No. 06-27                                                                                                                     July 7, 2006

• JAN AGUIRRE, Specialist & Training Coordinator

Polaris “Tip of the Week”

If your library experiences an unexpected closing for more than a couple of days OR a planned closing lasting more than a couple of days, please notify the Computer Network Services Department as soon as possible. We can turn off the ability to generate notices for your library during that time and/or modify the due date of items so they do not fall within the closed time period.

•  MARISA IACOBUCCI, Adult Services Coordinator

New Director at Groton 

Finger Lakes Library System would like to extend a warm welcome to Julia Schult, new director at Groton.  We look forward to seeing her at FLLS events and meetings!

 

Deposit Collection Record Sets 

We have had several inquiries about items that are on record sets that have been returned.  When you see items on a deposit collection record set for your library that you know have been returned, please note the status and assigned agency.   

If the assigned agency is ‘Finger Lakes Library System’ and the status is ‘in’, you do not need to worry about those items.  The record set is many times still in use even after you return the items.  Those items are ones that we are looking for. 

If we have concerns about certain items that are not on our shelves, we will contact you.

Thanks!

 

• LINDA BEINS, ILL/Reference Coordinator

Ready Reference

Please send me the titles of the reference books and databases that you consider most essential and use most frequently so that we can compile a list of Recommended Ready Reference for FLLS Member Libraries.
 

NOVEL Databases Evaluation

It’s still not too late to complete the online NOVEL Survey to give your input on the electronic databases offered through NYS. The survey will be available online until July 14.
 

Websites – Literature

Classic Reader offers a large collection of free classic books by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others. There are author biographies and some portraits are available. All functions of this site are free to use although downloading requires free registration. Last time I looked their collection of classics contained more than 3000 works of literature by 320 authors.  

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. There are 18,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Catalog. For patrons going to see the 2-part production of Bloodlines at the Hangar Theatre this summer, they can read the works of Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles on this website.

 

Last Week’s Question of the Week: Rev. “Billy” Kyles was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel just a few steps away from Martin Luther King Jr. when King was assassinated. Rev. Kyles said that he is often asked what Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, and he talked about earlier that afternoon. What is his response to that question?

 Answer:

 from The Roanoke Times (VA), Feb 5, 2006 pB1 [indexed in the electronic database, Custom Newspapers (Gale/NOVEL)]
 

SPEAKER URGES AUDIENCE TO HELP REDUCE POVERTY. (VIRGINIA)

Reporters often ask the Rev. Samuel "Billy" Kyles what they talked about in a Memphis, Tenn., hotel room the hour before Martin Luther King Jr. was shot.

Kyles……said the "three preachers in the room" -- King, Kyles and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy -- just talked "preacher talk."

"It's almost as if the world wanted me to say something deep and philosophical about the last hour," Kyles said of the evening of April 4, 1968. "But we had no way of knowing it would be the last hour."

 

This Week’s Question of the Week: This week mark’s the 10^th anniversary of the first successful cloning of an animal, producing the sheep Dolly. Since then many other animal species have been cloned. Who (or what) are Tabouli, Baba Ganoush, and Cc and why might some contend that Cc is a misnomer in this case?

Bonus Question- What has happened to Dolly?