Gloria Waldron Hukle will be introducing her new novel,

Threads An American Tapestry

As you read this, I’m in New Orleans, celebrating the wedding of my dear friend Nicole.  Turns out her middle name is Rhunette.  Let’s see if I can work in a subtle inquiry about that one in between “congratulations” and “yes, I’d love some more champagne!”

In any case, this is my first trip away without a laptop since … wow.  Since forever.  I can’t decided if it will be more disorienting to be away without kids or away without connectivity.

Either way, if there are any last minute celeb births or wacky news stories ’bout kids with wild names, I’m missing them.  

Still, I thought you might enjoy a few things:

• Bewildertrix did a great sum-up of Old School Actresses.  Why aren’t Claudette and Theda heard more often;
• Also from the Wayback Machine, Namberry reviewed names from Dallas and Dynasty.  Here’s the answer if you ever wondered who we had to thank for all of those girls called Jordan; 
• Laura Wattenberg asks if the conventional wisdom related to gender neutral names is over.  Me, I say yes.  While many names are still clearly gendered, I can imagine Kelly being reclaimed for boys, while names like Riley and Payton could remain in gender limbo indefinitely.  It’s not a bad thing, necessarily;
• Amy Ryan – she played Holly on The Office – has welcomed a daughter, Georgia Gracie;
• Coronation Street’s Samia Smith welcomed a daughter, Freya.  Other Coronation Street cast babies from 2009 include Alfie, Nyla, Rafal and Daisy.

I’ll be listening for unusual baby names over my vacation – and, of course, thinking about Tiana, the soon-to-be newest member of the Disney Princess Mafia, in the New Orleans-based story The Princess and the Frog.

Have a great week and, as always, thanks for reading!

10/17/2009 – NYLA Conference – Niagara Falls, NY

LISHost – another Blake Carver site (He does LIS News)

Retro future blog – shows predictions from the 1950s

Top 5 things for 2009 (from Read, Write Web):

1. Structured data – XML tags define and describe the data – not OS or device dependent. Tags are created in English. Most website today are made in XHTML. Data is in XML and style is in CSS. Such things as APA and MARC records are structured data – not really a new thing to librarians. Structured data makes it that the whole web could eventually be treated as a database.

2. Real Time Web – Running a search and finding results from last 5 seconds, etc. (Check out Google flu: http://www.google.org/flutrends/).

3. Personalization – Syracuse University just made “Mybrary” (https://library.syr.edu/mybrary/). APML – take your interests and code. (Attention Profiling Markup Language http://apml.areyoupayingattention.com/).

4. Augmented Reality – GPS, Direction you are facing, picture recognition – tells you what that place is. (check out layar website: http://layar.com/) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64_16K2e08&feature=player_embedded ) A tour guide is analog augmented reality.

5. Internet of things – Identifying image (such as a bar code) and bring back information about the thing. iPhone has an application that you can pick up a book at Barnes and Noble and take a picture of the cover and find out the different prices of the book at competitors. (Explanation of “Internet of Things”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things)

We are in need of volunteers to staff our membership booth on Thursday, October 15 and Friday, October 16.  It’s a great opportunity to meet and get to know your fellow SMARTies.

Please sign up for an hour time slot from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm and 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm on Thursday or 9:00 am to 1:30 pm on Friday.

Don’t forget to attend the SMART membership meeting on Thursday at 3:15 pm Ð 4:30 pm.
Please send an email to Sue Dague dagues@eastgreenbushlibrary.org with your preferred time.
Thank you!

This is a test from the blackberry. Hope it looks unnutty.

SMART Ellen C. Rappaport Professional Achievement Award

The purpose of this award is to recognize the outstanding professional achievements of a current or former member of the Section on Management of Information Resources and Technology. A recipient shall have been a member of the Section for a minimum of three years and shall have made outstanding contributions in one or more of the following areas: acquisitions, cataloging, circulation, collection management, conservation/preservation, serial control, or automation. The recipient selected by the Section’s award committee will receive a plaque and award of $100 to be presented at the NYLA Annual Conference.

Please supply the Nominee’s name, title, e-mail, and address. Please supply your name and title, e-mail, and address. Briefly describe, in an accompanying letter, the candidate’s contributions. Send this information, your letter of nomination, and any supporting documentation by October 9, 2009 to Mary Edgerton (address below).

