ASiL Proceedings
Conference Archive
18 sessions
Herding Cats or Time Management Techniques for Access Services Librarians
RAY MORRISON
Trying to take on all the responsibilities that Access Services Librarians face each day can be as difficult as herding cats. Not only do these librarians handle circulat…
Give the Patrons What They Want - Even If You Don't Have It Yet!
ASHLEY HOFFMAN, ANA GUIMARAES, LINDA GOLIAN-LUI
In the fall of 2012 the Sturgis Library began investigating new collection development methods for serving the needs of students and faculty at Kennesaw State University…
From the Bulletin Board to Blackboard : Online Tools for Student Management
AMANDA RUDD, SHANE HICKEY
To accommodate the increasingly hectic lives of student workers, Lauinger Library's Access Services Department explored ideas that would both empower our student employee…
Electronic Reserves: Are they worth it?
PAUL MCDONOUGH, NICOLA HILL
Instructors at our university often request electronic copies of texts rather than print, claiming that students prefer the advantages of electronic access. In the 2012 f…
Closing the digital knowledge gap in Access Services Staff
Amy Handfield
With the changing climate of libraries and the growing use of technology and digital information, the skill sets required of access services staff is evolving. At present…
Building a Better Library Experience: Redefining Access Services
JUAN CARLOS RODRIGUEZ, BRIAN MERRY
In 2011, the University Libraries at Grand Valley State University began a year-long process of reviewing and analyzing all workflows performed by members of the Technolo…
What makes Access Services Staff Happy? A Job Satisfaction Survey
Charla Lancaster, Bethany Sewell
The nature of work in Access Services on a national level has been rapidly changing over the past decade. The investigators hope to gain insight on how these changes affe…
The implementation of SIPX as an e-Reserve Platform
Lavinia Welch
This presentation will follow the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Library Access Services Department as it becomes one of the first institutions to implement S…
The Dark Side of Being the Boss
Heather Scalf
With change as a constant in libraries, we are all challenged to come up with effective ways to coach and develop our staff to ensure continued success. Using operant con…
Selling the Library from Access Services Desk
Li Fu
The access department in University of San Diego (USD) has a unique name: Access & Outreach Services (AOS) - it handles not only traditional responsibilities such as Circ…
Creating a Culture of Yes
Heather Jett
The 21st century library opens doors to information and resources, and those doors are unlocked and held open through Access Services. At Murphy Library, we in Access Ser…
Cool Apps and Open Source Tools to Collect and Display Access Services Data
Susan Thompson, Teresa Roudenbush
Come learn how you can use cool apps, open source tools and mobile devices to track things like space utilization and questions asked at the desk. Then put your statistic…
Assessment with an iPad: Access Services and creative technology
Micquel Little
This presentation will share how St. John Fisher's Access Services department is actively supporting the strategic goals set by the library and aligned with the college t…
21st Century Access Services: On the Front Line of Academic Librarianship
Michael Krasulski, Trevor Dawes
Access services departments in our academic libraries are literally and metaphorically at the front line of 21st century academic librarianship and in both tangible and i…
Thrown to the Wolves: Building Trust, Encouraging Independence & Creating an Unstoppable Team
KATHRYN TVARUZKA
To be a successful leader, it isn't always what you know, but how you successfully communicate with and advocate for your employees. At a mid-sized public university libr…
Creating a Successful Single Service Point for Circulation and Reference in an Academic Library
MARY ANN VENNER, BETHANY HARDIKAR
This presentation will describe how the Access Services and Reference departments of the UNT Libraries successfully worked together to create a single service point for C…
Access Services Department Organization: Who are we and how can we remain relevant?
Duane Wilson
A recent survey found that, though Access Services is prevalent and there is a core group of services in the majority of libraries, the department remains a geographicall…
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Information Desk Training: What We Learned From Ref Analytics Implementation And Use
SUSAN BECK, MARY COVARRUBIAS-CHAVARRIA
In spring 2013 the NMSU Library began using Ref Analytics from Springshare as its reference statistical package. All five Library service desks participated in the new sy…