[Circulation] LIBRARY BLOG AND TEMPORARY SPRING BREAK SCHEDULE

[Suzanne Karanikis]

Hello All,

LIBRARY BLOG
We would like to be receiving posts for our library blog, The Harold,  
has anyone started writing one yet?  You should be working on posts  
while you are staffing the desk.  I've forwarded Rachel's email with  
specifics about the blog posts at the end of this message.  I don't  
know if I made a formal announcement about this, but all circulation  
student workers are now considered InfoBar students.  If you  
disregarded Rachel's email because you considered yourself a  
circulation worker and not an InfoBar worker, please know that you ARE  
expected to contribute blog posts as well.   We look forward to  
reading your posts about This Book, This Film, and This Sound.

TEMPORARY SPRING BREAK SCHEDULE
I've posted the temporary spring break schedule on the bulletin board  
behind the circ desk.  Please take shifts on it only if you are  
positive that you can work them.  Work is optional Monday, 3/18 -  
Friday, 3/22.  You can select your own shifts, I'm not drawing them  
in.  During the week the library's hours will be Monday - Thursday,  
8:30am-10pm and Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm.  Work will be required again  
with regular hours on Sunday, 3/24.

RESEARCH HELP
One of your coworkers yesterday asked if they should know anything  
more about research help now that the students trained to give  
research help do not necessarily work in the evenings anymore.  If you  
are not able to help a patron with research help, remember these two  
things:  direct them to the Research Materials by Subject link on the  
library homepage and encourage them to reach out to their school  
librarian.  If a student doesn't know who their school librarian is  
they will find out once they click on one of the subject links.  The  
librarians' contact information is listed there as well.  This is a  
link to the libguides (subject guides):

http://libguides.hampshire.edu/browse.php

FORWARDED MESSAGE FROM RACHEL RE: POSTING TO THE BLOG:

Greetings, Infobar students!

We wanted to drop you a note about a new project we'd love for you all  
to contribute to. The Library has a new Wordpress blog - The Harold -  
that we're very excited about, and we want some content from you! We  
would like for each of you to write a post about something you found  
amazing or interesting or useful in the library. In particular we have  
three categories - This Book, This Film, and This Sound. We'd like you  
each to write one post every other week during your shifts- but if you  
want to promote and write about more, we are more than happy for you  
to do so!

The format for your post will be chatty and light, around 300 words  
(or enough to get the idea across and get people interested). If you  
want to include an image, feel free!  (We have to be aware of  
copyright for images, but we will review posts before they go "live").  
   We also have stock images which we can attach if needed.  The  
workflow will look something like: you write a blog post, submit it  
for review, and Andrew, Rachel, or Thea will accept it and queue it  
for publication.

We have pasted some examples below to give you an idea of what we are  
thinking.  Look out for an invite as a Contributor to the blog in the  
coming week. If you haven't received an invitation by the end of the  
week, send a note to Thea (taLO at hampshire.edu) and she will set you  
up. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!

Thanks so much,
Rachel, Andrew and Thea

Example blog posts:

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/library-pick-of-the-week

http://wvlibrarycommission.blogspot.com/2012/04/staff-pick-of-week_16.html

http://wakebookaday.wordpress.com/

http://pinterest.com/biblioecstasy/fiction-pick-of-the-day/

http://www.odysseybks.com/staff-picks


Thank you and please contact me with questions.

Suzanne