<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">We do it the way Jocelyn described. <div><br></div><div>Overall I think the process is easy. To make it easier for patrons, I suggest limiting your registration questions as much as possible (so each family doesn’t need to enter the age, grade, gender, school, etc. for every child in their family), especially if you won’t be using that data anyway.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Janice Heilman </span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Head of Youth Services</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Howell Carnegie District Library </span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 21, 2022, at 4:03 PM, Jocelyn Levin via Michlib-l <michlib-l@mcls.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">My vote is to definitely register the parent and then add individual children. But I've never done batch registering before - we require the parents to register themselves and add their kiddos themselves.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#674ea7">Jocelyn Levin, MLIS</font><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#674ea7">Youth Services Librarian</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#674ea7"><a href="mailto:jlevin@ltpl.org" target="_blank">jlevin@ltpl.org</a></font></div><div><div><font color="#ff00ff"><b><i>*Please note new email address*</i></b></font></div></div><div><font color="#ff00ff"><b><i><br></i></b></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#351c75">Lyon Township Public Library</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#351c75">27005 S. Milford Rd, South Lyon, MI 48178</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#351c75">248.437.8800<br></font></div><div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#351c75"><a href="http://www.LTPL.org" target="_blank">www.LTPL.org</a></font></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 2:12 PM Peter Butts via Michlib-l <<a href="mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org">michlib-l@mcls.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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We are hoping the Read2ed app will be appealing enough that most of our families will enter themselves, but I want to make sure we are prepared for a number of traditional registrations and I want to develop a process that makes it as easy as possible for staff
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I'm specifically wondering about the best way to register family groups. The video for registering participants - <a href="https://www.readsquared.com/Training/2019/04_Staff/RegisteringParticipants.mp4" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="margin:0px;font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" id="gmail-m_950296556921913311LPlnk736043" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(5,99,193);font-size:11pt;text-decoration:underline;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="margin:0px">https://www.readsquared.com/Training/2019/04_Staff/RegisteringParticipants.mp4</span></span></a></div>
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So, those of you who have done this before, which procedure makes the most sense:</div>
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