Looscan Grand Opening

Just a reminder (and a call for volunteers)

Looscan has two more opening ceremonies. A Donor Reception on Tuesday from 4-7, and the Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting ceremony on Wednesday from 4-6.

If you can volunteer a half hour or more at either or both of these events, please email Melissa Jarvis at melissa.jarvis@cityofhouston.net . The Tuesday event is by invitation only (and there were over 700 invitations sent); the Wednesday event is for the general public.

Both events will be catered, so you won't have to worry about that. The duties will be greeting people and talking about the building itself. (you'll have talking points provided)

Laptop software timers.

Managers,

Please check with the staff in your branch that deal most closely with laptop circulation. I need input by 5 p.m. today. Should we only go by the receipts or should we use the timers on the laptops?


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Public Services Team,

We need your input on a policy. As we prepare for laptop training, we need a decision on the timers for laptops. The circulation team and others would like the timers disabled and just refer patrons to the return time on the receipt. However, there was a complaint that went to the Mayor’s office about needing the timers on the machine.

Could you please discuss this issue with your staff and let us know if Public Services wants the laptop timers enabled or not? We would like to include this information in our laptop training.

Thanks in advance,
Karen

Karen Y. Williams, MLIS

Wonderful Audio Conference Opportunity

E-Learning: Train Your Staff the New-Fangled Way
September 19th, ULC Audio Conference

HPL is going to participate in this Audio Conference. Sponsored by Urban Libraries Council and WebJunction. This is an opportunity to learn about and ask questions on E-Learning for Library Staff Development. I'm especially excited that Helene Blowers is a panelist. She has long been a proponent of new formats of staff training and was the primary person behind the PLCMC Learning 2.0 project.

Your District Training Coordinator will be contacting you shortly about this. Details will be coming soon, so if you are interested, save the date and time.

The Common Craft Show

The little video on RSS feeds, as well as others made by this group, can be found at http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english

Welcome!

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