funandgames

Polaris - server problems - screen shot

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:55:00 +0000

error message pop up referring to the server being busy. Staff Help wants to know when we see these error messages as soon as we get them, and they would like a screen shot of the error message if possible. The only error messages they are interested in are those referring to the server being busy, or when Polaris shuts down abruptly (i.e. crashes). It is important to contact the Help desk (x3000) as soon as these errors occur so that Tech Services can more accurately diagnose why these errors are occurring. After creating the screen shot, please print it and give it to me or Cheryl so we can send it to the Help desk (if you are feeling ambitious, you can try to email them directly).
To make a screen shot of an error message:
1) With the error message showing on the screen, hit the Print Screen button on the keyboard (upper right hand corner).
2) Open Microsoft Word (on the desktop or in the Start button menu)
3) Right-click and click on Paste. The screen shot should appear.
4) Print the screen shot from Word.

Polaris -print receipt - returned items

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:51:00 +0000

How to print a receipt for returned items for the customer. Make sure you start at a clear screen in bulk checkin, scan items to be returned, at the top of the screen, underneath the file tab there is a picture of the printer and a drop down arrow, click the drop down error, click items (at the bottom of the list) and the receipt should automatically print.
Questions? Please ask!

Polaris - error message - server busy

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:44:00 +0000

Hi All,
if you get an error message, especially regarding the server being busy, the HELP DESK wants to know about it!
Please take a screen shot of the error message (To make a screen shot of an error message:
1) With the error message showing on the screen, hit the Print Screen button on the keyboard (upper right hand corner).
2) Open Microsoft Word (on the desktop or in the Start button menu)
3) Right-click and click on Paste. The screen shot should appear.
4) Print the screen shot from Word.)

and then give it to your supervisor so it can be forwarded to the help desk.

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computer - abort shutdown

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:52:00 +0000

Aborting Automatic Shutdown
On Public Computers

All catalogs, internet stations, signup queues and print queues, shutdown automatically at the end of the day. The catalogs, internet stations and signup queues shutdown at closing. While the print queues shutdown 10 minutes after closing. Customers are warned, 5 minutes before closing, to save or print their work or risk losing it.

If for some reason a customer can not complete their work before closing, it is possible to abort the automatic shutdown. It is up to branch staff’s discretion to determine which situations warrant aborting shutdown. When aborting shutdown you must take into account the following:

• You can only abort shutdown on one computer at a time.
• You must wait for the 5 minute warning to appear on the customer’s computer before attempting to abort shutdown.
• The abort shutdown command only works on internet stations. It does not work on catalogs, signup queues or print queues.

To abort the automatic shutdown of public internet stations do the following:
1. On the desktop of any Information Desk computer, double click on the Abort Shutdown icon.

2. The following window will appear on the screen.

3. Type in just the number of the computer that you want to keep on. For example to keep computer 4 on after closing you will type 4.
4. Press the enter key on the keyboard.
5. After a few seconds, a message will appear on the screen that reads, “Press any key to continue . . .”
6. Hit the enter key on the keyboard to clear the window.
7. On the customer’s computer, the automatic shutdown warning window will disappear and the shutdown process will be aborted.
Once the customer is finished, shutdown the computer manu

GED applications

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:08:00 +0000

GED Applications: If customers ask for GED test applications, we may direct them to the website www.bcpl.info. At the site, they may click on “Library Services” and then find the link to the Maryland Department of Education. They will then see a link to the application for GED tests and the Maryland High School Diploma. Customers without access to a computer may call the GED office at 410-767-0538 to request a paper copy to be mailed to their address. We no longer have GED applications or brochures available in branches.

Playaway

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:56:00 +0000

Playaway Findaway World 440-893-0808
Cleveland, Ohio Fax 440-893-0809

TO GO TO THE BEGINNING OF THE BOOK
Have in Pause.
Push SP (speed) & reverse simultaneously until you see reset
Release both buttons & you should be at the beginning.

