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Library director reports best move-over rate to SEO
Written by Stacy Taff   
Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:10 PM

staff@delphosherald.com

DELPHOS — The Delphos Public Library staff and patrons have been getting used to the changes brought on by the library’s new membership with the SEO Consortium.
SEO, which stands for Serving Every Ohioan, allows the 87 libraries within its ranks to share all materials, putting more than 8 million items within their patrons’ reach. The library staff has been busy making accommodations for the influx of materials from other libraries and helping patrons navigate the new system.

“Everything has gone very smoothly. We recently learned that we had the best move-over rate of anyone SEO has ever had, so we were very pleased,” Director Kelly Rist reported to the library board of trustees on Wednesday. “I took a couple of the staff members to visit a couple other SEO libraries to see how they organize things and we came back buzzing with ideas. We’ve been changing some things. We reconfigured our work area to prepare for the increase in materials coming through. We’ve about doubled, sometimes tripled, what we used to get, since patrons can come in and just go to a computer and do it themselves.”

Rist also announced that the microfilm digital scanners have arrived and will be installed on Monday. The equipment was purchased with donated funds from the Dienstberger Foundation.

 

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