April Update - Parkland Regional Library

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April 2015
Table of Contents
Mark Your Calendar
Address List & Library Fee Changes
Schedule Changes
Staff Update
Technical Services
Systems
Ordering
Cataloguing
Collections
Extras
Mark Your Calendar
April - National Poetry Month
April 12-18 - National Volunteer Week
April 20 - Spring PD Day at PRL - Focusing on Social Media
Fire up your social media strategy and explore the power of video in our upcoming PD
workshop on April 20 at PRL. Find out more at http://www.prl.ab.ca/conference and then
sign up at http://www.prl.ab.ca/registration. Registration is limited to 40!
Parkland Needs Assessment Facilitated Meetings:
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Olds Public Library - 5217 52 Avenue Olds;
Parkland Regional Library - 5404 56 Avenue Lacombe;
Galahad Community Centre - 201 Lady Vivian Avenue W, Galahad
Camrose Public Library - 4710 - 50 Avenue, Camrose.
Registration deadline for the meetings is Wednesday, April 15. Register by emailing
Anna Alexander at aalexander@prl.ab.ca; or by calling Anna at (403) 782-3850.
A memo invite has been sent via van delivery, mail and email to library board chairs,
library staff, member municipal councils, and Parkland 's board members.
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April 30 - May 3 - Alberta Library Conference, Jasper
Summer Reading Workshop - Saturday, June 6 at PRL Headquarters.
September 21 - Professional Development Day at the Lacombe Memorial Centre. Address List & Library Fee Changes
The Address List has been updated for the following libraries:
Cremona Public - new board chair - Ms. Tracy Westerson
Delburne Public Library - new hours: Tues., Thurs., & Fri. 11:00-5:00; Wed. 11:008:00; Sat. 11:00-2:00
Innisfail Public - new library manager - Mr. Matthew Barabash
Sylvan Lake Public - new board chair - Ms. Lynda Fiedler
Library Card Fees have changed for the following libraries:
Hay Lakes Library - Individual $15; Family $30.
The new list can be found in the Q Drive to print for your library, if you so choose.
Schedule Changes
Staff Meeting - Wednesday April 8 at 9:00 a.m.
Office Closure - Good Friday, April 3 and Easter Monday, April 6.
Staff Update
Network Support Technician - Parkland has successfully hired a Network Support
Technician. Steven Dobrowloski is returning to Parkland starting on April 1.
Welcome back Steven!
Technical Services
Systems
Batch Changing Notification Settings to Send Email
Contact Marquita if you would like all your patrons with email addresses in Horizon to be
included in the overdue, hold, and membership renewal notices. We can change all your
patrons at once. (Currently your patrons will not receive emails unless their "notice by"
field is set to "email" and "phone type" contains "noTC".)
If you would like a list of your patrons with email addresses who have the wrong settings
in Horizon to receive email, go to WebReporter > Borrower Reports > All Borrowers
Reports > Borrowers with Email Addresses that will not receive Email Notices.
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April Update
Barcodes Added to Title Request List
The Title Request List now displays item barcodes. This is to clarify which patron should
be mailed the item, if there are multiple "mail to" requests for it.
ME patron "home" libraries and fines/fees
ME patrons are created with ALAP as their home library by default. However, if an item
belonging to you is lost or damaged by a ME patron, you should contact them directly
(Parkland does not do this).
If a ME patron is using your library as their preferred location, you can change their
location in Horizon from ALAP to your own library code. However, if the record is already
set to another library's location within Parkland, you should talk to them before changing
it.
CNIB has been changed to Print Disabled in our Catalogue:
Services for the print disabled in Alberta have changed. Instead of the CNIB Partners
Program, we now have access to CELA (Centre for Equitable Library Access) and
NNELS (National Network for Equitable Library Services). We previously used "CNIB" to
indicate an item was for print disabled only. Since libraries no longer deal directly with
CNIB, the "CNIB" code has been switched to "PDO" (Print Disabled Only) in Horizon,
reflecting that a print disability can be more than a visual impairment.
Read the Print Disabled Only Records document for details on this change.
The Borrower Handout & Item Handout have been updated to reflect these changes.
These documents can be found on our website: Training & Resources > Connect with
Patrons > Services for Print Disabled
Membership Renewal Notice Format Change
Parkland began producing this new type of notice on 11 Mar, 2015. It sends email
notification to patrons approximately 30 days prior to their card’s expiry date. The
borrower’s name, card number and expiry date have been added to these notifications.
Example:
Just a reminder—the "Pre-Expiry Notice" block on the borrower’s record is what allows
the email notifications to work so do not delete these when you come across them. They
will delete on their own.
Staff Initials field added to Borrower Records
A new field has been added to Borrower Records—Staff Initials. Unfortunately, this field
can only accept predetermined values—you have to select from a list of numbers. You
can assign each staff member at your library a number from 1 to 50 to use when they are
creating borrower records. It is up to library managers to track the numbers assigned to
staff members; this information is not kept in Horizon.
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You are not sharing the numbers between other libraries in Parkland, so number
assignments are completely up to your library.
Because this is not as convenient as adding initials, this field is not mandatory. You will find the field next to the Expiry Date:
Ordering
Blackstone Audio's Discount Seasons Have Changed From 3 to 4 Per Year!
Parkland is signed up for the CD12 plan: We have agreed to buy 36 CDs per season
(Jan-Mar, Apr-Jun, Jul-Sep, Oct-Dec) to enjoy the following discounts:
1) We will never pay more than $40 USD per Audio CD title. (If the title is $150, we will
pay $40)
2) CDs $60 or less will receive a 35% discount.
3) MP3s will receive a 20% discount. (MP3s do not count towards our 48 CDs per
season agreement).
Want to know how much we’ve ordered this season? Go to WebReporter: Acquisitions
Reports > Vendor Discount Reports > Blackstone Audio Orders.
To find Blackstone Audio titles, go to www.blackstonelibrary.com. You will need to order
these through Purchase Request in Horizon.
The April ILL Hot Picks list is up! These
are titles that have been requested by
Parkland patrons through interlibrary loan.
Ordering? See Selection List instructions
on our Horizon page.
Library Services Center slists are updated
monthly. For April there are additions to
Adult, Audio-Visual, French, and Juvenile
categories. View new lists on our vendor
catalogues page.
New patron suggestions are available at:
Q:\Collections\Collection
Development\Recommended Titles to
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Buy\Patron purchase suggestions.
Suggestions are region-wide (you will
have received your own patrons'
suggestions by email).
Looking for 3M ordering ideas? Check
out the 3 lists on the Q: drive folder:
Q:\Collections\Collection
Development\Recommended Titles to
Buy\3M - top picks
Top 10 Requested by Title and Ratio
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April Update
Want the top 50 requested titles? Go to:
Q:\Collections\Collection Development\Recommended Titles to Buy\Horizon - top
requested by title and ratio
Cataloguing
Process Only Queue - Currently working on items sent in:
Purchased: March 18
Donation: February 19
Collections
Check out our new non-fiction titles by following the link below:
prl.ab.ca/files/PRL_Non_Fiction_March_2015.pdf.
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April Update
PRL Audiobook Collection
Check out our newest audiobook titles by following the link below:
http://www.prl.ab.ca/files/March_2015_Audiobooks.pdf.
Extras
Hoopla, 3M, and OneClickdigital all have
new apps / new websites. We have
updated the patron instructions - please
discard any printed copies you have and
re-print them. See: prl.ab.ca/econtenthelp
Public Library Services Branch (PLSB)
has recently updated the SuperNet
Operational Policy. Please add to
your records. Click here to access a PDF.
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