Here is a brief update on our library remodel project at work. We mostly completed phase one just after students came back at the end of August. There is still some minor painting that needs to occur, along with a
Library Remodel
Mobile Libraries
We’ve been experimenting with a mobile version of our website at work. Right now it is a basic homepage with the vital library and patron information available. We’ve turned on the mobile version of several of our databases in conjunction
Library building use planning
I recently met with the university’s facilities manager at work to talk about future uses to which the library staff would like to put our building. The general plan has been that the library would acquire the basement (lowest of
Reference Portal
While talking at work with the Systems Librarian about some of the reference services initiatives we hope to start rolling out this year, we started talking about a reference portal as a place to house it all. We’d been talking
Library Instruction
At work we are moving toward adding more library instruction resources online. One of our librarians has created a few sessions using the university’s Panopto studio. This allows for a video of the instructor coupled with the ability to add
Overdrive Media Console for Android
Yesterday the Overdrive Media Console on my Droid X was finally updated to include access to ebooks. I’ve been checking ebooks out from my public libraries for several years (SPL or KCLS depending when in the aforementioned ‘years’ we’re talking
Cataloging Module Improvements
In my Library Technology Systems class today we were talking about Integrated Library Systems. A question came up asking the class what systems they had experience using and what they thought could be improved about the modules they used. I
Expanding Library Online Services
I recently read a blog post from David Lee King titled Doing Stuff at the Library’s Website. He asks what can a person DO at your library website. I have been pondering this, as David encourages us to. Normally our
Chat & IM Ideas
One of my instructors forwarded an email to our class list-serve with several links to possible chat/IM tools for libraries. I had already been looking at Meebo and Pidgin as options. The new item to me is called Libraryh3lp. Information
Trying some new things
Today we talked about adding some new ways to communicate with one another. New ways to share information that may be relevant today or perhaps next year. We are looking into ways this could be realized. We talked about (re)setting