·     JAN AGUIRRE, Specialist & Training Coordinator

You can now use the find tool to find all your patrons that have a patron code of Young Adult or Child but according to their birth date they should now be an Adult.

1.      From the Shortcut Bar select Patron Services, Patron Records

2.      In the Find Tool, in the By box, select Birth date

3.      For a date range, select in the From box use 1900 as the year and in the To box use 1989 as the year.

4.      In the Limit By, select Patron Code

5.      In the Values, select Young Adult and Child

 

 6.      In the Options Tab, in the Results Set Limit section, increase the Retrieval Limit and the Sort Limit by adding a 0 on the end

  8.      Control/Shift A to retrieve all your results

9.      Sort by Library

10. Highlight all YOUR patrons

11. Right Click and Add to Record Set-New

12. Now you can bulk change the patron code on all these patrons to Adult

 

•  MARISA IACOBUCCI, Adult Services Coordinator

I will be out of the office Friday, August 31^st to Monday, September 3^rd.  I will be back on Tuesday, September 4^th.

Publisher Training

Microsoft Publisher classes begin next week!  I can’t believe its September already!  Below I’ve listed those people who have signed up for classes next week.  If you feel you’ve signed up and don’t see your name, please contact me as soon as possible. Thanks!

 I currently have the following people signed up for the class in Trumansburg next Wednesday, 9/5:

Anne Stincic
Sally Eller
Karel Titus
Pat Moore
Mike Caraher

 I currently have the following people signed up for the class at FLLS next Friday, 9/7:

Malia Newby
Cathy Sorber
June Gilligan
Joyce Wheatley
Lesli Joshi
Lillian Supanek

Mary Wilson
 

•  LINDA BEINS, ILL/Reference Coordinator

 DELIVERY

Just a reminder that FLLS will be closed on Monday, September 3 because of the Labor Day holiday; there will not be a delivery that day.

 

RECYCLED REFERENCE BOOKS

• Book Review Index, vol. 42 (2006) [3 vols.]

• Oxford Russian Dictionary, 3^rd edition (2000)

Test Preparation Databases

Thanks to all who provided feedback on the two test preparation databases. The feedback we received favored Learning Express and we will try to negotiate a fair contract with them for this database.

 

LAST WEEK’S QUESTION OF THE WEEK  This week Carolyn Goodman died at the age of 91. She was a clinical psychologist and a political activist. However her obituary appeared in the NY Times probably because of her connection to an event that happened 41 years ago in Mississippi. What was that event?

 

Julia Schult went directly to the NY Times website to find Carolyn Goodman’s obituary; Julia wrote that Goodman was the mother of Andrew Goodman, one of three civil rights workers slain in Mississippi, leading to the march on Selma. The NY Times can also be accessed from the Custom Newspaper and National Newspaper databases, both from GALE. The Associated Press obituary of Carolyn Goodman that appeared in the Chicago Tribune & Washington Post can be found in America’s Newspapers (Newsbank).

 

Start out at http://www.flls.org/ → Resources → Electronic Databases → Magazines & Newspapers →

 

 

Bonus Question: What is a group of jellyfish called?

Julia and I both did a Google search; the results listed several sites that noted that a group of jellyfish is called a “smack”; other names cited were brood, smuth, smuck, and fluther. I first heard of a smack of jellyfish from the lecturer at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium. Check out http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/efc_se/se_jla.asp, the Monterrey Bay Aquarium’s exhibit, “Jellies: a Living Art”, to see some amazing examples of the jellyfish housed in this aquarium.

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION OF THE WEEK Where does the month September get its name? Name a president who was born in September; name two presidents who died in September.