If this does not seem to work turn off and start over.

If still not working, remove battery and then put back in.

TO REVERSE
Push and hold for as long as you want it to reverse.

TO GO BACK ONE CHAPTER
Push and release reverse.

computer - PDF files to Word

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:50:00 +0000

www.convertpdftoword.net
upload your PDF and it can be converted to Word 2003 which you can edit.

computer - cybrian extend time

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:48:00 +0000

To patron time on cybrian

Open Cybrian Net
Moniter
Computer 3
Send command
Remote snooze
enter time - 15 or more
send command
Close

computer - staff - shutdown

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:36:00 +0000

When you are shutting down a staff computer, please do the following:
1)Close all programs (i.e. Circulation, Internet Explorer)
2)Click on Start and choose Shut Down
3)A window will pop up, make sure "Shut Down" is selected, then click on OK.

Books - Juvenile/ YA

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:17:00 +0000

JUVENILE
Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women
Babbitt, Natalie - Tuck Everlasting
Blume, Judy - Are you these God, It's me Margaret
Burnett, Frances - Secret Garden
Creech, Sharon
Hunt, Irene - Across Five Aprils
Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Roderick Rules (easy with line drawings)
Lowry, Lois
Paulsen, Gary - Hatchet , Woodsong
Peck - Teacher's Funeral (midwest farming community early 1900's)
Rowling, J. K. - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone , Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire,
Order of the Phoenix, Half Blood Prince, Deathly Hallows
Schlitz, Laura Amy (Park School) - Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
Speare, Elizabeth - Sign of the Beaver , Witch of Blackbird Pond
Spinelli, Jerry - Maniac Magee , Stargirl
Staples, - Shabanu
Taylor, Mildred - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Silmarillion - Hobbit -Lord of the Rings (Fellowship of the Ring, 2 Towers, Return of the King)

JUVENILE - NONFICTION
Hatkoff, Isabella - Owen and Mzee, Owen & Mzee, the Language of Friendship
Hickham, Homer - Rocket Boys
Malone, Peter - Close to the Wind, the Beaufort Scale

YOUNG ADULT
Collins, Suzanne - The Hunger Games; Catching Fire
Collins, Suzanne - Catching Fire
Korman - Son of the Mob
Lowry, Lois - The giver, Following Blue, Messenger
McCormick, Patricia - Sold (forced prostitution & eventual escape)
Paolini, Christopher - Eragon series (Fantasy)
Pullman, Philip - Golden Compass (SciFi)
Riordan, Rick - The Sea of Monsters (bk 2 in Percy Jackson & the Olympians) (1-Lightning thief)
Selznick, Brian - Invention of Hugo Cabret
Westerfeld, Scott - Leviathan

USEFUL WEB SITES

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:02:00 +0000

http://www.firstgov.gov

http://www.votesmart.org/ - current elected officials etc

www.mdshare.org - like bcpl community info but for state

www.bcpl.info/centers/fastfacts/ff_vbfindex.html - virtual back file

http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/tips/readingpage/strive25/index.html
BCPS recommended reading lists with leads to other outside list sites

http://www.awesomestories.com/
BOTH your user name and password are cAse sEnsItivE.
Log-in at the ACADEMIC MEMBER box, on the lower left side of the site'shome page. Your access codes are:
Password: bcpl33

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/cockeysvillelibstaff

http://www.dat.state.md.us/sdatweb/taxcredits.html#htcrtc.
Property Tax Credit Appllcations. (also in Back File under Taxes)
Also available from Community Info DB link
410-7676-4433 800-944-7403

www.dbm.maryland.gov
Maryland's budget and fiscal digest

http://www.ajbillig.com/buyers_foreclosure.htm
Info re MD sales of foreclosed propertieshttp://www.ajbillig.com/buyers_foreclosure.htm

www.healthfinder.gov

www2.fdic.gov/idasp/frm_ezfind.asp is a specific bank insured by fdic?

