All Locations

Search by YYYY-MM-DD

VALUE LINE IS BACK UP FOR EXTERNAL CUSTOMERS!

You may have already heard this from your customers but Value Line is down for our external and wifi customers and we have contacted them so they are working on this problem. Value Line currently works on the staff and public computers. We'll let you know as soon as it's back up and running for everyone. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Release Type: 
Press Release & System News

LOTE4Kids Demo

Collection Development is considering LOTE4Kids as a new acquisition to our digital resources collection. It is a resource aimed at providing children's titles in many different languages as well as multiple sign languages. They also offer activities that can be used online or downloaded and printed. With your supervisor's approval, please try out this demo over the next two weeks and email any feedback you may have, either positive or negative, to [email protected].

Tailored Titles Survey open until 12/31

Please answer this quick survey to share your feedback about Tailored Titles to help us learn how to best improve Tailored Titles in the future. 

6-question Tailored Titles survey

The survey is open until the end of the month! Thank you all! 

Winter Reading 2024 Training is Live!

Winter Reading is almost here! Book Bingo, a winter reading challenge for adults, kicks off on January 1, 2024.

Below are some helpful reminders for the days and weeks ahead.

Training for staff launched today and must be completed by December 31, 2023.

Intranet resources are available for all staff to find more in-depth information about the 2024 Winter Reading Challenge. Visit the Winter Reading tab on the Intranet home page to learn more.

Your Summer Reading Commercial is live!

In just two days, Summer Reading begins! The Marketing and Communications team has put together a commercial for both TV and radio advertising the start of summer reading! Have you seen it on air yet?  

We’re showing staff an exclusive extended version of that commercial right here! Thank you to everyone who helped us put together this commercial, including Djimon Jones, Shree Ranebenur, Megan Schafer, Duncan Rowan, and others! If you see any of your movie star coworkers around, show them some love!  

Public Services Managers Minutes - April 13, 2023

Facilitator: LaVetta Dent, PSA

Minutes: Abigail Stout, VI

Reviewers: Todd Podzemny, SO

Purpose: To discuss and make recommendations and decisions on issues having system wide impact on library operations.

Core Values and Ground Rules:

EDS and Ebsco eBooks

Ebsco Discovery Service (EDS) has been canceled with the last day of access being 4/30/23.  The drop-down research option on the homepage has been removed.  The search box on the database page is being updated and will continue to search Ebsco resources.

Tags: 

Hold Slips Update

Thank you to the libraries and staff at the Service Center who participated in the February testing of hold slips. Data from the baseline study in November/December 2022 were compared to the hold slip data submitted for the week of February 13. Here are the takeaways based on the data submitted:

CARL Statistics Language Update

The "MakerSpace" wording in CARL under "Statistics" has been renamed to "Waiver". 

With the launch of the Gardening Grant and Library of Things tools and tool kits, we want to have one generic place in CARL to track the waiver. Staff are still directed to ONLY use “Waiver” if they have a guest in front of them wanting to checkout a gardening tool/kit or use the Makerspace. Staff are still responsible to enter the approved waivers into the MLS Waiver User Agreement List Excel File to ensure we’re properly using the “Waiver” field in CARL.

TLC Upgrade - Tuesday, February 14

On Tuesday, February 14 after close of business, TLC will be performing an upgrade to CARL.X, CARL.Connect, and CARL.Discovery.

Here are the main highlights of what you will notice:

Pages

Subscribe to All Locations
Site Feedback