No. 07-01                                                                                                                  January 5, 2007

Happy New Year! 

• MARISA IACOBUCCI, Adult Services Coordinator

Video Deposit Collections 

Malia has begun putting at least one video that is a described video in your deposit collections.  These films are clearly marked on the box with the symbol as well as stating that the video is described.  Please note: these films do not have the option to turn off the descriptive feature.  We would be interested in knowing if these films circulate in libraries and any interest they generate.  Thanks!

  Annual Report Mini-Workshop – Tuesday, January 30^th, 9:30 – 11:30.

REMINDER:  If you are interested in attending the Annual Report mini-workshop, please let me know by Friday, January 19^th via e-mail or phone. 

This workshop is designed for

·  New directors or new treasurers/ financial people who are doing the report for the first time or

·  Those who have done the report before, but would like a review of the report.

  

• JAN AGUIRRE, Specialist & Training Coordinator

There are a few reports that you will need to run BEFORE you do the yearly reports containing statistics for the Annual Report.  

To find the number of registered borrowers in your library for the Annual Report; it’s important that you run AA-Patrons without Stat Class by Library BEFORE you run AA-Patron Stat Class Count by Patron Code.   

The first report will identify those patrons who do not have a stat class assigned in their patron record.

In order to gather statistics based on your chartered service area this statistical information must be filled in. 

Both of these reports can be found in Report Manager on the Web, Polaris, Custom Folder, Public Services, and Patron Services.

To find the number of items added by collection code; it’s important to run the custom report AA-Items without a Collection Code and AA-Items without a Statistical Code BEFORE you run AA-Count of Items Added by Collection and Library.

In order to gather statistics based on collection codes and statistical class this information must be filled in the Item record.  These reports give you the number of items added and, when using the default dates, it gives you the number of items owned.  

Remember that ALL custom reports, that is, those that begin with AA, are now located in the Custom Folder and then under the Circulation, Cataloging or Public Services folders.

·  Open up Internet Explorer

·  In the address bar type in: http://catalog.flls.org/reports

·  Left Click on the Polaris Folder

• Left click on the Custom folder to open it

•  Left Click on any folder to open it

 

Item Circulation By Collection which gives you circulation statistics is located in Report Manager on the Web, Polaris, and the Circulation folder. Because it is NOT a custom report it will NOT be in the Custom Folder.

 

•  ANNETTE BIRDSALL, Youth Services Coordinator

Youth News

The 2007 ballot, activity guides and a new one page poster listing the 2007 finalists are available to help you promote the NYS 3 apples book award.  Encourage your readers to vote! Visit www.3applesbookaward.org  for more information.

 Save the dates:

February 22  System Meeting -YA Reader’s Advisory Workshop

March 22 System Meeting – Summer Reading Roundtable

 

My Schedule:

I will be on vacation from January 19-26.  If you need assistance with big books, die-cuts, or storytime extensions, please contact Kate, x. 47.  For any other concerns please contact Marisa, x. 26.

 

•  LINDA BEINS, ILL/Reference Coordinator

Annual Reports

I am working on the ILL statistics for 2006 and will send the data to you as soon as I complete it.

 ILL

When you try to renew an item borrowed from another Member Library and this box appears on your screen:

 Always select No unless you have contacted the owning library for permission.

DATABASES

Patrons can now access the databases available through FLLS from any FLLS Catalog search screen by clicking on the Magazines and Online Database tab, shown below.

 

 You can then choose to see an alphabetical listing of all the databases or select a subject category.

When you select a category you will get a listing of all of the databases for that subject matter, for example, Literature & Books. Please note that you will see a brief description of each database by clicking on the + to the left of the database name.

  

Please show your patrons this new feature.

 

Last Week’s Question of the Week How may understanding the physiology of hibernation lead to improved health for humans?  

Angela Sorenson, CORT, identified this article:

        Travis, John. Science News. 12/06/97, Vol. 152 Issue 23, p364, 2p, 1c

It relates how understanding the ascorbic acid released during hibernation could help with stroke prevention.

Julia Lon, TRU, found

        Bradbury, Jane How hibernators might one day solve medical problems, Lancet, Vol.358, October 2001, p.1164.

Julia summarized, “Studying hibernators could help understand how physicians could reduce oxygen and blood flow in the brain without causing neurological damage. This would help humans survive strokes or traumatic brain injuries. Secondly, Hibernators' hearts can continue pumping at lower temperatures (0 C or below) without stopping. Lastly, hibernators can shut down their metabolism. Knowing how both these processes are accomplished could help scientists to store donor organs longer in the cold before transplantation”.

Among the hibernating animals studied is the arctic ground squirrel whose “core body temperature can cool to -2-9^oC during hibernation (and) heart rate falls from 200 beats per minute to 3-5.” Amazing!!

These articles can be accessed through EBSCO’s General Science Collection database.

 

This Week’s Question of the Week Gerald Ford was sworn in as Vice President on Dec. 6, 1973 after being confirmed by the House of Representatives and the Senate as set forth in the 25^th Amendment to the Constitution. The confirmation vote in the Senate was 92-3. Who were the three senators who voted against his confirmation?

 

• 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.