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Missing Viterbo book - 3/31/08

The following item was reported lost by Viterbo University on 3/31/08:

Format: Book
Call #: TX 911.3 .F5 S36 2002
Author: Schmidgall, Raymond S. 
Title: Restaurant financial basics
Bar Code: 1130574
Owning Library: Viterbo University Library
Notes: loaned to Watertown PL.  Claimed returned.

reminder: St. Mary's Hospital-Madison return materials

A quick reminder on returning materials for St. Mary's Hospital in Madison:

St. Mary's Hospital in Madison has expanded their library of
materials available to patients and patients' families.  An
enhancement they want to offer to their patients is the ability for
their users to return St. Mary's items to any library in the state,
if they haven't finished the with the item before the end of their stay.

Beginning January 2nd SCLS Delivery is going to do that for
them.  They will, at this time, not be doing any LINKcat borrowing or
ILL lending or borrowing, so there will only be their own materials
from time to time being dropped off at libraries to be shipped
to SCLS Delivery.

They have placed ownership labels on the front of all their materials
with their name and address, so if you find one in your book drop you
can simply place it in a red basket for us to pick up without a label
and we'll get it to St. Mary's from there.

St. Mary's also occasionally lends materials via ILL, but most often only sends copies.  The Wiscat shipping labels have been verified by Terry Wilcox at RLL, and they are set up correctly with South Central as their delivery hub.

SCLS Delivery cancellations - 3/21/08

The astronomers tell us that spring has started, but outside today it is still winter.  Due to the heavy snow falling and expected to continue accumulating throughout the day, SCLS Delivery has canceled several statewide delivery routes on Friday, March 21st.  The following routes and stops will not receive delivery today:

• Central Wisconsin: stops in Adams, Wood, and Portage Counties
• Eastern Wisconsin: Waukesha stops, West Bend, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, and Fond du Lac stops
• Northeast Wisconsin: stops in Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, and Ripon
• Southeast Wisconsin: stops in Milwaukee, Racine, and Kenosha
• Western Wisconsin: stops in Eau Claire, Menomonie, River Falls, and La Crosse

UPDATE 8:30 AM - more cancellations:

• Southern Wisconsin: stops canceled at Albany Public Library, Arrowhead Library System and UW-Rock County in Janesville, and UW-Whitewater
• Southwest Wisconsin: stops canceled for UW-Richland Center, Southwest Wisconsin Library System in Fennimore, and UW-Platteville

We apologize for any inconvenience these cancellations may cause.  This really, really should be the last time this winter we have to cancel routes due to snow (hopefully).   

We plan to resume our normal delivery schedule on Monday, March 24th.  Please contact us if you have any questions or if there is anything else that we can help you with.

Muskego High School added to network

My apologies to Terry Wilcox at Reference and Loan Library for not posting this earlier.  I'm sure she did a good job of getting the word out earlier, so hopefully this is old news already. 

From Terry:
"Muskego High School is now working with Muskego Public Library to have ILL materials sent through delivery."  Muskego Public is a member of Waukesha County Federated Library System, and this connection is effective immediately (actually, since about a month ago - sorry again, Terry!).

Delivery Network Listings on the SCLS Delivery website have likewise been updated with this change.   

Note to RSS subscribers

A brief (hopefully) clarification for anyone who subscribes to the RSS feed provided by FeedBlitz.  The Feedblitz service crawls the "Get In the Van" blog only once a day, usually overnight, then sends out e-mail to subscribers the next morning.  Therefore, any new posts will not arrive in e-mail form until the day after they are posted. 

Most information posted on the blog is not time-critical, so this schedule is generally adequate. However, it has been brought to our attention that the delivery service cancellation alerts do not arrive until the next day.  This is normal, but confusing.

Whenever SCLS Delivery cancels routes, we send out e-mails to all affected customers based on our primary contact lists.  This is our main method of getting the word out.   The blog postings are intended as a back-up to this system for people who may not be able to check e-mail that day, but who can still get to a web browser.  In order to get the latest information, one would need to manually navigate to the blog itself to see the most recent postings.

If you would like to be added to the contact e-mail list for your stop, you can contact me via this form: http://app.formassembly.com/forms/view/2798.  We do our best to keep our lists up-to-date, since you never know when we'll have to cancel a route due to weather, van problems, etc. (though hopefully we are finally out of the woods for this winter!).

Please contact me if you have any questions or need clarification on any of this information.

Tim Drexler
SCLS Delivery

Found item / UCO

The following item was sent to SCLS Delivery from Wisconsin Valley LS, where it originally surfaced. 

Format: DVD Case
Call #: DVD LEN / DVD 167
Title: Lenny
Notes: No Disc in case; no ownership markings other than call # stickers on case spine.

If yours, please contact: Tim Drexler, SCLS Delivery, tdrexler@scls.lib.wi.us

SCLS Driver Appreciation Week

Hi everyone!

While it's been a long, hard winter on everyone, it's really been one
for the ages (ice age?) for the SCLS driving staff.  In appreciation
of the drivers' efforts, perseverance and strong spirits, the
delivery supervisor team is holding a night out for the delivery
drivers the weekend of the 21st to thank them for a job well
done.  We thought in conjunction with our celebration for them, we'd
deem next week (3/17-3/21) Driver Appreciation Week!

We often hear kind words about our drivers from library staff around
the state.  If you'd like, take next week as a chance to let the
drivers know that their hard work this winter has been both noticed
and appreciated.  A simple thank you, or even a cookie, could add a
spring to a driver's step even if next week only brings Spring
according to the calendar.  You could also send me an email thanking
a particular driver or the delivery crew in general.  Anything we
get, we'll post on a "thank you" mural for the staff.

Our thanks to all of you too, and the hard work you all do.  After
all, the red baskets flow in both directions!

All the best,

Bruce Smith
Delivery Coordinator
South Central Library System
bsmith@scls.lib.wi.us

SCLS Delivery cancellations and delays - 3/3/08

Snowy weather and icy roads have forced another round of SCLS Delivery service cancellations for Monday, March 3rd.  The following routes and stops are affected:

• Eastern Wisconsin: UW-Waukesha, Carroll College, Waukesha County FLS, UW-Washington County, UW-Sheboygan, Eastern Shores LS, UW-Manitowoc, Manitowoc-Calumet LS, UW-Fond du Lac, Marian College, Mid-Wisconsin FLS
• Northeast Wisconsin: UW-Green Bay and ARC, Nicolet FLS, St. Norbert College, Outagamie-Waupaca LS, Lawrence University, UW-Fox Valley, Oshkosh Correctional Institution, UW-Oshkosh and ARC, Winnefox LS, Ripon College
• Southeast Wisconsin: Wisconsin Lutheran/SWITCH, Medical College of Wisconsin, Marquette University, Milwaukee Area Technical College, Milwaukee County FLS, Milwaukee School of Engineering, UW-Milwaukee and ARC, Lakeshores LS, UW-Parkside, Carthage College, Kenosha County LS

Also, our Western Wisconsin route has been delayed by the poor driving conditions.  The following stops will still receive delivery, but it will be late by an hour (possibly more for the later stops):

• UW-Eau Claire and ARC, Indianhead FLS, Chippewa Valley Technical College, UW-Stout and ARC, UW-River Falls and ARC, Viterbo University, Winding Rivers LS, UW-La Crosse and ARC.

We apologize for any inconvenience these closings and delays may cause, and we look forward to end of winter this year, hopefully in the next month or so.