funandgames

PRINT SCREEN

2011-07-23T09:37:00.000-07:00

Take a screen capture (print screen)

You can take a picture of what is on your screen by pressing PRINT SCREEN (PRTSC or PRTSCN on some keyboards). This is called a screen capture. You can then paste the screen capture into a document, e‑mail message, or other file. There are two types of screen captures you can take: the entire screen, or just the active window. For example, if you have three programs open at the same time, you might want a screen capture of only the active window.

To copy the entire screen
•Press PRINT SCREEN.

To copy only an active window
•Press ALT+PRINT SCREEN.

COMPUTER - EXTEND TIME

2011-07-03T13:21:00.000-07:00

Extending time from CybraryNet
Open the CybraryNet application at the Information Desk
Double click on the computer name (ex: wh-inet1)
Click on the "Send Command" button
Click the down arrow under Selected Command
Choose Remote Snooze on the drop down list
Enter the number of minutes by which the session should be extended
Click the Send Command button on the right - note that "Success" appears in the right of the box
Close open windows

close computer to desktop

2010-07-15T10:56:00.000-07:00

To take a public PC to the desktop
1. click in any yellow portion of the screen,
2. press the Esc key,
3. enter the staff password in the popup (head) then when the blue desktop screen is visible,
4. double click the Cybrarian icon.

The PC will then go back to normal state, awaiting the next assignment.

Computer - shortcut for closing current window

2010-05-17T09:10:00.000-07:00

If you are viewing a particular screen in Polaris (or any other Windows based program), to close that window completely, use the ALT key and then the F4 key from the top row of Function keys. It's ALT-F4. Your previously used window is still open for use.

Printer putting out garbage

2010-05-17T09:08:00.000-07:00

After consulting with the Help Desk, here's a possible fix. It has two parts:
• While it is printing garbage, turn the printer OFF.
• Unplug it.
• While it is unplugged, turn the printer back ON.
• Wait five minutes.
• Turn the printer OFF.
• Plug it back in.
• Turn the printer back on.

If this does not fix the problem, call the Help Desk during business hours and they will "run a script" between Part 1 and Part 2. After 5:00 pm, try opening the Print Release software on the primary Info Desk PC and print customers' documents at the Info Desk. If this will not work, save the customer's documents on a thumb drive from the left-most Info Desk drawer, insert it in the primary Info Desk PC and print it from there.

PUBLIC PC - NO INTERNET ACCESS - QUICK FIX

2010-05-17T08:59:00.000-07:00

Customers are experiencing inability to access any website on some PCs. It has to do with a known IPrizm software issue. The fix is to go to the customer's PC, make sure you are out of Internet Explorer and then key Ctrl-Alt + I. That's the Control and Alternate Key together then the I letter key.

Computer - Wireless Printing

2010-05-09T18:07:00.001-07:00

- Customer must have a wireless card
- Vista and Windows 7 operating systems are relatively new and don't
always work right away
- Try downloading twice & if they don't work, save to a flash drive,
then print from info desk
- Foxfire/Mozilla don't work. Just save to flash drive
- XP and Explorer should work, no problem
- MOST IMPORTANT - Customer has to download the program before
they can print. Ask this question immediately
- Printer software times out after 30 minutes. To avoid having
to log again, user should refresh his/her browser every
20 minutes or so.

Polaris - check out Direct Loan

2010-02-13T12:46:00.000-08:00

When looking for a bar code to check out an item to direct loan you must put a hyphen in front of the system you are looking for, then a space, then the system and then hit enter. For example: - enoch
This works for all other library systems listed in polaris.

Fax for Free

2010-02-04T10:34:00.000-08:00

http://www.gotfreefax.com/
No-Ad free fax cover page
3 pages per fax maximum
2 free faxes per day maximum

http://faxzero.com/ Users don't need to register to
use the service, but are limited to two faxes of up
to three pages per day. Documents for faxing can be
a Word or Excel document or PDF. Fax Zero is free to
use. Free Fax requires a person to register in order
to use the site. Faxes can be copied and pasted or
typed into a text box.

Polaris - server problems - screen shot

2009-12-22T11:55:00.000-08:00

For error messages 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. Take a screen shot and send to the help Desk..
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 or save the screen shot to the desktop or to a flash drive
5) Either email screen shot (stafhelp@bcpl.net) or print and send it to Help Desk
6) Be sure to call the Help desk (x3000) and let them know what has happened, including what action you were trying to perform when the error message appeared .

