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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

METRO Event Calendar Update

On April 4th--that is, this Wednesday--I'll be at METRO talking about my chapter on library security for How to Thrive as a Solo Librarian, including a report on Todd the Library Vandal, who appears (briefly) in the chapter. There's still plenty of room so if this sounds interesting to you, RSVP to Tom Neilsen.

Hope to see you there!

 

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.

NYTSL: Fall Program Announcement

Fall Program Friday, November 4, 2011

The Future of MARC

Location: The Carroll Classroom in the Uris Center for Education at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art.  1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New York
City.  Use the 81st Street entrance behind the south fountain.

Time: 6:00 - 8:30 pm

Join NYTSL for our annual fall program as we discuss the future of
bibliographic description and MARC with former LOC "digital pioneer"
Rebecca Geuther. Building off our Spring Program on RDA, we'll be looking
at how or if MARC can support the content new standard. Does MARC need to
change? Or do we need to support new structure and encoding standards for
RDA?

Rebecca Guenther has 35 years of experience in national libraries,
primarily working on library technology standards related to digital
libraries. Most of her professional life has been at the Library of
Congress developing national and international standards related to
metadata. This includes 22 years on the development and maintenance of the
MARC formats and the development of related XML formats, such as MODS and
MADS. She has served on numerous standards and implementation
committees, several as chair, is widely published in professional
literature, and has given many tutorials, workshops and presentations. She
recently began to explore use of semantic web technology and the potential
of Linked Data. She left the Library of Congress in August 2011 to work as
a consultant on metadata development and planning.

Refreshments served, 6:00-7:00 pm

Meeting and program, 7:00-8:30 pm

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

Hug the NYPL!

I know this comes a bit late in the day, seeing as how it's 2.42pm on Friday, June 3 and the weekend began about three hours ago, but . . . this just came down off the METRO-L listserv:

In this difficult budgetary time sometimes libraries can feel like the forgotten child. Show the world how much you love the library by getting out and hugging it!

 THIS SATURDAY June 4^th Urban Librarians Unite will hold a massive hug of NYPL’s newly cleaned Schwarzman Building (that is the achingly gorgeous one with the lions) at 2PM sharp. This is a flashmob rally, if you are fashionably late you will have missed the event altogether.

 Please come out and drag your family, friends, colleagues, and anyone else you can find along with you. This is going to be an incredible display of public support for libraries across Our Fair City. We need your help to make an impact.

 If you have questions or would like to volunteer to be part of the hug crew please contact us at:

[email protected]

 Please also check our website for updates:

www.savenyclibraries.org

 Thank you very much. Library advocacy will not work without your help, we hope to see you there.

 Christian Zabriskie

Urban Librarians Unite

 

Lara and I will both be there. Will you?

Reminder: NYTSL Spring Reception

There's still time to register for this:

Communities of Interest : A New Model for Institutional Repositories – REGISTER TODAY

SPEAKER: Kate Wittenberg, Project Director, Client and Partnership Development at Ithaka

FOOD AND WINE WILL BE SERVED
Registration Deadline May 14, 2010

As Project Director, Client and Partnership Development at Ithaka, Kate focuses on building partnerships among scholars, publishers, libraries, technology providers, and societies with an interest in promoting the development of digital scholarship and building and sustaining innovative initiatives. Before coming to Ithaka, Kate was the Director of EPIC (the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia) a pioneering initiative in digital publishing, and a model partnership for libraries, presses, and academic IT departments. Some of the ventures produced by EPIC include CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online), Gutenberg-E (a reinvention of the monograph as an electronic work), and Jazz Studies Online.

When
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Refreshments, 5:00-6:00 PM
Meeting & Program, 6:00-8:00 PM

Where

New York Public Library
Humanities & Social Sciences Library
(Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)
South Court Auditorium
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018

You can register by clicking here. Hope to see you there!

Announcing Dance Dance Library Revolution 6

From the ACRLNY listserv . . .