SMART Fellow Award

Apply now and receive funds to attend the NYLA Conference October 14-17 2009 in Niagara Falls!
This award recognizes a Technical or Computer Services Librarian who is looking to gain professional benefits from the continuing education and professional contacts with librarians and vendors provided by attendance at the NYLA Annual Conference. The award is given based on the applicant’s professional activities in her/his place of employment, and future potential in this area.
To apply, send a letter of application with:

• Name, home address, telephone number, e-mail address;
• Employer, work address, telephone number;
• Brief employment history;
• Statement on how candidate will benefit from attendance at the Conference;

The award includes reimbursement for full conference registration, lodging, meals, and transportation up to a maximum of $250. Send this information by October 9, 2009 to Mary Edgerton (address below).

The Teresa Strozik Award for Innovation in Library Technology

Teresa Strozik exemplified leadership within the New York State library community through innovations in technical services. In 2009, the SMART Board created this award to honor Teresa and those who follow in her path.

This award recognizes a current NYLA member for the innovative use of technology in a library or information setting. The recipient of this award is one who embraces new and emerging technologies by incorporating them into their work and/or programs. For the purposes of this award, technology may be defined as traditional library technologies (cataloging, ILL, ILS, etc.) or other technologies (websites, communication tools, etc.). The recipient selected by the Section’s award committee will receive an award of $100 to be presented at the NYLA Annual Conference. The recipient will also be asked to give a brief overview of his or her technology innovation at the NYLA Annual Conference.

To apply, send an application including:

• Name, title, employer, work address, telephone number, e-mail address;
• Brief employment history
• A description of the candidate’s innovative use of technology stating the benefits or impact of the technology usage (include any supporting documentation, if appropriate)

Send this information by October 9, 2009 to Mary Edgerton (address below).

NYLA/SMART Awards
Mary Edgerton
Collections and Technical Services Librarian Nylink State University of New York State University Plaza
Albany, NY 12246

[ via NYLA Press Release ]
Library Scholar Peter Brantley and Antitrust Expert Gary Reback Spearhead Open Book Alliance to Protect Consumers and Competition in the Emerging Digital Book Market.

Read the full press release and take a look at the resources linked at the end!

Bernard and I, 2006

This originally is a letter that I sent out to my friends and family but I have been urged to share it on the blog as well.

-Nyla

As I write to you I am sitting on the porch of my hotel in Kisumu. This is the same hotel that in April of 2006, I shared a dinner with Bernard and talked about his dreams for the future. So much has changed since then. First, Bernard is no longer a boy but a man whose dreams are now within his grasp. Second, this is now my fourth time in Kenya and instead of it just being 3 months after my mother passed away it has been years. And it is only now that I am truly starting to understand how I ended up here in the first place.

I am here in Kisumu. Where it all began. Where 3 months after my mother died I came here to meet Bernard, the orphan that she sponsored. Not really knowing why but just following my instinct that when I got here things would fall into place. And they did to a certain extent. I met Bernard, learned about the project that my mother funded at OLPS-Neema that helped hundreds of women and out of this experience sparked the inspiration for Mama Hope. But what I have learned now is that this really is just the surface story. There is actually so much more.

A couple days ago, while driving with Bernard and Anastasia, the founder of OLPS-Neema, I asked her to tell me a little bit more about how my mother contacted her. She said one day in 2003 she just got a call from my mother and in true Stephanie Moore fashion, she just launched into her pitch. “Hi, I am Stephanie Moore. I am Bernard Olando’s sponsor. I want to help the young women in your community who are losing their parents to AIDS to become self sufficient? I saw a special about this on TV about how these women end up needing to take up prostitution to support their siblings and I want to help prevent this. You see I have a daughter and I hope that if anything happened to me she would be able to be self sufficient…and so on…and so on…..etc.” Once Anastasia could get a word in she told my mother that it was her dream “to start a program to teach these women how to run their own businesses.” Then she told my mom how much she needed to raise to start it. She said that my mother answered confidently, “Give me two weeks!” And so began a wonderful relationship where my mother would call Anastasia, ask her what she needed, then raise the money from her friends and send the funds to Kenya to help these young women.

Time went on and at the end of 2005 Anastasia got a very different call, “Anastasia, I have some bad news. I am very sick and I don’t think I will be around much longer. But I have a daughter and I promise that she will not abandon you and Bernard.” This was the very last time they spoke.