Polaris -print receipt - returned items

2009-12-22T11:51:00.000-08:00

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!

computer - abort shutdown

2009-05-09T12:52:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-08T19:08:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-28T17:56:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-15T14:50:00.000-07:00

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

computer - cybrian extend time

2009-03-15T14:48:00.000-07:00

To extend patron time on cybrian

Open the CybraryNet application at the Information Desk
Double click on the computer name (ex: wh-inet1)
Click on the "Send Command" button
Click the down arrow under Selected Command
Choose Remote Snooze on the drop down list
Enter the number of minutes by which the session should be extended
Click the Send Command button on the right - note that "Success" appears in the right of the box
Close open windows

Books - Juvenile/ YA

2008-03-03T18:17:00.000-08:00

JUVENILE
Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women
Babbitt, Natalie - Tuck Everlasting
Bell, Ted - Nick of Time An Adventure Through Time 08
Blume, Judy - Are you these God, It's me Margaret
Burnett, Frances - Secret Garden
Cabot, Meg - Princess in Waiting (Princess Diaries IV)
*Clements, Andrew - No Talking 09
Creech, Sharon
Cushman, Karen - Midwife's Apprentice (Medieval)
Forbes, Esther - Johnny Tremain
*Gaiman, Neil - Graveyard Book 08
Hesse, Karen - Out of the Dust (Dust Bowl)
Hunt, Irene - Across Five Aprils
Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Roderick Rules (easy with line drawings)
Lowry, Lois - Number the Stars (WWII)
MacLachlan, Patricia - Sarah Plain & Tall
Paulsen, Gary - Hatchet , Woodsong , Brian's Return
Peck - Teacher's Funeral (midwest farming community early 1900's)
Pfeffer, Susan Beth - Life As We Knew It 09
Reedy, Trent - Words in the Dust (Afghanistan) 2011
Riordan, Rick - The Lightning Thief - 1st in Percy Jackson series - Percy is 1/2 Greek God
Pullman, Philip - The Golden Compass - 1st in Materials trilogy - Lyra & her daemon Pantalaimon
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!
Scott, Michael - The Alchemyst, the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Speare, Elizabeth - Sign of the Beaver , Witch of Blackbird Pond
Spinelli, Jerry - Maniac Magee , Stargirl
Staples, - Shabanu
Stead, Rebecca - When You Reach Me 09
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)
Vanderpool, Clare - Moon Over Manifest 2010 - Newberry winner
Williams-Garcia, Rita - One Crazy Summer 2010 (Oakland Black Panthers)

JUVENILE - NONFICTION
Hatkoff, Isabella - Owen and Mzee, Owen & Mzee, the Language of Friendship
Hautzig, Esther - The Endless Steppe J & Ya JBHautzig 68
Hickham, Homer - Rocket Boys
Malone, Peter - Close to the Wind, the Beaufort Scale
Rubin, Susan - The Cat with the Yellow Star (WW II Terezin Camp) - J940.5318R 06

YOUNG ADULT
Alexie, Sherman - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 07 Teen
Bacigalupi, Paolo - Ship Breaker 2010 Y PAL
Collins, Suzanne - The Hunger Games; Catching Fire, Mockingjay
Korman - Son of the Mob
Lowry, Lois - The giver, Following Blue, Messenger
McCormick, Patricia - Sold (forced prostitution & eventual escape)
Paolini, Christopher - Eragon series (Fantasy)
Porter, - Girl of the Limberlost (classic) (movie)
Pullman, Philip - Golden Compass (SciFi)
Riordan, Rick - The Sea of Monsters (bk 2 in Percy Jackson & the Olympians) (1-Lightning thief)
Scott, Nicholas - Alchemyst,Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Selznick, Brian - Invention of Hugo Cabret
Westerfeld, Scott - Leviathan
Zusak, - The Book Thief 2010 holocaust

YOUNG ADULT - NON-FICTION
Alexie, Sherman - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2011 813
Friedman, Benedict & Nancy - Mrs. Mike: The Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan 1947
Specht, Robert - Tisha - The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness 1976

