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Policy Pages: How Do We Improve Them?

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Thanks to the feedback from the September 2015 Liaison Meeting, we have developed templates (They can also be used as customized scripts.) that your library may add to their policy pages.

What policy pages improvements will we post?  The improvements deal with topics that:

QuestionPoint Reports: Offline Reports

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This guide is geared toward AskUsNow! Liaisons, but may still be informative and useful to know for Providers.

 

QuestionPoint gives us access to reports that are more detailed than 90-Day reports. 

QuestionPoint Reports: Stats for Individual Librarians

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 This guide walks you through how to get statistics for your institution's individual librarians.

QuestionPoint Reports: Chat Sessions Requested and Accepted at Your Library

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This guide will assist you in how to find the standard monthly stats for your institution's librarians (Chats Sessions Accepted) and customer activity (Chat Sessions Requested). Short video included.

QuestionPoint Reports: Librarian and Customer Activity

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This gives a rundown of what reports to use for what numbers and where to find them.

No Habla Español? Transfer to the Spanish Queue

Submitted by PaulChasen on 31 May 2016 - 1:28pm
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Learn how to transfer a chat customer to another queue (instead of to a librarian) like the Spanish or After Hours queue.

When a Customer Requests a Transcript From a Previous Session

Submitted by PaulChasen on 25 May 2016 - 4:05pm
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This guide walks you through the steps of getting a previous transcript re-sent to a customer.

Quality Control: How can we provide it like QuestionPoint and the AskUsNow! Administrators?

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In reference to the "Supports the Quality of Service" section of The Responsibilities of the AskUsNow! Liaison, I have received questions about how I (the Liaison) should be reviewing chat sessions.  I have also received questions from AskUsNow! Providers about the criteria used to evaluate the chat sessions. 

QuestionPoint Administrators have graciously shared information about how they provide quality control.

How to Send a Question for Follow-Up to a Non-Maryland Library

Submitted by BeccaStarr on 5 April 2016 - 10:44am
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Sometimes a session needs follow-up by a non-Maryland library.  You have multiple options!

Follow-Up by Email: Referring a Chat Session to a Subject Specialist

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Are you a liaison or chat librarian who is trying to figure out if your library has a subject specialist who can effectively reply back to a customer's chat question?

  • Genealogy?
  • Maryland history?
  • Maryland law?
  • Engineering?
  • Meteorology?
  • Another Subject Specialty?

We may not have all of the subject expertise at our library.  I don't think there is one librarian who can state they specialize in every subject, even though we sometimes try hard to do it.

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