Winter Displays

May this holiday season sparkle and shine, may all of your wishes and dreams come true, and may you feel this happiness all year round.

Created by Amanda Mata

Created by Teresa Lopez

Wishing you peace, joy, and all the best this wonderful holiday has to offer. May this incredible time of giving and spending time with family bring you joy that lasts throughout the year. From the Flores Library family to yours! 

2016 NCAA Read to the Final Four Literacy Program

Created By Teresa Lopez

Read to the Final Four aligns with the NCAA's commitment to enhance community engagement and support the educational development of the youth. This program distributes backpacks full of school supplies to third graders to help spur on their success. This is an opportunity to use the Final Four Championship in Houston as a vehicle to drive and promote the values of reading.

Hispanic Heritage Month

Created by Teresa Lopez

Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated as a time to explore and honor The Hispanic/Latino culture and heritage. Be proud of who you are and where you come from because culture and heritage are a matrix of infinite possibilities. 

Remember 9/11 Display

We Will Never Forget 

September 11, 2001

Created by Amanda Mata

 Through blurred eyes we find the strength and courage to soar beyond the moment. We look to the future knowing we can never forget the past.

God Bless America. 

Citizenship Day Display

Created by Teresa Lopez 

"Ask not what your country can do for you…Ask what you can do for your country." -- John F. Kennedy

New Team Member

Welcome to The Flores/Fifth Ward Team 

CRISTAL NIÑO

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” 

 ― Helen Keller

IMPORTANT: Lean Six Sigma Yellow-Belt Certification Training

Flores/Fifth Ward Team,

The City of Houston began a journey of continuous improvement by creating a Lean Six Sigma program to train employees and improve City performance. Lean Six Sigma is a customer-focused way of thinking problem-seeking that seeks to continually identify and eliminate waste. It is a process improvement program that is designed to deliver high quality goods or service as efficiently  as possible.

Recently, the Learning and Development Center (formerly the E. B. Cape Center) developed a web-based training for Lean Six Sigma Yellow-Belt Certification. It is an hour-long online training program that can be conveniently done locally at your individual work location. To keep in line with the City of Houston's Lean Six Sigma initiative, we are asking that all HPL employees complete this web-based training.

Please register for this training via the TMS. The course number is 00022086. Staff may also conduct a simple search by typing "lean six sigma" in the Catalog Search Box. Upon completion of this web-based training, staff will receive 1-hour of training credit. There is no need to submit a certificate of completion as we receive TMS reports monthly.

This training is mandatory for staff at all levels, so please be sure to register for and complete this training. All staff are expected to complete the training DECEMBER 1st, 2015.

If you have any questions please contact Suzy Benton at suzy.benton@houstontx.gov or 832-393-1505.


Thank you,

Virginia Williams

Flores August 2015 Displays

Created by: Teresa Lopez

“The world is a book & those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

 

Created by: Teresa Lopez
 "Why Do We Fall? So That We Learn To Pick Ourselves Up." - Batman Begins

 

Created by: Teresa Lopez

“The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its 

figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that 

is! (Jamie Sullivan)” ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

Fifth Ward August 2015 Display

Created by: Rosa Ruiz

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. -Dr. Seuss

(Thank You Rosa Ruiz)

Door Count Sunday, July 26th through Saturday, August 1st.

Hi,

We’re going to do our first Door Count week of FY16 next week and it will run from Sunday, July 26^th through Saturday, August 1^st.  We use this information to help us understand what the busiest times are at each library during a week and how much use our in-house materials are getting used.  Please assist in the following ways:

1)      Provide an hourly count of your visitors during the hours the library is open, either by a       manual count or checking and recording the gate count hourly.

2)      Manually count all in-house materials use. 

Thanks so much,

Mary

Weeding Juvenile in July

Dear all,

Collection Development has been looking into ways we can help you weed your juvenile materials during July.    Some of the criteria below can be taught to volunteers who can pre-identify materials for you to look at further.  Have them turn the books on their sides or flag them in some way in short sections without taking them off the shelves so that you can quickly review them for what should be weeded.  If you have volunteers identify dated nonfiction according to CREW, make sure they check the copyright date rather than the date received.

Because this is such a busy month, here are some easy ways to weed:

As always, if there is a newer edition of a title in the system, the older edition is automatically approved for discard.  Check your Eyewitness books, Cornerstones of Freedom series, etc. to make sure you don’t have two editions on the shelf.

Books in poor condition are already approved for weeding as you know.  Look hard at paperbacks.  Open and check picture books for torn pages, split bindings, crayon or food marks or stains or other damage. 

In nonfiction, look at the copyright dates of your states and countries books.  States books should be no older than 5 years.  Countries books, except the Enchantment of the World series, should be no older than 5 years.   Enchantment of the World books should be no older than 10 years if there is no newer edition in the system.

In biographies, weed books that are five years or older about living people.    These include current politicians, sports stars, and popular singers, actors, etc. 

We are working on sending you lists generated from Sirsi which will identify nonfiction items that are dated according to CREW guidelines.  More about that when we have them ready.

You may not want to pull dusty fiction or picture books during summer reading but if you decide to do this, let us approve your Collection HQ “dead” list before you pull the items.  If you let us know in the by June 19  we can review the lists for the areas you specify and have the lists back to you in time to pull materials for float, transfer or discard by July 1. 

As always, let us know how we can help you. 

--Sally and Mary

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Lean Six Sigma Yellow-Belt Certification Training

Flores/Fifth Ward Team,

The City of Houston began a journey of continuous improvement by creating a Lean Six Sigma program to train employees and improve City performance. Lean Six Sigma is a customer-focused way of thinking problem-seeking that seeks to continually identify and eliminate waste. It is a process improvement program that is designed to deliver high quality goods or service as efficiently  as possible.

Recently, the Learning and Development Center (formerly the E. B. Cape Center) developed a web-based training for Lean Six Sigma Yellow-Belt Certification. It is an hour-long online training program that can be conveniently done locally at your individual work location. To keep in line with the City of Houston's Lean Six Sigma initiative, we are asking that all HPL employees complete this web-based training.

Please register for this training via the TMS. The course number is 00022086. Staff may also conduct a simple search by typing "lean six sigma" in the Catalog Search Box. Upon completion of this web-based training, staff will receive 1-hour of training credit. There is no need to submit a certificate of completion as we receive TMS reports monthly.

This training is mandatory for staff at all levels, so please be sure to register for and complete this training. All staff are expected to complete the training DECEMBER 1st, 2015.

If you have any questions please contact Suzy Benton at suzy.benton@houstontx.gov or 832-393-1505.


Thank you,

Virginia Williams

Volunteer Appreciation

Congratulations Kathy!

HPL Staff Development Day

Flores Neighborhood Library

Shelf Reading

May 2015 Shelf Reading Floor Plan

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” ― Phil Jackson

Staff Development Day!

Wild Rumpus Day

Let the Wild Rumpus Day start

“And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.” 

― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

Flores Display

Easter

Happy Easter to one and all!The night is over, the sun is tall.The day did break with a tiny beamAnd flooded life with Light supreme.”― Paul F. Kortepeter

St. Patrick's Day

 "The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act." ― Barbara Scher

Woman's Month

“When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.”― Marianne Williamson

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”  ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Valentine's Day

“Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.” ―Ted Kooser

January Displays

New Year's Resolutions 2015

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” 
― Oprah Winfrey

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Black History Month Celebration

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.