MEMBER LIBRARY WEEKLY BULLETIN

No. 04-23                                                                                               June 18, 2004       

• ROBERT McLAUGHLIN, Cataloging Services

Baker & Taylor has a new customer service representative for upstate New York: 
    Kelly Markland
Telephone: 1 800 775-2300 ext. 516

 

• KATHY PARKHURST, ILL/Reference Coordinator

The free trials of HeritageQuest and LearningExpress Library will end next week – June 26^th, and I’m interested in receiving any feedback from library staff who have been accessing them. Did you have trouble using them? Is this something you think would be useful to your library patrons? Would your library be willing to pay something to help acquire a system-wide subscription to either or both of these databases?

Please send your comments to me by June 26^th, if possible.  

1.  HeritageQuest - genealogy database
        http://trials.proquest.com/proquest/servlet/TrialsController?userid=654937
        Password: finger2

2.  LearningExpressLibrary – academic and career preparation tests
        http://www.learningexpresslibrary.com/evaluation
        User name:   99552 plus the first 9 digits of your home phone number
        Password:   (Create your own password)
 

• EILENE MOERI, Library Director, Ford Memorial Library, Ovid

There will be a seminar on children's literature in Ovid on June 22nd at 6:00 p.m. at the poppa bear, the largest courthouse in the park. Speaking will be Christine Corning Malloy, non-fiction children's author, and Michelle Knudsen, editor of the Junie B. Jones books. All librarians and patrons are invited to attend. There will be a question and answer session and refreshments served.

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Directors’ Advisory Council (DAC) members: Susan Robey, Groton Public Library; Gail Park, Southworth Library Association, Dryden; Janet Steiner, TCPL, Ithaca; Judy Barkee, Ulysses Philomathic Library, Trumansburg; Lois Maki, Newfield Public Library; Kay Zaharis, Cortland Free Library; Mary Frank, Peck Memorial Library, Marathon; Sally Otis, Hazard Library, Poplar Ridge; Stephen Erskine, Seymour Library, Auburn; and Beverly Dann, Waverly Free Library.