Please fax (or mail if you prefer) your 2005-2006 Interlibrary Loan (ILL) statistics by the June 1 deadline! Each SUNLINK school was recently mailed a form to fill in these numbers and return to us.

Why do we ask for this information? Because part of the SUNLINK grant requires us to collect this data. The data is intended to measure the overall use of K-12 ILL in Florida public schools, so please send us all your ILL actions regardless of whether or not you actually "sent" the request using the SUNLINK ILL process. SUNLINK is the only mechanism in place in the state to collect overall ILL statistics. Please send before the due date!

If you've already sent this form back to us by fax or post, thank you! There is no need to send it a second time.

If you've misplaced the form, you can download one from http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/publications/forms.html, just be sure to fill in your school name and district. (You'd be surprised how many schools have the same or very similar names, so please make sure the complete school name and district are filled in.)

Have you ever wondered what the most popular books are in Florida K-12 schools? Now SUNLINK is able to give you information on the top 500 titles in our database! You can browse the top 500 by ranking (#1 to #500), or author name, or title. You can also do a keyword search on an author or title to see if it is included in the top 500. Colorful book jacket covers are also included in the listing so you can "see" the book. And there is a link directly to the SUNLINK database so you can find the book too.

Visit this colorful, informative, and just plain fun site at:
http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/top500/default.html.

While you are winding down this school year, we know many of you are already gearing up for 2006-2007 -- at least in planning.

Why not be prepared to start the new school year with a new promotional SUNLINK bookmark? You probably have distributed many of the familiar bright red SUNLINK bookmarks. We now have a new design and a new color: yellow! It is bright, it is fun, it targets students (as well as teachers, parents, and principals), and it is free! Visit the SUNLINK eStore and stock up on bookmarks as well as other promotional and Interlibrary Loan (ILL) supplies. Go to:
http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/estore/.

We will be working over the summer to be able to provide you with your updated "age of collection" figures and graphs. Expect to see the new data by August 1, 2006! That is also the projected date for the release of the newly updated SUNLINK database. Watch our "front page" for the new version (and age of collection) release announcement.

Along with the August 1 updating of the database and age of collection, we will have some other new (and improved) features for you:

• More digital images from the Florida Memory Collection
• New! Video-on-Demand from Annenberg/CPB!!! (Over 1500 cataloged records with links to those videos included.) More on this later, but we think you will find this a valuable addition to your collection and your teachers’ professional development.
• Even more educational web sites will be added
• More schools and more collections and automatic transfers from your purchases will be included in this major update

SUNLINK will be at the FAME 2006 Conference here in Orlando on November 1-2 to meet with you and tell you even more about these new features. We hope you are able to come to this important professional conference for Florida library media specialists. We look forward to meeting with you. Watch the FAME web page at http://www.floridamedia.org/conference.htm for conference information.

We also hope that this summer IS a break in your busy schedule! Relax, recharge, read for pleasure, and make plans (maybe while swinging in a hammock) to come back ready to go for the 2006-2007 school year! Here in the SUNLINK office we will be working over the summer to get the new database ready for you, but we will take a summer break from sending out this newsletter for the months of June, July, and August. Our next issue will be in September.

Have a great summer! "See" you in September!!