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Question History:
Patron: Chat Transcript: Do you count your onsite reading?
Can you give me detail answer on it?
Librarian 1: Librarian '24/7 Librarian Diego' has joined the session.
Librarian 1: Hello Begzsuren, I'm Diego. I am helping out your librarians by answering questions for them right now. I'm reading what you wrote so I can help you...
Patron: Hi Diego
Librarian 1: Can you tell me a bit more about the information you're looking for?
Patron: My question can be a strange?
Patron: If borrower choose 5 titles from open stacks and read it onsite, then left books on table.
Patron: do you mean it is a circulation?
Librarian 1: Do you mean if it's recorded anywhere, for instance?
Patron: does your library statistic on circulation contain only home loan or with onsite reading?
Librarian 1: My screen tells me we may have lost our connection...
Librarian 1: could I please confirm you're still there?
Patron: I think, if I borrow library materials at home, it means check-out. If I return library materials to library, it means check-in. Is it correct?
Patron: so Do you have on site reading checkout and checkin?
Patron: Diego, I was a intern at your library in October, 2010 from Mongolia.
Patron: when I forget to ask this kind of strange question from your librarians.
Librarian 1: Begzsuren, I'm not at Enoch Pratt Library myself, but I'll forward your question so that a local librarian can look into this, and get back to you by email.
Patron: now I'm trying to ask what I need to know from your library service.
Librarian 1: Could I please confirm your email address as mcl_begee@yahoo.com?
Patron: http://lip-news.blogspot.com
Patron: I was an intern at Pratt Library and State Blind Library.
Patron: Do you count your onsite reading?
Librarian 1: Begzsuren, as I said, I'm not at Pratt Library myself. I'll forward your question so that a local librarian can get back to you about this by email. Could I please confirm your email address?
Patron: Diego, does your public library count it's onsite reading?
Librarian 1: It's clear you're not receiving my messages, so I'll close our session now. I hope you get to see the transcript later. You'll be contacted by email about your question as soon as possible.
Librarian 1: Thanks for using Maryland AskUsNow! If you have any further questions, please contact us again.
Librarian 1: Librarian ended chat session.
Librarian 3: The Enoch Pratt Free Library keeps track of what we call "in-house circulation." That is, items (books, magazines, and more) that customers use in the library but do not check out and take home. At the Central Library, we count the books that customers leave on tables, desks, or other places during specific weeks of the year. We then use the numbers from these sampling weeks to calculate a total for the whole year. In the neighborhood branches, we count the books customers use every day. We scan the book bar codes into the catalog, and seeing how much each book is used helps us decide what to order or discard in the future.
I hope this gives the answers you need. If you have any other questions, please let us know.
Sincerely,
John Damond
Measurement Coordinator
Enoch Pratt Free Library/State Library Resource Center
Baltimore, Maryland
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IP Address: 124.158.90.3
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Browser/OS: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Cobrowse: No
Category: MD_P
librarycard: Yes
connection: Hi-speed
Question History:
Patron: Chat Transcript: Do you count your onsite reading?
Can you give me detail answer on it?
Librarian 1: Librarian '24/7 Librarian Diego' has joined the session.
Librarian 1: Hello Begzsuren, I'm Diego. I am helping out your librarians by answering questions for them right now. I'm reading what you wrote so I can help you...
Patron: Hi Diego
Librarian 1: Can you tell me a bit more about the information you're looking for?
Patron: My question can be a strange?
Patron: If borrower choose 5 titles from open stacks and read it onsite, then left books on table.
Patron: do you mean it is a circulation?
Librarian 1: Do you mean if it's recorded anywhere, for instance?
Patron: does your library statistic on circulation contain only home loan or with onsite reading?
Librarian 1: My screen tells me we may have lost our connection...
Librarian 1: could I please confirm you're still there?
Patron: I think, if I borrow library materials at home, it means check-out. If I return library materials to library, it means check-in. Is it correct?
Patron: so Do you have on site reading checkout and checkin?
Patron: Diego, I was a intern at your library in October, 2010 from Mongolia.
Patron: when I forget to ask this kind of strange question from your librarians.
Librarian 1: Begzsuren, I'm not at Enoch Pratt Library myself, but I'll forward your question so that a local librarian can look into this, and get back to you by email.
Patron: now I'm trying to ask what I need to know from your library service.
Librarian 1: Could I please confirm your email address as mcl_begee@yahoo.com?
Patron: http://lip-news.blogspot.com
Patron: I was an intern at Pratt Library and State Blind Library.
Patron: Do you count your onsite reading?
Librarian 1: Begzsuren, as I said, I'm not at Pratt Library myself. I'll forward your question so that a local librarian can get back to you about this by email. Could I please confirm your email address?
Patron: Diego, does your public library count it's onsite reading?
Librarian 1: It's clear you're not receiving my messages, so I'll close our session now. I hope you get to see the transcript later. You'll be contacted by email about your question as soon as possible.
Librarian 1: Thanks for using Maryland AskUsNow! If you have any further questions, please contact us again.
Librarian 1: Librarian ended chat session.
Librarian 3: The Enoch Pratt Free Library keeps track of what we call "in-house circulation." That is, items (books, magazines, and more) that customers use in the library but do not check out and take home. At the Central Library, we count the books that customers leave on tables, desks, or other places during specific weeks of the year. We then use the numbers from these sampling weeks to calculate a total for the whole year. In the neighborhood branches, we count the books customers use every day. We scan the book bar codes into the catalog, and seeing how much each book is used helps us decide what to order or discard in the future.
I hope this gives the answers you need. If you have any other questions, please let us know.
Sincerely,
John Damond
Measurement Coordinator
Enoch Pratt Free Library/State Library Resource Center
Baltimore, Maryland
To check the status or the history of your library question(s), go to: http://www.questionpoint.org/crs/servlet/org.oclc.ask.PatronDirect?&language=1&email=mcl_begee@yahoo.com&qid=6678571
To submit another question:
http://www.prattlibrary.org/findanswers/email_question.html