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NYTSL 2012 Spring Program Announcement

Spring 2012 Evening Program

E-Books: New Links in the Chain

 

Panelists:

Denise Hibay, Assistant Chief Librarian for Collection Development, New York Public Library

Susan Marcin, Licensed Electronic Resources Librarian in the Continuing and Electronic Resources Management Department at Columbia University

Barbara Rockenbach, Director of the Humanities and History Libraries at Columbia University

 

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Refreshments: 5:30pm

Meeting & Program: 6:30-8:00 PM

 

The New York Public Library

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building                               

South Court Auditorium

476 Fifth Avenue (at 42nd Street)

New York, NY 10018

 

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Friday, May 4, 2012.

 Register and pay via PayPal at www.nytsl.org

NYTSL Event Calendar Update

Just a quick reminder that this Friday the 23rd of March will be the New York Technical Services (NYTSL) Spring Reception. The event will be at the Butler Library at Columbia University, Room 523 from 3pm to 5pm.

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. Nobody ever lost a job by networking.

It's free and wine and cheese will be served. The only catch is that you must register beforehand. We have a few spots left, so if you'd like to register for the event, just drop me a line.

I hope to see you there.

Sept. 18, 2001: Brooklyn Book Festival

The Brooklyn Book Festival will celebrate its 6th anniversary on  September 18, 2011, a thrilling milestone for one of the country's most exciting literary festivals.

The festival celebrates authors and their work by presenting challenging, provocative and thoughtful programming in the areas of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.  Organized by the Brooklyn Literary Council and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz's office, it has quickly established a reputation as the premier, free literary festival in New York City.

As in past years, the 2011 festival will again be held at historic Brooklyn Borough Hall, outdoors on its beautiful plaza, and at St. Frances College and the Brooklyn Historical Society. Multiple outdoor stages and indoor venues will feature adult and children's programming, panel discussions, and spoken word performances.

Find more information here: http://www.visitbrooklyn.org/BBF/Home

In preparation for the Book Festival, Brooklyn Public Library is hosting a librarians-only talk and reception with Marilyn Johnson on Saturday, September 17 at 4 pm.  Details are included below.

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Brooklyn Book Fest Book End Event: Marilyn Johnson

Brooklyn Public Library celebrates librarians with an exclusive reception with Marilyn Johnson, author This Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save us All! She’ll discuss current issues in librarianship, such as digitization, eBooks, and the constant threat of budget cuts.

Enjoy refreshments and an author talk at the Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture at Central Library

Saturday, September 17, 3:30 PM
Central Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza
Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture    
718-230-2100
www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org

Save the Date: 2010 NYTSL Spring Reception

From the METRO-L Listserv this morning:

Please save-the-date:

New York Technical Services Librarians Annual Reception for Librarians, Information Professionals and Library School Students

When:

Friday, March 26, 2010

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 Kate Adler, NYTSL Secretary, by Friday, March 19, 2010 at [email protected].

Wine & Cheese will be served.

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

More details will follow soon.

Rodica Tanjala Krauss, NYTSL President

Hope to see you there!

Entrepreneursim in Libraries

This looks extremely interesting, from the ERIL-L listserv:

To all Librarians, Entrepreneurs, and Innovators:

We seek pioneers, adventurers and inventors to tell their stories.  The libraries of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Wake Forest University are organizing a conference entitled, "Inspiration, Innovation, and Celebration: an Entrepreneurial Conference for Librarians".  We strive to provide a forum for you to share your path to change.

Conference dates: June 3rd and 4th, 2009 in the Elliott University Center on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

The mission for this conference is threefold:
1) To share and celebrate entrepreneurial accomplishments in libraries
2) To inspire each other to innovate in our libraries
3) To create a community of interested librarians who will perpetuate the discussion beyond the conference

Entrepreneurial activity may have taken place in areas such as: instruction, services, processes, facilities or resources, but this list is not exhaustive.  We're interested in hearing about your process and the successful presentation could include the following:

·  Identification of an unmet need or development of an innovative approach that extends the scope of service 

·  A non-traditional approach to fulfilling our mission as libraries

·  A description of how a solution was designed and implemented including any obstacles that were encountered (financial, structural, human...)

·  A discussion of lessons learned or what you would do differently next time and the project's current status   

·  A description of the keys to success 

·  A tone that inspires us all to become more entrepreneurial in our libraries, however small the project

Format:

·  Sessions should be one hour in length to include 45 minute presentation with 15 minutes for Q&A. 

·  We will accept panel discussions

Timing:

·  If interested, submit a letter of intent - a one paragraph description of your presentation - immediately.  Those who submit a letter of intent by September 1st will receive priority consideration.  

·  Please submit your final proposal by 5:00 pm on Monday 1 November 2008; it should include a detailed outline of the presentation with a textual description of the entrepreneurial project. 

·  Photos, drawings or other multi-media aids are welcome; display space will be available at the conference.  

·  Invitations to present will be delivered by mid-December

·  Send your submission to:

Rosann Bazirjian
Dean of University Libraries
The University of North Carolina - Greensboro
P.O. Box 26170
Greensboro, NC  27402-6170
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: (336) 334-3418
Fax:  (336) 334-5399

Conference Steering Committee:  Rosann Bazirjian, Wanda Brown, Michael Crumpton, Mary Krautter, Mary Beth Lock, Barry Miller, Mary Scanlon

 

The Future of the Catalog: Deconstruction or Reinvention?

Thom Hickey described his experience speaking at a conference organized by the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Association of College and  Research Libraries on his blog.  The conference title: The Future of the Catalog: Deconstruction or Reinvention?  Personally, I've managed to convince myself that everything in the world of libraries is a matter of reinvention. Deconstruction and analysis can only take you so far, I've found.  Perhaps a better question is whether Libraryland is reinventing us in a Procrustean sort of way or we are reinventing it the way Peter the Great reinvented 18th century Russia. I'd like to think we're in charge, but everyone reading this knows that institutions have a way to getting what they want regardless of what their caretakers think.  Oh, well. 

At any rate, it looks like it was a pretty nifty conference.