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CAROL HENDRIX, Administration
Don’t forget to send me your library news for the summer issue of the FLLS News. Deadline is July 9, 2007.
If your library is planning to apply for a construction grant, please let me know ASAP.
To view the list of the FLLS Library Construction criteria, please go to the System website and click on “About Us.” Then scroll down to “Public Library Construction Policy and Procedures” under Plan of Service.
Thanks.
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MARISA IACOBUCCI, Adult Services Coordinator
Donations of New Books for Libraries
The Distribution to Underserved Communities Library Program (DUC) is pleased to announce the 2007 Poulin Project! We hope you will participate in this unique program that distributes literature books to libraries, schools, hospitals, and community centers in New York State completely free of charge.
The Al Poulin Jr. Independent Publishers Development Project is run by the DUC in collaboration with The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) in honor of the late poet, translator and founder of BOA Editions, Ltd.
The project supports independent publishers from New York State by introducing the work of hundreds of contemporary writers and poets to new audiences, while also helping local libraries to diversify their collections. BOA Editions, Ltd is just one of the many publishers that donate new books on literature, poetry and essays each year. Below is a list of a few recent contributors.
Poulin Project books are distributed in standard sets of approximately 40 titles. We recommend them for an audience with a reading comprehension level of high school students or above. These volumes arrive within a short period of time because they are less labor intensive to process than the hundreds of customized orders for art books from the DUC.
For more information about the Poulin Project or the DUC Library Program, please visit our website: <http://www.ducprogram.org/>
If you are a NEW YORK library interested in participating, please send an email to info@ducprogram.org with your name, library/institution name, address, and phone number. Please use Poulin Project as a subject line, and let us know if you have participated in the past.
We hope to hear from you soon!
RECENT POULIN PROJECT PUBLISHERS
African Voices
Autonomedia
Bellevue Literary Magazine
BOA Editions, Ltd.
Bright Hill Press
Brujula/Compass
Chelsea
Conjunctions
Dieu Donne Papermill
ELF Associates, Inc.
Esopus
Fence
Fiction, Inc.
Grand Street
Hanging Loose Press
Kaya
McPherson & Co.
Rattapallax
Parnassus
Poets & Writers, Inc.
State Street Press
Station Hill Press
Teachers & Writers Collaborative
The Americas Society
The Feminist Press
The Greenfield Press
The Hudson Review,
The Hudson Valley Writer's Center, Inc.
The Institute for Publishing Arts, Inc.
The Paris Review
The Segue Foundation
White Pine Press
Civics & Citizenship Toolkit Free to Libraries Who Register
Janet M. Welch, New York State Librarian and Assistant Commissioner for Libraries, is announcing availability of the Civics and Citizenship Toolkit from the Office of Citizenship, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
The Toolkit can help libraries begin or enhance collections for immigrants. It includes immigration and civics publications, handbooks, ideas for use, and multimedia tools.
Public libraries* and branches may each request one Toolkit--to be distributed on a first come-first served basis. Copies are limited--additional copies may be purchased through the Government Printing Office in the future.
Libraries may order the Toolkit directly from the website: www.citizenshiptoolkit.gov
*Toolkit will be distributed automatically to Federal Depository libraries.
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JAN AGUIRRE, Specialist & Training Coordinator
Polaris “Tip of the Week”
Do NOT put any letters in the phone number field of the Patron’s Record. There is a process that runs every night as part of overnight processing that updates the password field of the patron record and inserts the last 4 digits of the patron’s phone number if the password field is blank. However if there are any letters at the end of the patron’s phone number field, this automatic update of the password field fails. Please do NOT put any letters in the phone number field of the patron record, that means no C or Cell, no H for Home, no W for work and no ???, etc. Any characters other than numbers in the phone number field could also disrupt future Polaris functionality.
To update your patron records, please follow the instructions below:
Use the Patron Record Find Tool to find phone numbers with the letter C for Cell, or H for Home, etc. and remove them.
In the By box, select Voice phone
In the For box, type in the letter followed by an *
In the Limit by, Select Patron’s registered library and select your library from the drop down list.
Left click on Search
Double click to open a patron’s record and REMOVE ALL letters from the phone number field.
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LINDA BEINS, ILL/Reference Coordinator
ILL & Delivery
Just a reminder that FLLS will be closed on Wednesday, July 4 and there will not be any deliveries on that day.
Recycled Reference Books
If you are interested in receiving any of these previously owned reference books for your library, contact me by July 13.
Books in Print (2005-2006) 8 vols.
Guide to U.S. Foundations, (2005) 3 vols.
Harris New York Manufacturer’s Directory (2005)
The Official ABMS (American Board of Medical Specialists) Directory (2006) 4 vols.
Patterson’s American Education (2006)
Patterson’s Elementary Education (2006)
Standard & Poor’s Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives (2005) 2 vols.
Databases – Business Resources
Email me lbeins@flls.org or call, ext 32, if you would like me to send you a packet of information that was distributed at the 6/28 system meeting session on business databases. It covers the databases: Business and Company Resources, Gale Virtual Reference Library, and ReferenceUSA, as well as, Employment-Related websites.
Databases – Authentication
When you and your patrons access the databases, you will see a slightly different procedure to authenticate that you are authorized to use the database.
Once you select the database you want to access, click on “Login required – click here” (right after the name of the database)
This will take you to the authentication screen where you enter your library card Barcode Number and Password (often the last 4 digits of your phone number) and click on Log In
This will return you to the list of databases. Please note that in the upper left hand side of the screen, you will see “Welcome, followed by the name of the person whose card has been authenticated, I Log out”
Click on the database to then open up to the default search screen.
LAST WEEK’S QUESTION OF THE WEEK Forty years ago, on June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the decision outlawing race-based restrictions on marriages. Name the plaintiffs and the state involved in this case.
The case was appropriately named Loving v. Virginia
“In June 1958, Virginia residents Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter traveled to the District, got married and returned home. An unexceptional story but for one fact: Richard was white and Mildred black. Their marriage therefore violated Virginia's Racial Integrity Act. The Lovings were convicted in Virginia court and sentenced to a year in jail, with the sentence suspended on the condition that they leave Virginia and not return together for 25 years.
They got back sooner. On June 12, 1967 -- 40 years ago next Tuesday -- the Supreme Court struck down Virginia's ban on interracial marriages. Writing for a unanimous court, Chief Justice Earl Warren stated that the restriction served no purpose but that of "invidious racial discrimination" and therefore violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
Loving v. Virginia is a constitutional icon now, not least because of its wonderful name. But its continued relevance might not be obvious. Nowadays everyone agrees that bans on interracial marriages are unconstitutional, and even if they weren't, few people would support them. But Loving illustrates something important about the evolution of constitutional law. “ 11“Marriage, Loving and the law: a Supreme Court ruling resonates 40 years later”, Washington Post, The (DC), June 3, 2007 [accessed from the database America’s Newspapers (Newsbank)]
THIS WEEK’S QUESTION OF THE WEEK At an ALA session entitled, Dirt on their Skirts, Delores “Dolly” Brumfield, who played for the All American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1946-1953 talked about Dorothy “Dottie” Schroeder. What is Dottie Schroeder’s claim to fame?
New prizes await people who respond!