Anastasia told me that she had a beautiful picture of my mother who she said looked like a very young woman and so she thought for sure that the daughter must still be a young girl. She said that after that call she just prayed for the girl; that her whole community prayed that she would be alright. She told me that she wished to bring that girl into her home and care for her.

So four months later when I called her she thought it was a miracle. And a few weeks later when I showed up at her door in Kenya to meet Bernard she was so shocked to see a young woman who looked so similar to her picture of Stephanie Moore. She told me, “you know when you arrived and you were crying, and my whole staff was crying too. It was tears of joy because we knew that you had made it home.”

I want to point out that up until now I KNEW NONE OF THIS. My mother never told me of her promise to Anastasia. I didn’t go to Kenya to fulfill some destiny. I just saw it as an opportunity to meet Bernard and escape from my life in California and everything that reminded me of my terrible loss. Little did I know that what I was escaping to would eventually be the thing that healed my grief.

I remember now how I felt when I showed up; totally defeated and hopeless. The day before I met Anastasia and Bernard for the first time I was sitting on the porch of this very same hotel by myself. Cursing the universe. Asking why the hell I was in Kenya? How could my mother’s death ever have any meaning? How was I ever really to have faith again? I did not know that it would be renewed the very next day by meeting the people that my mother helped and inspiring me to create something so special in her absence.

The Women's group during a drip irrigation training in 2009

So today, I am meeting with Anastasia to launch a garden in her community to honor another mother, named Rita Rose. Through Mama Hope a young girl named Mimi Rose contacted me who also lost her young beautiful mother to cancer and decided to fundraise in her memory. The Rita Rose Garden is going to help 100 women, (the very same women my mother helped, who are no longer girls but now mother’s themselves) have a sustainable source of nutrition for their children.

And in two weeks Bernard begins Medical Training College. We were so excited when he got the call with us on Saturday and learned that he was the only student accepted from his high school and that he also got a $1,000 scholarship. I know my mother is beaming with pride!

Bernard and I, 2009

I have no idea why I woke up this morning to write this to you. I think I just wanted to share that the universe works in strange ways. People might leave us but it seems that love is something that can connect us beyond the boundaries of death in the most miraculous ways and that sometimes when you think you are completely lost you are just on another path home.

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A tentative list of the SMART programs for NYLA 2009 Annual Conference.

The State of RDA
Thursday 1:45:00 PM – 3:00:00 PM
Sponsor: SMART  NYLINK
Tracks: Media & Technology

What’s up with this new kid on the block in cataloging? Find out the latest news on RDA — when will it come to town, what does it look like, how will it act. RDA has been 6 years in the making. The online product is anticipated to be released in June 2009. Discover if the prediction is true and what steps remain in the implementation process before RDA is used in day-to-day cataloging. As technology allows, check out the look and feel of the online interface.

Speaker(s):
John F. Myers, Union College

SMART Membership Meeting
Thursday 3:15:00 PM – 4:30:00 PM
Sponsor: SMART
Tracks: Meeting (Section Membership / Board / Leadership),  Media & Technology

Mingle with fellow SMARTies and share ideas for future programs. Think you’d like to get SMART? Come to the membership meeting and find out what we’re all about!

Speaker(s):
Patti McCall, AMRI
Susan Dague, East Greenbush Community Library

Developing Records Management Policies and Procedures
Friday 9:45:00 AM – 11:00:00 AM
Sponsor: SMART
Tracks: Administration/Management/Career Development ,  Media & Technology

Some librarians may be given responsibility for implementing a modest records management program in their library or parent organization.  Initially, the librarian, acting as a records manager may begin records management improvements with enthusiasm, but over time the librarian will begin to lose control of the organizationˇs records and the records management systems which were put in place will begin to regress. Often this is caused by a lack of adequate records management policies and procedures, or a situation where those procedures are not followed. This presentation will focus on:

• The value of documenting policies and procedures
• How to develop policies and procedures and make sure they are followed
• How to keep policies up to date and relevant

Speaker(s):
James M. Tammaro, New York State Archives

Rudi Weiss Lecture – TBD
Friday 3:45
Sponsor: SMART
Tracks: Media & Technology

Web sites on a budget
Saturday 8:00:00 AM – 9:15:00 AM
Sponsor: SMART
Tracks: Media & Technology     Administration/Management/Career Development

Do you want a new website but donˇt think you have the money, IT staff, servers, or special software needed to do it? This practical workshop will give you the tools and knowledge needed to get an attractive, interactive website for your library or yourself up and running in no time. No money or experience necessary!

