{"id":238,"date":"2008-04-30T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2008-04-30T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T08:33:00","slug":"library-on-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/library-on-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Library on Location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year a colleague and I took a laptop and some borrowable material out of the library to a couple of places by student cafes to see what kind of interest we&#8217;d get.  (We originally planned to call the service &#8220;Laptop Librarians&#8221;, but some of our other colleagues have very dodgy minds, so we ended up calling it &#8220;Library on Location&#8221; instead.)  We ran six trial sessions, then Christmas and various other projects intervened, but we eventually wrote up our <a href=\"http:\/\/deborah.fitchett.googlepages.com\/LibraryOnLocation.pdf\">Library on Location report (pdf, 166kB)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Short version:  it was fun, feedback was positive, staffing is not always easy.<\/p>\n<p>We felt it was definitely worth further investigation, so we&#8217;re now running a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.canterbury.ac.nz\/news\/#location\">second trial<\/a> with a fixed time and place to see if having a regular service increases usage through familiarity.  One of the things we&#8217;re doing for that is getting our wonderfully cooperative colleagues to collect desk statistics back at our respective home branches to see how statistics &#8220;on location&#8221; at the same time compare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year a colleague and I took a laptop and some borrowable material out of the library to a couple of places by student cafes to see what kind of interest we&#8217;d get. (We originally planned to call the service &#8220;Laptop Librarians&#8221;, but some of our other colleagues have very dodgy minds, so we ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[137,68,219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}