Upcoming Library Related Conferences

This great list of library conferences was just posted on DIG_REF:


http://homepage.usask.ca/~mad204/CONF.HTM

September Stats

Have you felt busy the past month? I think I may know the reason why! This past September, we have had 2480 reference questions, 2020 directional questions and 877 IT/printing queries at the Research Assistance Desk of Library West.

Information Pointers and Circ Staff: 1288 of the 2480 reference questions came to us at the second floor desk.

If you look at the chart above, the valleys are Fridays and Saturdays and the peaks are on Wednesdays.

Recently we started recording statistics in more detail at the Research Assistance Desk, to see if we could fine tune our service hours to the demand. Thank you for taking the time to record your statistics by the hour so that we can establish a more accurate snapshot of the days and hours that our services tend to be in demand. --Jana

Interactive Computer Map

Those of us assisting users in Library West have a wonderful new tool to direct people to open computers. As LeiLani Freund and Stephen Williams shared at the recent cross-divisional meeting, "the new interactive computer map for Library West... shows the public workstations on all floors." You can look at the map and see if computers are free in the third floor Info Commons, if the OPACs are in use in the stacks, and whether the computer has a scanner. Locations of the orange and blue printers are also marked.


This map is LIVE! It refreshes every 60 seconds! I have been using the beta for several weeks to direct users to open computers. When I see queuing for computers on the third floor, I take a look at this map and then walk over to direct users to the open spots. It is great!

Please bookmark the West Computer Map (http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/computers/) at the computers where you are assisting users, so it is easy to get to! And post your ideas for using the map here!



--Jana