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Simple Communication How we’ve changed advertising, request forms, and notifications to make the experience easier on the patron, while increasing our transactions.

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Presentation given at the Great Lakes Resource Sharing Conference, Perrysburg, OH, June 2014

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Simple CommunicationHow we’ve changed advertising, request forms, and notifications to make the experience easier on the patron, while increasing our transactions.

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Derek Malone

Ohio University LibrariesBorrowing & Document ExpressILLiad - hosted by Atlas

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Alden Library

● 2 staff members● 1 student employee (fall/spring)● 30,406 transactions in 2013● 13,963 borrowing/doc del, 16,443 lending● transaction increase of 29% from 2010

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Simple communication

How we’ve changed advertising, request forms, and notifications to make the experience easier on the patron, while increasing our transactions.

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Simple communication

ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee - 2012 top ten trends in academic libraries

User behaviors and expectations

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Simple communication

● We don’t want to be considered “hard to use”

● Already the “last resort”● convenience through communication

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Simple communication

We’ll cover● our change in Web forms● our implementation of text messaging● our QR code advertising● our plans for the future

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Web presence

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Web presence

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Web forms

● could ask for a lot by default (ILLiad)● hadn’t really considered making a change

with them ● I don’t know what to put in the

_____________ space● cuts based on library type & user needs

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Web forms

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Web forms

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Web forms

● Ignored

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Web forms

● MUST provide

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Web forms

● Not wanted after - rarely, if ever changed

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Web forms

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Web forms

Before

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Web forms

After

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Web forms

Gone● Don’t abbreviate citation● MUST provide volume● Not Wanted After date● Accept other than English● Detailed notes explanation

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Web forms

4 requirements6 electivesnotes

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Web forms

book request is similar

2 requirements4 electivesnotes

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Web forms

Questions?

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Text messaging

What do you bring?

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Text messaging

92.44%

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Text messaging

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Text messaging

82.62%

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Text messaging

82.62%, greater than● telephone● email● social media● any others combined

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Text messaging

teach email as a primary communication?

“I don’t check my email”

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Text messaging

Emailing = Texting

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Text messaging

● phone numbers have emails associated with them

● at OHIO ILL we use 5 carrier emails in our text sign-up

● AT&T, Boost, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon

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Text messaging

● @txt.att.net● @myboostmobile.com● @pm.sprint.com● @tmomail.net● @vtext.com

Example: [email protected]

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Text messaging

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Text messaging

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Text messaging

Web form view

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Text messaging

mobile view - from iPhone5

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Text messaging

● User signup - goes to email● [email protected]● 2 email addresses

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Text messaging

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Text messaging

1st text message from ILL

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Text messaging

Our email notices include:● availability (article & material delivery)● overdue● return w/reason

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Text messaging

● note character limits when sending group texts and notifications (140 SMS)

● Verizon limit

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Text messaging

Overdue notice

Old email template

In a text?

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Text messaging

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Text messaging

New overdue notice

Formatted fortext messaging

Important stuff first

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Text messaging

Important stuff early

Quick info in text

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Text messaging

Email view

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Text messaging

Article delivery

Mostly the same

Link placement paramount

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Text messaging

Clean/quick email

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Text messaging

Physical material

Again, same idea

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Text messaging

What we’ve learned● texting = emailing● emailing has improved

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Text messaging

texting student employees - remind101.com

http://www.slideshare.net/derekryma/ssig-presentation-1

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Text messaging

Questions?

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QR advertising

Why?

92.44%

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QR advertising

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QR advertising

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QR advertising

link to mobile sign up page

http://www.qrstuff.com/

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Future plans

● fully-functional mobile environment● routing/retrieving & notifying throughout

the day/night● possible message outlet expansion?