Content: Library Management Systems

Type: Webinar

Length: 30 minutes

Level: Accessit LMS users

Organisers: Accessit

Presenters: Sarah Jordan

Format: A 30 minute webinar

Reflection

Objectives: This Accessit webinar was about mapping the library, and being able to create a gridded map that you could draw shelves onto and map collections to. The webinar was focused on first creating this map, and then implementing it through the Accessit web application.

Reasons for attending: The reasons for watching this webinar were primarily because I wanted more knowledge of Accessit, the intricacies of the system were still relatively unknown to me so I decided to watch through some webinars on a PD day granted to the staff at my workplace.

Relation to studies and learning outcomes: The primary point of mapping the library is less about mapping it for the librarians use, but for the patrons use; linking the map to the web app lets the patrons use the web app to find books on their own. This relates to theory about use cases and customer service. From this I learnt about maps and the different ways to use them, but the biggest take away was how I didn’t need it. I work in a small high-school library with maybe 4 or 5 sections, and we don’t use the web app. The map might be useful for a larger library with a lot of different areas, but we can see everything from the circulation desk, we didn’t need one. I came to this conclusion after analysing us as users and seeing if this was something we could use.

Future Uses: If ever we implement the web app, or I am somewhere that does, then I already have the practical knowledge to implement maps, so it will be useful if ever I find myself in that situation.

Evidence: Screenshot of Webinar

Screenshot of Webinar