Around the Library
This week the IS Department met. Hannah presented a tutorial on the Index Catalog of the Library of the Surgeon General’s Office and Mari presented EndNote information, including the interface between Sociological Abstracts, POPLINE and EndNote.
Security gates
Our security gates on the front doors have become very unreliable. We rely on them not only for book security but also to count the number of people coming into the library each day. We are looking at various options. One possibility is to close off the “single” door on the south side of the front entrance. This would save us the cost of purchasing another gate. We are also looking at installing only one gate on the “double” door and filling in the space with a panel or door that only library staff could open or move (in the event of needing a wider space to move equipment through.) Another option is to install two doors in the double space to eliminate the need for the sliding gate that we use to close the library.
2 comments:
Javad was talking to me about the gates yesterday. I think it may be possible to get a wide gate to cover the larger North entrance like the ones in the grocery stores. Also, there are many false alarms due to laptops etc. so there is a little bit of cried wolf syndrome with the current gates. I'm wonder if newer gates would decrease false alarms.
Steve
We're hoping that newer gates will give us more accurate gate counts AND fewer false alarms.
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