CFL Student Employee Training

General rules:

• All items should have a slip attached with the date it was placed in lost and found
• All items should be recorded in LibStats
  • If there was a name, that should go in the stats as well
  • record if the person was emailed
• When a person comes in for an item, check LibStats
  • Update in the answer field that it was claimed

• There must be two people; one has their back to the desk
  • One person does not touch the items - they only record the information
• Every item must be recorded. Every gum wrapper, every movie stub, every receipt - everything
  • The second person methodically goes through the item, quietly listing every item (including the item itself)
• If an ID is found, the person is contacted
• See box below about Valuable Items

If a book does not belong to the library, and has no markings to indicate it belongs to another library

• record it in LibStats
• put a note on it with a date
• place it on the shelf in interfiling that faces the oversize books
• it stays back there for 3 weeks (sometimes more), then
  • update the note in LibStats that the item is being removed
  • give it to Laura Egan in the administration office for review if it should be added to the collection

• Record in LibStats
• Attach a slip of paper with the date, your initials, and libstat number
• Put in the bottom drawer under the Access Services front desk computer

These depend on value.

• Front Desk lost & found
  • Small calculators
• Locker
  • Advanced function calculators
  • keyboards
  • computers
  • cameras
  • phones
• Office
  • Anything that goes in the locker will be taken to the office on the next business day