Yahoo!
Within the past six weeks, staff at Apalachin Reading Center (APAL), Berkshire Free Library (BERK), and the Lodi Whittier Library (LODI) have completed all of their Dynix training, are fully online, and are filling requests for other libraries via Dynix.
This brings the total number of libraries, actively circulating their materials and placing holds on Dynix, to thirty-two (including FLLS and Alternatives Library). This drastically cuts down on paperwork and turnaround time for interlibrary loans, resulting in better service to library users!
Congratulations to Apalachin, Berkshire and Lodi!
· KATHY PARKHURST, ILL/Reference Coordinator
Free Reference books available:
à Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary. 2002. 4 vols.
à Artist’s & Graphic Designer’s Market, 2002
à Encyclopedia of Associations, 2000. 4 vols.
à Guide to U.S. Foundations: their trustees, officers, and donors, 2001, 2 vols.
à Gould’s Consolidated Laws of New York, 2001 ed., 9 vols.
à Hanes 2003 Cayuga & Seneca Counties Telephone Directory (several copies)
à New York Manufacturer’s Directory, 2001
à Peterson’s College Money Handbook, 2002
à Peterson’s Internships, 2002
à Peterson’s Scholarships, Grants & Prizes, 2002.
à Photographer’s Market, 2002
à Poet’s Market, 2002
à Songwriter’s Market, 2002
à Standard Periodical Directory, 2002
à Standard & Poor’s Register of Corporations, 2000. 3 vols.
à Statesman’s Yearbook: the Politics and Economies of the World. 2002
à Weiss Ratings’ Guide to Common Stocks, Spring 2002
à Weiss Ratings’ Guide to Life, Health & Annuity Insurers, Summer 2002
à Weiss Ratings’ Guide to Stock Mutual Funds, Spring 2002
Contact Kathy Parkhurst if you are interested in receiving any of these for your library.
(These are 1-volume, unless otherwise noted.)
· ROBERT McLAUGHLIN, Cataloging Services
I will be out of the office the week of Nov. 25-29.
· MELANIE HEMINGWAY, Outreach Services
A reminder on Bi-Folkal Kit check-in procedure: If one of those blue-and-yellow bags returns to your library’s circulation desk, DO check it in by wanding the barcode on the outside tag (no need to check the contents; we’ll do that at FLLS when it returns to us). By checking them in, you’ll put the kits into transit status back to FLLS and also keep Dynix from issuing overdue notices to borrowers who’ve already returned the kits. Thank you for your attention to this matter! J
· DIANA McFARLAND, Youth Services Coordinator
National Book Award
The goal of the National Book Awards is “to enhance the public's awareness of exceptional books written by fellow Americans, and to increase the popularity of reading in general.” This year’s winner for Young People’s Literature is…Nancy Farmer for House of the Scorpion.
The finalists were:
Naomi Shihab Nye
19 Varieties of Gazelle:
Poems of the Middle East
Greenwillow Books/ HarperCollins Publishers
M.T. Anderson
Feed
Candlewick PressElizabeth Partridge
This Land Was Made for You and Me:
The Life & Songs of Woody Guthrie
Viking/Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
Jacqueline Woodson
Hush
G.P. Putnam's Sons/
Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
Most of these books are available for request in FLLS!
AND:
Thanksgiving Treats
Thanks to Pat from Interlaken we can all snack well this Thanksgiving. She forwarded this craft from Pack-o-Fun magazine for Gobble Gobble Crunchers. Please see the attached sheet for picture and directions.
Thanks, Pat and Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
· MARISA IACOBUCCI, Adult Services Coordinator
From a recent NYLINE message: (I encourage you to respond if you have something to share.)
I have been asked for some information about art exhibits in libraries. Could you please reply to me with answers to the following questions.
1. Does your library have a written policy about exhibiting art in the library?
2. Are exhibits reviewed before they are installed?
3. Do you keep a price list of the pieces exhibited so patrons can have easy access to information about buying the art if they so desire? If yes, is this list at the circulation desk? Elsewhere?
Your answers may be quick and easy. If you have written policies and wish to share them, either e-mail them to me or fax to 518-427-1697.
Thank you.
