Shared from EarlyWord: For those who are missing EarlyWord‘s daily book news coverage, there’s a new resource in town, Library Journal‘s “Book Pulse” column by Neal Wyatt, with the goal to “help collection development and readers’ advisory librarians navigate the never-ending wave of new books and book news.” And that it does. Dozens of links …
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Rylee Del Rio began work at Fairfield as a part-time Shelver on November 11, 2017. Lisa Piatt began work at Fairfield as a part-time Shelver on November 13, 2017. Ayelet Yariv began work at Oxford as a part-time Public Service Assistant on November 13, 2017.
Nominations are being accepted for the November 2017 Employee of the Month. Please submit your nomination here. Nominations will be accepted through Friday, December 1st.
Ever wondered what’s being checked out or put on hold right now all across the state? OverDrive now lets you see this for the Ohio Digital Library. Visit this special dashboard and you can watch in near real-time the parade of covers for holds and loans, and the spin of the counters as the numbers …
What are the most popular materials at the Lane Libraries for 2017 so far? Click the links below for printable top 100 lists: Most Popular Items Overall at Lane (PDF) Most Popular Books at Lane (PDF) Most Popular Kids Books at Lane (PDF) Most Popular DVDs at Lane (PDF)
Effective November 1, patrons are limited to 8 checkouts from Hoopla per month. This is down from 10. We have also set a monthly institutional budget of $6000 per month for Hoopla, or roughly $200/day. Once we hit our budget for the day, patrons will see a notice similar to this: The overwhelming majority of …
Brea McQueen (Community Technology Center) and Jennifer Umbstead (Fairfield) are our September-October Dual Employees of the Month. This is Ms. McQueen’s first time winning, while Ms. Umbstead last won in October 2014. Reagan Coleman nominated Brea and wrote: Brea was so helpful during operation pumpkin, and once it was over she went right to work …
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The latest release of Encore, version 4.6 SP3, fixes that availability issue that has vexed us for months. Items would display as NOT AVAILABLE on the browse screen when they were actually AVAILABLE somewhere. If you catch examples of this bug after November 1, 2017, please report it. We should not see it after the …