As designated by the Academy of American Poets… who very nicely will send you a poem a day from new books of poetry published this spring.
The Academy also provides tip sheets for librarians. Those tips were developed by Poetry in the Branches, right her in New York, by Poets House in collaboration with The New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library.
Or stop by The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry* to see what’s happening today in the Poets Book of Days. March 31 is the anniversary of the death of the marvelous, pragmatically romantic John Donne.

Want more poetry? Of course, there’s always the Writer’s Almanac, which features a different poem each day.

*Note: Nylink does offer subscriptions to Granger’s, a unique resource that is a great way to teach and learn about poetry.

Nylink’s Brown Bag Lunch webinar on Free Tools for your library was well attended; thanks so much to everyone who signed up and who contributed to the discussion. We hope you learned about at least one great app or resource that you’ll plug into your librarian’s utility belt.

We’d like to share the presentation with everyone who didn’t get a chance to attend; you can watch our greatly abbreviated movie presentation (it’s a little over eight minutes), or just peruse the power point.

Our next Brown Bag Lunch, on April 28 from 12-1:30 at Roberts Wesleyan College, is on Going Green in the Library; besides a lively discussion, this event will feature a tour of Roberts Wesleyan’s new digs. Hope to see you there!

From now until June 30th, 2008, libraries that subscribe to Recorded Books eAudiobook subscription program through NetLibrary will receive 15% off a subscription to the *NEW* Blackstone eAudiobook subscription.

A title list of Blackstone titles is available at: http://library.netlibrary.com/blackstone_US.aspx

All content is front list (2006-present) and is available for unlimited simultaneous users.

For more information please contact Donna Dixon (dixond@nylink.org) for more information!

Last week, New York’s resource sharing community was well represented at the ILLiad International Conference in Virginia Beach, VA, presented by Atlas Systems, and sponsored by OCLC and the Copyright Clearance Center. Presentations from New York librarians included:

• An overview and update on the IDS Project by Ed Rivenburgh and Mark Sullivan of SUNY Geneseo, highlighted by the unveiling of the brand-new IDS Project website, http://www.idsproject.org;

• The fetchingly titled, “ILLiad and VDX: ISO-Compliant Dance Partners,” presented by Andy Perry of SUNY New Paltz;

• “Taking the Helm of a High-Functioning Interlibrary Loan Department: Optimizing Workflows and Sprucing Up ILLiad,” a roundtable discussion facilitated by Susan Lieberthal of Stony Brook University, which more than lived up to its “lively” billing–lots of great ideas flowed there;

• “Two ILLiad Clients on One Desktop: Sharing a University’s Collection, Staff and Expertise,” a joint presentation by Cynthia Bertuca of the University at Buffalo, Sarah Carmen of Empire State College, and Carol Lelonek of the University at Buffalo Health Sciences Library, showcasing the intriguing cooperative collection sharing pilot of those libraries.

And much lively discussion by many more New Yorkers and our colleagues, not to mention some fierce Wii-competition at the kickoff reception! Presentations will be available soon at the Atlas Systems website at http://www.atlas-sys.com

Now through June 25, 2008, Nylink, in partnership with OCLC NetLibrary, is offering Nylink Shared Collection 8. This new collection contains front list titles from the most widely used subject areas and all titles have never appeared in previous Nylink Shared Collections!

For a title list and ordering information visit:
http://www.nylink.org/reference/nl/netli_share8.cfm

This is a one time flat fee purchase!

NEW! Browse the collection on LibraryThing: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/nylink8