Mark Your Calendar
Address List & Library Fee Changes
Schedule Changes
Staff Update
Technical Services
eLibrary
Ordering
Cataloguing
Collections
Extras
Mark Your Calendar
September 10 - PRL Board Meeting 1:00-3:00
September 21 - Fall PD Day - Building a Bright Future (all day at Lacombe Memorial Centre.) Registration: Open now. Closes September 4th, 2015.
Address List and Library Fee Changes
The Address List has been updated for the following libraries:
Hay Lakes Municipal Library - Summer hours from July 2 - August 28 Tuesday - Thursday - 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Brownfield Community Library - Summer hours Thursdays 9:00-3:00 beginning July 2.
The new list can be found in the Q Drive to print for your library, if you so choose.
Schedule Changes
Staff Meeting - Wednesday July 8 at 9:00 a.m.
Office Closure - Wednesday, July 1 for Canada Day.
Staff Update
Rick Moore, one of PRL's van drivers is leaving employment with Parkland on July 3. Enjoy retirement Rick!
Welcome! Parkland would like to announce they have hired a new van driver, Brent Martin. Brent began employment on Wednesday, June 17.
Technical Services
eLibrary
Canadian Points of View
Our subscription to this database expires at the end of June. We are not renewing it, as the full-text usage stats for this resource are quite low.
Ordering
The July ILL Hot Picks list is up! These are titles that have been requested by Parkland patrons through interlibrary loan. Ordering? See Selection List instructions on our Horizon page.
Library Services Center slists are updated monthly. This month there are additions to Adult, Audio-Visual, Awards, French, and Juvenile categories. View new lists on our vendor catalogues page.
New patron suggestions are available at: Q:\Collections\Collection Development\Recommended Titles to Buy\Patron purchase suggestions.
Suggestions are region-wide (you will have received your own patrons' suggestions by email).
Looking for 3M ordering ideas? Check out the lists on the Q: drive:
Q:\Collections\Collection Development\Recommended Titles to Buy/3M - top picks and expiring titles.
Top 10 Requested by Title and Ratio
Want the top 50 requested titles? Go to:
Q:\Collections\Collection Development\Recommended Titles to Buy\Horizon - top requested by title and ratio
Cataloguing
Process Only Queue - Currently working on items sent in:
