By Maia Dickinson

Inside ZSR

What’s New in Public Services: April 2024

The Public Services team is currently busy working extended hours to accommodate our finals week schedule! Here’s a recap of what we were working on last month: Consolidation of Available Shelving Space The Public Services team has been working on consolidating available shelving space. We currently have 590 empty bays (“bay” refers to the metal... more

What’s New in Public Services: March 2024

Course Reserves Update We continue to work on the migration to a new course reserve system, Leganto. The current plan is to go live to instructors on April 23rd. There will be training for ZSR folks next week on April 16th (in-person) and on April 17th (on Zoom). Everyone should have received a calendar invite... more

What’s New in Public Services: February 2024

Continued Leganto Implementation We continue working to implement Leganto, a course reserves management system. The implementation team has recruited Kathy Shields, Hu Womack, Daisha Bunn, and Meghan Webb to help communicate with faculty about this important change. We expect the new system to be live before the Summer 2024 term starts. Collection Location Update We’ve... more

What’s New in Public Services: January 2024

New Format Starting this year we’ll be sharing our department news via monthly blog post, rather than an emailed newsletter. This will allow you to more readily reference the information in previous posts. You will also be able to easily browse the newsletter archive by clicking the “Public Services Newsletter” tag at the bottom of... more

Maia at NCLA

Recently, I had the pleasure of attending my first library conference–NCLA–conveniently located in my own backyard of downtown W-S! I attended on Thursday, October 19th, when the New Members Round Table had organized programming especially geared towards current MLIS students and recent graduates. Session focuses included the job search process and how to excel in... more