{"id":179,"date":"2025-11-05T14:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T14:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/data.247lib.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2025-11-05T14:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T14:34:20","slug":"engaging-self-service-desks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/data.247lib.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/05\/engaging-self-service-desks\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaging Self-Service Desks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For self-service desks, you no longer need to use expensive self-service equipment with SIP2, because you can use a low-cost tablet straight out of the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you attach a basic scanner to a tablet, you can have a very effective self-issue, self-return, and self-service workstation at a low cost and without any additional expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This simple solution, costing just a few hundred pounds, is likely to outperform those expensive SIP2 devices, and using a web browser will give you fewer problems because there is no SIP2 protocol getting in the way and preventing things from working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With both Hedgehog and 247lib.com, we are now pleased to offer personalised self-service user experiences, which means that a library may select a theme for their portal and then customise the selected theme with their own branding and style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you wish to further empower selected groups of pupils or users, they may also be given the privilege to customise the portal with their favourite colours and styles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This means that after a user logs in to a self-service desk, they will be presented with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the engaging user interface of their choice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the functionality to issue, return, and renew items<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>additional functionality such as registration for events, out-of-hours activities, webinars, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For self-service desks, you no longer need to use expensive self-service equipment with SIP2, because you can use a low-cost tablet straight out of the box. If you attach a basic scanner to a tablet, you can have a very effective self-issue, self-return, and self-service workstation at a low cost and without any additional expenses. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-247lib-com","category-hedgehog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/data.247lib.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/data.247lib.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/data.247lib.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/data.247lib.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/data.247lib.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/data.247lib.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/data.247lib.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/data.247lib.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/data.247lib.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/data.247lib.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/data.247lib.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}