The Friends have created a donations room at their warehouse that is open to teachers, day cares, and other similar groups. If you know of any organization that could use some good, gently used books, please have them contact the Friends of the Library.
Friends can be reached by phone: 832-393-1387 or email: info@friendsofhpl.org
The Friends warehouse is located in the Chase Bank Building on the corner of Bingle and Little York. They will accept donations Saturday mornings (9am-1pm) but people should call before coming with their books: 713-849-9330.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Medical Center Training Available
If you are interested in any of these classes, please let me know. You can get training credit if you turn in a certificate after the training.
The Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center (HAM-TMC Library) will be holding six workshops from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region from November 2009 to January 2010. These workshops are free and open to all. To register for any of the workshops, please go to http://nnlm.gov/scr/training/. Directions to the HAM-TMC Library are included on this page as well.
Monday, November 16, 2009, 8:30 to 12:30
Healthy Aging at Your Library: Connecting Older Adults to Health Information
Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 8:30 to 12:30
Public Health Information on the Web
Friday, January 15, 2009
8:00 am – 12:00 pm Easy to Read Health and Wellness Materials for Consumers
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Super Searcher
Saturday, January 16, 2009
8:00 am – 12:00 pm Grants and Proposal Writing
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Caring for the Mind
The Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center (HAM-TMC Library) will be holding six workshops from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region from November 2009 to January 2010. These workshops are free and open to all. To register for any of the workshops, please go to http://nnlm.gov/scr/training/. Directions to the HAM-TMC Library are included on this page as well.
Monday, November 16, 2009, 8:30 to 12:30
Healthy Aging at Your Library: Connecting Older Adults to Health Information
Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 8:30 to 12:30
Public Health Information on the Web
Friday, January 15, 2009
8:00 am – 12:00 pm Easy to Read Health and Wellness Materials for Consumers
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Super Searcher
Saturday, January 16, 2009
8:00 am – 12:00 pm Grants and Proposal Writing
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Caring for the Mind
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Overdrive
Marianne Lorio sent this out:
Channel 13 did a small story on Tuesday about e-books which included an interview with Sandra Fernandez about what the library offers. Hopefully this will encourage people to check out what we provide and, if so, will undoubtedly lead to patron questions. This makes it especially prudent to sign up for some of the online training Overdrive is offering through out September. You can find more information at http://www.overdrive.com/products/dlr/training/ . I attended one of the webinars and didn’t have any problems which is a good sign. I am attaching the slides from the webinar I attended. There are some good slides that provide clear directions on what format can be used on what type of player.
http://10.34.145.39/twiki/pub/HPL/OverdriveTraining/Training_Month_Browse_Check_Out_Download.pdf
Channel 13 did a small story on Tuesday about e-books which included an interview with Sandra Fernandez about what the library offers. Hopefully this will encourage people to check out what we provide and, if so, will undoubtedly lead to patron questions. This makes it especially prudent to sign up for some of the online training Overdrive is offering through out September. You can find more information at http://www.overdrive.com/products/dlr/training/ . I attended one of the webinars and didn’t have any problems which is a good sign. I am attaching the slides from the webinar I attended. There are some good slides that provide clear directions on what format can be used on what type of player.
http://10.34.145.39/twiki/pub/HPL/OverdriveTraining/Training_Month_Browse_Check_Out_Download.pdf
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Millionaire Club and SRP Reader
See this message from Sandy Farmer:
Some of you may have noticed that the reading log on Summer Reader is not showing a title at this time. This is a problem for the Millionaires Club. As HISD students begin to return to school they will be asked if they read their 5 books this summer. Those who logged them in on our system will probably call and ask for a copy of their list since they can no longer log in.
WE WILL PROVIDE ONE!
Please log into summer reader.
Click on Reports
Click on Custom Web report
Click on the box next to First Name and enter the child’s first name
Click on the Box next to Last Name and enter the child’s last name
If it is a common name find some other piece of identifying information and click on the box then enter the info
Click on the box next to title
If they want the reviews as well you can click on the box next to review
Then Run the report.
You may print this report out and hand it to them. You may also save this as an HTML file and email it to the school librarian if the CUSTOMER request this. You cannot send the information to the school without a request from the customer.
HISD supports our SRP and we need to do all we can to support theirs! Thank you for your help with this.
Some of you may have noticed that the reading log on Summer Reader is not showing a title at this time. This is a problem for the Millionaires Club. As HISD students begin to return to school they will be asked if they read their 5 books this summer. Those who logged them in on our system will probably call and ask for a copy of their list since they can no longer log in.
WE WILL PROVIDE ONE!
Please log into summer reader.
Click on Reports
Click on Custom Web report
Click on the box next to First Name and enter the child’s first name
Click on the Box next to Last Name and enter the child’s last name
If it is a common name find some other piece of identifying information and click on the box then enter the info
Click on the box next to title
If they want the reviews as well you can click on the box next to review
Then Run the report.
You may print this report out and hand it to them. You may also save this as an HTML file and email it to the school librarian if the CUSTOMER request this. You cannot send the information to the school without a request from the customer.
HISD supports our SRP and we need to do all we can to support theirs! Thank you for your help with this.
Bilingual Assistance Schedule
The new World Languages Center Team is trying out a schedule for translation assistance. You can view the schedule at http://hplwlc.blogspot.com/. Then click on Bilinugual Staff Schedule on the right side of the screen.
There on certain hours of each day, there are a person's initials and an extension to call them on. If there is no language specified, then it is Spanish otherwise there should be a three letter abbreviation for a certain language (ie CHI for Chinese or VI for Vietnamese).
If there is no one listed for a particular hour, then we must make do here without assistance.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Laurie
There on certain hours of each day, there are a person's initials and an extension to call them on. If there is no language specified, then it is Spanish otherwise there should be a three letter abbreviation for a certain language (ie CHI for Chinese or VI for Vietnamese).
If there is no one listed for a particular hour, then we must make do here without assistance.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Laurie
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Annual Reports
If you would like to read the FY2009 Annual Report for Collier please use this link:
http://10.34.145.39/twiki/bin/view/HPL/CollierRegionalLibrary
Laurie
http://10.34.145.39/twiki/bin/view/HPL/CollierRegionalLibrary
Laurie
Thursday, July 30, 2009
HPL Mobile Express at Jungman in August
Below please find the list of dates that HPL Mobile Express will be at JUN Neighborhood Library should anyone call or any customers ask:
THURSDAYS
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