9/7 Library Merger Update

The September 7 update for the library merger has been posted on the library's website.

A key commitment of the merger is that no MPL employee will experience a loss in total wages due to consolidation; impact bargaining agreements with each union will detail how affected MPL employees will be compensated. Preliminary results so far are similar to the estimate prepared last spring: approximately 20 percent of MPL employees are affected – before counting stability pay. The final percentage will be determined once the process is complete.

Not really sure what that means.

Still waiting to have access to MPL's catalog, too.

Overzealous

Once again I have been a bit overzealous with my library useage. I have quite a list of books that I have at home from the library, and another short stack of stuff "in transit" from the library. I may need a pretty efficient next two weeks to work through this stack.

At Home:
Bleak Seasons, by Glen Cook
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, by Ted Chiang
Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis
The Golden, by Lucius Shepard
Fraud of the Century, by Roy Morris Jr
The Shining, by Stephen King
March, by Geraldine Brooks
Dark Journey, by Elaine Cunningham
Sky Coyote, by Kage Baker
Blood and Iron, by Elizabeth Bear
Dark Harvest, by Norman Partridge


On the Way:
Currency of Souls, by Kealan Patrick Burke
Iron Sunrise, by Charles Stross
The Man from the Diogenes Club, by Kim Newman
The Ocean and All Its Devices: Stories, by William Browning Spencer
The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes, by Neil Gaiman
Stories of Your Life and Others, by Ted Chiang
The Silver Spike, by Glen Cook

Hennepin County Library Merger Updates

There is now a website for the Minneapolis / Hennepin County library merger.

The newest update is here.

It discusses some of the teams being set up to work on the merger. It looks like the Minneapolis system will be merged into HCL and Minneapolis employees will be HCL employees. As a patron of HCL, I hope this goes smoothly and there is increased service and access to works in Minneapolis (and, more noble, that the transition is smooth and easy for the employees, too)

HP 7 at Lib

As of 3:30 on Friday July 20, less than a day before the official publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows my library has 2035 reserves placed on the new Harry Potter book. The Hennepin County library owns 480 copies.

Strangely, the Minneapolis public library only has 251 holds on 120 copies
The Ramsey County Libraries has 443 reserves on what looks like 78 copies
The St Paul libraries have 382 holds on 110 copies

All told, in the Twin Cities Metro, there are 3111 holds on 788 copies of the book...all before the book is actually available to the general public.

In a general sense that I won't remember in a couple of days, I would be very curious how many copies are checked out in a 1, 3, 6, 12 month periods. Just out of curiosity. How many copies will the Hennepin County library move in this coming year?