Speaker(s):
Kathryn Frederick, Skidmore College

Peace, Love and the Web
Saturday 9:30:00 AM – 10:45:00 AM
Sponsor: SMART
Tracks: Media & Technology

The web is a 20 years old this year, and we are still in the process of realizing its full potential. Nascent in the original design of the World Wide Web as proposed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 is the idea of building a vast distributed database, not only of documents, but of things as well. In 2001 this vision was christened the Semantic Web, and in 2006 the grassroots Linked Data effort began to put the ideas and technologies to practical use. In this talk I will talk about the progress the Linked Data movement have made in the past 3 years, the role that libraries can play in this information environment, and the efforts at the Library of Congress is making to play its part.

Speaker(s):
Ed Summers, Library of Congress

A change is gonna come: Emerging technology trends for librarians
Saturday 11:00:00 AM – 12:15:00 PM
Sponsor: SMART/ASLS
Tracks: Media & Technology

What technologies really matter to librarians? Hear from a panel of technology experts about technologies you can implement in your library today as well as the top technologies to expect in the near future.

Speaker(s):
Ken Fujiuchi, Buffalo State College
Jenica Rodgers-Urbanek, SUNY Potsdam
David Rothman, Community General Hospital Medical Library

The New York Library Association is pleased to announce the latest Continuing Education opportunity:

Friday, November 13, 2009

10:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Nassau Library System | Uniondale, NY

Why do some websites look amazingly professional while others appear like they were designed in Microsoft Word? Much has changed since the early days of the internet. Whether you want to bring a more modern look to your website or customize a WordPress theme, every detail of the appearance of a page is controlled by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This “hands on” institute will give you experience with key concepts and software tools that will help you begin using CSS with your HTML.

Prerequisite: basic knowledge of HTML

This is a hands-on workshop. Registration is limited to 19 participants to enable each attendee access to a computer workstation.

About the Presenter:

Luke Charde, a freelance web developer and technology trainer, has been involved in the design of scores of websites since the early days of the web. He enjoys helping people learn to use the ever-changing world of technology for better organizational and personal effectiveness. Because of Luke’s background in the educational field, he is adept at communicating technological concepts in an understandable manner and providing the tools and resources to enable continued learning.

Registration Note:
Preregistration is required. Space is limited. Registration is completed when your payment arrives at NYLA. You will be contacted by NYLA only if the workshop is filled. This will be a hands-on workshop.

This full-day workshop is $100 for NYLA members and $130 for non-members.

Promotional flier and registration form (pdf)

Register Online (credit card required)

Directions to the Nassau Library System

Johanna Geiger
Deputy Director
New York Library Association
6021 State Farm Road
Guilderland, NY 12084
518-432-6952 Ext. 102
events@nyla.org

I’m short on time these days with Jocelyn in the hospital. Today is day 28 for her and she’s nearly ready to be moved to rehab. Sometime I’ll write about her saga, but for now, I’ll update Nyla’s stories.

Nyla is an amazingly excellent groundhog killer and proud of her self-appointed job of clearing our land of the little cute, but menacing creatures. She’s killed 8 in the past 2.5 weeks! There’s a colony about a 1/2 mile from home – across the big field. When she kills one out there, she proudly brings them home. She’s so cute, huffing and puffing her way down the hill with her mouth full of groundhog.

Nyla continues to enjoy her friend, Aurora, who is now 5 months old and around 300 pounds. She trusts Aurora completely and will lay flat out while Aurora sniffs her from head to tail. Aurora lets Nyla kiss her nose. Nyla loves her Aurora and lets Aurora lip her soft hair.

I love watching Nyla wind in and out of Aurora’s legs. Aurora is so careful to pay attention to Nyla’s comings and goings, too. My recent fun with the two of them was to put Nyla on Aurora’s back. Aurora enjoys having Nyla on her back, but Nyla prefers to ride the tractors and the quad. They’re very cute together and Serenity Equestrian Center is enjoying having such adorable and loving animals as Nyla and Aurora.

Sometime soon, I hope – I’ll post some pix of them together. ‘Til then, I hope this finds all of you well.

• Barnes and Noble offers training for libraries on displays and merchandising.

