• JAN AGUIRRE, Specialist & Training Coordinator

A new custom report has been added to Report Manager. It is entitled AA-Items with Transferred Status

This report is a list of items that have been shipped from one library to another to fill a hold and have held that status for 10 days or more. If the item is listed on the report it could be there for a few reasons.

• The shipping library never put it in the delivery bag.

• If  the item was received at the borrowing library it was never checked in to link up the hold

 

So you will need to check two places for your library code.

• In the “From” column which indicates items YOU have sent to another library to fill a hold. Check your shelves again and make sure that the item was in fact shipped.

(if you find the item, check it in to print the transfer slip and put it in the delivery bag)

• And the “To” column for items you should have received to fill a hold. Is the item still on the hold shelf but was never checked in to link up the hold which would change the status to “Held”?

(if found on the hold shelf, check in the item to link up the hold)

• Check your shelves to see if the item was mistakenly put in your collection

(if found there, check the item in to link it up to the hold)

• Was the item given to the patron but not actually checked out to them?

(if this is the case, then several errors in procedure occurred)

• If the “To” library can’t find the item, they will need to contact the “From” library to notify them they never received the item. 

The “From” library will need to check the item in from the item record, answer “No” to transfer the hold,  answer “Yes” to reactivate the hold request and then change the status in the item record to “Missing”.

 

• ANNETTE BIRDSALL, Youth Services Coordinator

The Growing a Reader Storytime Application session is full.  Registration is required, so if you did not register yet you will have to sign up for the waiting list.  This workshop is a joint project with several library systems.  I do not have packets of information to send, but will continue to offer suggestions for ways to incorporate early literacy into your storytimes.

Harry Potter Order – Please read

You still have time to get your order form & agreement to me, but just to remind you where the order forms/agreements stand as of March 8, 2007:

I have orders and agreements from Auburn, Cincinnatus, Cortland, Lodi, Newfield, Owego and Seneca Falls. 

I have agreements without order forms for McGraw and Fair. Even if you emailed your intent to order, I must have the order form. 

I have order forms without agreements for Apalachin, Berkshire, Candor, Caroline, Dryden, Groton, Homer, Interlaken, Marathon, Ovid, Port Byron, Union Springs, Trumansburg, Waterloo, Waverly and Weedsport.

I assume Ithaca, Aurora, Cato, Moravia, Newark Valley, Nichols, Poplar Ridge, Spencer, Lansing and Danby are not placing orders through FLLS.  

If you have sent in any of these forms after the morning of March 8, I will receive it; this is just a reminder notice.  Thank you for your patience. 

Annette

 Summer Reading

Bring your t-shirt order forms, send in your craft ideas, and email me with your performer schedule for our summer reading roundtable.  RSVP if you haven’t yet.  So far we have 22 people signed up.  Isn’t it great to be thinking about summer rather than the freezing winter?

 

• LINDA BEINS, ILL/Reference Coordinator

DATABASES

NoveList Notes  Each NoveList Notes provides ideas on how to use NoveList to answer everyday readers' advisory or curriculum support questions.

The most recent NoveList Notes focuses on Using NoveList in the School Library. Some previous NoveList Notes include: Boys and Reading; Fantasy for Beach or Hammock; Finding Mysteries Using NoveList; Harry Potter Mania; and Historical Fiction in NoveList.

NoveList Notes can be accessed through the Readers’ Advisory tab on every search screen in the database.

LAST WEEK’S QUESTION OF THE WEEK:  February 27, 2007 marked the 200^th anniversary of the birth of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. What is the name and date of his first published collection of poetry? What was the event that caused Longfellow to begin growing his long white beard? What is your favorite Longfellow poem?

Answers Although Longfellow had several of his poems and essays published in various periodicals while he was still a student at Bowdoin College, his first collection of poems, Voices of the Night was published in 1939. Voices of the Night went through six editions in two years; it included the already famous “Wreck of the Hesperus”. ¹

“In July 1861…while sealing packets of her daughters' hair with wax, [Longfellow’s wife] Fanny Longfellow's dress suddenly caught on fire. She ran to her husband and he tried to smother the flames with a small rug, but she was badly burned and died the next day.” While trying to save his wife's life, his own face and arms were terribly burned before he extinguished the fire. ² Shaving became difficult because of the scars on his face.

¹. “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow” in Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol.1: the American Renaissance in New England. A Bucolic Layman Book, Edited by Joel Myerson, University of South Carolina. The Gale Group, 1978, p.117-123

². Twayne’s Author Series – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This Week’s Question of the Week: To celebrate Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day (March 8), when did the US Congress establish National Women’s History Week?

Some WEBSITES to celebrate Women’s History Month:

About.com: Women's History, organized by subtopics, has articles and resources on women in history and today. Among the features is a history of National Women’s History Month.

Distinguished Women of Past and Present created by a biologist, Danuta Bois, has hundreds of biographies of known, lesser known and hardly known women in all areas of human endeavor. It can be searched through subject and alphabetical indexes. 

Facts for Features - Women's History Month (March) from the U.S. Census Bureau offers key demographics that depict women’s status in our country. 

Federal Resources for Education Excellence - Women's History Month links to government-funded projects related to women’s history. Among them is the National Parks Service’s Places Where Women Made History that lists “herstoric” places on the Historic Register 

Gale's Women's History Month –Free resources that include biographies  of 65 women who represent the fields of government, literature, social justice, the arts, science and medicine, religion, and sports. It also has a link to a downloadable March 2007 Women's History Month Calendar 

Infoplease Women's History Month has history and timelines that relate to women. It includes notable speeches by women, 1849-1995, descriptions of Supreme Court cases involving women’s rights, biographies of women in business, religion and government, portraits of all the First Ladies; and quotations by women. 

Library of Congress - Women's History highlights the many resources on women's history and culture available from LOC’s extensive online collections. Among them are: photographs of pro and anti-suffrage parades; portraits of leading suffragettes; digital collections of letters and documents written by and about women, including a petition for bail from accused witches, ca 1692; interviews with women veterans from World War II through the Persian Gulf conflict; and an online research guide, American Women: a Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women’s History and Culture in the United States.

National Women's Hall of Fame in our own Seneca Falls has biographies of the 217 accomplished women who are the “Women of the Wall”.

National Women's History Month from the U.S. Dept. of Defense salutes the women who have served in the military.

National Women's History Museum has a number of resources to celebrate the accomplishments of women. Among their cyber exhibits are a History of American Women in the Olympics, a History of Women in Industry and Clandestine Women: Spies in American History. 

NYS Women of Distinction is the New York State Senate’s tribute to the women who have contributed to NYS. 

Women's History Hotlist from the Franklin Institute has links to several web resources including America’s Quilting History and Women Artists from Medieval Period to the Present. 

Women's History Teaching Resources from the Smithsonian Institute features online exhibitions and websites celebrating women.

Women's Studies Online Resources from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County lists hundreds of websites that focus on women’s studies or women’s issues.