Date: July 5 Time: 5-9pm Hours: 4 Total Hours: 101 Today, I finished up the handout for Thursday’s Evanced training. Perry will be transitioning to the new Signup and Spaces platforms for event scheduling and meeting room reservations. To better understand these systems, I viewed pre-recorded webinars on each platform. The handout (see below) covers both the patron-side […]
Date: July 3 Time: 2-5pm Hours: 3 Total Hours: 97 Today, I staffed the reference desk and tried to resolve an issue with the public computers. Perry currently receives eRate-priced Internet. Under CIPPA, institutions receiving these discounted prices must internet access. Currently, this filter is blocking access to images.google.com. This, of course, limits patrons’ access to images and […]
Date: July 1 Time: 11am-4pm Hours: 5 Total Hours: 94 Today, I staffed the reference desk. One particular question today reminded me of the digital divide and the assumptions made by tech companies. A young girl, who is a regular at Perry, was struggling to reset her Instagram password. The resetting process was easy enough, but Instagram required her […]
Date: June 29 Time: 6:30-9pm Hours: 2.5 Total Hours: 89 Today, I staffed the reference desk with Emily again. I rarely work the reference desk at Heights. I had heard the stories of patrons constantly requesting the latest Grisham or Clancy novels, but had never really experienced it in person! On Tuesday, a woman requested the latest Grisham and […]
Date: June 28 Time: 7-9pm Hours: 2 Total Hours: 86.5 Today, I continued working on website content, as well as updating my previously-created marketing video with a new age group. Library websites have become an important access point for patrons, acting as a digital extension of the library building. The current website is trying too hard to provide everything […]
Date: June 27 Time: 9am-12pm Hours: 3 Total Hours: 84.5 Today, I continued to staff the reference desk. Sharon is currently weeding the nonfiction collection and was specifically examining the Christianity section on this day. Perry, as a small, rural library, tends to be much more conservative than my library’s diverse, inner ring Cleveland suburb. Many of the books […]
Date: June 26 Time: 11am-7pm Hours: 8 Total Hours: 81.5 Today, I began the day by observing a computer class on resume creation. Beth, Brandon, and I discussed the survey results, including a few of my observations about cellphone vs. smartphone and wi-fi hotspots. We also discussed the phone system and issues with transferring calls. At my (much larger) […]
Date: June 22 Time: 9am-12pm Hours: 3 Total Hours: 73.5 Today, I began by staffing the reference desk and answering computer questions. I also helped Brandon work on setting up virtual workstations through Amazon WorkSpaces as an alternative to purchasing and maintaining physical workstations. This could save the library – and possibly the entire library consortium – some money and […]
Date: June 21 Time: 9am-12pm Hours: 3 Total Hours: 70.5 Today, I staffed the reference desk, answered computer questions, and continued entering community surveys. I also continued working on the new database page for the library’s website.
Date: June 20 Time: 7-9pm Hours: 2 Total Hours: 67.5 Today, I continued to enter community surveys into SurveyMonkey. Continuing the work I began yesterday, I continued updating database descriptions and began building a mockup of a database page for the new website. This involved writing custom HTML rather than relying on WordPress’ standard formatting. Currently, the databases are […]