  The first photo shows our Director, Susan Craig, and Young Adult Librarian, Brian Visser, sorting their carts of books. Coincidentally, both Susan and Brian started their careers at ICPL as Pages who sorted and reshelved books and then were promoted to other jobs in the Library.

There was fierce competition in the book sorting contest, but the winners were our Fiction Selector, Jason Paulios, in the Fiction category and City of Literature Operations Manager, Rachael Carlson, in the Nonfiction category.

If you have questions about the Community and Access Services Department or other Library departments let us know. We love to share information about the Library!