GoogleDoc Experiment

A few of us have been messing around with the Info desk schedule in GoogleDocs. The Info desk skedmeister creates it as an MS Excel spreadsheet and stores it on our common server. Recently we uploaded the sked in GoogleDocs and invited the other schedulers in as collaborators. The schedule imported beautifully, but we realized that the drawback to having the schedule on the web is the URL. To keep the same URL, we would need to delete the current schedule and reload each new schedule weekly, probably on Saturday, which might not be very convenient. If we let Google change the URL weekly, we’d have to refer back to our email for the link. It is fun to play with, until I remember the fifteen other work tasks that should be taking priority.

Sharing Skeds

At WST, our desk schedule is revised almost every day. What about sharing desk schedules using the Google spreadsheet? Imagine the snow falling fast and furious and Chief ****** calling with the news that the libraries will be closed. Firing up the computer before the power goes out, the Branch Manager calls the morning shift with the news.

I know that the kebosh was put on posting the closing on a shared site (aside from our web site), but this would at least make things a bit easier. Perhaps the Meeting Room sked could go on a shared site. And, if branches wanted to be collegial, we could all look at each other's skeds. And dare I say it, perhaps we could even get hq to buy in and learn who's on an 8-4 sked, who's on an 8:30 to 3:30 sked, who's in the building, etc.