ILL Damaged Items

Please check with Tunisia Powell (x31445 or x31447) in Central Services about any ILL damaged items.
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Website Login Issues

If you’re trying to login to the website to enter your events and programs but can’t, please know that we have reported the issue with Captcha to our website vendor and hope to resolve it in a few days. If needed, let Virtual Library staff know if we can assist you with your program entries. 

Please share this with your staff if needed.

Sincerely,

Saima 

Niche Academy Tutorials

We have added Niche Academy Tutorials to the E-books & More page (http://houstonlibrary.org/find-it/e-books-more). Customers can click on the “View Tutorial” link directly below the image carousel to view. These are short, informative videos on various e-book platforms. Other videos are also accessible from Niche Academy by clicking on the "graduation cap" icon on the upper right side. These include Gale, Lynda, Value Line and other online resources. Customers can create their own account and add tutorials. 

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Online Library Card Registration Form | Updates 6/16/17

Both English and Spanish forms now have the SSL certificate, making it secure. This caused a brief accessibility issue yesterday on the catalog/database computer which has been fixed.

Also, from now on  the form will only display for IP addresses inside the US. If someone tries to access it from overseas, they will receive an error message: Online Registration Unavailable - AIP (41.76.196.34) where the 41.76… will be the actual IP address detected. If you are contacted by a legitimate Houston/Texas resident who is overseas and wishes to get a library card, connect them to Circ Admin. This was done to control some nefarious activity that was detected coming from foreign IPs. 

Please contact me if you have any questions. Again, your feedback is much appreciated as it allows us to improve the user experience.
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KHOU Turn the Page Book Drive

HPL is partnering with KHOU Channel 11 for its annual Turn the Page Book Drive, starting Monday, June 12 – Friday, June 30, 2017.

KHOU has a partnership with Books Between Kids, a local non-profit organization who provides books to children of elementary to middle school age to help them start their own home library. Books Between Kids works with HISD to host book giveaways to 63 elementary schools throughout the school year. The Turn the Page book drive helps supply for the year-round book giveaway.

HPL as partner of this book drive will host a book collection box (campaign-branded with HPL and Star Furniture logos) at 15 locations (see below). The book collection boxes are scheduled to be delivered today, Friday, June 9, 2017.

KHOU has planned for a courier service to pick up the book collections weekly, last day being Friday, June 30, 2017. If your box overflows prior to your scheduled pick-up, please contact the KHOU Community Marketing & PR Specialist, Alexandria Williams.

PARTICIPATING LIBRARY LOCATIONS

Bracewell

Heights

Kendall

Jungman

Looscan

Stella Link

Park Place

Acres Homes

Oak Forest

Stanaker

Carnegie

Collier

Central

Vinson

Smith

Young

Alief

Online Library Card Registration | Update

Catalog/database computers now show a "Registration Location" dropdown menu. Customers can select the location where they are submitting the form. This will provide a better report of library card registrations by location. Note: this change only shows up on the catalog/database computers. All staff computers will still show the name of their location. Customers submitting the form outside the library will not see this change.

Please share with your staff.
Questions? Email me.
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Mobile Hotspots

12 HPL locations have hotspots available for customers to check out! ACR, BLU, CAR, CEN, FLO, JOH, JUN, MAN, MOO, SMI, SWX and YOU. Checkout policies and procedures are available on the Training Portal on the Library Functions page under the Mobile Hotspot section.
Questions, please email Virtual Library Services.
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