Mobile Printing at SWX & WAL!

Team,

I'm happy to report that mobile printing is now available at both of our locations!  Robin Cabrera turned on Walter's connection yesterday afternoon, although the link has not yet on the Walter web page.

With mobile printing, customers can print from their personal laptops or smart phones by using the link on the location's webpage or emailing their document to a specific email address--see the directions below.  There's also an app customers can download to their phone, PrinterOn, which will send a print job from their device to a mobile printer.

Another great feature of mobile printing is that you don't have to be in the library to use it and you can send it to whichever library with mobile printing you choose.  (Of course, you still have to go to that location to pay for and pick up your print job.)

The mobile print jobs are retrieved at the print release station with the email address the customer used to identify the print job, so it's important to remember what was entered.

I encourage you to practice by sending a few print jobs from a staff computer or your phone.  

This will be a tremendous service for our customers, just like scanning and our new mobile hotspots!

Karen

Mobile Printing Available at Southwest

Team,

Customers may print from their smart phones, Internet tablets, and laptops remotely and at Southwest Express by using the app Printer On and selecting "Houston Public Library SouthWest Express" as the location.  The document, website or photo will be sent to and held at the Print Release Station until the customer arrives to pay and pick it up.  

Here's the information from the HPL website:

Mobile printing coming soon to a location near you! 
You can now print from your mobile device, onsite or remotely. Simply follow the prompts on the webportal (unique for each location). It's easy and fast. You can also download the free Printeron app and send print requests from your smart phone! 

At this time, mobile printing is available at Central Library, Clayton, Collier, Heights, Henington-Alief, Hillendahl, Jungman, Morris Frank, Ring, Robinson-Westchase, Southwest Express and Young libraries. With the new print solution, color copies are only $0.50 per page (black and white is still $0.15 per page). You may use coins/bills and/or credit/debit card to print. Print cards will be phased out with a balance reallocation transfer. Please check with staff for more information. 

Here's the link to the web portal for Southwest Express: 

https://www.printeron.net/system/printspot/interface/select_file.jsp?url=houston/southwest-express&protocolSwitched=true

Try it and see how easy it is!

Karen

Staff Meeting Notes 4-16-18

9:15-9:45 AM, Walter Meeting Room

STAFF MEETING AGENDA 

     1.     Counting In-House Use--great March stats: 11% and 12% in-house use! 

     2.     Staff Borrower Cards 

a.      Handout: Library Materials Services: policies relating to: 6.2 Registration (page 4-5) “. . .  Houston Public Library staff are expected to comply with the same lending policies applied to other customer accounts.  Abuse of the staff borrowing privilege by a staff member may result in disciplinary action. . .”

     3.     Weekly Update Emails

a.      4-9-18: Shifting in Adult Non-Fiction and Periodicals/Newspapers; Digital Strategies has spent paper and toner budget for rest of FY18; do not use bypass code on Coin Copier machine for staff copying.

b.     4/2/18: Discharging: Keep your eyes on the screen, we should be 100% accurate; Volunteers: must wear a badge, prepare ready-to-shelve carts for them; National Library Workers Day, 4/10: Horray for us!

c.      Check your email regularly!

     4.     New Public Service Hours proposed for FY19 (beginning Aug. 1) - confidential

     5.     Staff Appreciation: Pick Your Own Snacks. Fill up a bag from our selection of delicious treats!

IMPORTANT DATES

•         Wednesday, April 18: Regional Youth Services Meeting, 9-11:30 AM (Ivy)
•         Friday, April 20: Last day of pay period, timecards approved after 5:30 PM
•         Saturday, April 21: Branch Staff Training, 8:30-9:30 AM: Scratch Coding (Pam)
•         Tuesday, April 24, and Wednesday, April 25: Managers Boot Camp @ CEN (Karen & Christy)
•         Friday, April 27: Payday
•         Saturday, April 28: International Children’s Talent Show at SWMSC, 1-3 PM
•         Friday, May 4: One Houston, One Library staff meeting @ WAL, 8:30-9:30 AM
•         Saturday, May 12, and Saturday, May 19: Branch Staff Training 8:30-9:30, tba
•         Monday, May 21: May Staff Meeting, 9:15-9:45 AM

REVIEW: ENVISIONWARE RESERVATION & PRINTING SYSTEM

•        Guest numbers good for 1 day only--discard at the end of the day
•         Computer Use cards (554…) seem to be working--check this
•         TIme automatically extends 15 minutes at  a time, no limit
•         Staff can blanket reserve a group of public computers for class or demo
•         Black & White printing/copies $0.15/page, color printing/copies $0.50/page
•         Printing takes cash or credit cards only
•         Maximum. cash $3
•         Minimum credit card charge $1 (authorizes $10, after printing adjusts charge to actual cost, min. $1)
•         Courtesy printing for customers from desk computer, if Coin Copier at fault (equipment or paper malfunction), using bypass code.  
•         No free staff printing with bypass code at Coin Copier machine--use the copier/printer in Workroom
•         Send old payment cards with more than $1 to Coin Copier for refund using self-addressed envelopes in desk drawer; Collect and give to CC tech when in building.