• ANNETTE BIRDSALL, Youth Services Coordinator

 Youth News #2

From now until September 1^st, 2007 you can go to www.flls.org/youth and click on the Tumblebooks link to try out this great read to me resource.  The user name is flls and the password is trial.  Project your computer on a screen or wall and have the ultimate big book for your storytime. Share the link & password with your patrons to try it out!  Let me know what you think. Have fun with these stories; many titles are perfect for summer reading, like Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective. 

  

 Youth News #2

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Check-In Procedure. 

Rex has outlined a procedure that will allow you to transition your new Harry Potter items from In-Processing to Checked-In without linking up any Holds that may be in the Holds Queue.  This will allow you to have the new books available for any special event you may have planned. 

The procedure for Checking In and item with holds without linking up those holds while at the same time preserving the hold requests.  This will be the procedure to use to transition the new Harry Potter books from In-Processing to In so they can be made available for In-Library Patrons without destroying the existing Holds. 

1.      Check In the item (the Fill Hold box will pop-up)

2.      Press the “N” key or Left click on the No box (this will Check In the item without linking up the hold)

 

3.      Press the “Y” key or Left click on the Yes box (this will preserve the Hold for the Patron since the object is Not to cancel it)

 

  

4.      Looking at the Status on the Check In window shows us that the Item now has a Status of In. 

 

 

• JAN AGUIRRE, Specialist & Training Coordinator

Polaris “Tip of the Week” 

Are you having trouble finding the next book in a series for a patron? Try searching using a Browse type of search.

• In Cataloging, In the Object box, select Bibliographic Records

• In the By box, select Series

• In the Type box, select Browse

• In the For box, type in the series name

• Your results will display the series number next to the title.

 

 

  

Double clicking on the Heading displays the Bib Record

 

 

Microsoft Publisher Workshops    

Just a reminder:  there will be regional training on Microsoft Publisher this September.  There are still slots open on all days.

If you are interested in attending one of the workshops* being offered, please RSVP to Marisa via e-mail by August 10, 2007.

In the body of the e-mail please include:

                                                1. Your name
                                                2. Your library
                                                3. The date & location of the workshop you’re interested in attending.

Possible Dates & Locations (all workshops are 9:00—noon):

                                    9/5/07       Trumansburg
                                    9/7/07       FLLS
                                    9/10/07    Candor
                                    9/12/07    McGraw
                                    9/19/07    Weedsport

*NOTE: Please be sure you have access to Publisher on at least one of the computers in your library prior to registering; you must have basic Windows skills (ie—cut & paste, using the mouse including right clicking, inserting…) to be able to participate in this class.

 
I will be out of the office Monday, July 9^th.  I will be back in the office on Tuesday, July 10^th.

 

•  LINDA BEINS, Reference / ILL Loan Department

 

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.

• 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.

• State Directory – Elective Officials 2006

 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.

 

NoveList

The most recent NoveList Notes is Let NoveList Help Lead Your Next Book Discussion which offers strategies for using NoveList to identify potential titles, and discussion points, for book discussions. Access NoveList Notes from the FLLS’ Electronic Resources → Literature & Books → Novelist Fiction Guide → Readers’Advisory → NoveList Notes.

  

LAST 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?

Julia, GRO, responded that Dorothy "Dottie" Schroeder was the only woman to play in the league for all the 12 years that that the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League existed. Go to the All-American Girl's Professional Baseball League's website for more information about the extraordinary women who played the game from 1943-1954. Did you know that ALA and the Baseball hall of Fame have joined forces in the program Step Up to the Plate where young people can win a trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame?

 

THIS WEEK’S QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK

Who were the New York representatives who signed the Declaration of Independence?

Who were the two representatives to the Continental Congress who refused to sign the Declaration of Independence?

 What was the name of the person who printed the first copies of the Declaration of Independence with all of the signers’ names included?

New prizes await people who respond!