The Desk Set Proudly Presents The 6th Dance Dance Library Revolution: Benefit for Books Through Bars on May 22, Brooklyn, NY

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 07:16 AM PDT

The Desk Set Proudly Presents…
The 6th Dance Dance Library Revolution:
Benefit for Books Through Bars

Saturday, May 22, 2010 at Enid’s
10:00 p.m. - 4:00 a.m.
Free!

In Memory of Carlos Alvarez (1980-2009)

New York, NY, April 18, 2010 – It’s that time of year again when librarians are in the mood for breaking out their Spring frocks, and longer days mean later curfews. Ever socially conscious, The Desk Set are back again and raising funds for literacy and incarcerated individuals. Bring a new or gently used dictionary, thesaurus, or Spanish-English dictionary for Books Through Bars, which serves incarcerated individuals across the U.S., and receive a free drink courtesy of Enid's! Get lucky in the Four Eyes Raffle, with all proceeds going to B.T.B. The more money they raise, the more books and programming nonprofit Books Through Bars can provide to incarcerated individuals across the U.S. The night is also a celebration of the life of our friend Carlos Alvarez (1980-2009), who was passionate about prisoners’ rights, the smoothest dancer the world has ever seen, and a spectacular DJ who was scheduled to spin at this event. DJ Fine Wine, Mister Jonathan Toubin, Megan Awesome, Jimmy T. & Jason Andrews on the decks all night! And remember, you don’t have to be a librarian to join the party you just have to dance with one!

Who We Are: The Desk Set is an informal group of librarians, archivists, Library Science students and other individuals who love books and occasionally throw fund-raising parties for non-profit organizations whose missions support literacy and culture. Our parties have benefited such organizations as Books Through Bars, the New Orleans Public Library, and Behind the Book. Read more about us in The New York Times and The New York Sun.

Event Details: This year’s Dance Dance Library Revolution is Saturday, May 22, 2010, at Enid’s from 10:00 p.m. until 4:00 a.m. Enid’s is located at 560 Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 11222. This is our 5th “Dance Dance Library Revolution” fundraising party at Enid’s – what can we say, it’s one of our favorite bars!

Hostesses: The Desk Set’s own Maria Falgoust and Sarah Murphy. Maria Falgoust (Desk Set co-founder) is an upper-school librarian in Brooklyn Heights. In 2007 she earned her Masters in Library and Information Science from the Palmer School, and in 2000 she received her Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts from the University of Washington in Seattle. Maria is an avid reader, cook, traveler and party-organizer. Born and raised in New Orleans, she is passionate about the rebuilding of her culturally rich and economically challenged hometown. Sarah Murphy (Desk Set co-founder) is a school librarian in Manhattan and works with students from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Sarah has a Masters in Library and Information Science from the Palmer School, where she concentrated in Rare Books and Special Collections, and she has previously worked at the New York Society Library and in the Rare Book Room at the New York Academy of Medicine. Sarah also works occasionally in classical theatre, and is a co-founder of the Bakerloo Theatre Project. She and Maria Falgoust founded the Desk Set in 2006.

DJ Fine Wine: DJ Fine Wine is the host and programmer of "Downtown Soulville"—Fridays, 7-8 p.m., WFMU, Jersey City, NJ (91.1 FM and www.wfmu.org)...years of archives and playlists at wfmu.org/playlists/sv

DJ Megan Awesome: For the last few years, DJ Megan Awesome has been collaborating with bands and other DJs to make dance parties for the people. She’s a sucker for a good beat and long songs so she can dance to them, too.

Jason R. Andrews, aka DJ Misery Creep: Spinning a mix of classic rock deep cuts, psych, surf and international burners, with a heavy dose of dub and 70's reggae to boot. Jason’s the resident DJ at Union Pool in Williamsburg every Tuesday, and Bar Matchless in Greenpoint every Thursday.

