MEMBER LIBRARY WEEKLY BULLETIN

MARISA IACOBUCCI, Adult Services Coordinator

We have two Books on CD in our collection.  These were donated by ACF, who could not use them.  They are available for ILL to whoever would like them!

--The Caedmon Poetry Collection: A Century of Poets Reading Their Work

--Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

KATHY PARKHURST, ILL/Reference Coordinator

Next week’s FALCON (Dynix Users Group) meeting will be Thursday, May 16^th, 2002, from 9:00-12:00. The meeting will be held in the Borg Warner Room at the Finger Lakes Library System Headquarters. The agenda is as follows:

  9:00-10:00  Business Meeting (Rex)

  10:00-11:30  Kathy will present the training session on the topic:

            “Everything you ever wanted to know about Holds on Dynix”.

1.      Reviewing holds functions

·         Different ways to place holds

·         look at holds lists

·         update and cancel holds

2.      What controls holds – different reasons holds may be blocked

3.      Who loans what? Policies of individual libraries

4.      Preventing and resolving problems with Holds and Hold Alert Report

5.      Changing status of items

·         from ‘Checked In’ to ‘Missing’

·         from ‘New’ to regular

There will be time for questions and discussion both during and after the training session.

      11:30-12:00  Rex will demonstrate the new IPAC module, which is a new version of the online public access catalog, that features book covers, table of contents, reviews, etc.

ARLENE BLY, Administrative Assistant

All Summer Reading program items have been distributed, except for the plastic bags from Janway.  When we receive them, they will go in the delivery. Thanks!