The most important aspect to doing your library
Profile is it does NOT have to be completely done at one sitting. The ideal approach
is to nibble away at completing the profile over time, based on usage. Let experience
help you modify test and refine your profile. Our emphasis will be on just getting
started.
The Institution Services page is the entry to all the information about your library,
including contacts, hours, dates, locations and languages. Each of the sections
is straightforward and self explanatory. Be absolutely certain to click on Save
after editing. Remember Help is always just a click in the upper right corner away.
Note the Activation Status for both the QP Global Network and for AskWisconsin.
When your library is ready, click the submit button to make your library active within
each group. You can activate the AskWisconsin group to start and then activate QP
Global later.
The Collection Strengths tab allows you to indicate your library strengths in languages,
subjects, formats and geography. Once again take your time, be prepared to go back
multiple times. You don't have to fill in any of this to make QuestionPoint available
to your patrons. You do however need to have a basic Profile done in order to play
with the QP Global Network.
A note about Geographic areas. They are sorted on the LC geographic divisions.
However there are sub-categories within areas so you can specify North America then
United States and then Wisconsin.