USEFUL WEB SITES

2008-01-21T11:02:00.000-08:00

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

2008-01-01T18:53:00.000-08:00

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

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
Freedman, Michael & Nancy - Mrs. Mike 1947
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway, Ernest - Old Man and the Sea
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
Specht, Robert&Ann Purdy-Tisha:Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
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. Mitch - Five People You Meet in Heaven
- For One More Day
Appanah-Mouriquand, Nathacha - The Last Brother Fic 2010
Auel, Jean - Clan of the Cave Bear
Barr, Nevada - Winter Study (Forest Ranger Anna Pigeon) Mys 08
Brooks, Geraldine - Caleb's Crossing Fic 11
Brown, Dan - Angels & Demons
Brown, Dan - da Vinci Code
Craven, Margaret - I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Diamant, Anita - Red Tent
- Day After Night
Gabaldon, Diana - Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of autumn
Golden, Arthur - Memoirs of a Geisha
Gruen, Sara - Water for Elephants 04
Hannah, Kristin - Winter Garden 10 Fic (us today/Leningrad WWII)
Hosseini, Khaled - A Thousand Splendid Suns
Kostova, Elizabeth - Swan Thieves
Larsson, Stieg - Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 08
- Girl Who Played with Fire 09
- Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest 2010
McCullough - Morgan’s Run
Mroz, Richard - Arjuna, The White Elephant
Seabold - Lovely Bones
See, Lisa - Snowflower and the Secret Fan 05
- Peony in Love 07
- Shanghai Girls 09
Setterfield, Diane - Thirteenth Tale 06
Seton, Anya - Katherine etc
Shors, John - Beside a Burning Sea 08
Stockett, Kathryn - The Help 09
Stott, Rebecca - The Coral Thief 09
Toole, John Kennedy - A Confederacy of Dunces 97?
Vreeland, Susan - Girl in Hyacinth Blue 99
Walls, Jeannette - Half Broke Horses 09
Wood, Barbara - Green City in the Sun
- Virgins of Paradise 93
Zusak, Markus - The Book Thief 09

FICTION - GENERAL
Donoghue, Emma - The Room Fic 2010
Evans, Richard Paul - Lost December Fic 11
Franzen, Jonathan - Freedom Fic 2010

Grisham, John - Ford Country (stories) Fic 09
Grisham, John - The Litigators Fic 2011
Hemmngs, Kaui Hart - The Descendant Fic 2011
Hoffman, Beth - Saving CeeCee Honeycutt 2009
LeCarre, John - Our Kind of Traitor Fic 10
Obreht, Tea - The Tiger's Wife Fic 2011
Otsuka, Julie - The Buddha in the Attic Fic 11
Patchett, Ann - State of Wonder Fic 2011
Smiley, Jane - Private Life Fic 2010
Sparks, Nicholas - Best of Me Fic 11
Wickham, Madeleine - 40 Love: a Novel Fic 11

GRAPHIC NOVELS - adult
Williamson - At a Crossroads 08
Spiegelman, Art - Maus: A Survivor's Tale 97
Small, David - Stitches B Small 09

HISTORY
Allende, Isabel - Ines of my soul 07
Allende, Isabel - Island Beneath the Sea Fic 2010
Boyle, T. Coraghessan - The Women (Frank Lloyd Wright) 09
Chiaverini, Jennifer - Sugar Camp Quilt 09
Diamant, Anita - Day After Night 09
Dunant, Sarah - Sacred Hearts 09
Fergus, Jim - 1000 White Women, the Journals of May Dodd 1998
Frazier, Charles - Cold Mountain 1998;
Frazier, Charles - Thirteen Moons 06
Frazier, Charles - Nightwoods (1960's) 2011 well written but harsh
Gregory, Philippa - Other Boleyn Girl 02
L’Amour, Louis - westerns
McBride, James - Song Yet Sung Fic 08 (One Maryland, One Read)
O’Brian, Patrick - sea stories
McLain, Paula - Paris Wife
Michener, James
Tademy, Lalita - Cane River 01

HORROR
Kostova, Elizabeth - The Historian (Dracula/Vlad the Impaler) 05

HUMOR
Evanovich, Janet - (Stephanie Plum) Fic
- Metro Girl 04 Fic
Lutz, Lucy - Spellman Files Fic 07
Wodehouse - (Jeeves)

