Get IT! going live!

Hi Everyone,




I'm new to blogging.....



I'm Michelle from UWA Library and I've been working in Doc Del for about 8 years now and I really do enjoy working in this section. I am very excited as on Monday 3rd December, we are rolling out VDX / Get It to our clients. So many people have been invovled with this project and its a huge milestone for all of us, something we can all be proud of.



I really like the idea of this blog. I'm looking forward to sharing and finding new ideas on this space.



Michelle.

Karen

Hi I'm Karen. I'm the latest member of the doc del team here at Murdoch after having worked for about 9 months at Curtin. I have been at Murdoch now for 3 weeks and 3 days and learning lots.

What I have found helpful as a new staff member is:
Having had some past experience to help me connect all this new learning too.
Making lots of mistakes on VDX and therefore learning all it's ins and outs.
The helpful attitude of the rest of the staff who are happy to let me make mistakes and then help me to fix them up.
Lucy's supply chart which lists all the processes of supplying documents.
Starting a new job BEFORE the beginning of semester so that I can learn what I am doing before it goes crazy.
working with wonderful people who help ease the anxiety of learning a new job.

I hope this blog page will be helpful to my Doc Del colleagues around the state and beyond? A great thing about working in this area is that we have a legitimate excuse to have contact with other library people.

Cheers
Karen

Murdoch Doc Del Team - Gail

Hi, my name is Gail and I am a resistant blogger. People are still trying to convince me that this is a good thing so if you are of a similar mind please join in to make this less painful for me.

I have been part of the doc del team since March 06 and think that Murdoch is a great place to work. Am very happy that Aaron has joined our team and is willing to lead this project as it is still very new territory for me.

Meeting the other doc del staff at the meeting recently was great so I see this blog as an extension of us all working together. Maybe we should offer a prize to the first non-Murdoch blogger......

the Murdoch pad

Hi all, Lucy again...

I've been working here for 2 1/2 years as a student casual, starting as a humble collector and scanner, and gradually finding myself doing more and more until becoming officially part of the team. Time's come to move on to different things, though, and this is my second last day and probably last post here on the Blog.

It's got potential, I think, and I do see it becoming something that's used because it's a good resource, and lets us stay in contact with each other. Here's a pic of our lovely office (unfortunately rather chilly at the moment, due to over-enthusiastic air-con.) Good-bye sweet office.

Go well, everyone,

Lucy

Murdoch Doc Del Team - Aaron

Hi all,

My name is Aaron and I am graduating from TAFE next year as a Library Tech.
My previous background was with Internet call centres and Hospitality, so this is my third career change :)
I have been working at Murdoch for about a year and a half now but have begun my DocDel role within the last couple of months.
Being fairly new to the role, I'm still a bit bleary eyed to the whole VDX system and coming from an IT background, some of the tech seems strangely laid out to me.

I hope the blog becomes useful but as with all new technologies, things must be tested and the process gets quite organic.
As our loveable Lucy is bailing for the land of chocolate, it seems that I will probably be doing a fair bit on the blog so please by all means send me anything that you want\hate, like\dislike and I will see what we can add or remove to make it relevant.

Just leave a comment and I will pick it up or email me at ill@murdoch.edu.au

Kind Regards,
Aaron

Things to write about!

Hi all,
here at Murdoch we have been thinking about what sorts of things we could write about and what would be useful and interesting for everyone.
Some of the things we thought of are:
brief profiles of who we are at each Doc del location
some really useful piece of info or handy hint or site that you have found invaluable
some info on how to subscribe using rss and maybe also how to have a google reader alert in Firefox to let you know when you have new feeds
Doc del disaster stories
And can anyone beat "..........." stories
Maybe other people have other ideas - it will be interesting to see what directions this blog takes!
Thanks,
Amanda

Flow Chart

I know ECU were interested in getting a chart together for their own workflow, so here's ours, if it's useful for getting some ideas...

Lucy again, (Murdoch)

Up and running!

Hi folks!

I've just officially 'invited' WAGUL DocDel staff and SLWA to become co-authors on this blog... so now it's in all of our hands! Feel free to have a play, and if you haven't used Blogger before: great! It's reasonably user-friendly. I'm no expert, either, but feel free to email with queries of how to do this or that, and I'll try to find out :-)

It's Lucy, by the way, writing here. Since people from everywhere will be blogging, can I suggest you begin the blog with your name, and where you're from. If you're interested in using this resource, it may be useful to click on the 'subscribe to this blog' which means that whenever anyone sends a post you'll get an alert.

Over to you!

Lucy

Del.icio.us!

Could we use this tech?

Well folks,

As part of a little project to imagine how we can use emerging technologies to enhance our DocDel services, here is a blog created by the DocDel team at Murdoch as an experiment!

The idea is to provide a forum and resource-sharing space for WAGUL libraries / VDX-users. Who knows where it might lead.

Enjoy