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Posted So long! to Walter Circulation
Farewell! Auf wiedersehen! Good night! Today's my last day and let me say, it's been an awful pleasure to work with all of you and you will be missed. I'm sorry I won't get to see returning students and I'm...
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Posted August Gate Counts to Walter Circulation
Well gate count fans (okay, I kid myself, I think I'm the only gate count fan here), this is my last gate count report for you fine folks. Everyone did a wonderful job recording the gate counts this past month....
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Posted Be Careful in the Stacks to Walter Circulation
Mary brought this wonderful relic from the past to our attention. Enjoy!...
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Posted New Blog Organization to Walter Circulation
I've finished redoing the organization for the pages section. It's now called HELP! This is where you can find useful information to help you answer those pesky patron questions, to which you may not know the answer. The help pages...
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Posted July Gate Counts to Walter Circulation
Fantastic job on recording the gate counts! There was not a count missing, astounding. Last month's visits were 25,398. That's down again from last year's 26,626. That's two months in a row that we're down. I wonder if the light...
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Posted Extra hours to Walter Circulation
To anyone that is interested in additional hours, I listed three shifts next week on the sign up sheet. The dates are Mon (7/19), Tues (7/20), and Wed (7/21) 5-9 PM. Please let me know if you're interested in taking...
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Posted June Gate Counts to Walter Circulation
The total number of gate counts for June was 24,353. That's down from 25,629 from last year, June. I don't have any excuses that would explain the drop. Usually, I can find that we were closed an extra day or...
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Posted You Can Use My Catalog (Don't Forget the Databases) to Walter Circulation
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Posted Walter May Gate Counts to Walter Circulation
Our total visits for May was 54,728. That's down from last year's 55,751. Bum, bum, bum!!! No big deal though. It appears that finals ended last year on the 16th and finals ended on the 15th this year. That means...
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Posted Kudos! Congrats! to Walter Circulation
April was customer service month. As part of this, secret shoppers were sent to the libraries on campus to look for specific customer service qualities in the library staff. Shannon, Christina, Kim, and Kathryn were secret shopped, and demonstrated these...
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Posted Now that's the school spirit! to Walter Circulation
You're being watched:...
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Posted April Gate Counts to Walter Circulation
First, I'd like to say, thank you! to everyone who recorded gate counts this month. Only one count was missed, a huge improvement over the previous months! Our total visits for April was 85,402. That's up from 84,528 last year....
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Posted Variations on a Theme to Walter Circulation
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Posted EBSCO Databases to Walter Circulation
Hey everyone! I've created a quick video and slideshow tutorial on how to use the Databases and Indexes for finding scholarly articles. I focused the presentation on EBSCO in particular, because I think the interface is pretty easy to learn....
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Posted MLAC Cavern Tour to Walter Circulation
Lysa, Shannon, Micah, and I took a tour of the MLAC caverns. TIm McClusky was kind enough to show us around and to share his incredible knowledge of the construction and the collection. The caverns were dug out of the...
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Posted Figure in nametags to Walter Circulation
Thanks to mystery artist!...
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Posted MLAC Tour to Walter Circulation
A tour of the Minnesota Library Access Center (MLAC) will be on Friday April 23th from 12:00 to 1:00. MLAC is a high density storage facility for Minnesota academic, public and governmental libraries. It is located 82 feet underground in...
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Posted Be there or be ^2 to Walter Circulation
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Posted Caliente! to Walter Circulation
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Posted Shoo Wop Do Wop to Walter Circulation
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Posted March gate counts to Walter Circulation
March's total gate counts numbered 77,614. That's up from last year's 70,796. I've noticed that the 6PM counts were missed often in March at the second floor. Please remember to grab the gate counts if you're at the second floor...
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Posted You'll have a... to Walter Circulation
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Posted Root, root, root for the home team! to Walter Circulation
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Posted The FInal Frontier to Walter Circulation
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Posted Hello world to Walter Circulation
Weighing in at 9 lbs., 1 oz., at 21" this pugilist, er, newborn is ready for her bout with the world, er, actually, that sounds about right. Her fans may know her as "The Hammer," but her real name...
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Posted February Gate Counts to Walter Circulation
And now for another exciting installment of "Walter Gate Counts." We last left off climbing out of the winter break with 40,000 some visits in January. Will the patrons return in droves? Will studying students be manifest? Will the lack...
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Posted Thursday Night Shift to Walter Circulation
Hey everyone! Just wanted to see if anyone would be interested in taking my Thursday (2/18) night shift (8PM-12AM) at the BDesk. My wife and I are taking a birthing class in preparation for the big day. It's posted on...
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Posted Hourly Gate Counts to Walter Circulation
Gate count update (exciting!): Last week's hourly gate counts revealed that Tuesday is our most popular day, with 4,067 visits. A close second was Monday with 4,034 visits. Only 699 souls ventured to study Saturday. Our busiest hour was 3...
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