{"id":542,"date":"2014-12-03T17:04:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T23:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/staffnews\/?p=542"},"modified":"2015-02-26T17:05:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T23:05:36","slug":"marthas-message-december-3-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/staffnews\/2014\/12\/03\/marthas-message-december-3-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Martha’s Message – December 3, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

VPC<\/strong><\/p>\n

A reminder that VPC will be this Friday at 9:30 and the agenda can be found\u00a0here<\/a>. Please RSVP to\u00a0Kristen<\/a>\u00a0if you are able to attend.<\/p>\n

24\/7 in Effect<\/strong><\/p>\n

We \u201cweathered\u201d our first winter weather incident\u00a0without<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0incident and have rolled right into 24\/7 hours. Monday morning marked the beginning of the run and Babbidge Library will not close again until 6:00 pm on Sunday the 14th. I know I don\u2019t need to remind you that this is the time of year when many students are stressed with significant work ahead of them, finals, job searching, etc. Thank you in advance for not only your patience, but your willingness to help students through this time by providing the services and study space they need. Also, a thank you to those of you who will be doing programming to help provide relief. As for all of those hours, we are still in the process of hiring additional security staff so Brian, Bill, Mike, and Patty are working around the clock over the 320+ hours to keep the building open. Dave Avery will also be pulling in some overnight hours to give them some time off. When you see them, please take a moment to thank them.<\/p>\n

Winter Mashup\/Solstice Event<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Solstice planning committee met earlier this week to start planning the library wide event scheduled for Friday, December 19th. The start of the program will be a Mashup from 11-12 which will include a much anticipated peek at the newly redesigned website. Lunch will be at 12:00. A formal invitation will follow but I have a little spoiler for you \u2013 dig out your best dessert recipe and your best \u201cfunky, festive and fugly\u201d attire. There will be amazing prizes for the best in all those categories! There is also plans for a Yankee Swap so get those gift ideas ready.<\/p>\n

Help Cheer on the ‘Babbidge Builders’<\/strong><\/p>\n

This Friday a small but determined group of staff members will be participating in UConn\u2019s Gingerbread House Decorating Contest. They have a plan and are serious enough to be putting in some practice time later this week before the event. The ‘Babbidge Builders’ consist of Kristen Jones, Chris McNevins, Tony Molly, Jean Nelson and Terry Palacios. I encourage you all to join me in cheering them on this Friday between 2:30-4:30 (winners announced at 4:15) in the Rome Commons Ballroom. As part of the\u00a0Winter Holiday Celebration<\/a>, catering provides a lovely spread of food and beverages during the event. They do ask that you\u00a0RSVP<\/a>\u00a0but it is not required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VPC A reminder that VPC will be this Friday at 9:30 and the agenda can be found\u00a0here. Please RSVP to\u00a0Kristen\u00a0if you are able to attend. 24\/7 in Effect We \u201cweathered\u201d our first winter weather incident\u00a0without\u00a0incident and have rolled right into … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NLi5-8K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/staffnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/staffnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/staffnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/staffnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/staffnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/staffnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/staffnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/staffnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/staffnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/staffnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}