LEGAL
Grisham, John - Confession 2010

POPULAR WITH WOMEN
Baldacci, David - One Summer Fic 2011
Balogh, Mary - Simply Unforgettable (Regency England) 05 Fic
Barbery, Muriel -Elegance of the Hedgehog-Paris,Concierge &12yr old 08 F
Berg, Elizabeth - The Art of Mending 04 Fic
Bradford, Barbara Taylor
Brown, Sandra - relationships - some mystery
Chevalier, Tracy - Girl with a Pearl Earring 99 F; The Virgin Blue 03 F
Courter, Gay Midwife
Delinsky, Barbara - Family Tree
Evanovich, Janet - (Stephanie Plum series - One for the Money, etc) Fic
Evanovich, Jane - (Alexandria "Barney" Barnaby series - Metro Girl, ??? etc) Fic
Garwood, Julie
Goodwin, Daisy - American Heiress Fic 2011
Gregory, Philippa - The Other Boleyn Girl
Morton, Kate - Distant Hours - 2010
Quindlen, Anna - Every Last One 2010
Picoult, Jodi - House Rules Fic 2010
Pilcher, Rosamonde
Plain, Belva
Rosnay, Tatiana de - Sarah's Key
Roberts, Nora -solve the mystery Fic (Also Robb, J. D. M )
Schine, Cathleen - The Three Weissmanns of Westport Fic
Steel, Danielle Fic

SAFE
Berg, Elizabeth - The Art of Mending 04 Fic
Berg, Elizabeth - Dream When You're Feeling Blue 07 Fic
Binchy, Maeve - relationships
Bowen, Rhys - Evan Blessed(Constable Evans) Scotland 05 F
Braun, Lilian Jackson - (Quilleran .. The Cat who ...) Mys
Chiaverini, Jennifer - Quilter's Homecoming 07 Fic
Chiaverini, Jennifer - Sugar Camp Quilt 09 Fic
Craven, Margaret - I Heard the Owl Call My Name Fic
Evans, Richard Paul - Lost December Fic 2011
Hamilton, Masha - Camel Bookmobile 07 Fic
Karon, Jan - At Home in Mitford 96? Fic (1st in series)
Morton, Kate - Distant Hours - 10 Fic
Read, Miss - Celebrations at Thrush Green 92 (36th book)
Pilcher, Rosamunde - relationships
Plain, Belva
Shaffer, Mary Ann- The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society 08 Fic
Siddons, Anne Rivers
Sparks, Nicholas - Last Song 2010 Fic Safe Haven
Trigiana, Adriana - Home to Big Stone Gap 06 Fic
Young, William Paul - The Shack 08 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
Baldacci, David - True Blue Fic 09
Bourne,Sam (pseudo.of Jonathan Freedlander) - Righteous Men 07
Bowen, Rhys - Evan Blessed (Constable Evans)Scotland 05 Mys
Brown, Rita Mae - Puss 'n Cahoots: Mrs Murphy Mystery 07 Mys
- Nose for Justice (dachshund Baxter & master Mags) 10 Mys
Burke, James Lee - some very harsh both M & Fic
Castillo, Linda - Sworn to Silence M 09
Chandler, Raymond - (Philip Marlowe) M
Christie, Agatha M
Clark, Mary Higgins - The Shadow of Your Smile 10 Fic
Connelly, Michael - The Scarecrow 09 Fic
Cook, Robin - Medical Fic
Cornwell, Patricia Mys(early books better than later ones)
Coulter, Catherine = Knock Out, FBI thriller 09 Fic
Davidson, Diane Mott- chef M
Doetsch, Richard - The 13th hour (reverse order innocent man's wife's murder) Fic 2010
Finch, Charles - A Burial at Sea 2011 M
Francis, Dick - Horse Racing M
French, Tana - Faithful Place 2010 Fic
Gardner, Earle Stanley - (Perry Mason) M
Gerritsen, Tess - (Jane Rizzoli, etc) Fic
Gerritsen, Tess - Ice Cold Fic 2010
Grafton, Sue - (Kinsey Millhone) A is for Alibi M
Grimes, Martha M
Haines, Carolyn - Bones to Pick 06 Mys
Hillerman, Tony -(Jim Chee/Leaphorn)Shape Shifter 06 M
James, P. D. - Death Comes to Pemberley M 11
Kellerman, Faye - (Peter Decker) M
- Hangman (Decker & wife Rina) Fic 2011
Kellerman, Jonathan -(Alex Delaware/Milo Sturgis)- Fic
- Mystery 2011 Fic Alex Delaware
Lippman, Laura - Balto Sun (Tess Monaghan) M
- The Most Dangerous Thing Fic 2011
McCall-Smith,Alexander -The #1 Ladies Detective Agency 98 Mys
McCarthy, Cormac - No Country for Old Men - 05 Fic
McKevett, G. A. - Fat Free and Fatal - 07 M
Mortimer, John - (Rumpole at Old Bailey) M
Mosley, Walter - (Easy Rawlings) Mys Black
Mosley, Walter - The Long Fall (PI Leonard McGill)09 Mys
Nesbo, Jo - The Snowman 01 (Norway)
Parker, Robert B - (Spenser & Hawk) Fic
Parket, Robert B. - Painted Ladies (Spenser) Fic 2010 (Parker's last bk)
Patterson, James - Alex Cross's Trial 09 Fic
Patterson, James - Kill Alex Cross 2011 Fic
Patterson, James & Liza Marklund - Postcard Killers Fic 2010
Patterson, James & Michael Ledwidge - Tick Tock Fic 2011
Perry, Anne -Execution Dock(Victorian London-policeman Wm.Monk)09 M
Perry, Anne - (Thomas Pitt) M
Peters, Ellis - (Brother Cadfeal) M
Preston, Douglas J. - Still Life With Crows Fic 03
Quinn, Spencer - Thereby Hangs a Tao; M 2010
Sanders, Lawrence - (Archy McNally) M & Fic
Sanford, John - Dark of the Moon 07 Fic
Sanford, John - Bad Blood Fic 2010
Sjowall, Maj - Roseanna Mys 11
Stabenow, Dana - A Grave Denied 03 M (Alaska)
Stout, Rex - (Nero Wolfe) M
Truman, Margaret - (Murder at ....) M
Unger, Lisa - Sliver of Truth 07 Fic
Woods, Stuart - (Stone Barrington) Fic
- Lucid Intervals Fic ??

