School Budget Propositions
No. 02-21 May 24, 2002
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School Budget Propositions |
Thanks to those who have already sent news about successful and unsuccessful funding propositions placed on the school district ballot this week. Congratulations to those for whom the request was approved!
We are sending a survey form to all libraries asking for more complete information about library funding through this mechanism. As soon as we have the results we will share the information with all of you.
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Book Replacement Grant: |
The deadline for FLLS to receive your book replacement grant printout is June 1 – I know, it’s a Saturday, but if you can’t get it in before this date, PLEASE TRY to have it ready on your next FLLS delivery pickup day.
Note: Please make a count of the deletes you make and write the amount on the front page of the printout. We will make a count here and compare the two figures. Remember that you only get credit for one title deleted if the title is a multi-volume work – for example, a deleted 26 volume encyclopedia set counts only as one title.
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Materials sent in for processing: |
EVERY book, sound recording, video, multimedia – any item in its physical form, but does not include vendor cards or Dynix forms – MUST include a pink Please Process form (or green Expedited process form when applicable), or it will be returned unprocessed. This includes new materials as well as any items you already have had in your collection for any length of time, but somehow never got added to Dynix. It is just too complicated to keep track of materials without the forms. It is also important that you keep a copy of what materials you have sent in. We can’t keep relying upon our memory as to what is sitting here at FLLS waiting to be processed. Thanks for your cooperation.
Note: If you happen to purchase a set of one or more individual sound or video titles in a single package, please do not break up the set into separate containers for each title until you have sent the single package in for cataloging. Many times vital bibliographic information is lost when the original packaging for the set is cut up or destroyed. Simply let us know on the process slip that you want the titles cataloged separately. Many times there is already a bib record available on Dynix for the very same editions that were originally issued as individual titles.
If you have any questions, please call me.
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Mr. Gumpy on the Go |
Mr. Gumpy is available to travel this summer! If you would like to book him for a two-week period, please let me know. He is currently booked through June 24th.
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Join the Major Leagues @ Your Library |
Here’s a forward from the ALA:
Dear Colleague:
I write today with exciting news. As part of The Campaign for America's Libraries, the American Library Association and Major League Baseball have joined together to develop the newly named Join the Major Leagues @ your library(tm). This program is designed to promote the role of libraries and librarians in helping people of all ages develop 21st century information literacy skills.
Join the Major Leagues @ your library will be launched on Tuesday, May 14 in Los Angeles. We'll be unveiling the program at the Culver City Julian Dixon Library, part of the County of Los Angeles Public Library, plus Dodgers Stadium.
The center of the program is a game that encourages players to use their information literacy skills. Players can download a "play book" filled with four categories of baseball questions from the @ your library campaign Web site. These questions correspond to the four bases on a baseball diamond and vary in difficulty. Players will, of course, need to use their library to answer the questions. All participants who successfully answer four questions correctly - or "join the major leagues" will be entered into a national sweepstakes. Two lucky winners will win tickets to a designated game of the 2002 Major League Baseball World Series.
The program participants aren't the only people who can win an incredible prize package. You can, too. A special prize also will be awarded to the librarian who implements the best program related to Join the Major Leagues @ your library. One librarian winner will win tickets to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in July 2002, plus an event with Sharon Robinson, daughter of baseball great Jackie Robinson and author of Jackie's Nine, at his or her local library.
So how can you get in the game?
* Check out The Campaign for America's Libraries Web site at www.ala.org/@yourlibrary/jointhemajorleagues to learn more about the program and how you can begin to promote it @ your library. There will be sample press materials, downloadable artwork and other tools and resources to help you publicize the initiative.
* Start thinking now of library programming that ties into the baseball theme for a chance to win tickets to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in July. Sample programming ideas, lists of great baseball books and films, information literacy resources (including what parents should
know) and more will be available to help you suit up.
* If you have a working relationship with your local home team, encourage them to air a Jumbotron announcement about Join the Major Leagues @ your library over the course of the program. MLB has distributed a script to all teams for possible use by their stadium announcers. If a team representative has questions, or needs additional information about the Jumbotron announcement, ask him/her to call Kimberly Allen-King at Major League Baseball at 212-931-7687. You also may wish to explore additional ways your library system and local team can promote the program.
Many thanks to ALA Immediate Past-President Nancy Kranich and ALA President-Elect Mitch Freedman for their hard work in helping to bring this partnership about. I would also like to congratulate a talented working group of librarians who helped develop the program content: Nick Buron, Queens Borough Public Library; Ree DeDonato, Columbia University Libraries; Harriet Selverstone, recently retired from Norwalk (Conn.) High School; and Caroline Ward, Ferguson (Conn.) Library.
We urge you to put on your coach's cap and join the team as two American classics - libraries and baseball - come together for what promises to be an exciting program and a terrific partnership.
Sincerely,
John W. Berry
ALA President
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Summer Reading Update |
If you need extra copies of the 2002 Summer Reading Manual, please e-mail Grace Shanahan at the Brooklyn Public Library: c.gomes@brooklynpubliclibrary.org. The manual is also available for downloading from the Summer Reading website (www.summerreading.org). The website has also been updated with all sorts of goodies – including clip art.
E-mail addresses have changed; please update your FLLS 2002 Directory as follows:
Seymour Library seymourlibrary@adelphia.net
Library Director Stephen Erskine serskine@adelphia.net
Children’s Librarian Danette Davis davisdan@adelphia.net
History Room/Mary Gilmore seylochist@adelphia.net