• CAROL HENDRIX, Administration

Due to the rising costs and new regulations of the US Postal Office, we have closed our bulk mailing account and will be delivering the FLLS quarterly newsletter via the delivery system.  

You will be receiving a copy for each trustee and for the library director. If you need more copies sent to you, please contact Elaine at ext. 23. 

Thank you for helping the Finger Lakes Library System deliver our newsletter.

 

 

• JAN AGUIRRE, Specialist & Training Coordinator

Polaris “Tip of the Week” 

Want to see quickly a list of item records attached to a Bib record?

Left click on the  linked item records icon located on the Bib record toolbar

 

All the item records attached to this BIB record are displayed. 

 

This icon is also available on an Item Record and allows you to view any other item records attached to the same Bib. 

 

  

•  ANNETTE BIRDSALL, Youth Services Coordinator

Every library who ordered Harry Potter books through FLLS should have received them!  You will be receiving a bill directly from Scholastic. Please pay your invoices to them not to FLLS.

Have fun reading, 

 

• LINDA BEINS, ILL/Reference Coordinator

I will be out of the office on Friday, 7/20 and Monday, 7/23. If you have any ILL questions please call June Gilligan, ext. 42.  I will return email and phone messages as soon as I can.

ILL
TCPL will now permit holds on DVDs older than six months. Copies of revised ILL Loaning Policies will be distributed as soon as I receive updated information from all member libraries.

Recycled Reference Books
If you are interested in receiving any of these previously owned reference books for your library, contact me by July 27. 

• AV Market Place 2006

• College Blue Book (2005) 6 vols.

• Handbook of U. S. Labor Statistics (2006)

• Peterson’s College Money Handbook (2005)

• Peterson’s Four Year Colleges (2005)

• Peterson’s Graduate Programs (2005) 5 vols.

• Peterson’s Private Secondary Schools (2005)

• Peterson’s Scholarships, Grants & Prizes (2004)

• Peterson’s Study Abroad (2005)

• Peterson’s Summer Opportunities for Kids & Teens (2005)

• Peterson’s Two-Year Colleges (2004)

• State Directory – Elective Officials 2006

 Databases

 EBSCO’s Science Reference Center, funded by NOVEL, is now available. You can access it from the Electronic Resources link on the FLLS website or the Magazines and Databases Online link that appears on every PAC search screen. 

 

Science Reference Center has greater coverage than the General Science Collection, which is also a NOVEL database. The search screens are similar but Science Reference Center allows you to limit your search by Publication Type and Reading Level. In addition, if you want to do a general subject search, you need not type in a search term; just select one of the 70+ topics under the broad categories of Earth and Space Sciences, Life Sciences, and Physical Sciences that appear in the Benchmark drop down box (see below).

 

 

Call me if you have any questions about this or any of the databases or would like to arrange database training for you and your staff.

 

Test Preparation Trials

If you have been asked for information about the Postal Worker civil service test, the Advanced Placement Biology test, the GED, SATs, ACTs, the TOEFL exam, and/or the 4tth grade assessment tests, you really need to explore the two test preparation database trials currently under way. Would such a product be useful for your library users?

 

1) To access Learning Express: www.learningexpresslibrary.com/evaluation

USERNAME: 99154 plus the first nine numbers of your 10-digit home phone number (Example: my home phone number is 607-995-9556; my USERNAME would be: 99154607995955).

PASSWORD: TRIAL

If you want, the computer will remember your username and password so you do not have to type it in each time.

 2) To access Gale’s Testing & Education Reference Center w/ Career Module http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/special_tecm

 Password: Education

You will have to establish a user name the first time you begin a practice test.

 

LAST WEEK’S QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK

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

William Floyd, Francis Lewis, Philip Livingston, and Lewis Morris

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

John Dickinson, PA and Robert R. Livingston, NY refused to sign.

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

Mary Katherine Goddard from Baltimore printed the first copies of the Declaration of Independence, signed by all the representatives, a copy of which was sent to each of the United States. John Hancock and Charles Thomson, President and Secretary of the Continental Congress, respectively were the only ones to sign the original document for fear that the lives of the document’s signers would be in jeopardy.

[Source: The Declaration of Independence, American Revolution Reference Library (2000), p 135-145 accessed through the Gale Virtual Reference Library]

THIS WEEK’S QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK What are some of the human traits that indicate that the “ability to run long distances” was significant in human evolution? [Hint: try out Science Reference Center, search terms: “evolution” and “running”]