On the 14th the staff of SEPLSO celebrated Lola Hill’s 25 years of service. She was presented with gifts and a cake, which was enjoyed by all. Glenda Stokes and Carol Burgess were given the task of choosing a gift for Lola as per our tradition. Glenda and Carol shared this anecdote on the trouble trying to figure out what to purchase.
“Well the staff meeting in November was no exception but this time upon entering the car after our lunch in Old Town Lola begins exclaiming over and over about a beautiful vase she saw in the café/antique store’s rest room. Glenda and I had tried repeatedly to elicit some gift ideas from Lola all the way from Stigler but our plan had failed and now here she was falling right into our plan”.
Carol Burgess graced with a poem that she had written which was apropos to the story. The poem is as follows.
Ode to the Antique Store Restroom
The plot did thicken,
The moment close at hand
When we would go shopping
In the Antique Store’s Can.
We rushed back from lunch
To tell Charlene of our find that
Lola saw a vase for which she did pine.
Charlene listened to our story and even
read our minds.
She did not hesitate,
“Girls buy that gift before it’s too late”
Get in that car – hurry on
Go buy that gift at the antique store john.
So Lola dear,
Your 25th is here
All your friends clap & cheer.
We followed Charlene’s orders
Keep it humorous she said – let there be
no doom or gloom.Tell of your shopping
trip to the Antique Store restroom.
And Lola while your gazing
at the vase for which you hoped
I’m just relieved you don’t collect
antique commodes.
The Library System is looking into providing downloadable audio books. This will allow you to “borrow” an audio to download onto an ipod or any other Mp3 device. We are now in the process of selecting the titles to offer. We hope for a very positive response to this. Again, we encourage any comments.
Talhina Library’s twittering has been rewarded by a mention on the American Library Association’s Twitter Tuesday blog. Lee Toliver twitters for her library on a regular basis. She keeps the twitter communittee informed and up to date on all the goings on in the library as well as the communittee. As one of her co-horts I am proud to call her my twitter friend as well as a friend. Check it out at http://bit.ly/7pniIG
McAlester, Coalgate and Hartshorne will launch pilot programs experimenting with new library hours. McAlester will be open 1:30-5:00 on Sunday. Coalgate will be opening an hour earlier at 9:00am Monday through Friday. Hartshorne will also be opening at an earlier hour at 8:00am making them open 2 hours earlier Tuesday thru Friday. At the end of the program the results will be evaluated.
Tom Massey, an inspriational speaker, made a big hit at SEPLSO’s In-Service Day. The subject was customer service. He spoke of many ways we can improve our outlook on serving the public. He talked about how important teamwork was, and self confidence. Also important is empathy for other people.
In the afternoon we did exercises that showed us how important trust and teamwork was. All in all, it was a very interesting day.
In the afternoon Wayne Hanway gave out the Service Awards. There were many 10 year awards given out. Nancy Hamlin, who was not present because of illness received the 25yr service Award.
When appropriate a special award is given. This year the much coveted Acorn Award was given to Carol Burgess for dedication to customer service, especially towards teens. We congratulate her on all her hard work in making Arkoma a welcoming and safe place for everyone.
All SEPLSO Libraries will be closed Thursday Oct. 15 for In-Service Day. This is a meeting held on an annual basis to educate all personnel on library services. This year we are focusing on Customer Service. We feel that customer service is as important as any service that we offer. We are experiencing some trying times. Because of this we are seeing more patrons than ever and customer servce is more important than ever. After Thursday all libraries will go back to their regular schedule.
After a bit of a break The Southeastern Library System would like to invite you to join their Book Club. It is called the “Oklahoma Readers”. It’s located at www.booksprouts.com/. You click on “join a club” tab and type “Oklahoma readers” in the search box. Click “join club” and fill the form out. You then can participate in the book discussions. Hope to see you there. We are now taking nominations for two seperate books. Please check it out!!
We have recently consolidated 13 of our 15 our branches with our main Southeastern Library System’s website. McAlester, and Poteau are maintaining their own websites, but the links listed are listed with the branch links. The individual libraries can be accessed by www.oklibrary.net/library name. These pages are a work in process so keep checking back for additional information. We are striving to add more, updated content as well as being more user friendly. McAlester and Poteau can sill be reached the same way. We hope that you find it more appealing and will visit us often.
AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library. I found this website and I created an account. You just put in you zip code and get full text of a selection of millions of magazine articles. Try it out and see what you think. The URL is www.accesslibrary.com. Just found it this morning so I would be interested in feedback on this.
Saturday as our last Teen Program the McAlester Tae Kwan Do came to exhibit their talents. We had a great turn out for the program and all that attended enjoyed themselves. Several boards were broken by all the students. The black belts spent time showing us how they could even brake cement blocks. (don’s try this at home)LOL Thanks to the class for takeing time to entertain our community. Click to see a video of one of the exercises.
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On the 14th the staff of SEPLSO celebrated Lola Hill’s 25 years of service. She was presented with gifts and a cake, which was enjoyed by all. Glenda Stokes and Carol Burgess were given the task of choosing a gift for Lola as per our tradition. Glenda and Carol shared this anecdote on the trouble trying to figure out what to purchase. 
