Z Sources in Destiny

AccessPA has been removed because it is no longer accessible.  Mitinet was added at the #1 spot. It is a good source of quality MARC records (including those hard to find dvds). All changes have been made for you. Thanks Karen! 

Records for Five Systems

Records are being collected for Five Systems at this time. If you have any reason to postpone collection, please notify the Library Automation Team. We exclude bookrooms and classroom sets. These are not considered library materials and are not suitable for inter-library loan. We do NOT collect any non-book materials like kits or videos.

How’s One Search working?

The new NovelNY databases were added to your Destiny One Search. Well…except for the Gannett Newspapers. Destiny doesn’t like that one...
 
For elementary and middle school libraries, Kids InfoBits (Gale) and eLibrary Elementary (Proquest) were added to the already configured Grolier databases. The Grolier ones are Amazing Animals, America the Beautiful, Encyclopedia Americana, Multimedia Encyclopedia, Lands & People, New Book of Knowledge, New Book of Popular Science, and La Nueva Enclopedia Cumbre.  
High schools had Opposing Viewpoints in Context added from NOVELNY. Gale provided the nicely priced bundle of Biography in Context, Science in Context, U.S. History in Context and World History in Context. These are also set up in Destiny One Search.

If you’d like to learn about  NOVELNY databases come to an afterschool workshop this Thursday (10/17/13) at 3:45 at CaTS. Please reply to this email or contact Patti Rose to enroll.

Library Data Wall

I was in a building last week and saw an interesting Library Data Center display. The librarian printed reports for Top Homerooms, Top Patrons, New Books, Database Use and ‘What Students and Teachers are Reading’.
Here’s the ‘rest of the story’…since displaying the information about the Top Homerooms, the teachers with lower circulation numbers have made a point of having their students go to the library  to check out more books!
Most of these reports can be created and printed from circulation. I’d be happy to help you create and print any of them.

Jane