• 10% off coupons at Barnes and Nobles for library fund raisers

• Mount Laurel New Jersey Extreme Library Makeover – article with pictures: http://library.ucsc.edu/~machlis/feltonlibraryfriends/designarticles/bernstein.pdf

• Marketing!!!! Change displays with the news.

• How do we connect our value to the funding? Must market ourselves and our value.

• Information Literacy to promote databases. Patrons tend not to use databases. They would rather not use it over Google.

• Use the word journal instead of online databases – less intimidating – “Journal article” more used term in homework assignments.

• How do we show our value to the public? What can we do to make public aware that the “free” services are not really free? And promote the value of the time we are saving them by being trained professionals who know how to search and locate things? Perception that the library is free – need to show the value or money the patron saved by using the library.

• Devil Advocate’s Thought (not mine): Drop the Electronic databases for the public and just give access to the librarians. Would this save us money?

• We as a profession need a better definition of what we do.

• Need to do outreach – go out to other places and show what we have.

• $2.5 million spent by NYS on the NOVEL database

• No one wants to know how to find things – they just want it.

• Biggest growing customer bases in Public Libraries according to a Pew survey is 18-25 year olds.

• Do we have a link on our OPAC to DVDs? Is there anywhere that shows that we have DVDs and CDs other than the material designation? Patrons should be able to find those materials easily.

• NYLA Organizational membership

• Friends Group Organizational Membership

• Votes are won every day at the Reference and Circ desks.

• Target audience has to become not just our public but the administrators, etc.

• Education is not the magic bullet

• Must act like professionals for people to know we are professionals. Must constantly let people know that we are professionals.

• People must repeat something 7 times in order to learn things.

• With OPAC – what attracts your eye – what makes you go to a display? Make that work for the library. Gen X and Millenials have a different perception as to what design should look from Baby Boomers. Boomers want something that looks like a print copy but Gen X and Younger are used to web design. They do not like a lot of white space.

• Send out a consistent message across the board.

• There needs to be a consciousness to let people know the value of what we have just done for them. You need to be consistent in the way you put it out there. Constant repetition to your constituents.

• Look at patron expectations over the past year and a half and anticipate what will be needed in the next 6 months.

• Need to develop a pit bull mentality toward the budgets in NY.

• Part of our job as librarians is lobbying.

• Need to ask for release time to go lobby in Albany.

• Libraries getting 11% below what they are suppose to be getting. CCDA money cut by 8%.

•NYLA  just contracted with NYSUT for lobbying.

The SMART Board is an excellent way to become involved in NYLA. Please consider nominating yourself or another SMART member for one of three openings:

• The Vice-president/President-elect position is a three-year commitment. The first year is spent coordinating SMART’s conference programs, the second year as section President and a member of the NYLA Council, and the third year coordinating nominations for officers and awards.
• The Director-at-Large position is a great way to get committee experience and learn how NYLA works. The Director-at-Large attends section board meetings (4/year + conference), participates in conference planning, and votes on the actions of the section. This is a three year term running from 2009 to 2012.
• The SMART Treasurer is responsible for coordinating the section’s finances in cooperation with NYLA’s Accounting Manager. This is a two year term.

The nomination DEADLINE is May 29th. Email nominations and any questions to: Kathryn Frederick kfrederi@skidmore.edu

Outstanding Advocate of Libraries Award:

This award is presented to an individual who is not an employee, trustee or group primarily affiliated with library information services and yet has made a significant contribution of these services to the people of New York State

Deadline for nominations – May 30, 2009.

NYLA – Outstanding Advocate of Libraries Information and Nomination Form available at http://www.nyla.org/index.php?page_id=1129

Outstanding Service to Libraries Award:

This award is presented to an individual or group who has performed through their direct affiliation as an employee or trustee of a library or information service a significant contribution of these services to the people of New York State.

Deadline for nominations – May 30, 2009.

NYLA – Outstanding Service to Libraries Information & Nomination Form available at http://www.nyla.org/index.php?page_id=1130

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The NYLA Awards Nominating Committee encourages you to consider nominating a person or persons or group you feel exemplified what it is to be an outstanding advocate or performed an outstanding service to libraries.

