ILA Best Practices

With our new website, we wanted to be able to take advantage of features that would make the site useful to our community – RSS feeds for users to subscribe to that list the new books recently cataloged, blogs for our library gaming groups, and forums for virtual book clubs. We did not want to [...]

Because we are a small (ish) library, we do not have very many internet stations. The Board decided to restrict them to city resident card-holders only. However, the staff recognized that many of the visitors who come through are also stopping in on their way to shop or dine. Rather than give a negative impression [...]

The Helen M. Plum Memorial Library has instituted Library Elf (www.libraryelf.com). A service that checks the circulation accounts every day and sends e-mail notices when items are coming due, overdue or when holds are ready for pickup. Patrons set up their own parameters, deciding how far in advance of due dates they would like to [...]