Changes in Delivery

Hello, Everyone
Bookmobile and Delivery have been challenged over the past few years with staff injuries. The success of our SHARE migration added to the stress by increasing the number of items needing to move from one location to another. Recently, Tim Berquist announced his retirement as a Bookmobile Driver. This morning, Dan Cesario gave his one month notice of retirement.
Jill, Scott, Anne, Sean and I have studied our options for maintaining consistent delivery service and having enough trained Bookmobile drivers to keep that beloved service strong. We have all agreed that shifting our drivers' hours to Bookmobile service is the right way to go. Driving the Bookmobile is definitely an advanced skill, but it's not ergonomically taxing and ripe for injury the way our delivery service can be. So, in order to keep our staff safe and be sure our delivery schedule never suffers from a shortage of drivers, we are hiring Action Logistics to move our items among our branches, to Community Library, and to Racine. Dale and Paul will bring their CDL skills to the Bookmobile. These changes will be in effect May 15th.
I would like to thank all our drivers for pitching in wherever they were needed to manage the increased workload this past year. Special thanks are due to Dale, who has taken shifts we desperately needed to fill. Thanks also to Sandy, Anne, Brandi, and anyone else who stepped into a delivery role to fill the gaps. Your leadership is very much valued and appreciated.