A guide for Yellowhead Regional Library's Members for reopening after lockdown restrictions are lifted.
Topics include:
How can we make sure our activities and services are truly user-centred?
Members of the BC User Experience Interest Group (BC UXIG) will briefly share highlights and strategies from some recent projects, then lead this lively and active workshop where you'll stretch your imagination and build some UX-perspective muscles.
We’ll give most of the time to lively small-group discussions around challenging assumptions and our own “expert” perspectives to bring a more user-centred approach to what we do. Be prepared to dismantle some of your assumptions!
The BC UXIG is an informal grassroots collection of librarians that has been hosting events and workshops around UX for the past five years, including sessions on wayfinding and Google Analytics.
In 2018, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education initiated a pilot project to develop a Summer Reading Program on First Nations in order to develop best practices around offering Summer Reading Clubs on First Nations Reserves in Saskatchewan.
The pilot project was conducted by Southeast Regional Library.
This Kit has been developed in response to this pilot project.
This toolkit covers How to Get Started; Creating Partnerships; Planning: Program Delivery; Project Evaluation; as well as an extensive Appendix including forms, agenda's, resources and promotional materials.
The Overdrive Selection Committee's Collection Development Guidelines for the BC Library2go OverDrive collection (last updated July 2019).
Melanie and Adrienne worked together as managers in the same regional public library system for five years. Having learned from their various management experiences, they offer participants insights into best practices and the importance of creating a collaborative workplace to help respond to increasingly complex community needs. They will discuss management's evolving role and why it is essential to develop the manager-employee relationship. Join them as they highlight the important principles that guide them as managers.
This handout explains the steps a patron with print disabilities takes to sign up for CELA service. Libraries can print off copies to distribute in the library, at community events, in schools or at any opportunity where libraries wish to promote their accessible services.
The four steps required to access CELA: library card, CELA registration form, receive login, access books in audio, braille or e-text accessible formats.
This information has been transferred to Word documents as this forum doesn't support Excel documents. Statistics are totalled at the end of the year and put into the first document '2017 circulation stats to use in purchasing 2018 books for Toolshed' based on the different categories that are set up for our library. The second document '2018 Book Budget Report for Toolshed' takes the percentage of circulation from the first document and multiplies it times the available funds to determine what should be spent in each category. If you have any questions feel free to contact me.
The first document also allows you to compare from one year to another whether your circulation has increased or decreased via category and what you should look at changing. Keep in mind that you can alter an amount. For instance, the first year this was created we added money to the Graphic Novel area as our collection was old and not receiving circulation but our staff knew that there would be a demand for it from a number of people who struggle to read. Since then we have automatically been able to receive a dollar percentage for this category due to circulation.
Learn how to keep in touch with family and friends using popular online services like Skype, WhatsApp, Facetime and Google Hangouts.
Instructor's notes and handout
Class description:
This hands-on session teaches you how to access ebooks and audiobooks on your mobile device using the free Libby app. Bring your tablet or smartphone along with your Library card, and get ready to start reading and listening on the go!
[Instructional materials based on template from Digital Learn: https://training.digitallearn.org/courses/course-templates