• JAN AGUIRRE, Specialist & Training Coordinator

When you run your Request Manger report, the report that lets you know what items you need to pull off the shelf to fill a hold, and you cannot find the item, please DENY the hold. This hold request will continue to display on your Request Manager for the entire 9 day cycle unless you deny the hold request. Once you deny the request, it will move on to the next library in line. If you cannot find your item, change the status to missing. If the requested item is in a deposit collection, and was not found when the collection was returned to FLLS, the FLLS ILL department will update all pertinent fields so the item will display on your Request Manager. This will force you to search for the item. To deny a request, simply click on the “Deny Hold” icon

 

Select the reason ( Barcode not found or Title not found is fine) and left click on OK

 

Polaris Tips are now available on our website! Would you like to be able to print out the Polaris Tips that appear in the weekly bulletin without having to print the entire bulletin? Check out the Finger Lakes Library System web page.

• Go to www.flls.org

• Select Librarian Resources

• Select Computer Network Services

• Select Polaris

This page displays:

 

• Left clicking on a category under the Polaris Tips heading, displays those tips

• You may now print the tip using the Print command under the File Menu in your browser

 

• LINDA BEINS, ILL/Reference Coordinator

Recycled Reference Books

I have received another set of:

Official 2004 ABMS Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists (4 vol.)

Please contact Linda (ext. 32 or lbeins@flls.org) if you are interested.

 

Electronic Databases            

I had the occasion to use Twayne's Author Series available through FLLS to respond to ILL out-of-system requests for copies of three short stories by A.S. Byatt that had appeared in three periodicals. The Twayne’s entry on Byatt listed her short stories and in which collections they had been published. Those short story collections were available within our own system and were in the delivery bag the next day.

Twayne’s Author Series offers several book-length entries on several hundred US, English, and world authors. Each entry includes biographical information, lists of works, literary criticism of the work, and additional references. The database can be searched alphabetically. An In-depth Search option is also available where you can search by genre, time period, nationality, or free text; for example, searching for a 19^th century American author of children’s literature yielded Louisa May Alcott, Horatio Alger Jr., and Mark Twain. A search for a 20^th century British playwright resulted in links to eight names.

 

Websites 

April 18, 2006 marked the 100^th anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake. Among the many websites commemorating this event is one from the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco which has eyewitness accounts of this devastating event. The US Census Bureau has a special San Francisco Earthquake 100th Anniversary Facts which compares the demographics of the area then and now. 

Google has produced a Google Search Tips poster, available for downloading and distribution. These tips will help you refine Google searches so that your search results are more relevant. Infopeople has prepared a Best Search Tools Chart which compares features of several search and meta-search engines.

 The CIA’s 2006 World Factbook is available online for free. Each entry includes information about a country’s geography, people, government, economy, communications systems, transportation, and military. There are sections on international organizations and flags. This site should be bookmarked for easy access.

 

•  CAROL HENDRIX, Administration

Please update your 2006 System Directory with the following changes/additions:
Aurora Free Library:
Denise Brady, Trustee, 2863 Rte 34B, Aurora, NY 13026

Spencer Library:
Anthony Paasch, Trustee, 290 South Hill Rd., Spencer, NY 14883

 Thank you.

 

• MARISA IACOBUCCI, Adult Services Coordinator

Pulitzer Prize Winners for Letters and Drama Prizes

Fiction - "March" by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

Drama - No award

History - "Polio: An American Story" by David M. Oshinsky (Oxford University Press)

Biography - "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (Alfred A. Knopf)

Poetry - "Late Wife" by Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press)

General Nonfiction - "Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya" by Caroline Elkins (Henry Holt)

 

FLLS Timesheets 

At this week’s workshop, several people requested a copy of the FLLS Timesheet. 

If you are interested in receiving a copy of the timesheet, please e-mail me and let me know.  I also need to know what version of Publisher you have on your computer.

 Thanks!

 

• KAY ZAHARIS, Librarian, Cortland Free Library

CORTLAND FREE LIBRARY is having their ANNUAL USED BOOK SALE at the Salvation Army Building gymnasium, 138 South Main Street, Cortland.  Everyone is welcome.

Thursday               April 27                 4 – 7 p.m. 

Friday                    April 28                 12 – 7 p.m. 

Saturday                April 29                 10 – 2 p.m.  =  Bag sale on Saturday

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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