Susan Lehman Keitel
Executive Director, New York Library Association
AND:
I am sure that most everyone has by now heard that the Homeland Security Act passed the Senate in a 90 to 9 vote this week, but I thought this e-mail from ALA Washington may be worthwhile to pass on. I know it’s a bit lengthy to read, but this has the potential to affect everyone, particularly those in the librarian profession. So…Please read this!
Thanks!
ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 11, Number 93 November 20, 2002
Homeland Security Act Passes Senate
Late on November 19, 2002, the Senate passed HR 5005 (Engrossed Amendment as Agreed to by Senate), the Homeland Security Act of 2002, in a 90 to 9 vote. The same bill (with a few technical differences) was passed by the House of Representatives on November 13th. A similar bill was passed by the House last summer in a 385 to 3 vote.
There are not enough differences between the House and Senate versions that there will be a need to be a conference the bill between the two sides of Congress before President Bush signs it into law.
The legislation raises many troubling questions as well as confusion and curiosity over how the new department will be created and the act implemented. One of several troubling aspects of this legislation creates an exemption from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for critical information infrastructure (CII) voluntarily submitted by industry. The end result of the CII provisions in the final version would:
* allow industry to decide and designate - including orally - what constitutes "critical infrastructure information" that will be kept secret;
* impose a financial and/or criminal penalty on any official at the new department who discloses the voluntarily submitted materials (giving industry-designated information more protection than most information classified by the government);
* empower the federal government to trump any state's own FOIA protections;
* provide legal immunity prohibiting the government (federal, state or local) or anyone else from taking any action against an information provider based on the materials it submits.
ALA worked closely with a coalition of public access and accountability groups, environmental organizations, and reporters and other news groups to fight these provisions.
The bill passed by the Senate did not contain the Daschle-Lieberman amendment, which had been voted down by senators earlier in the day. If the Daschle-Lieberman amendment had passed it would have stripped out of the revised bill (that easily passed the House last week) disputed provisions including lawsuit protections for makers of vaccines and for airport security companies, and an erased ban on the new Homeland Security Department's awarding contracts to U.S. corporations that have moved their headquarters abroad.
The Daschle-Lieberman amendment would also have restored some accountability by requiring that advisory committees created in the new department come under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which requires that the meetings of such groups be announced in the Federal Register and be open unless advance notice and reason is given for closing them. ALA joined with other organizations in a letter asking for support of the amendment. The full text of the letter can be found on our website
at: http://www.ala.org/washoff.
Other provisions of the legislation to be scrutinized by ALA as we conduct a review of the final version of the legislation include:
* Internet provisions that ease the way for online service providers to supply additional information about subscribers without court orders;
* Increased criminal penalties for hackers that "cause or attempt to cause deaths;"
* New authority for law enforcement to trace emails without first having to get a court order when there is "an immediate threat to national security;"
* Overall impact on access to government information from the 22 agencies being wrapped into the new department of homeland security;
* Dramatic changes to FOIA policies and whistleblower protections.
Additionally we will review three positive provisions in the House bill promoted by Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX) including a) rejection of a national identification card, b) a ban on the Terrorist Information Prevention System, or Operation TIPS, a scuttled Justice Department plan for citizen informers; and c) the creation of a privacy officer for the proposed Homeland Security Department. In addition to ensuring compliance with the 1974 Privacy Act, the officer would be responsible for assessing the privacy impact of proposed departmental rules and uses of technology.
We will provide subsequent reports on this and other end-of-Congress legislation in future ALAWONs and on our web pages. Stay tuned for more on this and related issues.
· REX HELWIG, Computer Network Services Manager
Just a reminder that the DYNIX software upgrade is still on for Tuesday December 3, 2002. I will be coming in early that day to start the upgrade. It is supposed to go very quickly but, we will have to wait for the upgrade team in Provo Utah to apply any patches that are needed after the upgrade. They are scheduled to be in at 9:00AM our time. I am confident that the system will be up and running by 10:00AM. For those libraries that open prior to 10:00AM, I recommend using a manual method of keeping track of your circulations. PCReliance (circulation backup software) is loaded on your circulation PC's if you would rather use that.
I am working on the customizations for the next release of iPac. It has some nice enhancements including placing holds from the "My List" and "Best Sellers" screens. Future releases will include language skins with the first being Spanish and Kid's iPac.
I will be on vacation the week of Thanksgiving and Eric will have the support cell phone.