Brian Herzog has another great post on Swiss Army Librarian:
Here's a more in-your-face twist on the Library Value Calculator. Another library in my consortium figured out how to display the total cost of a patron's items on their checkout receipt, and since we never let a good idea go to waste, we adopted it in my library, too.
Basically, it's a little macro that pulls the cost figure from each item's record, adds them all up, and provides a total. We present it in kind of a cutesy context, but the intent is to show people how much they save by using the library. Check it out:
A neat idea. Read the whole post.
Brian Herzog of Swiss Army Librarian writes:
This year, my library planned a program on using ebooks with library resources for the first Saturday in January.
The plan was for me to talk about Overdrive, and give live downloading demos for a Kindle, iPad, and Nook. Also, we invited a sales associate from the local Radio Shack to come talk about the non-library aspects of ereaders - buying ebooks, the differences between the devices themselves, and hopefully answer a few hardware tech support questions.
Brian's post is worth a read.
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Yesterday, Brian Herzog published a very interesting post on Swiss Army Librarian.
He had set out to represent graphically the complexity of flow in the library services hierarchy. Here's what he came up with:
I'll let him speak for himself:
I was thinking about library services, and why some good ideas get implemented while others don’t, and why libraries offer some things that seem to be of no use to anyone. This started me down the path of getting to the root of “why” and “how,” which I came to refer to as “What is Necessary” and “What is Possible.”
Check out his blog post.
Mike
