No. 06-28                                                                                                                     July 14, 2006

·     JAN AGUIRRE, Specialist & Training Coordinator

Polaris “Tip of the Week”

Substituting an Item in a Hold Request

When an item shows up on your Request Manager that will fill a hold but that particular item is unavailable for some reason, you can substitute a comparable item to fill the hold request. Let’s say the regular edition of the title is in repair but you have a paperback copy and you want to substitute the paperback copy for the regular edition. Or the VHS is unavailable but you also have it in a DVD format and the patron will take either one.

In Request Manager, highlight the item and double click it to open up the Hold Request Workform.

 

 

 Under the Tools Menu, select Fill Now

Scan in the barcode of the item you are substituting

This message will display 

Answer Yes and the item is substituted and now has a status of Transferred

Send it to the Requesting library 

· MARISA IACOBUCCI, Adult Services Coordinator

Need more of an incentive to come to the August 24^th workshop "Sustaining Public Access Computing in Your Library"? 

If you attend the workshop, you will be in contention to win half of your expenses paid for the NYLA conference!  This includes half the cost of your ‘package plan’ registration fee (registration prior to 10/1), half the cost of your hotel room for all four days (November 1-4), and $100 towards meals.

Please join us for the informative workshop – if the information and great lunch aren’t enough of a pull, now you have a chance to go to NYLA!

To register on-line for this workshop go to:

http://host.evanced.info/nys_rls/evanced/eventcalendar.asp

· ANNETTE BIRDSALL, Youth Services Coordinator

 Youth Services

Summer Reading

Thanks to those of you who’ve had time to send your program schedules for summer reading,  I hope to visit as many programs as I can in the coming weeks.  If there is an event you are particularly excited about, please include me in your promos.  I will attend if my schedule permits.

The contest form for the NYC/David Blain trip is available at http://www.summerreadingnys.org/planners.html.

 And Rachel Nagler, Vice President of Rubenstein Communications, is working with Anne Simon to help bring attention to New York State's 2006 Summer Reading Program.  If there's anything they can do to help us this summer -- help think up good media events, assist with press releases and alerts, contact local media to cover events, etc. we need to let them know. Also, they’re hoping to uncover some great Summer Reading success stories across the state that we can help publicize - from remarkable librarians to kids that are setting (and reaching) impressive reading goals?  If so, they will try to get out the word on a statewide level.

If this offer appeals to any of you, please contact me.

Upcoming Workshops & Events

September 11, Jim Trelease will be in Ithaca promoting his latest edition of the Read Aloud Handbook which features our own Family Reading Partnership.  Watch for details; you don’t want to miss this!

September 28, Francisca Goldsmith, author of Graphic Novels Now: Building, Managing, and Marketing a Dynamic Collection will be our system meeting speaker.   All attending member libraries will receive a copy of her book so plan on having a representative there.

October 17, Growing a Reader Workshop.  Learn how your library can make a difference in early literacy skills for your community.  Registration for this is online only!  http://earlyliteracy.sals.edu  There is limited enrollment set by the presenter not by Finger Lakes.  Member libraries have until August 1 for preferred enrollment, then the registration will be open to anyone interested so please register early! I know this will be a valuable workshop – my youth services professor, Sue McCLeaf Nespeca is the presenter. 

·     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. I’d appreciate receiving your recommendations by August 15.

Website - National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) 2006  reports on the USA’s health care system for serious mental illness. Each state is graded on 39 criteria.

Last Week’s Question of the Week: Last week marked 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?

Beverly Dann, WAV and Julia Lon, TRU correctly identified Tabouli, Baba Ganoush, and Cc as cloned cats. Cc (Carbon copy), a calico cat, does not actually look like her genetic donor, Rainbow; the coat of a calico cat is partially determined by a random process known as X-inactivation.  A photograph of Cc with Rainbow is available through Grolier-Online (search term: cloning; select: Media link).

Dolly died on Feb. 14, 2003. After a trip to the taxidermist, she was put on display at the National Museums of Scotland. A sweater, knitted from her wool is showcased at London’s Science Museum.

Some other resources about cloning available through FLLS databases include:

Ø         Chiang, Mona, “Rest in fleece” Science World, Vol. 59, no.13, 2/18/03.  Ebscohost

Ø         Sampsell, Kate, “The cloning debate: the future is burdened by its past” in History Behind the Headlines: the Origins of Conflicts Worldwide, 2003, p76-85.  Gale Virtual Reference Library

Ø         Cloning: A Webliography created and maintained by Susan K. Kendall, Michigan State University libraries found through Grolier-Online (websites link)

This Week’s Questions of the Week: The theme this week is “tunnels”.

Where is the longest tunnel in the world?
Where is the longest tunnel in North America?
Who is Clifford Milburn Holland?

Don’t forget to tell me your information sources.

·     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. 

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
Beverly Dann, Waverly Free Library.