Welcome to a new week. I wrote to you last week about our progress with the abbreviated functional area reports. Katelyn is now working on how the areas relate to one another, floor by floor. She is creating bubble diagrams indicating strong relationships (such as the elevator and Technical Services), tenuous relationships, minor adjacencies. She's noting areas that should have unobstructed sight lines to one another (like the Youth Library reference desk and the Teen Zone), ones that should be self contained (like the CEO's office), others that should be somewhat separate from public space but not self contained and areas that are adjoining (such as the study section within the Teen Zone). It's a rather confusing process but an important one to establish especially for the architect.
On a completely separate topic, some of you, especially at the Circulation Desk, noted that you were unable to directly access the blog link from the emails that I send. I'm going to try sending you a tiny url instead to see if that works. Please let me know one way or the other.
I would just like to say that Katelyn is awesome. You know how sometimes people get a position and they don't really work out and don't really do the job that you wanted? Not this lady!! Katelyn, you do a wicked wango job! Very thorough! And I noticed in our focus group that you are very good at asking questions to understand precisely what people mean and what they need. Not everyone can do that. Kudos to you!
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