2nd Floor Desk

Second Floor Training List

DESK:

Telephones: Right side phone for TIS

Left side phone is Ref Desk Phone

Instructions on how to transfer a phone call.

File Cabinet: Friends head phones; copier/printer change box

Master copies of signs; Copyright forms that can be photocopied

TC REF – Phone Books – Past Year Tax Forms - Plans – Elsie’s Barndoor

First Aid Kit, etc

Sign-up notebooks - Telephone Books Index – Red Information Notebook

NADA – HOLD ID items – Keys – Scissors – 3-hole punch

REFERENCE BOOKS

Browse to get familiar with what is in the area. For example: Books on how to write are on the third floor in the Dewey 808 area, but Writer’s Market, Literary Market Place and Writer’s Handbook are in Ref 069 on this floor.

TIS

Has a small Reference collection so you can find things such as American Library Directory and the Columbia Gazetteer of the World there.

There are also books labeled TIS REF LIBRARY USE ONLY HOLD ID.

These are high theft items and YOU MUST HOLD THE PATRONS LIBRARY CARD.

Be aware that OVERSIZED 500s and 600s are shelved at the end of the circulating book collection. All other OVERSIZED Dewey numbers are interfiled with the octavo collection on this floor.

VERTICAL FILE

This a collection of pamphlet type items dealing with subjects that match the Dewey Number subjects on this floor. Items with a bar code may be borrowed.

SAMS Schematics: these items require special permission to borrow. They are available online through the home page.

U.S. GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

WPL has been a Select Federal Depository for U.S. Government Documents since 1859 and holds documents beginning with the War of the Rebellion (aka the Civil War) as well as some documents dating back to 1789.

The majority of these documents are housed in the library’s closed stacks.

These documents DO NOT use the Dewey Classification System; they use the Superintendent of Documents Classification System generally called SuDoc Number.

For an explanation of this system see the May 2007 issue of What’s Up in Docs.

Pamphlet sized to magazine sized documents for the past two years are kept on the second floor in the Documents Vertical File Cabinets.

U.S. Government Documents may be borrowed by patrons except for those items in the W, X, Y4, Z and Serial Set. (Y1 and Y3 Items may be borrowed).

W, X, Y4, Z AND Serial Set items may be loaned through Interlibrary Loan for USE IN LIBRARY ONLY AND MUST BE APPROVED BY ME FIRST.

MASSACHUSETTS STATE DOCUMENTS

The majority of State Documents are cataloged and are kept in Closed Stacks.

There is a set of three vertical file cabinets behind the U.S. Government Document file cabinets that contain some Massachusetts documents arranged by broad general subject headings.

Unlike Federal Documents, we do not select what State Documents we receive. If we do not have a particular state document it is not by choice.

A TOUR OF U.S.GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT CLOSED STACKS WILL FOLLOW.