MEMBER LIBRARY WEEKLY BULLETIN

No. 04-26                                                                                                               July 9, 2004       

• JAN AGUIRRE, Specialist & Training Coordinator

Database Lite Regional Workshops

Want to consume satisfying amounts of delicious, nutrient-dense database training? Feel like most online “help” is carbohydrate-heavy filler? Want to get to the “meat” of what these databases have to offer? If you want to enhance your database skills, Database Lite can help.

Please mark your calendar to attend this important and valuable workshop being offered at the following locations:

Candor – July 19^th     
Weedsport – July 21^st  
Trumansburg – July 28^th 
Homer – July 29th

The “Database Lite” sessions are scheduled from 9:00 am – 12 Noon.
Advanced registration is necessary and required.

Deadline for registration is July 14th for all workshops.

These workshops will focus on the three literature databases:

• NoveList
• Literature Resource Center
• Twayne’s Author’s Series.

This training will help you understand what databases we “own”, how to access them, determine the best literature database for the job, and enhance your searching skills with these databases.

The instructors will Jennifer Schlossberg, Reference Librarian with the Tompkins County Public Library assisted by Kathy Parkhurst, Reference and ILL Coordinator for the Finger Lakes Library System.
 

• MARISA IACOBUCCI, Adult Services Coordinator

Trustee Workshop Scheduled for September
 
The Annual Trustee Workshop for 2004: Fundraising for Libraries in the 21^st Century” has been rescheduled for Saturday, September 18^th.  The new registration forms/brochures were sent out yesterday, so check your mail for them!  All trustees and directors will be receiving these notifications. 
 
Please remember that this is the same workshop that was originally scheduled for June 5^th.  I strongly encourage that each library have at least one trustee attend.  Fundraising is a topic that is never obsolete!
 

• DIANA McFARLAND, Youth Services Coordinator

I am finally about to go on my honeymoon!

I will be out of the office from July 12 – 30. If you need anything during that time, please feel free to call on Marisa (x26). (Please hold questions about the SRP until I get back, unless it’s an emergency.)

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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.