SUSPENSE / THRILLERS
Baldacci, David - (Oliver Stone & Camel Club)-Stone Cold - political Fic
Baldacci, David - Hell's Corner Fic 2011
Child, Lee - The Affair (Jack Reacher) 2011
Coben, Harlan - Long Lost 09 Fic
- Caught 10 Fic
DeMille, Nelson - suspense Plum Island Fic
Flynn, Vince - Consent to Kill (CIA/political)05 Fic
Flynn, Vince - American Assassin Fic 2010
Follett, Ken - suspense Fic
Johansen, Iris - Dark Summer Fic
Koontz, Dean - Relentless Fic 09
Meltzer, Brad - Inner Circle Fic
Rankin, Ian - Blood Hunt 95 Mys (Scottish Gordon Reeve)
White, Randy Wayne - Hunter's Moon 07 Mys

URBAN FANTASY FICTION - ADULT ONLY
Briggs, Patricia - SF
Butcher, Jim\- SF
Hamilton, Laurel - Fic
Lindskold, Jane - SF
Moning, Karen Marie - Fic
Rowland, Diana - R
Strout, Anton - SF
Ward, J. R. - F

WAR STORIES - CONTEMPORARY
O'Brien, Tim - The Things They Carried Fic 1990
Vietnam. Runner Up/Publzer & Nat'l Bk Critics Circle

WEIRD/DIFFERENT
Child, Lincoln - Deep Storm Fic (what's under the ocean) 07
Collins, Suzanne - The Hunger Games Y
Collins, Suaenne - Catching Fire Y
Johansen, Iris - Dark Summer - long life/healing dogs/man Fic 10
Koontz, Dean - (Odd Thomas) Fic
Koontz, Dean - Eyes of Darkness Fic 1981

WESTERN
Parker, Robert B. - Appaloosa Fic
- Brimstone Fic
- Blue-Eyes Devil Fic
- Painted Ladies Fic 11