DJ Jimmy T.: aka Das Booty, calls his style of DJing “eklektik-o”, i.e. a wide spectrum that gets tailored on dance floor after he gets your measurements: soul, funk, rock, reggae, r&b, and whatevs. You may have seen him DJ the Platter-Pak Brunch every Sunday at Enids, The Hand Clapping Bongo Machine at Lucky Strike, or Team Aquapussy at Matchless with DJ Misery Creep. Also he DJs the occasional derelict loft party in Brooklyn. He has played drums with SST recording artists The Alter-Natives, GWAR, and Ed Sanders from The Fugs.

DJ Jonathan Toubin: New York Night Train Conductor and Soul Proprietor Mr. Jonathan Toubin hasn’t only shattered the face of nightlife in the wormy apple with his revolutionary parties and wild and wooly approach to his trademark 45rpm “maximum rock and soul” sound, but alone, with the Soul Clap and Dance-Off, and the New York Night Train Happening, Mr. Toubin has started to spread his gospel worldwide -- to critical acclaim and capacity crowds -- from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine, from Mexico City to Tel Aviv, and all points in between.

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Note to Editors: Sarah and Maria of The Desk Set are available for interviews. A high-res photo is available upon request. Photo credit: Dominick Mastrangelo.

About The Desk Set
The Desk Set is an informal group of librarians, archivists, Library Science students and other individuals who love books. Desk Set events include visits to libraries and collections of interest, book swaps, literary themed parties, and benefits to support literacy. Desk Set events are open to everyone. Check us out at www.thedeskset.org. For more information about The Desk Set, please contact Maria Falgoust: 917.456.7535, [email protected]; or Sarah Murphy: 718.809.9034, [email protected].

About Books Through Bars
Founded in the late 1980s and formally incorporated as an organization in 2000, Books Through Bars was established to address the paucity of educational resources and programming made available to prisoners hoping to use the time of their imprisonment to effect positive change in their lives. By distributing free educational materials to prisoners, Books Through Bars facilitates prisoner education, thereby promoting successful community re-integration. Because successful community reintegration requires transformation within and outside of prison walls, Books Through Bars utilizes our book distribution service as the foundation on which we build innovative programs designed to engage a broad cross-section of the general public in thinking critically about issues of imprisonment. Please visit: http://www.booksthroughbars.org/

Yes, librarians dance.  See you there!

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!

Freedom of Information Day Action at SIBL

From the METRO-L listserv:

Freedom of Information Day will be observed at the Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL) of The New York Public Library (188 Madison Ave. @ 34th St.) on Tuesday, March 16, with a presentation and discussion from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in Conference Room 18 on the lower level of the library. This year’s guest speaker is Heather Joseph, Executive Director, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, (SPARC), an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communications. She will discuss the growing momentum towards Open Access – the idea that society is best served when the results of research and scholarship are made immediately, freely available online to anyone who may want to access and use them.  The title of her presentation is: “Open Access, Open Scholarship – Open Future.” Established by a Congressional Joint Resolution in 1989, Freedom of Information Day is held on or near March 16, the birthday of James Madison, fourth President of the United States and primary architect of the Bill of Rights. The observance underscores the importance of freedom of the press, speech, information, and the public’s right to know.

Heather Joseph has served as the Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) since 2005. In that capacity, she works to support broadening access to the results of scholarly research through enabling open access publishing, archiving and policies on a local, national and international level.

Ms. Joseph is also the convener of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, a coalition of universities, libraries, patients’ advocacy groups, consumer groups, and student organizations who work to ensure that results of publicly funded research are openly accessible to the public. The group has been a leading voice on U.S. open access legislation, including landmark policy issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Prior to coming to SPARC, she spent 15 years as a publisher in both commercial and not-for-profit publishing organizations. She served as the publishing director at the American Society for Cell Biology, which became the first journal to commit its full content to the NIH’s pioneering open repository, PubMed Central, and subsequently served on the National Advisory Committee for the project.

Ms. Joseph serves on the Board of Directors of numerous not-for-profit organizations, and recently completed a term as the elected President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. She is a frequent speaker and writer on scholarly communications in general, and on open access in particular.

This event is free and open to the public. No reservations are required.

Sounds like the place to be.