Scheduled Reports in Report Manager

If you have set up reports to run automatically using “My Subscriptions” in Report Manager, you might have to update the end date for those reports. When these reports were initially set up they may have been given an end date of 12/31/2007, which means they will not run automatically in 2008 unless you change the end date. 

Here’s how you do it: 

• Log into Report Manager

• Left click on My Subscriptions

• Left click on Edit by the report you want to update

• Go to the section “Report Parameters Values”

• Change the End Date by highlighting the 7 in 2007 and changing it to 8

• Left click on OK

 

•  LINDA BEINS, ILL/Reference Coordinator

ANNUAL REPORTS - ILL

The 2007 ILL data has been sent to you as part of the Annual Reports package distributed by Marisa. Let me know if you have any questions.

 

ANNUAL REPORTS - ELECTRONIC DATABASES

      NOVELny Databases – 13

      Other Databases – 10 (includes FirstSearch through OCLC, which not all of you have because you never requested access)

 

RECYCLED REFERENCE Let me know by February 1 if you are interested in any of these items for your library:

• Literary Market Place 2006 (2 vols.)

• New York Manufacturer’s Register 2006

• Powersport Vehicle Blue Book Spring/Summer 2007

• Recreational Vehicle Blue Book January 2007

 

DATABASE TRAINING NOVELny GALE DATABASES

The NYS Library has announced that free online training sessions (“webinars”) will also be available for the Cengage-Gale content included in the NOVELny pilot project will be offered on a monthly basis starting in 2008. These one-hour sessions will offer librarians and library staff members the opportunity to learn about databases (and database interfaces) available for children, young adults and adults as part of the NOVELny pilot project.

The new PowerSearch Plus search interface will be previewed, and the webinar will cover features and functionalities common to all Cengage-Gale databases. Also featured will be NOVELny promotional materials available from the NOVELny Web site (http://www.novelnewyork.org) and free training resources available from the Cengage-Gale support site (http://support.gale.com).

The first webinar is scheduled for January 28, 2008 Monday at 2:00 pm EST. No registration is required.

To request information on how to participate in this webinar, contact David Fiske at the State Library, Division of Library Development by calling 518-486-4857 or by email at dfiske@mail.nysed.gov

 

DATABASE TRAINING NOVELny EBSCO DATABASES

The January and February sessions of EBSCO database training are filled. I will send you information on future sessions as soon as I get it.

 

DATABASE TRAINING

has issued an invitation to the first in a series of monthly on-line trainings. These trainings are designed to cover a single topic in thirty minutes or less.  The intention is to share some of the collected wisdom so you and your patrons can get the most from your investment with ReferenceUSA. 

 

 January's topic is Building an Effective Mailing List. 

Choose one of two sessions:

Tuesday 22 January at 10:00 AM or Thursday 24 January at 2:30 PM

Let me know by January 19 if you would like to come to FLLS to attend this training in a group session. 

 

Log on to the online meeting site -- ON-LINE MEETING    (http://www.mymeetings.com/nc/join.php?i=741873262&p=&t=c)

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 There is a separate toll free number for each day. 

Tuesday   800 857 0373   passcode 58122 

Thursday  888 566 5772  passcode  41193 

Please be sure to put your phone on mute!  * 6 to Mute /Unmute

You can enter any questions in the Chat Screen on the web meeting.  Then I'll be sure and see your question and can address it properly. 

Don't hesitate to call if you have questions on getting this set up. 

Lastly, though you do not need to RSVP, it would be helpful to know if you plan on attending so I know what to expect on these first few sessions. 

Rick White
ReferenceUSA
800 808-1113 x 3736
rick.white@infousa.com
fax 402 596 7688
www.referenceusa.com  

 

LAST QUESTION OF THE WEEK Which database has a copy of the book George Washington: his land purchases made the empire state.  Utica, N.Y.: unknown. 1931, 12 pgs?

It includes the quote: “Washington took oath of office as first President in New York City, the Nation’s first Capitol, after he had welded the Indian Lands with the area above and below the Bronx and called this creation the Empire State.”

 

Answer:  at www.flls.org → Electronic Databases → Genealogy & Family Research → HeritageQuest Online Genealogy (ProQuest)

 

 

Did you know that in addition to Census images from 1790 -1930, you can also search for people and places in HeritageQuest Online’s collection of digitized Books and periodical citations (Periodical Search Index - PERSI) and search for individuals in its Revolutionary War era Pension & Bounty Land Application files and the Freedman’s Bank (1865-1874)? The articles in PERSI also cover genealogical research methodologies. You can request copies of articles for a cost, generally up to six articles for $7.50 with additional copying fees.

 For example, searching Books for Cayuga Co., I found these three items among others which can be accessed in your library and remotely 24/7:

       1)     Allen, Henry M.

An index to the histories of Auburn, New York

Auburn, N.Y.?: H.M. Allen?, 1940, 29 pgs.

 

2)     Charles Carroll Hemenway

Central Church semi-centennial: addresses and papers prepared in

connection with the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the

founding of the Central Presbyterian Church of Auburn, New York Auburn, N.Y.?: unknown, 1912, 165 pgs.

 

3)     Anonymous

Manual of the Cayuga County Historical Society: Auburn, New York.

Auburn, N.Y.?: The Society, 1893, 29 pgs.

 

A search for “wills” in PERSI – How To’s yielded these results among 212 hits:

 

1)     Understanding the language of wills

Moultrie County Heritage. Sullivan IL: Apr 2006. Vol. 34- Iss. 1-

 

2)     Value of wills in research

Ancestors. Richmond, Surrey England: Apr 2006. Vol. - Iss. 44-

 

3)     Abbreviations in wills and other documents

Gallia Crossroads and Cornerstones. Gallipolis OH: Dec 2005. Vol. 1- Iss. 3

 

4)     Researching estates and wills

Family Chronicle. Toronto Ontario Canada: Apr 2006. Vol. 10- Iss. 4-

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION OF THE WEEK  In June 2002, Consumer Reports rated Puffs Plus and Puffs Extra Strength most highly. What facial tissue was rated strongest and “softest by a nose” in the Dec. 2006 issue of Consumer Reports?

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