email (username): colibrarian1@yahoo.com
password: cockeysville
Use to log onto Balto. Sun for articles

http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/default.cfm for kids

www.allmusic.com
www.music.myspace.com for bands with no published albums

www.imdb.com tv & movies

www.rottentomatoes.com movie reviews

www.librarything.com/suggest.php to find read-alikes

www.metacritic.com all reviews books, music & video games

www.commonsensemedia.org re objectionable content in movies

www.shelf-awareness.com books getting attention/made into movies

Books

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:53:00 +0000

BIBLE RELATED
Edghill, India - Queen Maker (King David’s Queen Michal)
Diamant, - Red Tent
LaHaye, Tim & Jenkins - Left Behind series
Halter, Marek - Zipporah Lilah

CLASSIC NOVELS
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Cather, Willa - My Antonia
DeFoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Charles - David Copperfield
Dostoevski - Brothers Karamazov
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Forster, E. M. - A Passage to India
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway, Ernest - Old Man and the Ses
Kerouc, Jack - On the Road
LeCarre, John - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
London, Jack - Call of the Wild
McCarthy, Cormac - The Road
Mitchell, Margaret - Gone With the Wind
Rand, Ayn - Atlas Shrugged
Rand, Ayn - The Fountainhead
Salinger, J D - Catcher in the Rye
Shute, Nevil - A Town Called Alice
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Styron, William - Sophie's Choice
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Twain, Mark - Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse Five
Wilder, Thornton - The Bridge of San Luis Rey

GOOD READING
Albom - Five People You Meet in Heaven
Albom - For One More Day
Craven - I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Gabaldon - Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of autumn
Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha
Gruen - Water for Elephants
McCullough - Morgan’s Run
Mroz, Richard - Arjuna, The White Elephant
Seabold - Lovely Bones
See, Lisa - Snowflower and the Secret Fan
See, Lisa - Peony in Love
Seton, Anya - Katherine etc
Shors, John - Beside a Burning Sea
Vreeland, Susan - Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Walls, Jeannette - Half Broke Horses
Wood, Barbara - Green City in the Sun Virgins of Paradise

GRAPHIC NOVELS - adult
Williamson - At a Crossroads

HISTORY
Allende, Isabel - Inez of my soul 07
Frazier, Charles - Cold Mountain Thirteen Moons
Gregory, Philippa - Other Boleyn Girl
L’Amour, Louis - westerns
McBride, James - Song Yet Sung
O’Brian, Patrick - sea stories
Michener, James
Tademy, Lalita - Cane River

HUMOR
Evanovich, Janet - (Stephanie Plum) Fic
Lutz, Lucy - Spellman Files Fic
Wodehouse - (Jeeves)

LEGAL
Grisham, John - Fic

SAFE
Berg, Elizabeth - The Art of Mending
Berg, Elizabeth - Dream When You're Feeling Blue
Binchy, Maeve - relationships
Bowen, Rhys - Evan Blessed (Constable Evans Mystery) Scotland
Braun, Lilian Jackson - (Quilleran .. The Cat who ...)
Chiaverini, Jennifer - Quilter's Homecoming
Craven, Margaret - I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Hamilton - Camel Bookmobile
Karon, Jan - At Home in Mitford
McCall-Smith, Alexander - The #1 Ladies Detective Agency
Perry, Anne - Execution Dock (Victorian London - policeman Wm.Monk)
Miss Read
Pilcher, Rosamunde - relationships
Plain, Belva
Siddons, Anne Rivers
Sparks, Nicholas
Trigiana, Adriana - Home to Big Stone Gap Fic

SCIENCE FICTION
See HUGO AWARDS - www.thehugoawards.org
Asimov, Isaac
Butler, Octavia (black author) - Kindred
Hickman, Tracy
Jordan, Robert
Lackey, Mercedes
Salvatore, R.
Weiss, Margaret