NON-FICTION
- Super Memory (6 authors) CD 150 S 2011
Ackerman, Diane - The Zookeeper's Wife - 940.5318A - 2007
Adams, Cindy - The Gift of Jazzy
Albom, Mitch - Have a Little Faith - 296.7A - 2009
Albom, Mitch - Tuesdays with Morrie - B Schwartz - 1997
Ambrose, Stephen - Undaunted Courage - B Lewis - 1996
Anderson, Allen & Linda - Horses with a Mission - 636.1H - 2009
Aslan, Reza - How to Win a Cosmic War - 320.557A - 2009
Baker, Dean - False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy 330.973B 2010
Berendt, John - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - 975.87B
Berendt, John - The City of Falling Angels (Venice) - 945.31B
Bolte, Jill - My Stroke of Insight 616.81 T 06
Bowker, Michael - Fatal Deception, Untold Story of Asbestos CD360B
Bradley, James - Flags of Our Fathers (Iwo Jima) - 940.5426B
Brokaw, Tom - A Long Way from Home
Bogle, John C. - Enough, True Measures of Money, Business, and Life 650.1B 2010
Browne, David - Fire and Rain 782.4216B 2011
Browne, Sylvia - Life on the Other Side - 133.9B
Bryson, Bill - Walk in the Woods - 917.4B
Burpo, Todd - Heaven is for Real 133.9013B 2011
Byrne, Rhonda - The Secret - 158.1B 07
Cahill, Thomas - Gifts of the Jews - 909.0492C
Carson, Ben - Gifted Hands - B Carson
Carter, Jimmy - Up Before Dawn
Carter, Jimmy - Christmas in Plains - B Carter
Casey, Susan - The Devil’s Teeth (obscession/survival sharks) - 597.3C
Chabon, Michael - Manhood for Amateurs 09 B Chabon
Conway, Jill - Road from Coorain - B Conway
Cronkite, Walter - A Reporter’s Life - B Cronkite
Dawkins, Richard - Magic of Reality 501D 2011
Dooley, Mike - Infinite Possibilities: the Art of Living Your Dreams 158 D 2010
Dooley, Mike - Manifesting Change: It Couldn't Be Easier 158.1D 2010
Crystal, Billy - 700 Sundays - B Crystal
Darst, David M - The Little Book That Saves Your Assets
Dorsey, Pat - The Little Book that Builds Wealth - 332.6D 09
Egan, Timothy-The Big Burn, Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire That Saved America - 973.911E
Edelman, Ric - Rescue Your Money - 332.6E 09
Edsel, Robert M.-The Monuments Men:Allied Heroes, Naxi Thieves & the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History 940.5314E 09
Ephron, Nora - I Feel Bad About My Neck & Other Thoughts .... - 814 E 06
Epping, Randy Charles - The 21st Century Economy - 330.9E 09
Esfandiari, Haleh - My Prison, My Home (Iran) - B Esfandiari 09
Faris, Stephan - Forecast - 363.7387F 09
Farrell, Joseph Pierce - Manifesting Michelangelo 153F 2011
Fey, Tina - Bossypants - B Fey 2011
Finkel, David - The Good Soldiers - 956.7044F 09
Forni, P.M. - The Thinking Life 153.42F
Frank, Robert - The high-beta rich : how the manic wealthy will take us to the next boom, bubble, and bust 330.973F 2011
Frazer, Ian - Travels in Siberia 947 F 2010
* Friedman, George - The Next Decade 303.49 F 2011
Friedman, George - The Next 100 years 2009
Friedman, Howard & Leslie Martin - The Longevity Project 613.2F 2011
Friedman, Thomas - World is Flat - 303.483F 06
Friedman, Thomas - Lexus and the Olive Tree 337F 99
Friedman, Thomas - Longitudes & Attitudes - 973.931F 02
Friedman, Thomas - That Used to be Us - 370.973F 2011
Fuller, Alexandra - Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness 11 Bio
Gladwell, Malcolm - Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - 153.44G 05
Gladwell, Malcolm - Outliers - 302G 08
Gladwell, Malcolm - The Tipping Point - 302G 2000
Gladwell, Malcolm - What the Dog Saw - 814 G 2009 (multiple topics/New Yorker articles)
Graham, Katherine - Personal History - B Graham 97
Green, Alexander - The Secret of Shelter Island - 332.024G 09
Greenblatt, Joel - The Little Book that Beats the Market - 332.6322 G 06
Grennan, Conor - Little princes : one man's promise to bring home the lost children of Nepal 362,734G
Grothe, Mardy - Ifferisms - 082G 09
Handler, Chelsea - Are You There, Vodka? It's Me Chelsea 818 H 08
*Harris, Sam - The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values 171H 2010
Hawking, Stephen - The Grand Design 530.142H 2010
