Category Archives: Services

Changes

The past few months we’ve been experiencing some changes at work. We’ve had some staff turnover, rearranged many staff and patron areas in the library building, and we are adding more services online. It has been an interesting experience so … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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