Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Additional services

This isn't so much a blog post but a details about the additional services

 
Craft Group
  • Held an interest meeting with a library staff member moderating
  • Group selected when and where to meet  eg days and times
  • Talked about what the group will get out of the sessions
  • Talked about what the library was prepared to do
    • space
    • additional resources books etc
    • Promotion of the group
  • Talked about mini-projects that may be suitable for the group
  • No cost to patrons and no financial support by library
  • Membership forms??
From this, the group meets twice a week, and have created some mini-projects.


One on One computer sessions
  • Cost is $40 per hour session
  • Bookings essential
  • Librarians will provide one on one computer sessions taylored to the patrons needs
  • Space is in main library???
Seniors Computer Classes
  • 2 staff members involved -- one to present and the other as a roamer
  • Two hour sessions including a morning tea break
  • Use laptops set up in a dedicated room -- each laptop has a mouse
  • Original plan was to use attendees as per mentors however this doesn't really happen
  • 5 monthly sessions
    • Files and folders
    • Emails
    • Attaching files etc to emails
    • Cameras, scanners, photos etc (as requested)
    • Follow up and Review
  • Evaluate at the end of each session
  • ***Be wary of assuming participants have existing knowledge  eg  some may be able to use mouse, others not.
  • No cost to patrons
  • Library prints and binds books
  • Library provides coffee and tea
  • Sessions are run with 12 laptops and are rotated between branches
Bookgroups
  • There are multiple bookgroups in the library service
  • Most are self-run
  • Library provides tea and coffee
  • Sessions run for 1 hour
  • Library provide access to resouces eg Books
  • Wish to create a list on the opac of items with more than 10 holdings.
  • Groups select titles (mainly) on a monthly basis
Bookchats
  • Looking at starting in 2010
  • Based on what you are reading
  • Discuss what you are reading or have read
  • Readers advistory type sessions



  

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