{"id":329,"date":"2010-11-03T14:46:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T18:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/?p=329"},"modified":"2010-11-03T14:50:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T18:50:53","slug":"patron-notification-system-at-darien-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/2010\/11\/03\/patron-notification-system-at-darien-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Patron Notification System at Darien Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is just a reminder to myself that I need to investigate further this interesting &#8220;patron notification system&#8221; that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darienlibrary.org\/\">Darien Library<\/a> (CT) is putting together. I think that the <a href=\"http:\/\/growl.info\/\">Growl <\/a>software is involved in some way. I&#8217;m guessing that it allows a patron to request help from any available librarian. I first heard about this last year from this annotation on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jblyberg\/4050890230\/\">an image on John Blyberg&#8217;s Flickr account<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Experimenting with using growl as a paging notification system for roving librarians. The patron can push a button on a touch-screen display on the service desk and a &#8220;growl&#8221; will be blasted out to all available librarians. Uses growl (http:\/\/growl.info\/) and growl for windows (http:\/\/www.growlforwindows.com\/gfw\/)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jblyberg\/sets\/72157625217278952\/\">More recent images on Blyberg&#8217;s Flickr account<\/a> offer a better glimpse at what they&#8217;ve been cooking up in Darien.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is just a reminder to myself that I need to investigate further this interesting &#8220;patron notification system&#8221; that the Darien Library (CT) is putting together. I think that the Growl software is involved in some way. I&#8217;m guessing that it allows a patron to request help from any available librarian. I first heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,66],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reference-desks","tag-roving-reference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}