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eBook Staff Training: Surrey Libraries. Gary Green Surrey County Council Library Service gary.green@surreycc.gov.uk. Jblyberg/Flickr. What Did We Want To Address?. Improve staff awareness: Of our ebook services Opportunity to try devices Highlight expanding ebook market
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eBook Staff Training:Surrey Libraries Gary Green Surrey County Council Library Service gary.green@surreycc.gov.uk Jblyberg/Flickr
What Did We Want To Address? • Improve staff awareness: • Of our ebook services • Opportunity to try devices • Highlight expanding ebook market • Increase staff knowledge • Reassure – ebooks can be seen as threat yukop/Flickr
Ebooks & Supporting Staff • Staff training sessions • Support material & help • Knowledgeable staff jepoirrier / Flickr
Staff Training Sessions • Presentation: • What's an ebook? • National picture • Discussion about relevance of ebooks • Surrey's ebook service • Hands-on session: • Ereader/tablets • Laptop & software Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com / Flickr
Other Sessions • Additional condensed staff training linked to public drop-in sessions • Online ebook chat session for county council staff Leo Laporte / Flickr
Support Material • "How to..." PDFs • "How to..." presentations • Big Push newsletter • Link to suppliers help pages • Used by public & staff Johan Larsson/Flickr
Challenges • Keeping information up-to-date about: • Constantly changing landscape • Software, app updates • Things can be confusing: • Different ways of using service • What do I have to do before reading? • Adobe ID Libraryman/Flickr
Support staff • "Go to" staff with ebook knowledge • Feed info to our enquiry service • Training of super buddies in libraries • Idea/resource sharing with other library authorities Remi Mathis / Flickr
eBook Staff Training:Surrey Libraries Gary Green Surrey County Council Library Service gary.green@surreycc.gov.uk Jblyberg/Flickr