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The JPL Board of Library Trustees was introduced to seven JPL Leadership award winners for the first quarter FY 15/16 at the Board's March 20, 2016 meeting. Director Barbara Gubbin (R in first pic below) and Chair of the Library Board Erin Skinner (L in first pic) were on hand to congratulate the winners.
Two Main Librarian III's were winners of the "Encourage the Heart" award: Tamera Branam (2nd from L above), Main/Pop, and Kathleen Krizek, Special Collections (2nd from R). Both teamed up to have "5 Days of Sweet and Savory Delights" for Main staff during the holidays. Five departments hosted and decorated their workrooms and organized the food. Whoever could get by enjoyed seeing different locations in the Main Library, meeting other staff, and all enjoyed some great holiday food.
Laura Minor, YS Librarian III at Main, won a "Model the Way" award AND the "Employee of the Quarter" award for the effective, rewarding work she did for the Main Library's 10th Anniversary Teen Battle of the Bands program, November 7, 2015. After six months of advanced planning that included a host of people 's efforts, the event saw over 500 customers attend to hear ten bands (some had to be turned away for lack of time.) Laura did not have her picture made.
Support Services staff racked up three "Model the Way" awards. Jill Haile (middle, pic below) is a Librarian III in Collection Development. Jill worked many extra hours to clean, weed, organize and shift WB's collection prior to its reopening.
Librarian I Diane Pless (2nd from R above) and Library Associate Linda Smith (2nd from L above), also in Collection Development, assisted Jill Haile in the huge job of weeding at WB.
Two Main Library Associates, Marsha Collins
(Children's) and Marie Myers (Main/POP) suggested a photo contest for Main's 10th anniversary and teamed up to create guidelines for the contest. Their adroit planning won Admin's approval and after working with other Main departments and the Art Walk Committee, they bragged 47 entries and 50 people attended the reception.
San Marco's Library Associate Emily Gideon (below, middle) won a "Model the Way" award for increasing circulation of children's materials. Emily has been aggressively promoting books and reading through programming, outreach and other activities. She developed partnerships with some school principals and teachers. Emily added a "Holiday Storytime Pajama Party where Mayor Curry's wife read and their three children attended, along with 50+ others. She also added two other weekly storytimes at SS.
CR&M's Coordinator Olga Bayer could not attend the Board meeting but most know of her dedication to JPL, its staff, and CR&M. Olga managed staff in CR&M when Ms. Lussier left and took on much responsibility before Chris Boivin became the department manager in mid-December.
We owe all of you a debt of gratitude for your unusual abilities, creativity, dedication and hard work.
Bibliographic Systems and Access Manager Lynn Jacobson, is a winner of the Enable Others to Act Award and was voted the Employee of the Quarter. Lynn received her JPL Leadership plaque from Board Chair Erin Skinner and Director Barbara Gubbin, during the Library Board meeting, November 12, 2015. Lynn had to quickly develop a strategy and plan for her department to facilitate JPL's Educator and Student JPL cards project. Working closely with DCPS and JPL staffs, Lynn used her expertise well and JPL successfully and speedily transferred their data into our database. SLP had its heroes and Cataloging and ILS has theirs.
Others receiving JPL Leadership awards at the board meeting are:
Mandarin Library Assistant David Foster, an all time favorite with customers, is a winner of the Model the Way Award for his creative approach to SLP's "Every Hero Has a Story" theme. He marketed SLP by wearing a different hero T-shirt every day. Customers caught the whimsical spirit and began donating different T-shirts for David to wear. David is a real SLP hero.
A Youth Services Librarian II at Main, pink coiffured Eve Harm won an Enable Others to Act Award for creating an appealing Prezi presentation, demonstrating an interactive and engaging story time with staffs, sharing her favorite websites and resources in a handout and distributing an easy to use manual. Now staffs can be successful presenting regular story times, as well as those for DCPS tours.
A Librarian III at Main, Stephanie Miller also won an Enable Others to Act Award (pic not available). Amber Holley, Manager of YS and CO, received the award for Stephanie, who did a great job coordinating DCPS visits to Main. She built cooperative relationships with JPL and DCPS; trained her staff on how to contact each school for confirmation of their visit; worked with circulation employees to ensure a smooth check out for students; and she worked with Roberto Ortiz and JPL Security to provide a smooth, safe traffic flow at Main.
The Library Board also acknowledged Chris Eaton, who posed with Board Chair Erin Skinner and Director Gubbin with the Spirit of the ADA 2015 Jack Gillrup Award he recently received. The full story was posted on this blog, November 4; just scroll down to read the article.
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