*Heilmann, John - Game change : Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the race of a lifetime 324.973H 2010
* Hillenbrand, Laura - Seabiscuit - 798.4H 01
* Hillenbrand, Laura - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, & Redemption B Zamperini 10
Hingson, Michael - Thunder Dog (blind guide dog/9/11) 636.7H 2011
Hirsch, Jeffrey - Super Boom: Why the Dow Will Hit 38,820 ... 2011 332.63H
Hoffman, Sam - Old Jews Telling Joked - CD810 H
Ip, Greg - The Little Book of Economics -330I 2010
Isaacson, Rupert - The Horse Boy: a Father's Quest to Heal His Son 618.9285 I 09
Ivins, Molly - (any books - she’s funny - political)
Jennings, Dana - What A Difference a Dog Makes 636.7J 2010 (dog lovers only)
Johnson, Spencer - Who Moved My Cheese? - 155.24J 98
Junger, Sebastian - The Perfect Storm - 974.45J 97
Katz, Jon - A Good Dog - 636.737 K 06
Kessler, Ronald - The Secrets of the FBI 363.25K 2011
Kidder, Tracy - Mountains Beyond Mountains - B Farmer 03
Kidder, Tracy - Strength in What Remains 305.896K (Burundi/Columbia Medical) 09
Kinder, Gary - Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea (search 1857 ship)
Kingsolver, Barbara - Small Wonder - Essays - 814K 02
Krakauer, Jon - Into Thin Air - 796.522K 99
Krakauer, Jon - Into the Wild - B McCandless (death in Alaska) 96
Krakauer, Jon - Under the Banner of Heaven (Mormans) - 289.3K 03
Lamont, Lisa - Stolen Innocence (Elissa Wall - church FLDS) B Wall 08
Lange, Henrik - 90 Classic Books for People in a Hurry (cartoons) - 808L 08
Larson, Erik - Isaac’s Storm - 976.4L 99
Larson, Erik - Devil in the White City (Chicago World’s Fair) - 364.1523L 03
Larson, Erik - In the Garden of Beasts 943.086 L 2011
Larson, Erik - Thunderstruck (Dr. Crippen murders wife in London & escaped on ship to US. Caught with help of Guglielmo Marconi's wireless - 364.1523 L 06
Lefler, Carol - When You Lie About Your Age ... B Leifer 09
Lehrer, Jim - Tension City (Presidential Debates) 324.7L 2011
Leonard, Mike - The Ride of Our Lives B Leonard 06
Letts, Elizabeth - The Eighty-Dollar Champion (Snowman) 798.4L 2011 (Balto Author)
Levitt, Steven - Freakonomics - 330L 06
- Super Freakonomics - 330L 09
Lewis, Michael - The Big Short 2010 330.973L
Lewis, Michael, editor - Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity 338.542L 09
Lewis, Michael - Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World 11 330.9L
Livingston, Gordon - Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart - 158L 04
Maas, Peter - The Terrible Hours (submarine rescue)
Maraniss, David - When Pride Still Mattered (Vince Lombardi)B Lombardi repub 2010
* Markham, Beryl - West with the Night - B Markham 83
Mattson, A.D. - Evidence from Beyond (After death communications from A D Mattson)
years 1973-1996
Previous book Witness From Beyond - years 1971-1973
Marx, Jeffrey - Season of Life B Ehrman (Colts/Stadium/minister/Gilman) 10
McCain, John - Faith of my Fathers - B McCain 99
McCourt, Frank - Angela’s Ashes - B McCourt 96
* McCourt, Frank - Teacher Man - B McCourt 05
McCullough, David - various biographies
McDougall, Christopher - Born to Run 796.42M 09
McGinniss, Joe - The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin B Palin 11
McGough, Matthew - Bat Boy ... New York Yankees - B McGough 07
McKibben, Bill - Eaarth A Survivor's Guide 304.2M 2010
Meller, William - Evolution Rx - 612M 09
Merlino, Doug - The Hustle: One Team & Ten Lives in Black & White 796.323M 10
Moorehead, Alan - Cooper's Creek: (Australian Outback) 2010 919.4M
Mezrich, Ben - Accidental Billionaires (Facebook) 338.04M 09
Mortenson, Greg - Three Cups of Tea - 371.822M 06
Mortenson, Greg - Stones into Schools - 371.822M 09
Nasar, Sylvia - A beautiful Mind - B Nash 98
O'Brien, Soledad - The Next Big Story - B O'Brien 2010 Bio
Paul, Ron - End the Fed - 332.11P 09
* Pausch, Randy - Last Lecture B Pausch 08
Pfarrer, Chuck - Seal Target Geronimo 359.9P 2011
Philbrick, Nathaniel - Mayflower - 973.2P 06
Philbrick, Nathaniel - In the Heart of the Sea (whaleship Essex) - 910.9164P 2000
Pilkington, Doris - Rabbit Proof Fence 994.042P 02
