No. 06-39                                                                                                                  September 29, 2006

• ANNETTE BIRDSALL, Youth Services Coordinator

Youth News

Congratulations on Summer Reading 2006

Every member library in the Finger Lakes Library System participated this summer.  Everyone has been sent a copy of the compiled statistics.  Please email me if you have any questions & give yourselves well-deserved applause for all your hard work and creativity!

 

Don’t miss the Growing A Reader Workshop

October 17, Growing A Reader Workshop.  Register now at http://earlyliteracy.sals.edu

Library staff will be able to assist parents in gaining the skills they need to help their children come to school prepared and ready to learn to read, thereby positioning libraries as experts in early literacy.  Work together with early literacy agencies in your community as you grow new readers.  Hope to see your there.  Workshop is all day, lunch will be provided. 9-9:30am in the Borg Warner Room of Tompkins County Public Library.

 

•  JAN AGUIRRE, Specialist & Training Coordinator

There is still time to register for the Novel Database workshops. The first series will explore the Health and Wellness Resource Center with Alt Health, Health Reference Center and a few other online remedies. See detailed description below. These workshops will give you and your staff the tools and confidence to assist patrons in their search for answers to most of their health related concerns. As an incentive to attend the training, $20 will be awarded per participant. These workshops will run from 9-11am.

NOVEL – The Panacea to Your Health Questions

Dates, locations and deadlines to register are listed below.

What is fugu poisoning?  Can you recommend a few alternative therapies for insomnia?  Do you have any health journals I can use for my class project?  What are some possible treatments for indigestion? 

Do questions like these make their way to your service desk?  If so, then we have a training class for you!  Join TCPL Reference Librarian Jennifer Schlossberg as she guides you through Health and Wellness Resource Center with Alt Health, Health Reference Center, and a few other online remedies.  You will learn the scope of these databases, their strengths and weaknesses, and good searching techniques to answer the array of questions you get from your patrons.  You will even get a chance to roam around in each database as there will be laptops for your use.

Location	Date	Day	Registration Deadline	Topic
McGraw	10/4/2006	Wednesday	10/2	Health Databases
FLLS	10/13/2006	Friday	10/11	Health Databases
Trumansburg	10/18/2006	Wednesday	10/16	Health Databases
Weedsport	10/25/2006	Wednesday	10/23	Health Databases

To register for a class, please contact Jan Aguirre at 607-273-4074 x36, or email her at jaguirre@flls.org.  Space is limited to 10 participants and space will be reserved for at least one participant per library. As an incentive to attend the training, $20 will be awarded per participant. Training is made possible by a grant through the Gates Staying Connected Phase Two Grant Program.

 

 Polaris “Tip of the Week”

A new custom report has been added. It is entitled AA-Circ counts by library by material type by collection by statistical code. This report will give you circ counts for your library within a period of time broken down by material type and then collection and then statistical code.  Click on the "+" to drill down and display the additional information within each category

Select your library and the Starting and Ending date.
Left Click on View Report

The total use count of all items with a material type of “Book” is displayed on the far right.

Notice the plus sign next to “Book”

Left Clicking on the plus sign opens up a display which breaks down “Book” by collection code

 

This display gives you use counts by Collection Code

Left clicking on the plus sign next to the Collection Code breaks it down even farther by Statistical Class

This display gives you use counts by Statistical Class

This report does export into Excel with the drill down menu options, however exporting into Adobe Reader as a .pdf file does not.

 

•  CAROL HENDRIX, Administration

     Last call for annual meeting registrations!  

     I will accept registrations through October 3^rd for the October 11, 2006 Annual Meeting. 

      Thanks. 

 

•  MARISA IACOBUCCI, Adult Services Coordinator

Reminder – Checking in DVDs and Videos

Malia has been finding lately that when she checks in films from deposit collections, more and more films are still checked out to patrons.   When she checks them in they sometimes generate fines for the patron.  We do not waive these fines, so you may find patrons questioning their fines if the films were returned on time.

So, please remind all staff to please check things in!

 

 IMLS Calls for Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant Applications

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is calling upon libraries, archives, and library agencies, associations, and consortia to apply for the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant program.  

The program supports efforts to recruit and educate the next generation of librarians and the faculty who will prepare them for careers in library science. It also supports grants for research related to library education and library staffing needs, curriculum development, an early career development program for untenured, tenure-track library and information science faculty, and continuing education and training.

Applications, guidelines, and examples of successful proposals can be found on the agency's Web site at http://www.imls.gov/applicants/grants/21centuryLibrarian.shtm.

 The application deadline is December 15, 2006. Awards will be announced in mid-June 2007.

  

•  LINDA BEINS, ILL/Reference Coordinator

I will be out of the office on Monday, Oct. 2. If you have an immediate question about interlibrary loan please call 273-4074, ext. 43. Otherwise I will get back to you soon after I return on Oct. 3.

ILL

Beginning the week of October 2, there will be four deliveries, Monday -Thursday to the Cortland Library. This should expedite hold requests to and from that library. 

Just a reminder – please ask all your staff to use the correct library abbreviation on your In-transit receipts. It truly expedites the unpacking of and distribution to the delivery bags which is so important when you have a short period of time to move hundreds of books.

     ALTER           Alternatives
     APAL             Apalachin
     AUB               Auburn
     AUR               Aurora
     BERK            Berkshire
     CAN               Candor
     CATO             Cato
     CIN                 Cincinnatus
     CORT             Cortland
     DRY                Dryden
     FAIR               Fair Haven
     FLLS              Finger Lakes Library System
     GRO               Groton
     HOM               Homer
     INT                  Interlaken
     TCPL             Ithaca
     LODI               Lodi
     MARA             Marathon
     MCGR            McGraw
     MOR               Moravia
     NEVA             Newark Valley
     NEW               Newfield
     NIC                 Nichols
     OVID              Ovid
     OWE               Owego
     POP                Poplar Ridge
     PORT             Port Byron
     SENF             Seneca Falls
     TRU                Trumansburg
     UNS               Union Springs
     WAT               Waterloo
     WAV               Waverly
     WEED            Weedsport

DATABASE Training

We had our first training session on the health-related databases this week. The feedback we received indicates that participants not only became more aware of the contents of Health Reference Academic and Health & Wellness Resource Center w/Alt Health but also learned some useful search strategies that would apply to all databases and the internet in general. Don’t miss out on these remaining training opportunities:

Ø      Health             Oct. 4 (MCGR), 13 (FLLS), 18 (TRU), 25 WEED

Ø      Newspapers  Oct. 16 (CAN), 20 (FLLS),  Nov. 1 (MCGR), 8 (TRU)  10 (WEED)

 

Last Question of the Week

What year did NYS reverse legislation that did not allow inmates with life sentences to wed?

I used the Custom Newspapers database and found the following:

“In 1989, New York State reversed legislation that did not allow inmates with life sentences to wed, and marriages surged, officials said, hitting 769 in 1990. No statistics were kept before then.” [Prison Marriages Are on the Increase, Despite Daunting Rates of Failure.(Metropolitan Desk)(Bride Wore White, Groom Hopes for Parole). Donatella Lorch. 
The New York Times (Sept 5, 1996)]

This Week’s Question: Oct. 4 the marks the 49^th anniversary of Sputnik I, the first satellite to orbit in space. Who was the first human to orbit the earth and what was the name of his spaceship?

• 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.