Library Assistants’ Day
October 16, 2008
Holiday Inn, Carrier Circle
Syracuse, NY
Presented by SCRLC, CLRC, RRLC and Nylink

Are you trying to find out: How to keep up with the latest library trends? How to gear your resume for the job you want? What is new in cataloging? How to effectively work with your colleagues’ personalities? Then come to the Library Assistants’ Day to learn the answers to these questions and more!

Join your colleagues for a day of investigation, discussion and fun. There will be ample time to connect with colleagues and peers over a variety of session topics.

The preliminary schedule includes:

General Session:
True Colors: Discovering Your Personality

Break Out Sessions:
Social Networking: Blogging and Wikis
Career Skills: Building Your Resume
Cataloging: RDA
The Information Commons: How to Deal with Space Change

Other possible topics include:
How to Keep Up with Library Trends
The Single Service Desk

Lunch and refreshments are included in the registration fee.

Please use the form below to register

Library Assistants’ Day, October 16, 2008

Please email dcapalongo@lakenet.org, send or fax this form and payment by 10/10/08 to:

SCRLC, Clinton Hall, 108 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca NY 14850
Telephone: 607-273-9106 Fax: 607-272-0740

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New York libraries were awarded five out of 44 National Leadership Grants from IMLS, and one of the eight 21st Century Museum Professionals grants. Nylink congratulates New York’s IMLS grant awardees.

National Leadership Grant winners:
• Southeastern New York Library Resources Council – Highland, NY
• New York University’s Steinhardt School – New York, NY
• Poets House – New York, NY
• New York Public Library – New York, NY
• Syracuse University – Syracuse, NY

21st Century Museum Professionals grant winner:
• State University of New York, Oneonta – Albany, NY

To find out more about these grant winners and their projects, please scroll down.

Dr. Anne-Imelda Radice, Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), announced today the 44 recipients of National Leadership Grants (NLG), totaling $18.2 million.

• Southeastern New York Library Resources Council – Highland, NY

  Project Title: “Voices of the Hudson Valley Digital Reformatting and Access Planning Grant”

  The Southeastern New York Library Resources Council, partnering with the Lower Hudson Conference of Historical Agencies and Museums and the Sound and Story Project of the Hudson Valley, will develop a plan for the identification, digital reformatting, and increased accessibility of sound recordings that document the history of New York’s Hudson River Valley region. Many oral history collections exist throughout the region, but very few, if any, have been reformatted for digital access. Thus they are inaccessible and at risk of loss through the deterioration of tapes and the disappearance of outdated playback equipment. This collaboration will lay the foundation for preserving endangered recordings throughout the region.

• New York University’s Steinhardt School – New York, NY

  Project Title: “Improving Access to Digital Music through Content-based Analysis”

  New York University’s Music Technology Program and Library Services will research and develop content-based approaches to automatic organization of, access to, and interaction with digital music archives. This research concentrates on encoding musical attributes, such as harmony and rhythm, to represent and characterize similarities that exist between songs and phrases, and showing how these methodologies can provide users with innovative modes of access to music.

• Poets House – New York, NY

  Project Title: “Language of Conservation: National Replication Project”

  Poet’s House, a preeminent poetry library in New York City, will collaborate with ten public libraries and zoos across the United States to support library-zoo partnerships in five cities. The project teams will install exhibitions that use poetry as an interpretive tool to deepen visitor thinking about wildlife and conservation in each zoo.

• New York Public Library – New York, NY

  Project Title: “Homework NYC Widgets: A Decentralized Approach To Homework Help By Public Libraries”

  The New York Public Library (NYPL) and its partners, the Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Borough Public Library, will create a set of digital tools for homework help that will be responsive to young people’s information-gathering tendencies, research needs, and expectations.

• Syracuse University – Syracuse, NY
  Project Title: “A demonstration project to update standards for 21st century librarians”

  Syracuse University will further develop the nationally recognized Web-based resource, S.O.S. for Information Literacy. S.O.S is an innovative standards-based approach to improving K-16 information literacy teaching and learning through a freely accessible teaching support system.

Further descriptions of these initiatives

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the primary source of federal support for the nation’s museums and libraries, is pleased to announce the eight recipients of this year’s 21st Century Museum Professionals (21 MP) grants.

State University of New York, Oneonta – Albany, NY

Project Title: “Developing Cultural Entrepreneurs”

SUNY’s Cooperstown Graduate Program will partner with the Museum Association of New York and the New York State Historical Association to create an institute to train the next generation of cultural “entrepreneurs.”

More information from IMLS

Is your organization going through a period of change? Are you challenged with how to get new initiatives completed with ease?
Check out the following conference to help you learn how to deal with and implement change in your library.

Implementing and Managing Organizational Innovation and Change
October 3, 2008
9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Registration starts at 8:30 a.m.
Nylink Offices
Albany, NY

This full-day workshop will focus on two major challenges faced by libraries today.
The morning session will address the requisite steps in implementing and managing change in your library. Particular emphasis will be placed on communication strategies for helping staff understand, accept, and embrace change.
The afternoon session will concentrate on ways in which library administrators can not only lead change, but also develop and encourage a climate of innovation within their organizations. Participants will be asked to assess, relative to their library, the implications of research findings from the Cornell University Library Innovation Implementation Team project (including qualitative data compiled by internal and external peer interviews). Organizational and personalcharacteristics that facilitate or obstruct innovation, and recommendations on fostering innovation and continued excellence in libraries, will also be addressed.
The highly interactive nature of this workshop will be facilitated by the use of large and small group discussion and exercises.

Target Audience: Library administrators and anyone else involved with conceptualizing, implementing, and monitoring change and/or other innovative projects.

Learning outcomes:
1. Develop communication strategies for encouraging and leading change
2. Evaluate the approach to innovation in your library and identify critical areas for action
3. Motivate people across the organization to identify ideas for new products and services that are congruent with the mission, vision, and values of the organization.
4. Establish a structure to support and sustain an innovation culture within the organization.

Speaker: Deb Schmidle, Director for Collections, Reference, Instruction and Outreach at the John M. Olin Library, Cornell University.

Registration Information
Cost is $150 for Premium and Standard members, $165 for Basic members, $175 for non-members
Price includes materials, continental breakfast and lunch.

For more information and to register please click here:
http://nylink.org/events/implementchange08.cfm