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• Poetry Books, Loan Periods, and Customer Service Models in the Public Library
  An interesting idea on having flexible loan periods for different types of books. But loan periods will have to be maintained for children’s books, textbooks and bestsellers so that everyone will have a chance to get their hands on the books. It’ll definitely be good in terms of providing good customer service. However, we should take note that certain books can suddenly become ‘hot cakes’ and we’ll need how to handle those instances.
  (via ricklibrarian)
• Recycled Airplane Library
  With Earth Day just over, here’s something about recycling. An architecture firm, who specialises in the use of recycled materials in their designs, has decided to use discarded airplane fuselages to build a library in Guadalajara, a Mexican city. LOT-EK designed the New Jalisco Library with the discarded fuselages from Boeing 727s and 737s. Quite an innovative design and use of materials I might add.
  (via Digg)
• Do Away with the Long Forms
  A look at enquiry forms on the library website. Some thoughts on how to be effective in helping our patrons submit their email enquiries quickly and with little fuss.
  (via Library Garden)

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