0 Comments SUNYLA 2010 is next week; registration is closed, but we hope to see you there. Lynne Graziadei will be representing Nylink at the SUNY Brockport meeting. While Nylink won’t have a traditional exhibit, we will have a tabletop display of some photos from our 37-year history of working with the libraries of SUNY. We’ll also have a guestbook out and would love to have a few of your memories of working with us over the years.
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In April Nylink staffers Meredith Case, Deidre Dowling, and Jim Mancuso conducted three focus groups on the topic of Integrated Library Systems. The events, which took place in Colonie, Liverpool and Clarence, were attended by librarians from a variety of institutions who offered their thoughts, ideas and experiences with ILSs. Discussions surrounded questions such as, “What would you include in your dream ILS?” and “What do you expect from a good ILS vendor?” Trends noted included having searching like Google, the desire for ILS support techs to really “know” libraries, and for web-based clients. The conversations were honest, open, and thoughtful. And needless to say very informative! We want to thank all the librarians who participated and made each focus group flow so well. We are currently analyzing the information and expect a report to be generated by the end of May 2010.
I volunteered at the Empire State Book Festival this weekend; it was the inaugural year for this event, which brought together authors, illustrators, librarians, storytellers, publishers and booklovers to celebrate the literary heritage of New York State. There were great panel discussions, fun activities for families, and interesting exhibitors.
One of my volunteer gigs was at the collage table set up by artist and author Michael Albert, whose pop art or cerealism recycles colorful packaging from consumer goods. Festival goers were invited to make their own art. Exhibitors included local small presses and independent bookstores, and programs ranged from performances and storytelling sessions, to history and folklore, and of course lots of tips on writing, publishing, and publicizing your work. Congratulations to NYLA on the success of this event.
The annual ILLiad International conference is taking place March 25 & 26, 2010 in Virginia Beach. A number of pre-conference programs are available on March 24. These include Nylink’s own Jon Penn, presenting with Collette Mak of the University of Notre Dame and Stephanie Spires of Atlas Systems. This workshop will include both a morning and afternoon session (hands on lab in the afternoon!) on March 24. If you are going down to the conference make plans to participate in this workshop.
ILLiad and OCLC Data Reporting Made Simple
Collette Mak, University of Notre Dame; Jon Penn, Nylink; Stephanie Spires, Atlas Systems
Join instructors Collette Mak of the University of Notre Dame, Jon Penn of Nylink, and Stephanie Spires of Atlas Systems to learn about the ILLiad database, OCLC Usage Stats, and how to create custom reports. We will explore:
This session is BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop).
ILLiad and OCLC Data Reporting Made Simple – Hands-on Lab
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm.
NOTE: ILLiad and OCLC Data Reporting Made Simple class is a prerequisite in order to attend this class
Collette Mak, University of Notre Dame; Jon Penn, Nylink; Stephanie Spires, Atlas Systems
This session requires the use of a personal laptop with Microsoft Office programs. Lab exercises will include extracting sample ILLiad and OCLC Usage Stats data to create:
This session is BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop).
There is more information about this workshop on the 2010 International ILLiad Conference web site:
Join Lauren Pinsley for a demo of True Serials, and see how it can help you to facilitate accurate inward & outward facing serials holdings through a robust hosted management environment that provides easy access to license and subscription/renewal terms, and streamlined local holdings record updating by batch to WorldCat.
With True Serials, you will be able to:
Attendance is free, but we do appreciate your advance registration; sign up now!
On Tuesday 12/8, representatives from the New York State Library, including State Librarian Bernard Margolis, the New York 3Rs Councils, and Nylink met to discuss digitization efforts in New York, including opportunities for statewide collaboration. The meeting closed with agreement that a smaller subset of the group would meet again for planning purposes.
Nylink staff members Mary Edgerton, Deidre Dowling, Meredith Case and Lauren Pinsley are looking forward to attending the New York Library Association’s annual conference, and exhibiting at the trade show, next week.
Nylink will be at booth 139, and our staff will also be involved with two presentations:
Living History through Social Networking
Track history, as it happens, through the web. This session will begin with a brief overview on information hunting and engaging users with social media. Then we’ll dive in and see how a teacher from a project-based high school implements Twitter and other social media into her classroom.
Friday, October 16, 9:45-11
Conference Center, C-Tubman
Sponsors: NYLINK, SLMS
Speakers: Stacia Snow, Tech Valley High School; Meredith Case, Nylink
Managing Serials-the New York Landscape
Join a discussion on current strategies for managing serials and local holdings in NY.
Thursday, October 15, 10:45-12 Noon
Conference Center, C-Tubman
Sponsors: NYLINK, SMART
Speakers: Lauren Pinsley, Nylink; and Mary Edgerton, Nylink
The American Association for State and Local History announced the winners of its Leadership in History Awards Program for 2008. These awards recognize the best of the best in state and local history. New York state winners are the Coalition of Niagara County Historical Societies for the public program, World War II Axis Prisoners of War at Fort Niagara 1944-45 and the New York State Archives for the website, Throughout the Ages
Joyce Rambo, Nylink Reference & Digital Preservation Resources Librarian
One of the first things I realized when I was embarking on my month-long, one-day-a week externship at the Albany County Hall of Records this past April is that an old town like Albany sure has a lot of great old stuff. Little did I know as I walked into the Albany County Hall of Records, located in a former warehouse in downtown Albany’s Nipperville, that I would soon be treated to a reading room hung with 19th-century maps
of the City of Albany (”so that’s where the Erie Canal used to be”) or valuable histories about Albany’s many historic homes, parks and buildings, or a hand-drawn, 23-foot- long map from the 1800’s of the Albany Post Road that marks taverns, inns, meeting houses and homesteads from Albany to New York City.
I immediately recalled one of the basic tenets of my archives class in library school: many of the documents we generate today will be tomorrow’s precious clues to how we live today.
Read more about Joyce’s externship in the Spring 2009 issue of Nylink Connection.
“Could you please send me a picture of Secretariat?” was the most common request fans had for Mrs. Penny Chenery (then Tweedy) the owner of Secretariat who won the Triple Crown in 1973.
For 5 days I sifted through and scanned fan mail sent to Mrs. Chenery about her super horse Secretariat and some including his stable mate Riva Ridge. The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs was loaned an old box of fan letters dated from the fall of 1973 through spring 1974 with the intent that they could scan them and then have full rights to those images. While the letters themselves won’t be a part of the museum’s archives the digital images will be.
I was able to participate in the practical aspects of a scanning project including organizing the letters, scanning, and metadata creation. It was a great opportunity to refresh my digitization skills and to be reminded just how long it takes to go through the process. (Partly because I couldn’t resist reading many of the letters!)
