Sorry for the late notice but I was informed late in the day yesterday that 3 libraries would not be receiving delivery due to vehicle breakdown. They are:
Pequot Library, Fairfield Public and Fairfield University.

Sharon

Sharon Brettschneider
Connecticut State Library
231 Capitol Ave.
Hartford, CT 060106
860-757-6665
ct.webjunction.org
sharon.brett@ct.gov

From Walt:

Due to a vehicle breakdown and driver illness some adjustments were made to our Tuesday “B” Route schedules.

The following B libraries will not recieve service today but will recieve service tomorrow.

B121 B169 B224 and B35.. Also some New London County libraries will not recieve service today. At this time I do not know which ones are effected.  Every B library should be back on schedule tomorrow 1/25/12.

Thank you

Walt

Walt Magnavice Jr.

Connecticar Supervisor

75 Van Block Ave

Hartford CT. 06106

860-566-1100 Ext 306

Walter.Magnavice@ct.gov<mailto:Walter.Magnavice@ct.gov>

Fax 860-566-1118

Greetings,

I wanted to let you all know that I will be retiring from the State Library on January 31st. I have enjoyed working with all of you over the years. Thank you all for your graciousness despite service interruptions, new procedures, surveys, and too much tape and too many staples. I know I’m working with a polite group of people when someone apologies about telling me they didn’t get delivery for 3 days! Ccar has been a priority for the State Library since the 1970’s and will continue to be so. I know that you all share the priority of getting over 3 million books a year into the hands of eager patrons.

I wanted to let you know that you will be in good hands when I retire. Here is a list of contacts for Ccar. I’ll put this on the website as well but maybe you’ll want to print it out and post it somewhere for all to see.

To notify us of delivery or other service problems on Route A:
Lynette Baisden
lynette.baisden@ct.gov
860-757-6665
Cc to Sonia Roman at Avant
soniar@avantservices.com
860-296-1005, ext 4005

For delivery issues with Route B:
Walt Magnavice
walter.magnavice@ct.gov
860-566-1100, ext 301

For non-delivery issues such as procedures, ILL, surveys, etc.
Steve Cauffman
Stephen.cauffman@ct.gov
860-704-2223
888-256-1222
When in doubt, contact Lynette and she will forward to the appropriate person.

All the best to you all,
Sharon

Good Morning,
Due to driver illness and poor early morning driving conditions the following CCar “B” routes will not be serviced today. They will be serviced on their next scheduled service day.
B200-B224-B195-B135-B169-B121-B35-B20-B134-B173-B184-B185-B-187-B64-B88-B114-B11-B95-B85 & B22 Thank You Walt Magnavice Jr.

Attn: Those using reQuest ILL

 If you haven’t done so already, it’s time to update your reQuest ILL Holiday list.

Dates you enter into your Holiday list will not count as ILL referral days, i.e. they will not count as a day that you process ILL lending requests. You can access your Holiday list through the ‘Maintain Participant Record’ link on your ILL Admin page.

Here’s a list of 2012 State Holidays for Connecticut – suitable for copy/pasting into your Holiday list:

01/02/2012 (New Year’s Day – celebrated)

01/16/2012 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)

02/13/2012 (Lincoln’s Birthday)

02/20/2012 (Washington’s Birthday)

04/06/2012 (Good Friday)

05/28/2012 (Memorial Day)

07/04/2012 (Independence Day)

09/03/2012 (Labor Day)

10/08/2012 (Columbus Day)

11/12/2012 (Veterans Day)

11/22/2012 (Thanksgiving)

12/25/2012 (Christmas Day)

01/01/2013 (New Year’s Day)

 Best wishes to all for safe, happy holidays!

 Regards,

Steve

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Stephen Cauffman

iCONN Connecticut’s re-search engine

Connecticut State Library

860-704-2223

888-256-1222 (toll free – in CT only)

stephen.cauffman@ct.gov

Good Morning,
From Walt: The following “B” Libraries will not receive service today.
They will resume service on their next scheduled service day.
B200,B224,B195, B135,B169,B121,B35,B20,B134, AND B173

The combined East-West ILL meeting in May 2012 was scheduled for the same week as the CLC Annual Conference (Mystic Marriott- May 7 and 8). As the conference will have quite a few workshops of interest to ILL librarians, we hope that you will be able to make it to the Conference.

We realize that trying to schedule 2 or more days away from the library is difficult, so we have changed the date of the combined ILL round-table to the next week, Thursday May 17th at the Middletown Library Service Center.

Please note these dates on your calendars! We hope you can make the time to get to both meetings. As you may have heard through the grapevine- we’re a fun group! (Is that an oxymoron- librarians as a fun group? I thought that only the Children’s Librarians could claim that distinction?!)

Please make a note of the dates

From Walt at C-Car:

Just a reminder that next Thursday 11/24/11 is Thanksgiving and The Friday after 11/25/11 most of the C-Car B Library staff will be out. However the A library schedule will be operating as normal on 11/25/11.. If your library is closed on Friday 11/25/11 please advise your driver or call or email me or Avant Services.
As a result of this event we will be adjusting our schedules next week as to be sure every library is serviced.
Please expect service on any day next week as there are too many changes to list.
Thank You and Have a Happy Holiday

Join us for at one of the ILL Roundtables:

The West Group will be meeting Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 10 am at Salisbury Public Library.

The East Group will be meeting on Tuesday November 29, 2011at Hall Memorial Library in Ellington.

Register at Connecticut Library Consortium. Bring your thoughts and ideas and hope to see you there!

Good Afternoon,
Just a reminder that Connecticar will not be operating on Friday 11/11/11 in observance of the Veteran’s Day Holiday.
We will resume service on Monday 11/14/11.