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KATHY PARKHURST, ILL/Reference Coordinator |
The New York State Library's NOVEL/EmpireLink project has scheduled several training sessions throughout the State for library staff on the Gale and Dialog@CARL databases. Attached (hard copy in library delivery bag) is registration information for the sessions scheduled in the South Central Region.
The two-hour sessions will be held on Monday Sept. 30 and Tues. Oct. 1. Space is limited to two people per library and pre-registration is required. Registration is being coordinated by Kathleen Jackson at the South Central Regional Library Council (607)272-0740 kjackson@lakenet.org.
Please plan to take advantage of these FREE training sessions, as there are no plans for further training on these databases in the near future.
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ROBERT McLAUGHLIN, Cataloging Services |
Please do not attach your holdings to fast add or short Dynix bibs that have holdings for other member libraries. If you fail to find an appropriate full Dynix bib, you must create your own individual fast add or short Dynix bib. Although you may think that your item is a match for the fast add or short Dynix bib, there is a reasonable chance that the holding for the library that created the fast add or short Dynix bib is not a match for your item. For example, a fast add may say sound recording CD, but until I actually look at the photocopies of items from both libraries, the items from each library may be from different distributors or publishers.
I have received a response to the Book Replacement Grant from a member library that has no indication of its origin. The categories chosen by this unknown library are: 400s, 500s, 600s, 700s and Biography. Since I keep track of what libraries have already sent in responses, this library is NOT one of the following:
AUB, CATO, CORT, GRO, INT, LODI, MOR, MCGR, NEVA, NEW, NIC, TRU, UNS, WAT.
Will the unknown library please contact me? I would like to take this time to emphasize why EVERY item or communication sent to FLLS should include the library key. Although the above-mentioned problem is most likely an oversight, please remember that the consequence of this oversight means unnecessary and time-consuming delays. FLLS staff responsible for directing your materials are instructed to sort out your and forward them for delivery to one of six departments. Since they handle literally hundreds of items each day, unmarked items can sometimes be overlooked – especially if they are submitted with items destined for several other departments in a single packet or envelope.
If you have any questions, please call me.
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DIANA McFARLAND, Youth Services Coordinator |
Summer Reading Evaluations are due now!!!
I must submit the statistics to the State, and I want to showcase all the tremendous events, ideas, and effort that went into this years summer reading programs in FLLS libraries. I’ve been getting some nice, fat packages from people – photos, fliers, newspaper articles. Thank you and, please, keep them coming!Banned Books Week
Please enter the “Banned Books Raffle”!
Please send in the application you received in the library this week – all you have to do to enter is display Banned and Challenged books during the week of Sept. 21-28. This year’s theme is Let Freedom Read.According to the ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom, the most frequently challenged books of 2001 were:
- Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling, for its focus on wizardry and magic.
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, for using offensive language and being unsuited to age group.
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier (the "Most Challenged" fiction book of 1998), for using offensive language and being unsuited to age group.
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, for sexual content, racism, offensive language, violence and being unsuited to age group.
- Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene for racism, offensive language and being sexually explicit.
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger for offensive language and being unsuited to age group.
- Alice series, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, for being sexually explicit, using offensive language and being unsuited to age group.
- Go Ask Alice by Anonymous for being sexually explicit, for offensive language and drug use.
- Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, for offensive language and being unsuited to age group.
- Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause for being sexually explicit and unsuited to age group.
How many do you have in your library? How many have you read? To find more challenged titles, and ideas for celebrating Banned Books Week, visit: www.ala.org/bbooks/bbwlibrarians.html#bbwchallenged.
Let’s celebrate the freedom to read!