{"id":564,"date":"2017-09-27T11:30:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T22:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=564"},"modified":"2017-09-27T11:30:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T22:30:42","slug":"the-summer-boutique-library-daille-white-open17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/the-summer-boutique-library-daille-white-open17\/","title":{"rendered":"The summer boutique library &#8211; Daille White #open17"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-canvas-width=\"572.7629999999999\"><strong>The summer boutique library &#8211; closing the library but keeping the doors open<\/strong><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"511.39349999999996\">Daille White, Jane Brooker, and Lucy Lang &#8211; Victoria University of Wellington<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"511.39349999999996\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"511.39349999999996\">Completely refurbishing library so closed for 3 months; wanted to create a small library as a temporary replacement to provide resources\/services over summer trimester.<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"511.39349999999996\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"511.39349999999996\">Lots of communication, especially over Facebook and face-to-face meetings which allayed fears and panic.<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"511.39349999999996\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"511.39349999999996\">(&#8216;Before&#8217; photos of &#8220;dingy, cramped&#8221; library actually look pretty nice! &#8216;After&#8217; photos have replaced brightly painted walls with timber and glass which is also very smart. Black shelving was the architect&#8217;s vision and not their own preference though&#8230;.)<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"511.39349999999996\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"511.39349999999996\">Various plans were made and changed. Ended up moving to a low-use student common room. Small area but looked clean and bright. Informal atmosphere. Open 9-5 Mon-Fri which was plenty &#8211; being staffed by core people strengthened relationships. Users had to consult for help and discovered librarians actually really nice. \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"511.39349999999996\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"511.39349999999996\">Selected high-use material and course materials, and material requested, to put into temporary collection. Also promoted extended loan. No complaints about interloans as delivering service very quick &#8211; some even commented better than before. Some found items in the smaller collection that they didn&#8217;t know library had. Academics were particularly interested in new items display.<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"511.39349999999996\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"511.39349999999996\">Always had been planned to change the service model, to be in the space with clients around them &#8211; more visible and approachable. Summer boutique library helped.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer boutique library &#8211; closing the library but keeping the doors open Daille White, Jane Brooker, and Lucy Lang &#8211; Victoria University of Wellington Completely refurbishing library so closed for 3 months; wanted to create a small library as a temporary replacement to provide resources\/services over summer trimester. Lots of communication, especially over Facebook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[98,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564"}],"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=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}