SOLVE THE CRIME
Bourne,Sam (pseudo.of Jonathan Freedlander) - Righteous Men
Bowen, Rhys - Evan Blessed (Constable Evans Mystery) Scotland
Brown, Rita Mae - Puss 'n Cahoots: A Mrs Murphy Mystery
Burke, James Lee - some very harsh both M & Fic
Chandler, Raymond - (Philip Marlowe) M
Christie, Agatha M
Clark, Mary Higgins Fic
Cook, Robin - Medical Fic
Cornwell, Patricia M (early books better than later ones)
Coulter, Catherine = Knock Out, an FBI thriller
Davidson, Diane Mott- chef M
Francis, Dick - Horse Racing M
Gardner, Earle Stanley - (Perry Mason) M
Gerritsen, Tess - (Jane Rizzoli, etc) Fic
Grafton, Sue - (Kinsey Millhone) A is for Alibi M
Grimes, Martha M
Haines, Carolyn - Bones to Pick M
Hillerman, Tony - (Jim Chee/Leaphorn) M
Kellerman, Faye - (Peter Decker) M
Kellerman, Jonathan - (Alex Delaware/Milo Sturgis) - mostly Fic
Lippman, Laura - Balto Sun (Tess Monaghan) M
McCarthy, Cormac - No Country for Old Men - Fic
McKevett, G. A. - Fat Free and Fatal - M
Mortimer, John - (Rumpole at Old Bailey) M
Mosley, Walter - (Easy Rawlings) M Black
Parker, Robert B - (Spenser & Hawk) Fic
Patterson, James - (Alex Cross) Fic
Perry, Anne - Execution Dock (Victorian London - policeman Wm.Monk)
Perry, Anne - (Thomas Pitt) M
Peters, Ellis - (Brother Cadfeal) M
Sanders, Lawrence - (Archy McNally) M & Fic
Sanford, John - Dark of the Moon
Stabenow, Dana - A Grave Denied M (Alaska)
Stout, Rex - (Nero Wolfe) M
Truman, Margaret - (Murder at ....) M
Unger, Lisa - Sliver of Truth Fic
Wood, Stuart - (Stone Barrington) Fic

POPULAR WITH WOMEN
Balogh, Mary - Simply Unforgettable (Regency England romance)
Berg, Elizabeth - The Art of Mending
Bradford, Barbara Taylor
Brown, Sandra - relationships - some mystery
Chevalier, Tracy - Girl with a Pearl Earring; The Virgin Blue
Courter, Gay Midwife
Delinsky, Barbara - Family Tree
Garwood, Julie
Gregory, Philippa - The Other Boleyn Girl
Pilcher, Rosamonde
Plain, Belva
Rosnay, Tatiana de - Sarah's Key
Roberts, Nora -solve the mystery Fic (Also Robb, J. D. M )
Steel, Danielle Fic
Trigiani, Adriana - Home to Big Stone Gap Fic

SUSPENSE / THRILLERS
Baldacci, David - (Oliver Stone & Camel Club)-Stone Cold - political Fic
DeMille, Nelson - suspense Plum Island Fic
Flynn, Vince - Consent to Kill (CIA/political)
Follett, Ken - suspense Fic
Rankin, Ian - Blood Hunt Fic (Scottish Gordon Reeve)
White, Randy Wayne - Hunter's Moon Fic

WEIRD/DIFFERENT
Koontz, Dean - (Odd Thomas) Fic
Child, Lincoln - Deep Storm Fic (what's under the ocean) 07
Collins, Suzanne - The Hunger Games
Collins, Suaenne - Catching Fire