Pink, Daniel H. - Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us 158.1P 09
Powell, Colin - My American Journey
Prince, Russ Alan - The Middle-Class Millionaire: the Rise of the New Rich & How They Are Changing America 305.5234P repub 2008
Quindlen, Anna - Loud and Clear - 814Q 04
Rather, Dan - I Remember
* Rawicz, Slavomir - The Long Walk - 940.5172R 97
Richards, Susan - Chosen by a Horse 636.1R memoir 06
Ricks, Thomas - The Gamble .. military..Iraq ..06-08 - 956.7044R 09
Romney, Mitt - No apology : the case for American greatness 320.5R 10
Rusesabagina, Paul - An Ordinary Man(Rwandan genocide in 94) B Risesabagoma 06
Russert, Tim - Big Russ and Me - B Russert 04
Sachs, Jeffrey - Price of Civilization - 330.973S 2011
St. John, Warren - Outcasts United 796.334S (refugees in GA/soccer) 10
*Sandel, Michael - Justice, What's the Right Thing to Do - 172S 09
Schieffer, Bob - Bob Schieffer's America - 973.92S 08
Sharlet, Jeff - C Street
Sheff, David - Beautiful Boy - B Sheff - 2008
Shell, Ellen Ruppel - Cheap, the High Cost of Discount Culture - 381.14S 09
Sherwood, Ben - The Survivors Club - 613.69S 09
Siegel, Jeremy - Future for Investors - 332.6322S 05
* Siegel, Jeremy - Stocks for the Long Run - 332.63S 08
Skloot, Rebecca - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 616.027S 2010
Sparks, Nicholas - Three Weeks With my Brother - B Sparks 04
Stanley, Thomas - The Millionaire Next Door - 332.024S 96
Stahl, Leslie - Reporting Live
Stevens, John Paul - Five Chiefs (Supreme Court) 347.7326S 2011
Steward, Jon - Earth: a Visitor's Guide to the Human Race 818S 2010
Stiglitz, Joseph - Freefall: America, Free Mkts & the Sinking of the World Economy 330.973S 2010
Stevens, John Paul - Five Chiefs (Supreme Ct) 2011 (long and involved)
Stossel, John - Give Me a Break 302.23S 04
Sullenberger, Capt. "Sully" - Highest Duty - My Search for What Really Matters-
B Sullenberger 09
Suskind, Ron - Hope in the Unseen- B Jennings) 05 (One Maryland, One Book)
Susanka, Susan - The Not So Big House 728.37S 08 (was pub. earlier)
Tanous, Peter - Debt, Deficits, & the Demise of the Amer. Economy 2011 330.973T
Taylor, Peter Lane - The Secret of Priest's Grotto J940.5318T 07 (Jews in Ukraine hide in cave - read only for unusual story)
Taylor, Jill Bolte - My Stroke of Insight 09 616.81T
Tolle, Eckhart - Guardians of Being (drawings & few words) (live in now) 204.4T 09
Troost, J. Maarten - Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific 919.595 04 (no book)
Tucker, Neely - Love in the Driest Season - B Tucker 04
*Walker, David - Comeback America 330.973W 09
Wall, Elissa - Stolen Innocence (FLDS church) B Wall2010
* Walls, Jeannette - The Glass Castle (Biog.) - B Walls 05
Wayman, Matt - Oink 636.4W 2011
Wiesel, Elie - Night 940.5318W
Willis, Linda - Looking for Mr. Smith... truth behind The Long Walk 940.5472 2010
Winchester, Simon - The Professor & the Madman (Oxford Eng. Dic) - 423 W 98
* Wiseman, Richard - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot 158.1W 2010
Whyman, Matt - Oink: My Life with Mini-Pigs 636.4W 11
* Zuchoff, Mitchell - Lost in Shang-ri lai 940-5451Z 2011

Sources.yahoo answers plus

2008-01-01T18:16:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-15T18:20:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-15T18:19:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-15T18:12:00.001-08:00

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

2007-12-15T18:09:00.001-08:00

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

2007-12-15T18:06:00.001-08:00

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

2007-12-15T14:18:00.000-08:00

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

2007-07-27T18:57:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-23T19:20:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-23T19:17:00.001-07:00

Week 5 - Search Rolls - Rollyo

2007-07-22T19:40:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-21T18:33:00.000-07:00

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.