tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17545446343529764282011-07-07T13:36:31.742-07:00Chatter from a library director not sitting comfortably in her library.A Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16030587034487200870noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1754544634352976428.post-17119904911933499152009-09-23T13:46:00.000-07:002009-09-23T13:46:23.392-07:00

Good day folks Here's my weekly (semi) post - I've been trying to write it all day.... anyhow.  This morning myself and several staff went over to the library construction zone and took a short tour - and pictures.  They're up at the Flickr site (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pannell_2010--I'll put the link in the side bar as soon as I get the sidebar working properly again! haven't figured out

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I've been reading more professional literature lately.  It's an unexpected dividend of our relocation actually that I'm happy to take advantage of.  The library subscribes to several profesisonal journals, newsletters and circulars dedicated to libraries and libarianship. Not wanting them to go to waste, I told the staff that I would shelve them in my office as they came in during this next year

A Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16030587034487200870noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1754544634352976428.post-25947206930137978002009-09-14T11:13:00.000-07:002009-09-14T11:13:10.898-07:00

Folks I posted some photos a while back and forgot to list the permalink to them.  Either one will work http://www.flickr.com/photos/pannell_2010/ http://www.flickr.com/people/pannell_2010/   I'll be putting up a few more today or tomorrow.

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Some of the opportunities that have come about due to the library renovation are the possibility to include a collaborative work table into the study area and to mount a plasma display screen for an electronic messaging system on one of the walls in the seating area.  This is doubly exciting for us as we could then feed campus announcements, library information and public service

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During the past several weeks I have had two meetings about furnishings and electrical outlet needs for the renovated library space.  Our VP for student services has been put in charge of furnishing the building and needs to translate the needs (and just plain desires) of the occupying departments into a physical set of specifications that can be ordered from some furniture supplier! [Lucky me, 

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This is after the fact but I'll give an accounting of it anyhow.  I may have told earlier what the set-up of the new library is like - we managed to bring over 9 public access computers. {go see Pannell_2010 on Flickr for the interim library set-up} since the entire room is onl 30 x 30 ft, we are not able to conduct our usual classes there.  I have to schedule a computer lab somewhere on campus.

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I know I have been woefully lax in my posting but I have good (no, no great!) excuses for it.  anyhow, i'll catch us up later in the day.  Meanwhile: This is the gist of an email I sent out to our local consortium group.  I am asking for voulunteers to work on planning local arrangements. So, if you are at all interested, show up in Mansur hall 129 around 4:00 pm next Thursday---if I need to

A Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16030587034487200870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1754544634352976428.post-41801401430072630212009-08-25T15:40:00.001-07:002009-08-25T15:40:18.543-07:00

Good day folks, I sent two URLs out via campus email today.  One is to be used if you are trying to view the construction webcam feed from off campus http://204.134.48.130 and the other is to be used if you are somewhere on campus http://172.21.120.251 .  In addition, I sent out a set of instructions for enabling and installing the Active X controller that needs to be used to view the video feed

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I will make it a point to post at least once per week.  We may not have time for more.  I've subscribed to a few "libraryland" feeds which I will post in the side bar. So far I have not advertised this resource on campus, only to the other ELIN folks (or did I, hmm, can't recall).  I may have another one that is targeted toward the campus constiuency. Maybe not.  Anyhow that's all for today. 

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This blog will be a running monologue (of course they all are aren't they?) about what's it's like trying to run a full service library under straitened circumstances. We moved out of our building over the summer - lock, stock, and barrel I think the expression goes. There are seven staff members besides myself from the library serving a student population of about 3200. The campus employs about

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Well, school started yesterday and so did a minimal bit of construction. The company put the fence up around the building - for those of you that don't know what the heck I'm talking about, I'll fill you in later, perhaps in my next post.to continue with this one however, I'd like this blog to be a useful and informative resource for patrons of Pannell Library. We will post links to images and

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