Lesson 7 Challenge

404 Pages

Usually when I come across a 404 page, it is because I mistyped the URL.

Pottermore has a nice and spooky 404 page.

Disney World shows Stitch eating the page.

Lesson 6 Challenge

NoveList

I chose The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater as my NoveList guinea pig.  Here are the Appeal Factors I selected:

 This was too many factors, because the only book I got back from the search results was The Raven Boys.  So, I unchecked everything under the Subject heading and just went with Compelling Urban fantasy.  This time I got back 486 results.  That seemed like too many to sift through, so I added "schools".  This time I got a reasonable 29 results.

I use NoveList often for Reader's Advisory.  Library customers have such varied reading interests, I find NoveList very helpful when suggesting titles for a book I have never read or a genre that is not interesting to me.

Lesson 5 Challenge

I had signed up ages ago for a LearningExpress Library account, but like many patrons, I could not remember my password.  So the first thing I did was reset my password.  I then decided to explore the Career Center.  Once in the Career Center, I chose to "Learn More about a Career".  Under Homeland Security, I found a pdf of a book called 9 Steps to a Great Federal Job.  I figured this might be useful if I were ever to apply to work at the Library of Congress.  LearningExpress is fairly easy to navigate and has a great deal of useful information for patrons.  Many patrons have used it to help them prepare for career specific exams.

Lesson 4 Challenge 2

There are 29 articles in the May 2001 edition of Consumer Reports.

There are 26 articles in Volume 80, Issue 9 (also known as the September 2015 issue) of Consumer Reports.

Lesson 4: Challenge 1

There are 36 articles in the June 2014 Consumer Reports magazine.

Lesson 3 Challenge

Library Marketing

I do try and use the templates provided by the Marketing department to advertise our branch events.  I also use Microsoft Publisher to create endcap displays.  For this exercise, I used Canva to create a simple poster to advertise a library book sale.  It was easy to use and I would consider using it to create endcap display posters.  Here is my poster:

Lesson 2 Challenge

• A customer shows you a “too good to be true” email about getting free money from Nigeria, and asks you to help them seal the deal with their banking information.

I would attempt to explain that this type of email is almost always a scam.  To emphasize my point, I would take them to snopes.com or a respected news site and find them information to read, something that explains the scam in detail.  I would also try and gently educate them that sharing their financial information online, with strangers, is never a good idea.