Committee:

John Shaloiko (Chair) — Southeastern NY Library Resources Council

Tom Bindeman — Nioga Library System

Marla Yudin — Oswego BOCES School Library System

Loraine Wies — Schaffer Library, Union College

Kevin Gallagher — Middletown Thrall Public Library

Link to NYLA Snapshot 09 on Flickr 

WHAT:
During National Library Week 2009 on the days of April 12-18, librarians and library staff in New York State will take a wide range of photographs of librarians working, meeting, teaching, and doing all that librarians do in a given day. We encourage you to be creative in taking photos that capture the essence of New York librarianship.

Winners will be recognized on the NYLA website (www.nyla.org) and during the 2009 NYLA Annual Conference in Niagara Falls this October. Winners in each category will also receive a $50 gift certificate to be used to purchase items in NYLA’s Fundraising Store or toward registration costs for the 2009 Annual Conference or for a NYLA Institute.

WHEN:
April 12-18, 2009. We suggest that you capture images at all times during these seven days. Photos must be submitted via Flickr.com and tagged with snapNY09. There is no need to pre-register to participate in the project. See guidelines below for more submission details.

WHERE:
Wherever you work! Wherever NY Librarians are!

Suggested photographic subjects:

• At the circulation desk
• Working in technical services
• Assisting a patron in the stacks or with career resources
• Shelving books
• Teaching a class

Photos may be submitted in the following categories with one winner chosen from each category and one overall winner honored:

1. Librarians as Teachers and Trainers
2. Librarians as Trailblazers in New Technology
3. Most Humorous

WHO:
The contest is open to all libraries, librarians and library staff in New York State. Professional photographic skills are not required.

HOW:
Use whatever photographic equipment you have available-from digital cameras to 35mm as long as you can post them to Flickr.com. We welcome color as well as black and white images. Details for submitting the photographs are provided below.

CONTEST GUIDELINES

1. Only librarians and staff from New York State (from any type of library) may submit entries for the contest.
2. Entries must be submitted between April 12 and April 18, 2009. Entries must be submitted to the NLW – Library Snapshot New York State Flickr group by simply posting them. You must first have a flickr.comaccount, and then join the group:
   http://www.flickr.com/groups/nylasnapshot09/
3. Each photo should also have the tag snapNY09. You may use any additional tags and titles and descriptions that relate to the photo.
4. Each individual library staff member may submit up to seven photos to the Flickr group. The entries do not have to be spread among the three categories.
5. All individuals pictured in submitted photographs must sign a photo release form. Entries will not be valid until all signed photo releases are received by fax (518-427-1697) and must be submitted by 4pm April 20, 2009. Please be sure to identify the photo as best you can on the release so it can be matched with the posted photo.
6. Winners from the photographic contest will be announced on Friday April 24, 2009 on the Flickr group page and via the New York Library Association web site (www.nyla.org). Judging criteria will be based on composition, quality, subject, lighting, creativity, and the ability to capture of the spirit of NY librarianship.

A total of four photos will be selected winners: One in each category and one overall. These 4 photos will be posted on the NYLA web site and will be announced in a press release.

Winners in each category will also receive a $50 gift certificate to be used to purchase items in NYLA’s Fundraising Store or toward registration costs for the 2009 Annual Conference or for a NYLA Institute.

Various honorable mentions will also be announced. Winners will also be recognized at the annual fall NYLA conference in Niagara Falls, October 14 – 17, 2009.

CONTEST CONTACT INFORMATION
Johanna Geiger
New York Library Association 
events@nyla.org
518-432-6952 x102

Snapshot Contest Guidelines     <http://www.nyla.org/index.php?page_id=1727>

Link to Group on Flickr     <http://www.flickr.com/groups/nylasnapshot09/>

Photo Release Form     <http://www.nyla.org/content/user_1/NLW09_PhotoConsent.pdf>

May 12 & May 13, 2009 Nylink Offices, Albany

An in-depth course on the rules and practices applied to original cataloging of serials. While the course focuses on printed serials, the instructions are applicable to serials in any format.

Course topics include:

• What is a serial in the revised scope of AACR2 and how do serials compare to monographs and integrating resources
• An area-by-area approach to the cataloging of serials, including some of the more complex aspects: uniform titles, links, designations, and title transcription
• Cataloging of special kinds of serials: supplements, cumulations, reprints, microform reproductions, and conference publications
• Major and minor changes, particularly what constitutes a major title change in the revised rules
• Discussion of how serial records are used in libraries and displayed in library OPACs

For more information and to register please click here: http://nylink.org/events/conser_may09.cfm

Thank you for your support of Nylink training-
Deidre Dowling
Education Coordinator – Nylink

Library Advocates Need to Act Now

State budget negotiations are near completion and a final deal could be reached by this weekend.  Library Advocates need to remind their Legislators and the Governor to restore the proposed $18 million or 18% cut in Library Aid.