NON-FICTION
Ackerman, Diane - The Zookeeper's Wife
Adams, Cindy - The Gift of Jazzy
Albom, Mitch - Have a Little Faith
Albom, Mitch - Tuesdays with Morrie
Ambrose, Stephen - Undaunted Courage (Meriwether Lewis)
Anderson, Allen & Linda - Horses with a Mission
Aslan, Reza - How to Win a Cosmic War 09
Berendt, John - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Berendt, John - The City of Falling Angels (Venice)
Bowker, Michael - Fatal Deception, Untold Story of Asbestos
Bradley, James - Flags of Our Fathers (Iwo Jima)
Brokaw, Tom - A Long Way from Home
Browne, Sylvia - Life on the Other Side etc
Bryson, Bill - Walk in the Woods etc
Byrne, Rhonda - The Secret 07
Cahill, Thomas - Gifts of the Jews
Carson, Ben - Gifted Hands
Carter, Jimmy - Up Before Dawn
Carter, Jimmy - Christmas in Plains
Casey, Susan - The Devil’s Teeth (obscession/survival sharks)
Conway, Jill - Road from Coorain
Cronkite, Walter - A Reporter’s Life
Crystal, Billy - 700 Sundays
Dorsey, Pat - The Little Book that Builds Wealth
Egan, Timothy - The Big Burn, Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire That Saved America
Edelman, Ric - Rescue Your Money
Ephron, Nora - I Feel Bad About My Neck & Other Thoughts ....
Epping, Randy Charles - The 21st Century Economy
Esfandiari, Haleh - My Prison, My Home (Iran)
Finkel, David - The Good Soldiers
Friedman, Thomas - World is Flat 05
Friedman, Thomas - Lexus and the Olive Tree 99
Friedman, Thomas - Longitudes & Attitudes 02
Gladwell, Malcolm - Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Gladwell, Malcolm - Outliers
Gladwell, Malcolm - The Tipping Point
Graham, Katherine - Personal History
Green, Alexander - The Secret of Shelter Island
Grothe, Mardy - Ifferisms
Hautzig, Esther - The Endless Steppe J & Ya
Hillenbrand - Seabiscuit
Ivins, Molly - (any books - she’s funny - political)
Johnson, Spencer - Who Moved My Cheese?
Junger, Sebastian - The Perfect Storm
Katz, Jon - A Good Dog
Kidder, Tracy Mountains Beyond Mountains - (Dr. Paul Farmer)
Kinder, Gary - Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea (search 1857 ship)
Kingsolver, Barbara - Small Wonder - Essays
Krakauer, Jon - Into Thin Air
Krakauer, Jon - Into the Wild (Chris McCandless death in Alaska)
Krakauer, Jon - Under the Banner of Heaven (Mormans)
Lange, Henrik - 90 Classic Books for People in a Hurry (cartoons)
Larson, Erik - Isaac’s Storm
Larson, Erik - Devil in the White City (Chicago World’s Fair)
Lefler, Carol - When You Lie About Your Age ...
Levitt, Steven - Freakonomics
- Super Freakonomics
Livingston, Gordon - Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
Maraniss, David - When Pride Still Mattered (Vince Lombardi
Markham, Beryl - West with the Night
Maas, Peter - The Terrible Hours (submarine rescue)
McBride, James - Song Yet Sung
McCain, John - Faith of my Fathers
McCourt, Frank - Angela’s Ashes
McCourt, Frank - Teacher Man
McCullough, David - various biographies
McGough, Matthew - Bat Boy ..... New York Yankees
Meller, William - Evolution Rx
Mortenson, Greg - Three Cups of Tea
Nasar, Sylvia - A beautiful Mind (John Nash)
Paris, Stephen - Forecast
Paul, Ron - End the Fed
Pausch, Randy - Last Lecture
Philbrick, Nathaniel - Mayflower
Philbrick, Nathaniel - In the Heart of the Sea (whaleship Essex)
Pilkington, Doris - Rabbit Proof Fence
Powell, Colin - My American Journey
Quindlen, Anna - Loud and Clear
Rather, Dan - I Remember
Rawicz, Slavomir - The Long Walk
Ricks, Thomas - The Gamble .. military..Iraq ..06-08
Rubin, Susan - The Cat with the Yellow Star (WW II Terezin Camp)
Rusesabagina, Paul - An Ordinary Man (Rwandan genocide in 94)
Russert, Tim - Big Russ and Me
Sandel, Michael - Justice, What's the Right Thing to Do 09
Shell, Ellen Ruppel - Cheap, the High Cost of Discount Culture
Sherwood, Ben - The Survivors Club
Siegel, Jeremy - Future for Investors 05
Siegel, Jeremy - Stocks for the Long Run 08
Sparks, Nicholas - Three Weeks With my Brother
Stanley, Thomas - The Millionaire Next Door
Stahl, Leslie - Reporting Live
Stossel, John - Give Me a Break
Sullenberger, Capt. "Sully" - Highest Duty - My Search for What Really Matters
Suskind, Ron - Hope in the Unseen (Cedric Jennings) (One Maryland, One Book)
Susanka - The Not So Small House
Taylor and Nicola - The Secret of Priest's Grotto (Jews in Ukraine hide in cave for over 1 year - read only for unusual story)
Tolle, Eckhart - Guardians of Being (drawings & few words) (live in now)
Tucker, Neely - Love in the Driest Season 2004
Walls, Jeannette - The Glass Castle (Biog.)
Winchester, Simon - The Professor & the Madman (Oxford Eng. Dic)

