MEMBER LIBRARY WEEKLY BULLETIN
No. 08-24

June 20, 2008

My Schedule

There will not be any Youth News until July 11 as I am off for Costa Rica beginning June 20 – July 4th.  I will return to the office on Monday, July 7th.

If you have any questions about the game lab or storytime resources please contact Sam at snorton@flls.org x. 29.

For all other questions, please contact Marisa at marisa@flls.org or x. 26. 

 

Advocacy Information Available 

The Advocacy tab on the FLLS home page is now active!  

Advocacy is something we often think applies to us only once a year – on Lobby Day in Albany.  The reality is that we need to be advocating for our library and libraries in general as often as possible.  The Advocacy information on the FLLS web site is to help you spread the library message – how important we are to communities and the people in them - to legislators and the public.   

Please contact me if you have any questions.

  

ILL: Out-of-System Requests on WorldCat
Links to Information and Instructions for placing out-of-system ILL requests right on the Polaris PAC are available at http://www.flls.org/ill/. Our goal is to eliminate paper requests for Out-of-System books that can be found on WorldCat by June 30.

ILL – ILL Lending Policies
Thanks to all who have already reviewed and returned the ILL Lending Policies spreadsheet. If you haven’t done so, please return your library’s policies by June 27.

ILL – Request Manager
Each day, when you open Request Manger to get the list of holds that need to be filled from your library, the Holds icon  , in the lower left will be highlighted and the default settings will be:

        Branch name:          Your Library Name

        By:                              Item

        Status:                        Pending

You are probably aware that you can also get lists of Active, Cancelled, Expired, Held, Inactive, Not Supplied, Shipped, and Unclaimed items by using the drop-down Status menu

You can also monitor the Out-of-System ILLs for your library patrons by clicking on the ILL icon  right below the Holds Icon. When you first click on this icon, your default settings will be:

        Branch name:          Your Library Name

        By:                              Pickup

        Status:                        Inactive 

 

You can also see lists of Active, Cancelled, Received and Returned ILLs by using the drop-down Status menu.

Definition of ILL Request Manager Status categories:

        Inactive – the out-of-system ILL has been placed by the patron or staff member but has not been exported to OCLC

        Active – the out-of-system ILL has been exported to OCLC and remains active until the request has been filled.

        Received – the out-of-system ILL has arrived at FLLS and remains received as long as the item is at FLLS, the member library, checked out to the patron or in delivery back to FLLS.

        Returned – the out-of-system ILL is back at FLLS and we have prepared it to be shipped back to the lending library; it remains as Returned until FLLS staff deletes it.

        Cancelled – either the patron (staff) cancelled it from the patron’s account because the item was no longer needed or an FLLS staff has removed the item because it does not meet ILL criteria or because we were unable to get it. It remains as Cancelled until FLLS staff deletes it.

 

DELIVERY
The most current Delivery Schedule is available at http://www.flls.org/ill/Delivery%20Schedule%20200805.htm

 

DATABASES - EBSCOHost
EBSCO Animals, Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia, General Science Collection, MasterFile Premier, Primary Search, Science Reference Center, and TOPICSearch will have a new look beginning some time in July.

To preview the new interface, view a ten-minute flash presentation at http://www.ebscohost.com/2.0.

To test the new design click on New Features on the search screen of any of the EBSCOHost databases.

 

 

The EBSCOhost 2.0 BETA will remain available on the New Features page for you to sample, until its final implementation in July.

Visit EBSCO's Support Site (http://support.ebsco.com) to learn about new features, search among thousands of FAQs, and download Flash tutorials, Help Sheets or User Guides,

TRAINING – EXCEL
Please send in EXCEL functions/features you would like covered in the upcoming August training sessions.

 

LAST WEEK’S QUESTION OF THE WEEK: What is paraskavedekatriaphobia?

Malia. FLLS submitted the correct answer.

www.reference.com credits Wikipedia for this definition: the fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia, a word derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví (Παρασκευή) (meaning Friday), and dekatreís (δεκατρείς) (meaning thirteen), attached to phobía (φοβία) (meaning phobia). The term is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia a simple phobia (fear) of the number thirteen appearing in any case.

Reference.com is a multi-source encyclopedia search service produced by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. Note that Reference.com has links to the following resources:

 

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Today, June 20, 2008 is the summer solstice. Where can you find 24 hrs of uninterrupted sunlight on the Summer Solstice?

Submit your own Question of the Week for inclusion in future FLLS Bulletins by emailing me at lbeins@flls.org !

 

  • DIRECTORS’ ADVISORY COUNCIL (DAC) MEMBERS: 

If you have any questions or concerns regarding FLLS library service, you are welcome to contact a DAC member from the list below.

  • Janet Steiner, TCPL, Ithaca
  • Kay Zaharis, Cortland Free Library
  • Sally Otis, Hazard Library, Poplar Ridge
  • Sheila Mikkelson, Seymour Library, Auburn
  • Diane Pamel, Southworth Library, Dryden
  • Beverly Dann, Waverly Free Library

FLLS HOME

2008 Bulletins, 2007 Bulletins, 2006 Bulletins, 2005 Bulletins, 2004 Bulletins
2003 Bulletins, 2002 Bulletins, 2001 Bulletins, 2000 Bulletins

Last updated 06/20/2008