The Rogue Scholar

New York Technical Sservice Librarians' Spring Reception at NYPL

From an e-mail from Angela Sidman, NYTSL Secretary:

You are cordially invited to the New York Technical Services Librarians Annual Reception for Librarians, Information Professionals and Library School Students.

This reception is co-sponsored through corporate support from EBSCO and through our association sponsors: the Association of College & Research Libraries, New York Metropolitan Area Chapter (ACRL/NY), Medical Library Association/New York-New Jersey Chapter, and the Visual Resources Association/Greater New York Chapter.


When:

Friday, March 27, 2009

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

 

Where:

The New York Public Library

Trustees Room (206)

Fifth Avenue & Forty-Second Street


Why:

This is an opportunity for librarians, archivists, and information professionals from the metropolitan area to meet informally. It is also a chance for library school students to learn about the various professional organizations in the metropolitan area and to meet future colleagues and employers.

 

Please RSVP to angela.sidman@yahoo.com by Friday, March 20, 2009. 

 

Wine & Cheese will be served.


You are welcome to bring announcements of professional opportunities to the reception.


Cindy Wolff, NYTSL President
Pratt Institute

cwolff2@pratt.edu

 
Angela Sidman, NYTSL Secretary
Catalogue Librarian
Mina Rees Library
CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10016

(212)817-7072

asidman@gc.cuny.edu

See you there!

Last Minute Reminder: NYLINK Meeting at NYPL

On November 4, 2008, OCLC issued its revised policy statement regarding the use of bibliographic records from WorldCat, entitled the Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records, scheduled to become effective in mid-February 2009. 


Please join moderator Robert Wolven, Assistant University Librarian for Bibliographic Services and Collection Development at Columbia University Libraries, and Karen Calhoun, Vice President, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services, for a moderated discussion of the policy on Friday, January 16, 1:30 – 4:00 PM, at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, South Court Auditorium, New York Public Library [at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street]. Refreshments will be served. 


The introduction of the policy has led to vigorous discussions, on blogs and listservs, among librarians and OCLC staffers. You may also be interested in reading Lauren Pinsley's post on Nylink's Status Line blog, which summarizes some of the issues that have elicited comment. 

We hope that you are able to join us on January 16. Please register online by January 9 so we know to expect you. 

If you are unable to attend, but would like to have your questions about the proposed WorldCat record use policy asked at the forum, please contact Lynne Graziadei by email [graziadeil@nylink.org]. Thank you. We look forward to seeing you in January. 

 
Regards,

W. David Penniman, PhD

Executive Director
Nylink

What Do Library Staff Want President Obama to Know: Special Membership Town Hall Meeting

What Do Library Staff Want President Obama to Know: Special Membership Town Hall Meeting

When: Saturday, January 24, 2009, 3 PM to 4:30 PM

Where: Four Seasons Ballroom at the Colorado Convention Center

What library issues are most important to ALA members to share with the incoming administration? How can libraries serve as catalysts in communities to help the administration put its agenda into motion? ALA’s Executive Board and Membership Meeting Committee are sponsoring a Special Membership Town Hall Meeting on Saturday, Jan. 24th, from 3 PM to 4:30 PM in the Four Seasons Ballroom at the Colorado Convention Center. ALA wants to hear from you!

During the economic downturn, library services are in greater demand for access to and assistance with job searching, financial aid, class assignments, lifetime learning, free Internet for poor families, government forms and programs. Just when families need libraries more, budgets, services, and hours are being cut.

 

Topics can include:

· e-rate applications

· broadband

· network neutrality

· libraries as agents of equal learning opportunities for all

· school library media specialists as professionals

· libraries as the sole sources of no-fee access to the Internet for many citizens

· libraries and access to e-government services

· transparency in government

· civil liberties vs. security

· Internet filters

· library services for active-duty military

· library services for the visually impaired

· libraries and early childhood literacy

· the rights of the public and of copyright holders. 

We hope that you will address these and other issues and perhaps give specific examples of the role of libraries in the life of our nation.

The meeting will begin with a couple of short (five-minute) presentations and then open the floor to the members. We are looking for a healthy and vigorous discussion of the role of libraries in our country and welcome all views. Your suggestions and comments will help us as we develop our library message that President Jim Rettig will share with President Obama and the new administration.

Before the meeting, share your views at the Town Hall Discussion wiki:

http://wikis.ala.org/midwinter2009/index.php/Town_Hall_Discussion

Theresa Liedtka

Dean, Lupton Library

University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

ALA, Membership Meeting Committee 

Last Call for 2008 NYTSL Dinner/Meeting

From Angela Sidman of the New York Technical Service Librarians group:

Reminder:  Online Registration closes Tuesday, November 18th!

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New York Technical Services Librarians

Fall Dinner Meeting

Friday, November 21, 2008

 

TOPIC: The Reference Librarian's Toolkit

SPEAKER: Thomas Mann, Library of Congress, Reference Specialist

Join us for an evening with Thomas Mann as he discusses how he views the relationship between reference and cataloging.

For more information on this program and for online registration, please go to http://www.nytsl.org/fall2008.htm

WHERE and WHEN:

Princeton Club of New York, 15 West 43rd St. (Bet. 5th & 6th Ave.), New York, N.Y. 10036

Cash Bar   6:00-6:45 PM

Dinner  6:45-7:45 PM

Program  7:45-9:00 PM

ONLINE REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Please visit http://www.nytsl.org/fall2008.htm.

NYTSL programs are supported through the generous sponsorship of EBSCO.

If you're a cataloger, Tech Service Librarian, or a library student interested in the subject matter, this meeting is a great place to network. I'll be there (as will Mrs Rogue Scholar) and I hope you will as well. And no, you don't have to register for the whole thing--you're allowed to just come for the lecture and discussion. If you're a member, you can renew your dues, and if you're not a member you can become one there.

Deadline is tonight!

NYAM Co-Sponsoring GL7 Conference

The New York Academy of Medicine, former host in the GL Conference Series, has signed on as co-sponsor in the Seventh International  Conference on Grey Literature.

Here is the Text Release from the GL7 Program and Conference Bureau.

Personal Liberties in the Age of Terrorism

Here’s a conference for librarians who find themselves both in the NYC metropolitan area and interested in the state of civil liberties: “Personal Liberties in the Age of Terrorism”, which being hosted by the New York Metropolitan Library Council (METRO to you Visigoths) on May 13 from 9:00am – 2:30pm at the Brooklyn College Library. They’re advertising attendances by civil liberties attorney Norman Siegel, Daniel Lyons from the FBI, and Marcia Hoffman from the Electronic Privacy Information Center, so this is likely to be a lot of fun. I already signed up for it, as this is a field of intense concern for me (if you couldn’t guess by my letter to the NRO last week).

The conference description is here.

The METRO (all right, so I’m a Visigoth) registration link is here.

And I’ll post a bit about what I learn there next week.