Hummingbird

Just wanted to alert everyone that we had a hummingbird trapped in the building yesterday evening. It was up by the electric windows. We opened the windows and hoped it would find its way out.

Paula recommended that should we face a wildlife emergency, we can call Lissa Margetts at 728-4275. She may be able to advise us in this type of situation.

Neither a Borrower nor a Lender be...

I have been learning the ILL ropes for the last week or two, and tweaking the procedures as I go. One thing that I found particularly frustrating on the Lender side is that after we find the books from the pick list we have to then check them out to the correct account. I went through all of Wilkinson's institutional patrons and tried to regularize the names and PCODES etc. I also found that one of the searchable fields for patron records is the so-called "unique ID" field. This is searchable in Millennium in the same way as patron names are. So just like you can look for a patron using the n prefix: nSmith, Jane you can also search by unique ID, assuming they have this field intheir record, so u072140817 might for example be their Colorado Driver License number.

What I did was enter just such a unique ID for all of our institutional patrons, and I used the Courier Code as data. So if you have just located a book destined for Auraria Public Library and you have Millennium Circulation open you can now search two ways. The old way was to type in the name, so nILL / AURARIA PUBLIC LIBRARY and the new way is to type uC105, which is the courier code from Swift.

Note that however you've been doing things in the past will work just fine, but if this new search field appeals to you feel free to use it.

Andy

Ricoh Scanner Email Privacy

The upstairs color copier has been a great alternative to the fax machine for patrons with lots of pages -- because its free! But last week we identified two possible privacy issues, and then it just stopped working. Now its working again (thanks to Erlend.)

The first privacy issue has to do with the fact that the machine keeps the email addresses that the user types in, so its possible for the next user to accidentally send a document to their intended destination plus the previous user's destination. This is easy to prevent, each patron should use the Clear Modes button after they send their document.

The other privacy issue is a bit more complex: the machine keeps a log of all the documents emailed, and this information can accumulate for months. Unless this log is cleared, its very easy for folks to examine the log and determine who sent documents where on such and such a date. (All you do is press the Scanner button and on the top line find the Scanned File Status icon.) We don't think its possible to view the emailed documents, but patrons probably don't want a public record of their cybertalk. Our short term fix for this situation is that this log should be cleared by a librarian at least once a day, perhaps in the morning when we open the reference desk. Here is the procedure:

Locate the small physical button in the upper left hand corner labeled User Tools / Counter and press it. A new screen appears; in the middle of the screen find the box labeled Scanner Features and press this (on the Touch Screen.) Again, a new screen. Find Delete Scanner Journal and press this. You will be asked to confirm, and you must find and press various Exit buttons to get all the way back out. Thats it, all information is deleted.

Rosetta Stone

For the next two weeks, Rosetta Stone will not be available. Joe will fix it when he gets back from vacation.

Thanks,
Faith

Voting FAQ

Hi Everyone,
I compiled a FAQ document on voting in San Miguel County with information from the www.sanmiguelcounty.org website. There are copies in the voter reg folders by the circ and ref desks. Happy registering!

Faith added the following:

The link in the FAQ Voting in San Miguel document isn’t easy to find for the following question (especially since their site doesn’t have a search option):

How do I know if I am registered to vote?
You may check your registration status at www.sos.state.co.us or call the San Miguel County Clerk and Recorder's Office.

I ended up doing a Google search for it and got to this page directly:
http://www.sos.state.co.us/Voter/voterHome.do

Great Books series

Hello,
The Great Books Monday evening series will continue through the summer with Tom as the organizer. The meetings take place in the Telluride Room from 6-7:30 p.m. on Mondays.
Reservations are not required.


Sarah

Boohoo for Yahoo!!!!

Accessing Yahoo Email is getting trickier by the day. For now, there is not much we can do about it. One option is to suggest that patrons open their email outside of the library, and at that point, choose the Yahoo classic view mode. Once a patron has chosen the classic view from an outside source, they can then come back and access their email here anytime (as long as they stay in the classic view). Other than that, we're at somewhat of an impasse.

Thanks for your patience,
Faith

TECH-2

Computer TECH-2 in the lab has a new IP Address:
192.168.0.115

Thanks,
Faith

CLOSING!

CLOSING - PROCEDURES......

PLEASE DO A FINAL WALKAROUND IN ALL AREAS - Bathrooms, meeting rooms, Lounge CHAIRS, Telluride ROOM, Patio to look for people before going downstairs. Evern after you think everyone is out, do ONE MORE walkaround......Coordinate with the CIRCULATION staff to let them know you are doing one more walk about before announcing to them that all is clear!

Thanks,

Sarah