Lane Libraries Staff Site

Katrina Bate (LPL Reference) has summarized the details about Barnes & Noble's new eBook reader (and Amazon Kindle competitor) The Nook on a Google Sites page available to staff here:

https://sites.google.com/a/lanepl.org/barnes-noble-nook/

Katrina also discusses the device's compatability with the Ohio eBook Project.

Neighboring system Middletown Public Library is scheduled to open their new West Chester branch on November 16.

The official dedication is Sunday, November 15th 2:00pm-5:00pm.

Effective Wednesday, Oct. 21, DVDs have been added to the list of "floating" materials. You may need to log in and log out of Horizon to see the change.

Now that OXB has RFID, we will be working to tag and process the BKM DVD collection.

The schedule for colored receipt paper is listed under POLICES AND PROCEDURES now.

VEXIRA, the server that houses all of the staff shared drives, is back online after being down Sunday, October 18th. You should have access to it now. If you find it isn't working from a certain machine, reboot that machine and try again.

That said...Systems Dept. encourages you to upload any critical files to your GoogleApps account. It is redundant, but redundancy is a good thing when it comes to backups! Google Apps has made some changes recently that make batch uploading easier. See the instructions here.

Students read to therapy dogs during the Library Dog program at Fairfield's Lane Public Library on Thursday, Oct. 8.

A bouquet of roses and this note were delivered to LPL for all of the Lane staff members from an anonymous patron.

We have resumed responding to requests from other libraries in M.O.R.E. this week.

We will be placing holds on items to be sent to LAC for processing and delivery. These will appear on your regular RPLs.

There is some confusion about the RPL since we have switched to floating collections.

When an item floats, the LOCATION of the item changes, but the COLLECTION CODE remains constant. So, if you sort the RPL by the COLLECTION CODE, you're going to see some codes that represent buildings other than your own.  For example, you may see the code FNFA on a RPL in Hamilton.

If an item is on your RPL, it should be in your building, and you need to search for it on the shelves. The fact that the collection code doesn't match the location is a result of floating collections and not an indication of problem with the RPL. You can still sort by collection code, just know that the "funny" codes will be housed near your normal code (e.g. FNFAs would be where the MNFAs are, if on a list at Hamilton).

The Lane Libraries Board of Trustees meeting, scheduled for today, September 14, has been canceled due to a lack of quorum.  The next Board meeting has been scheduled for Monday, October 12, 4:00 p.m. at the Lane Administration Center.