[Circulation] Gimlet and Upcoming Projects

[Suzanne Karanikis]

Hello All,

If you have not already please set up a Gimlet account.  On 2/1  
Courtney subscribed you all and you should have gotten an email with  
the subject line Your Invitation to Gimlet.  Use the link provided in  
that email to set your password and then you will be able to log in to  
the Gimlet site: Gimlet.hampshire.us. You were all subscribed with  
your Hampshire emails.  If you never got an invitation to Gimlet  
please check with Courtney or me.   We are trying to get in the habit  
of logging in to Gimlet for the day on the circ desk machines, so  
please read through the most recent questions and answers in addition  
to logging new ones.

As far as upcoming projects you will soon be more active participants  
in the work of the library and doing less of a monitor's job.  I will  
be assigning you all stack ranges that you will check at least once a  
week to make sure that they are tidy and in order.  More information  
will follow about that next week.  Our library blog is just about up  
and we will soon be asking for you to contribute posts to it.  Lastly,  
I am working with our Arts Librarian, Rachel, to make a libguide,  
basically an online reference manual, that will be a filled with  
information that will help you be successful in your job.  As we build  
this site I will be looking for volunteers to help me do screencasts  
of procedures in Aleph, such as finding out if a patron may borrow a  
key and finding out who a key is currently checked out to.  I will  
also be having you look at the libguide periodically for your  
constructive criticism on the ease of its use and the information it  
contains since you are my experts on the training needs of student  
workers.

Thank you and I look forward to pursuing these new projects with you.

Suzanne
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Suzanne Karanikis
Circulation Supervisor
Harold F. Johnson Library
Hampshire College
893 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002
ph:  413-559-5762
fax: 413-559-5419

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