Sharepoint

Like everyone else the agency, I use Sharepoint pretty much every day. I use it primarily to post and share documents, and locate various pieces of OSL information.

I've always had trouble creating and editing documents using IE with my particular computer. Some kind of weird configuration issue. I usually work around the issue by downloading and uploading documents. This also allows me to continue to use FireFox, which I really prefer to do. The other reason I like to use this method is I find that documents created in Sharepoint take a really long time to open ... documents created in Word and then uploaded don't seem to have the same problem.

I think it is too bad that OSL doesn't use more of Sharepoint's features ... I think discussion forums are particularly under used. Maybe if each committee committed to conducting at least part of their discussion via Sharepoint, we would end up with a lot fewer meetings! Just an idea ...

I also use Sharepoint to update the Oregon.gov web site for Library Support. This is probably my least favorite web editing platform that I've worked with in my career, but at least I have figured out how to do the basics.