Please go to our Online Advocacy Center at <www.nyla.org> and send a fax/email to your legislators to remind them not to forget about their commitments to restore Library Aid.  If these cuts go through, Library Aid will be reduced to $80.5 million a level not seen since 1993.

Library usage has skyrocketed across the state and nation.  Now is not the time to cut public services that are in the greatest demand and needed the most.

Libraries have already been cut twice last year, we have contributed our share, now it is time for others to do their part to solve the state’s budget deficit.

Please forward this message to your friends, colleagues, trustees, etc.  We need to send at least 5,000 messages over the next few days.

Visit www.nyla.org and click on Contact Your Elected Officials Button.   Thanks for your support.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
HFM BOCES – Johnstown, NY

Chances are, you have heard of WordPress, the popular blogging software. WordPress is the behind-the-scenes software that runs literally millions of blogs – and it’s Open Source. It easy setup and word processor-like editing allows people who may not be tech geeks to have beautiful websites and to focus on producing content without having to worry about using complicated web software.

This one day workshop will teach you to:

• Edit general configurations
• Write posts and pages
• Import images and media
• Change the contents of the sidebar
• Use plug-ins

About the Presenter:

Since 1999, Luke Charde has taught computer literacy, music, and mathematics to middle and high school students and overseen numerous internet and technology projects. He is also a volunteer web designer at Troy Public Library.

This full-day workshop is $85 for NYLA members and $120 for non-members.

Promotional flier and registration form [pdf]

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State Budget negotiations are ramping up as both the Assembly and the Senate prepare to release their budget proposals by early next week. Despite the state receiving approximately $24.6 billion in federal stimulus funds, including $2.4 billion for school aid over the next two years, Library Aid funding remains in jeopardy.

Next Tuesday, March 10, is Library Lobby Day, and I urge the library community to make every effort to participate so we can have a strong showing in Albany that will demonstrate to public policymakers the urgent need to restore the proposed $18 million or 18% cut in Library Aid that will impact all types of libraries, public, school and college.

Full details about Pre-Lobby Day, Monday, March 9, and Library Lobby Day, Tuesday, March 10, can be found on NYLA’s website. If you are interested in attending, contact your regional coordinator; a list can be found on NYLA’s Lobby Day page.

In addition, I invite you to view a video of NYLA’s Executive Director’s appearance on Senator Liz Krueger’s (D-Manhattan) cable show and NYLA’s testimony before the Joint Legislative Budget Hearing. These links are found on NYLA’s website under “Headlines.” Also found on the NYLA website are links to information about the federal stimulus package and how it impacts libraries and how libraries can apply for funding from the state.

I look forward to seeing you in Albany next week.

Thx A lot Acel…you gave me the greatest night to celebrate our Valentine!!!!

Had a perfect night at Sampoerna Cigarette Museum *i never go there before* and candle light dinner at House Of Sampoerna Cafe, enjoy the music, ate some delicious meal, wow!!!

Valentine day isn’t important coz i think everyday is a valentine day… full with love and joy.  I just believe that on this day we should spent our night with different ritual..not only have a great candle light dinner but simple things can make our day more special.  Am i right?!

But…

Acel gave  me the opportunity to enjoy my Valentine Day at House Of Sampoerna Cafe…oh…so toughtfull.

Forget about using silly colors at Valentine Day, Pink and Blue! Time to using another color like this Gray Jumper!!

I bought sneaker by Puma for him and he bought me cute brown ankle boots… hahahahahahahhahaha…why shoes? We don’t know…  i think coz we want walk in the same path till we old, right honey?

Looking for a shoe to boost you right up? This one is perfect. The Marriah, by N.Y.L.A. is so fabulous in its design, you’ll have to show it off.  I like the light beige suede with the dark chocolate brown & gold plated buckle.  It’s the perfect color combination! I also like the wooden heel and the 1/2″ sole.  The perfect shoe to make you a little taller.

How to wear:

• Wear with a fitted dress, bare legs and pretty polished toes
• Wear with short shorts, bare legs a pretty blouse and some jewelry