Sources.yahoo answers plus

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:16:00 +0000

Even though Yahoo! Answers is frequently sloppy and inaccurate, it's still the juggernaut in its field. Despite a rapid proliferation of answer-giving sites - Amazon.com's recently inaugurated Askville just jointed a crowded field that includes Answerbag, WikiAnswers, AnswerBank, and Ask Metafilter - Yahoo!'s is still by far the most popular.

computer - boot up problems

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:20:00 +0000

Info Desk PC #1 (has Cybraryn software) - having trouble "booting" up.

Steps to get it to "boot" up.
1-Hold the power button in until the computer shuts off
2-Press the power button again and it should start up
3-If it doesn't then repeat the steps - it should come up on the third try

These steps will also be in the Tech notebook at the info desk under tips.

computer - reduce icon size/kids

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:19:00 +0000

Kids PC - sometimes the icons are very large

Steps to change the icons
1-Press ESC and type in: aoudad
2-Right click on the Desktop and click Properties
3-Click on the Settings tab
4-Change the screen resolution to 800X600 by draging the arrow over until it reads 800X600.

rules - hold/hold in transit

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:12:00 +0000

As we mentioned at the meeting yesterday, I am compiling all the pieces of
information about new hold procedures. I've created a folder on the WAN under
Cockeysville Public called New Hold Procedures. The location is
\\Ao-ntserv1\departments\Cockeysville\PUBLIC I'll try to keep everything
there from memos to e-mail updates.

Also at the meeting I shared the new procedure that circ is asking us to use
to cancel a hold in transit. Start with the customer's record. Find the item
number of the intransit material, then check it our to "hold shelf -
Cockeysville". When the red box appears, select "charge and satisfy hold".
Simple enough!

Julie

rules - ILL

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:09:00 +0000

Effective Monday, ILL will be sending a form e-mail (attached) to customers whose requests cannot be filled. This will substantially decrease their workload as they had been calling each customer when items are not available. Please have librarians try to get e-mail address from customers using this service. ILL will continue to call people without access to e-mail when an item is unavailable. The e-mail form will ask customers to contact their branch if they want to resubmit or obtain alternative materials. You may see some of the forms so we are giving you a heads up.

