• ANNETTE BIRDSALL, Youth Services Coordinator

Ahoy Me Hearties,
You’ll not be hornswaggled out of your doubloons or pieces of eight if your grab the booty offered at the March 23, Summer Reading System Meeting. There’s real treasure to be had in sharing promotional and programming ideas for another year of great summer reading “Books: A Treasure!”  Be ye all a bunch o’ landlubbers or Jack tars ye need to be reservin’ your spot smartly or walkin’ the plank by March 17^th.

Yo-Ho-Ho
Annette  - on the account for now! Arr

  

• JAN AGUIRRE, Specialist & Training Coordinator

Several libraries are still not logging off from Polaris correctly. Logging on and off from Polaris is a 2 step process for each function.  (The following procedures do not apply to TCPL and FLLS)

Correct 2-step procedure to Log On to Polaris:

1. The FIRST step is logging into the Remote desktop. This is done by double clicking on the Remote desktop icon on your desktop. This connects you to the server here at FLLS.
2. The SECOND step is to log into Polaris. This is done by double clicking on the Polaris icon on your desktop.

Logging off is done in reverse order.  Just remember:  2 steps log on = 2 steps log off.

 Correct 2-step procedure to “Log Off” from Polaris:

1.  The FIRST step to log off from Polaris is done by accessing the File Menu and selecting “Log Off”.

             Or you may use the “control key” and letter “L” key.

  

2.  The SECOND step to log off from the remote desktop is done by left clicking on the Start button and selecting “Log Off.” 

Clicking on the X in the right hand corner of the Polaris Toolbar does NOT log you off from Polaris.                                                                       

 

Never, ever click on the black X in the Remote Desktop Toolbar. This does NOT log you off from the Remote Desktop. You MUST go to Start and Log Off.

When you fail to complete this second step, you are still logged into Polaris.  Please when logging off, fully complete the two steps.           

 

   

• LINDA BEINS, ILL/Reference Coordinator

 Newspaper Electronic Databases

Whether you want to search for articles about a particular subject or browse last week’s issues of the San Francisco Chronicle, your library patrons have access to more than 150 newspapers in the USA and abroad through several of our subscription databases:

• Custom Newspapers (Gale/Novel) includes the greatest number of publications, including the Boston Herald, Christian Sun Monitor, Daily Telegraph (London) New York Times, to name just a few. You can view all of the titles if you click Browse in the section: Limit the current search. By clicking About Custom Newspapers which appears at the bottom of every screen, you can link to Search Tips and a Navigation Guide which describes how to use this database effectively

• A subset of NYS newspapers are in New York State Newspapers (Gale/Novel) which indexes Buffalo News, Herald American, New York Observer, New York Post, New York Times, and Post Standard. All of these publications are also included in Custom Newspapers (Gale/Novel)

• NewsBank_inc indexes 23 newspapers from across the USA; (only four NYS papers are duplicated in Custom Newspapers). This database also includes: The Ithaca Journal, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, LA Times, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, Press & Sun Bulletin Syracuse Herald Journal, and Washington Post. You can access a Tutorial (upper right hand part of page) from any search page; it is an interactive pdf describing the features of the database and searching strategies.

  

• 2006 SYSTEM DIRECTORY CHANGES:

1.    Berkshire Free Library:  The following trustee was omitted from the 2006 System Directory:  Nancy Hunt, PO Box 4, Berkshire, NY 13736, ph. 607-657-4416; email is rayhunt@frontiernet.net 

2.    Ford Memorial Library, Ovid:  Please correct the telephone number of Sally Limoncelli, President: 607-582-7517

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• Directors’ Advisory Council (DAC) members: 

If you have any questions or concerns regarding FLLS library service, you are welcome to contact a DAC member from the list below. 

Beverly Dann, Waverly Free Library
Janet Steiner, TCPL, Ithaca
Judy Barkee, Ulysses Philomathic Library, Trumansburg
Kay Zaharis, Cortland Free Library
Lois Maki, Newfield Public Library
Mary Frank, Peck Memorial Library, Marathon
Sally Otis, Hazard Library, Poplar Ridge
Stephen Erskine, Seymour Library, Auburn
Susan Robey, Groton Public Library