Email signature

I have changed my school email signature so that quick important links are permanently there and easy to find.  This reduces the need for staff members to hunt for links if they can’t remember them – they can go to any email I send and find the information in any one. 

In my email signature, I have my name, position, and our school website.  Below that, there are three things that people can click on.

1. Our online card catalogue

By clicking on this link, patrons will be taken straight away to our

school’s online catalogue.  This provides them another quick and easy way to find books and other resources they need quickly.

2. Our library sign-up calendar

We have regularly scheduled library classes (33 out of 35 instructional blocks in the elementary school), but teachers can also sign up to bring their classes in for projects, looking for books, etc.  This calendar allows them to do that and also make sure that there aren’t already classes who have reserved the spot. 

3. Book suggestion form

I created a short online form in Google Apps so that teachers can suggest future books and other resources for our library.  Their suggestions get sent to a spreadsheet that I can view anytime.  This  greatly facilitates the process when the time comes to make orders.  The order form is really user-friendly, with no log-in required, and even has a picture of Indian spices to make the page more appealing since my school is in India.     

I find that having these things readily available, each time someone reads one of my emails, reminds patrons about the links and encourages them to use them.