Lane Libraries Staff Site

Mary Pat Essman is this year's Chamber of Commerce Heritage Award winner. Essman has been the director of the Lane Libraries since 1983 and also serves on a number of boards throughout Hamilton city and Butler County.

Heritage Award winner believes in community

'What took so long' to honor year's top small business?

A decision has been made to suspend the use of peer reviews in the performance appraisal process for this year. This determination was made based upon our present operating hours and staffing levels. The current schedules create the opportunity for managers to work side by side with staff on a regular basis.

This decision will be revisited in future. All staff members are also encouraged to regularly use performance journals to record accomplishments throughout the evaluation year. Supervisors are available to any staff member who wants a refresher course in Halogen.

http://short.lanepl.org/

This is a new tool that will allow you to shorten long URLs, e.g. links like this from the catalog:
http://cat.lanepl.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1277227329YH9.173016&profile=lpl&source=~!horizon&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!734329~!0&ri=2&aspect=subtab46&menu=search&ipp=300&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Kasparov,+G.+K.+%28Garri+Kimovich%29&index=PZAUTH&uindex=&aspect=subtab46&menu=search&ri=2

can become this:
http://short.lanepl.org/chip

Similar to services like tinyurl.com or bit.ly

The library wants your ‘fish story’

As some of you may already know, Stefani Powell, who is currently a full-time MLS Librarian at the Oxford Lane Library, has tendered her resignation.  Her last day with Lane will be July 3, 2010.  She is joining the Middletown Public Library staff as a Children’s Team Leader and we wish her the very best in her new position. 

Her departure presents Lane with an opportunity to restructure the existing librarian position.  We have decided to fill this vacancy with two part-time MLS Librarian positions.  This step will allow not only more flexibility for scheduling purposes, but also additional hours as each part-time position will be scheduled 20 hours per week.  The jobs will be posted in the Employment section of the Library website and copies of the posting will be distributed to each location. 

As other vacancies occur throughout the Lane system, we will continue to move forward toward a new organizational structure.  Our goal is to enhance our current staffing levels as we remain open to innovative strategies which will complement current library services for the communities we serve. 

If you haven’t had an opportunity to attend one of the Job and Career Accelerator webinars there are four sessions scheduled in June.

LearningExpress Job & Career Accelerator can help your patrons effectively navigate through the modern day job search and get back to work as quickly as possible. During this session, you will see how this exciting new product guides job seekers, step-by-step through the search process, from exploring occupations and current job postings to creating the tools necessary to get hired. Click here to register.

The Job and Career Accelerator is part of the LearningExpress Library database funded by a federal LSTA grant awarded by the State Library of Ohio to Libraries Connect Ohio.

Marsha McDevitt-Stredney
Marketing & Communications Director, SLO

Systems Dept. has begun processing notices in the afternoon in addition to the morning run. The first run goes out before 9am, and the second run will usually go out sometime between 2pm and 6pm. Our thinking is that this will release the notices to patrons a few hours earlier than waiting until the next morning. (A patron's countdown time to pickup the item begins when the item is triggered, not when the notice is sent.)

The only downside I can think of is that some patrons who receive an email notice in the morning might be confused initially if they receive a second notice for a different item in the afternoon. If you learn of any other problems related to this change, please contact Systems via a Systems Work Request.

UPDATE (7/16/2010) - we've discontinued doing this regularly due to bandwidth issues in the afternoons. When the network is congested, the connection to the email server can time out and we run the risk of losing those notices. We'll revisit this later in the year when we upgrade our Internet bandwidth.

Please leave all PCs (staff and public) powered ON at closing, until further notice.

We are doing several maintenance activities that require all PCs to be available on the network after closing.

Thanks,

Systems Dept.

See bottom of http://lanelearning.org/?q=node/16 for March-May deleted items.
Sort by LAST BIB column to see items no longer owned at any location in our system.

I am compiling a list of potential beta testers for our upcoming Library Anywhere application, which will enable searching of Lane's catalog through web-enabled mobile devices such as the iPhone. If you have such a device, would you please complete this form [Google account sign-on required]?

http://www.librarything.com/LibraryAnywhere is a simulator, but I think the simulator only works on Firefox 3.6 for now.

Thanks, Chip

From LibraryThing.com:
Announcing Library Anywhere!
    * A mobile catalog for any library, up and running in minutes.
    * Mobile web and apps for iPhone, Blackberry and Android.
    * Search, place holds, and more.
    * Showcase hours, branches, and events.
    * No installation process.
    * Works with 90% of current OPACs.
    * Provides a Section 508-compliant version of your existing catalog.

[click READ MORE below for an update. Project delayed until ALA]