Wednesday, April 22, 2009
A Day in the Life of a Movie
At the bottom of this page is posted the preliminary video for our project on photobucket. Enjoy!
Monday, April 20, 2009
Project in Progress
BEYOND 2.0: Playful Teamwork (Collaborative Opportunity) Project 2009
GOAL: Expand the library staff's knowledge base through the use of technology (Web 2.0 tools) in order to communicate a need for improved guidelines in order to be more uniform and standardized in our shelving processes. In turn, to promote a more efficient collection search for patrons.
MISSION STATEMENT: Library's mission statement and/or strategic plan supporting this project is our promise to be user friendly and efficient thus enhancing our ability to offer quality customer service.
TOPIC: Begin a process to illustrate a need to address the current loopholes in our present guidelines for shelving entertainment videos. This will in turn foster open communications while addressing common questions and misconceptions face and promote further training from the circulation personnel.
OBJECTIVE: Bring attention to a need for more specific guidelines in a fun, light hearted and non-threatening manner to promote open input from staff about areas that need improvement. Therefore taking a step toward the planning and implementation of new and improved guidelines for shelving entertainment videos.
STRATEGIC PLAN: We anticipate significant user participation (staff) with our finished product simply by the interest already shown and responses from our initial verbal survey of our co-workers and supervisor. We feel adamantly that this project will a useful tool for use in illustrating current questions, open communication for other possibilities that may need inclusion and will lead to a improved written set of guidelines and training.
WEB 2.0 INVOLVEMENT: Wikispaces.com to assist with project planning and to track progress, Blogger.com to post overviews on Web 2.0 as well as information on our project, and more to come.
GOAL: Expand the library staff's knowledge base through the use of technology (Web 2.0 tools) in order to communicate a need for improved guidelines in order to be more uniform and standardized in our shelving processes. In turn, to promote a more efficient collection search for patrons.
MISSION STATEMENT: Library's mission statement and/or strategic plan supporting this project is our promise to be user friendly and efficient thus enhancing our ability to offer quality customer service.
TOPIC: Begin a process to illustrate a need to address the current loopholes in our present guidelines for shelving entertainment videos. This will in turn foster open communications while addressing common questions and misconceptions face and promote further training from the circulation personnel.
OBJECTIVE: Bring attention to a need for more specific guidelines in a fun, light hearted and non-threatening manner to promote open input from staff about areas that need improvement. Therefore taking a step toward the planning and implementation of new and improved guidelines for shelving entertainment videos.
STRATEGIC PLAN: We anticipate significant user participation (staff) with our finished product simply by the interest already shown and responses from our initial verbal survey of our co-workers and supervisor. We feel adamantly that this project will a useful tool for use in illustrating current questions, open communication for other possibilities that may need inclusion and will lead to a improved written set of guidelines and training.
WEB 2.0 INVOLVEMENT: Wikispaces.com to assist with project planning and to track progress, Blogger.com to post overviews on Web 2.0 as well as information on our project, and more to come.
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