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MARISA IACOBUCCI, Adult Services Coordinator
Contest for Library Workers
Celebrate National Library Workers Day and National Library Week with a new contest just for library workers!
To help celebrate, BookBitch.com is giving away a copy of Gigi Levangie Grazer's New York Times best seller, The Starter Wife, along with a fabulous gift basket from Ponds, to one lucky library worker.
The Starter Wife is also a 6-hour television event coming your way this May on the USA Network. Based on Gigi Levangie Grazer's novel, it stars Debra Messing as Molly Kagen, and co-stars Judy Davis, Joe Mantegna, Miranda Otto & Anika Noni Rose.
Check out the Win Books page
[http://www.bookbitch.com/win_books.htm] for all the details on how to enter.
South Central Regional Library Council Workshop Coming Up
Breaking Down Barriers: Making Your Services Accessible to Persons with Disabilities
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 25, 2007; 9:30am-12:30pm
Location: SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY
Library Conference Room
Presenters: Kathryn Wunderlich, Tompkins Cortland Community College
Carolyn Boone, Tompkins Cortland Community College
Sharon Trerise, Cornell University
Registration: $5/SCRLC members; $10/non-members; free parking.
Bring a brown bag lunch, beverages & dessert provided.
Audience: Assistants from all types of SCRLC regional libraries (i.e. support staff, clerks, technicians, etc.) regardless of local title, particularly those in public contact areas
Sponsor: SCRLC Library Assistants' Special Interest Group (LA SIG)
Find out what you need to do to make your library's services, both physically and virtually, available to all your patrons.
Our presenters will discuss how library staff can effectively and considerately help patrons with disabilities use library services. Website design, public workstations, special equipment, and changes in terminology will be covered, as well as questions and concerns raised by attendees.
You are invited to bring a brown-bag lunch and to participate in a short lunch meeting after the session to network with peers and discuss topics for future Library Assistants' Special Interest Group gatherings.
Please email Kathleen Jackson kjackson@lakenet.org if you would like to register.
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JAN AGUIRRE, Specialist & Training Coordinator
Polaris Tip of the Week
We’ve already demonstrated in a previous Polaris tip, how to delete an item record. See tip on 1/12/2007.
What if you want to restore that deleted item to the database?
It’s simply a matter of left clicking on the Undelete button to restore the item record.
This message will display
Links to the BIB record, Authority records and Hold requests are automatically re-established and the “Display in PAC” box is also automatically checked.
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LINDA BEINS, ILL/Reference Coordinator
DATABASES
NoveList Notes March, 2007 - Mainstream Fiction: The Space Between Us
The most current NoveList Notes describes how to use the Find Similar Books feature to identify comparable reads for patrons, especially when you are not familiar with the book or author.
How to access NoveList Notes:
Go to www.flls.org → Electronic Databases → Literature & Books → NoveList Fiction Guide → READERS’ ADVISORY → NoveList Notes
The NoveList Notes page will have the current Note as well as previous issues. There is also an option to subscribe to a monthly e-mail that announces and links to the most current issue. Please note above the other links to Readers’ Advisory Resources that will help you develop programs and displays.
WEBSITE
When you need a blank calendar, a couple of sheets of graph paper, staff paper for musical composition, or images of flags of the world that can be downloaded and printed try http://www.pdfpad.com/ . For entertainment, it also has easy, challenging and difficult sudoku games.
LAST WEEK’S QUESTION OF THE WEEK According to the 2000 Census, Tompkins County is the most populous county of the five counties (Cayuga, Cortland, Seneca, Tioga and Tompkins) included in the Finger Lakes Library System. Which of the five counties had the highest population in the year 1900? How many people with a surname of Adams lived in the five counties comprising the Finger Lakes Library System in 1900? (Hint – use Heritage Quest Online)
Julia Lon Grimsman, TRU, correctly responded that according to the 1900 census there were 116 people named Adams” living in the five counties of the FLLS service area and that Cayuga Co. had the largest population.
County
1900
2000
# of
Adams
Cayuga
25,284
81,693
68
Cortland
10,542
48,599
20
Seneca
11,899
33,342
7
Tioga
10,420
51,784
8
Tompkins
13,324
96,501
13
TOTAL
71,469
292,189
116
HeritageQuest Online includes Census images for 1790-1930, complete Census name indexes for 1790-1920 and 1930 for Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Texas and Virginia. It includes 7,922 family histories, 12,035 local histories, and 258 primary sources in its Genealogy & Local History Book Collection. The PERSI™ (PERiodical Source Index), provided by the Allen County Public Library Foundation, has over 6,500 journals and 1.9 million article citations; the Freedman's Bank Records Collection has over 105,000 depositor accounts and 489,000 individual names; and the Revolutionary War Era Pension and Bounty-Land Records Collection includes over 81,000 pension files and 138,000 pensioners and dependents. Let me know if you would like copies of the help sheets Searching the Census – Getting Started and Searching Books – Getting Started from HeritageQuest Online.
THIS WEEK’S QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Some questions to mark this week’s death of author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007):
What was Vonnegut’s undergraduate major when he attended Cornell University?
What upstate city in NY provided inspiration for a number of Vonnegut’s works?
What is the name of the character, said to be a “comic surrogate for the author”, that appears in a number of Vonnegut’ books?
NEXT WEEK’S QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Submit one of the questions you have received or create one to appear in a future FLLS Bulletin. All Participants (questioners and responders) will receive a token of appreciation.
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ANNETTE BIRDSALL, Youth Services Coordinator
Youth Services
Today is the deadline for your $100 worth of free books orders! If you have not contacted me, please do so. I’d hate to have anyone miss out on their books. As of the morning of April 12, 2007; 4 libraries have not ordered.
April is National Poetry Month: Celebrate by listening to one of Billy Collins’ 180 selection: This one by Jane Yolen is thought provoking, and beautiful.
Fat is Not a Fairytale. http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/056.html