{"id":65918,"date":"2020-05-19T11:07:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=65918"},"modified":"2020-05-19T11:07:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:07:35","slug":"printing-services-working-on-site-to-complete-essential-tasks-for-brock-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/05\/printing-services-working-on-site-to-complete-essential-tasks-for-brock-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Printing Services working on-site to complete essential tasks for Brock community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Body\"><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">Note: This is the seventh in a series of stories about how some of the department and units at Brock University are operating during the COVID-19 pandemic measures. If you would like to tell your department\u2019s story, please email <\/span><\/i><span class=\"Hyperlink0\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"mailto:stapp@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>stapp@brocku.ca<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/span><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Since Brock\u2019s operational changes on March 13, the majority of employees have transitioned to working from home; however, the University\u2019s Printing Services team has continued to work on campus to support employees and students. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">While the Printing Services team is monitoring all printing requests remotely, the team is still working on campus two or three days a week, rotating between four or five team members in the office at a time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The overall duties have remained the same as before the operational changes, but the team is now working on a much smaller scale. Currently, the production staff take turns working on-site every Tuesday and Thursday to print offer letters for the Office of the Registrar, which are then inserted into offer packages to mail out to prospective students. A task which was once being done every day is now being completed two days a week due to the pandemic. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The team is also focused on printing materials for Recruitment, mailing and other variable data postcards, thank you cards, brochures, booklets and certificates for many departments across the University. Additionally, the team has begun offering the mailing service for their printed materials. This includes addressing envelopes and combining the mail, which saves on time and the number of people that would usually be handling the mail. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cOne big project that we\u2019ve been contributing to is the cutting and drilling of the plastic face shields used for the personal protective equipment head bands that are being produced by a variety of Brock departments and employees,\u201d said Carol McIntosh, Manager, Printing Services. \u201cThis week we will also be in the shop preparing diplomas and other materials for printing and mailing in June for our 2020 graduates.\u201d<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">To maintain a safe workspace, the team has implemented new sanitizing precautions, which includes all work areas being sanitized before machines are started, washing and sanitizing hands before handling materials and wearing gloves. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cWe have a small but mighty team of six and a half that I\u2019m so thankful for,\u201d said McIntosh. \u201cThey will always go above and beyond in good times, bad times, when the machines break down or even through a pandemic to get the job done.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Brock\u2019s operational changes on March 13, the majority of employees have transitioned to working from home; however, the University\u2019s Printing Services team has continued to work on campus to support employees and students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":65919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1,4],"tags":[8998,8791,8857,8939,8833,204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65922,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65918\/revisions\/65922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}