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Re: Archives closing for lunch



Hi Connie,

Ditto here.  We stagger our lunch hours, one of us goes from 12-1, the
other from 1-2.  But if one of us happens to be out then there's nothing
we can do.  We encourage patrons to make appointments and give us a
phone number should both of us become unaviable to save them the trip.
You can't please everyone, but our system seems to work pretty well.

As for the lunches, what about those multi course meals that those
fictional photographic archivists took during the British PBS mini
series that was broadcast a few years ago ??  Sounds like a good proposal.

Best,

Keith Longiotti
NCC Photographic Archives

Dianne Johnson wrote:
>
> Connie,
> Our director is just the opposite - not wanting to close for lunch, but
> then again we don't have staff that fill in when the two of us are gone.
> As described on our web page
> http://mero.lib.wfubmc.edu/archives/index.htm, we close at indefinite
> times and ALWAYS put a sign on the door of when we will return, number
> to call, etc.
>
> We are pretty good about letting our patrons (not very many of them)
> know ahead of time if we will be closed, such as a library staff
> meeting. There have been a few complaints but  you can't satisfy
> everybody and I have encountered one person actually waiting by the door
> when I returned from lunch one day. She only waited about 10 minutes.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Dianne
>
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