IUG Monday

The land of yes and yes but later.
Holds on bibs/items on order and in processing.
How to e-mail/text notices and still have your auditable paper trail.
OPAC usability. Instead of expecting patrons to sort out ILL, reserve, getting from another library within the system, use "get here," "get in 1-2 days," get in 23 weeks" - focuses on what the patron cares about, not our system of getting it to them.
Possible fixes for the vanishing Claims Returned (which is doing what it's supposed to, but not what we want).
We can TURN OFF the annoying auto-OR in the WebOPAC!! YAAYYY!!!

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Podcasting, results already!

Here's the podcast from yesterday's class at Middletown Library Service Center. The big deal is that the technology came together. The content is unplanned, unscripted and a bit rough in delivery, and now I can do more polished ones when needed.

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Still the future of...

Still the future of the library. We're looking at facilitating discovery, not so much selecting part of facilitating [poor audio]. listen

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Back to that few(?)...

Back to that few(?) study, generation wide, 18 to 35 year olds are actually using libraries more than any of the previous generations, they talked about how libraries congress put images on Flickr because they didn't know what they were and they were hoping that the rest of the world could help identify them, Harvard, New Mass and Hurst are moving to open house publishing of research, wondering about what's new about high user expectations sounds like old news, I think more of the people, it's becoming more of an expectation and less [...] I think that should happen but it will never happen there, especially becoming more of an expectational in advance, there is also a break down of the distinction between information and communication and libraries and up in the business of both, one participant mentioned that all this is wicked exciting. listen

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This is MERCOMP. This...

This is MERCOMP. This is on the future of the library, workshop by Brandeis University a group of people from there. There point was that is not about the books. A 2005 OCLC survey on perceptions of library people, thinks it's about the book or may actually did word counts of the people responses information was what came through loud and clear. The few internet study, that the internet is not the first choice for information eve4nm over people you know and prairie dogging your listen

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This is about NERCOMP....

This is about NERCOMP. This is from Julie Kaye Little's Workshop on Podcasting. Earlier, she gave us some examples, she described what the Podcast is. Gave us some certain [Unclear Speech, Please Listen] Podcasting. The main thing the groups got was all this things that are on the edge [...]. listen

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