Just a reminder:
1. On an average it takes 7 to 14 days to receive material that has been requested through ILL.
2. We only get items that are available in the United States.
3. We do not necessarily get the items from the libraries listed on FirstSearch. ILL has access to a list of more lending libraries and the libraries you may see listed may not chose to lend the item. It may not be accurate information if you tell a customer a specific library where the item is available.
4. Please make sure to ask customers how much they are willing to pay if a lending library charges a fee. The most that is usually charged is $25.00. Customers can designate how much they are willing to pay ( nothing, up to $5, up to $10, etc.). The ILL department does it's best to find materials with no charge but sometimes it is impossible.
5. Remind the customers if they designate a fee that they are willing to pay, they are responsible for that fee whether or not the material is picked up.
A manual fine will be attached to their record. This is a new policy and will be discussed further at MACO. In the past BCPL paid the fee and was not reimbursed if the material was not picked up.

rules - cancel hold

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:06:00 +0000

1. If the hold is on a customer's card, still in queue, simply delete the hold in the customer's record.

2. If the item is on the reserve shelf, leave the pink slip with the item and take it to the Circ Desk. Ask Circ to check it in, explaining that the customer no longer wants the item.

3. If the item is "in transit," check it out to "hold shelf - Cockeysville", click the "satisfy hold" box.

sources.legislators

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:18:00 +0000

http://md-elect.net/
Find your federal and state elected officials
fill in address
find elected officials

email
firstname.lastname@house.state.md.us or @senate.state.md.us

phone 800-492-7122

Week 6 - del.icio.us

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:57:00 +0000

Easy work to register and get "post to del.icio.us" and "my del.icio.us" on my toolbar. Also easy to move on to a couple of sites and get them listed on "my del.icio.us"; and they work.

I put several tags on each; however, I will not be using the full potential of this site any time soon. The tags would be a great help to anyone doing some in depth research on a particular topic or someone looking to find another person with whom they had a common interest in some specific area; but, right now, that's not me. I will continue to use del.icio.us instead of my regular bookmarks in case I later want to take advantage of using the tags.

Week 5 - Search My Librarything Catalog

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:20:00 +0000

LibraryThing has a very well thought out page of directions, making it an easy site to use when creating a catalog. I just picked 15 nonfiction books that I enjoyed and quickly had them entered. Figuring out how to get things moved to my blog was much more difficult and very very time consuming. Better, easier to follow, directions were needed. As you can see, I first put some random holdings from my catalog on my blog. Eventually I will delete this. The LT Search Box will stay; but until I do a lot more work on some special subject, it is certainly unnecessary.

Week 5 - Librarything Catalog

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:17:00 +0000

Week 5 - Search Rolls - Rollyo

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:40:00 +0000

Rollyo could be useful. I moved the political search site directly to my Rollyo account and then created a reference site. To actually decide if they would be useful will take time and use. I was disappointed to see that sponsored sites show up in the results list. If you are reading this, you can see that I did manage to get a search box moved to my blog using the "create a Searchbox" tool.

This whole process took far far more time than it should have taken because the directions are very inadequate.

Week 4 - RSS Feeds

noreply@blogger.com (ice cream lover) — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:33:00 +0000

Really Simple Syndication is a file format that I will actually use. It is pointless to say that there is simply more information than one needs and/or wants to read because most people are already thinking the same thing. Perhaps my blogline will help me keep up with items of interest because it will make the job easier.

I worked my way through the 21 pages of instructions and subscribed to almost everything mentioned (except 2 noted below) using the various methods suggested. The first exception was podcasts which I started to do without thinking about my dial-up connection and the amount of time that might be involved. Clicking on the stop load button didn't do anything nor did clicking on quit Safari. I was considering pulling the plug; but, fortunately, my very forgiving Mac eventually agreed to force quit Safari. I looked at a lot of the Yahoo groups but decided not to subscribe to any of them.

To see the sites that I did subscribe to, just visit: http://bloglines.com/public/icecreamlover1

So far as ways to subscribe ... copy and paste is easy because I am quite used to doing that. I have put the "sub with Bloglines" on my bookmark bar and that is also handy to use.

Eventually I will remove many of the feeds on my site, winnowing the list down to new, a couple of book related site and a few of personal interest.