Most Productive Branches for February

For the month of February, the following branches were able to do the following number of activities:

1. Project 8 - 16 activities
2. Talipapa - 11 activities
3. Escopa 2 - 8 activities
4. Main - 7 activities
5. Balingasa - 6 activities
6. Roxas - 5 activities
7. Project 7 - 4 activities
8. Lagro - 4 activities
9. Novaliches - 4 activities
10. Cubao - 4 activities
11. Project 4 - 2 activities
12. Krus na Ligas - 2 activities
13. Pasong Tamo - 2 activities

No activities: Pansol, Bagong Pag-asa, Payatas, Bagumbayan, Galas and Horseshoe branches.

Number of activities posted here is based on activities with pictures and posted in our website.

Library Database Orientation, Part 2

The following branches have attended the second library database orientation:

1. Roxas (Grace Velez, Arlene de Borja)
2. Cubao (Irene Camua, Ryan Untalan)
3. Pasong Tamo (Alma Pineda)
4. Lagro (Evelyn Garcia, Marlyn Bautista)
5. Novaliches (Edward Bayani)
6. Escopa 2 (Jenny Quilaquil)
7. Krus na Ligas (Rosalie Quinatadcan, Cathy Fabros)
8. Project 4 (Robert Mimura)
9. Talipapa (Myra Sabalburo)
10. Project 8 (Marcia Moneda)
11. Project 7 (Susan Santiago)

Branches who have not attended the orientation are the following:
1. Pansol
2. Bagong Pag-asa
3. Horseshoe
4. Payatas
5. Bagumbayan
6. Balingasa
7. Galas


Topics covered for the week of Feb 23 is online children's website and Google Art.

Schedule and topic for succeeding week are the following:
8.30 to 9.30 am, March 2, Wednesday - online academic websites, Google Book and QC Public Library website

Some comments of the attendees:

"Very informative and I'm sure magugustuhan ng mga readers." - Evelyn Garcia, Lagro Library

"Very detailed informations on animals. Games helped children/users to instill in their minds what they have studied. Very helpful." - Grace Velez, Roxas Library

"User friendly specially sa mga bata, i think even sa mga adult na hindi masyado sanay mag mag computer. Informative." - Ryan Untalan, Cubao Library

Library Database Orientation

The following branches have attended the first library database orientation:

1. Lagro (Marlene Bautista)
2. Talipapa (Myra Sabalburo)
3. Novaliches (Paolo James Dapogracion)
4. Cubao (Margarita Iliria, Ryan Untalan)
5. Roxas (Arlene de Borja)
6. Escopa 2 (Carla Mendoza, Jenny Quilaquil)
7. Project 4 (Robert Shaun Mimura)
8. Project 8 (Fe de los Santos, Marcia Moneda)
9. Krus na Ligas (Rosalie Quinatadcan)
10. Pasong Tamo (Marivic Ocumen, Alma Pineda)
11. Balingasa (Maribel Alnas)

Branches who have not attended the orientation are the following:
1. Galas
2. Pansol
3. Bagong Pag-asa
4. Horseshoe
5. Project 7
6. Payatas
7. Bagumbayan

Topics covered for the week of Feb 18 is online encyclopedia website and Quezon City Weather/Wunderground.

Schedule and topic for succeeding weeks are the following:
8.30 to 9.30 am, February 23, Wednesday - online children's websites and Google Art
8.30 to 9.30 am, March 2, Wednesday - online academic websites, Google Book and QC Public Library website

The succeeding sessions will be done ONLINE via Skype. Please make your schedules free on those dates and have your own headsets ready.

It is suggested also that a follow-up activity be done by the attendees in the form of an orientation to library staff and library users of their respective branches.

Criteria for Branch Libraries which will be given additional computers

In the next few months, new computers will be acquired. In order to be equitable in the assignment of these computers in the branches, the library made a criteria in selecting which branches will receive the computers. These are the following:

1. Internet connected.

How about the branches that does not internet connection? As of now budget for internet connection is already saturated, we encourage that you push your barangays to provide for your internet connection. These are Barangays Horseshoe, Galas, Payatas, and Bagumbayan.

2. On time reporting of computer use.

Computer use is being monitored to 14 branches and Main Library. This is being done via their statistics form that is updated via the Google Docs. Librarians and their assistants must ensure that. Statistics for the day should be in the same day. If the form will be updated the following day, it will be marked red.

You must still use the logbook form. The data that you input in your Google Docs will be counterchecked with the logbook form.

3. High percentage of use of computers.

We will be adding another column in the Google Docs: Percent of use of computer. We will divide total number of users for the day versus number of computers for public use multiplied by 8 hours. You need NOT compute and fill up this column, it will be automatic.

If in case that your computer will be unusable or broken, you must exert effort to avoid that situation and report to respective/ assigned technical people for your district. If your percentage will decrease because the computer is unusable, it will be beyond our control. It is your responsibility that the computers are always in good shape and problems are solved in the shortest possible time.

4. Promotes use of library database.

All our trial and free database are bookmarked in the web browsers of branch computers. The column previously labeled as CD-ROMs are now labeled as database.

Your statistics in this area will be checked via your logbook form and via a computer monitoring system so please be accurate in providing data in your Google Docs. The computer monitoring system knows what sites that is being visited and number of times it was visited.

If you will be able to do all criteria mentioned above accurately and religiously, you will be on top of the list. Branches that will not be able to comply will not receive any computer will recommend actions to correct the lapses.

Most Punctual Branches for January in terms of MISS statistics

These is the most punctual branches in terms of updating their daily statistics in MISS for January 2011.

1. Cubao - 100 percent
2. Escopa 2 - 100 percent
3. Main - 100 percent
4. Roxas - 100 percent
5. Project 4 - 95.4 percent
6. Talipapa - 88 percent
7. Project 7 - 80.95 percent
8. Pasong Tamo - 76.19 percent
9. Krus na Ligas - 76.19 percent
10. Novaliches - 76 percent
11. Balingasa - 71.43 percent
12. Lagro - 66.67 percent
13. Project 8 - 52.38 percent
14. Pag-asa - 52.38 percent
15. Pansol - 20 percent

Compliance to this task for all branches is 76.74 percent.

For those who will be late in updating, Ms. Munez shall mark that date in red. What should be posted in your Google Docs MISS statistics shall be reflected in your standard logbook for MISS users. Please also update the printing income and use of the databases daily.

Most Visited Branches for January

The following branches is the most visited this January 2011:

1. Novaliches - 2,236
2. Project 8 - 1,692
3. Cubao - 1,230
4. Escopa 2 - 760
5. Pasong Tamo - 732
6. Talipapa - 640
7. Payatas - 572
8. Project 4 - 547
9. Balingasa - 485
10. Roxas - 487
11. Lagro - 455
12. Project 7 - 402
13. Galas - 351
14. Horseshoe - 166
15. Bagumbayan -103
16. Pansol - no data

Sources are the branches combined reports. The branches in bold letters experienced increase in users.

Compiled by Troy Lacsamana.