Richard DelBango of Nassau Community College is setting sail as the Ship’s Librarian for SUNY Maritime’s 2009 sea cruise this spring!  Follow his blog at http://bibliosailor.blogspot.com/  Avast!

Wilson has announced the addition of nearly 200 new profiles of authors and artists whose recent works have earned wide readership and critical acclaim. More than 2,300 profiles are now available in total.

Like the book series, Junior Authors & Illustrators on WilsonWeb helps young readers learn more about the writers and artists behind their favorite works, and find more titles by them. The database makes an excellent complement to any robust children’s and YA collection, offering biographical information for fans, help with readers’ advisory and acquisitions, career advice for aspiring writers and artists, and diverse coverage by ethnicity, style, and subject matter.

Each profile lays out family background, education, career path, and approaches to art and life. Many feature autobiographical statements written specifically for Junior Authors & Illustrators. Suggested reading lists and web sites offer a starting point for further research. More than 90% of the profiles also feature photographs.

New profiles are added annually. The recent additions include recipients of nearly 50 leading literary awards and honors, from the Aesop Prize to the Americas Award, Caldecott Honorees and Newbery Medalists, School Library Journal Best Books honorees, Parent’s Choice picks and much more. They also reflect the diversity of today’s children’s literature, with profiles of many African-American, Hispanic, and Asian-American authors and artists. Also featured are retrospective profiles of some of the most renowned figures in YA and children’s literature, including Roald Dahl, Astrid Lindgren, and Dr. Seuss.

Free trials of Junior Authors and Illustrators are available at any time! Contact services@nylink.org for details.

Johanna over at NYLA just announced the winners for the National Library Week Snaphot Contest.  Here is the announcement.

The New York Library Association is pleased to announce the winners of the National Library Week Snapshot Contest. Please feel free to contact Johanna at events@nyla.org with any questions you may have.

Librarians as Teachers & Trainers

A Favorite Patron

By: Onondaga County Public Library

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37501649@N02/3450982736/in/pool-nylasnapshot09

Librarians as Trailblazers in New Technology

Podcast-Twilight: Making some noise at out podcast – Library volunteer R. Twardy facilitating

By: Friedatoth

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14220814@N03/3450106861/in/pool-nylasnapshot09

Most Humorous

DiGiovanniRP: Mrs. Monica DiGiovanni gets into character at the Rocky Point Joseph A. Edgar Intermediate School. Rocky Point is located on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County.

By: swilsonrp

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37534479@N08/3450884639/in/pool-nylasnapshot09

Best Overall

There’s No Such Thing as Too Many Books: Elizabeth selecting books in the Teen Lounge at Webster Public Library

By: elizardkwik

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37497224@N03/3452190251/in/pool-nylasnapshot09

Winners in each category will receive a $50 gift certificate to be used to purchase items in NYLA’s Fundraising Store or toward registration costs for the 2009 Annual Conference or for a NYLA Institute.

Honorable Mention

Aiden Playing the Harmonica, Cohocton Public Library

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37470163@N02/3447735617/in/pool-nylasnapshot09

Lynbrook Public Library, cleaning up the children’s room, kathydevoe30

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37523670@N02/3454727016/in/pool-nylasnapshot09

Thank you to everyone that participated!

WorldCat Local “quick start” is now included in subscriptions to the WorldCat database on the FirstSearch service at no additional charge, giving subscribing libaries additional options to deliver their own resources and those of libraries around the world in a single search.  Built on the popular WorldCat.org interface, WorldCat Local “quick start” includes:

• Your library’s brand in the URL, search box and user interface
• Your library’s resources displayed first in search results
• Interoperability with a single integrated library system
• Smart integration with your library’s existing delivery services
• Access to the same social networking tools available on WorldCat.org
• Article-level records from well-known databases with links to full text where available

To learn more about WorldCat Local “quick start,” or to register for a webinar introducing the service and its options, visit the WorldCat Local Quick Start page.

I had the opportunity to represent Nylink at one of our Brown Bag Lunches yesterday and made a trip out to Long Island to visit the beautiful Farmingdale Public Library. The crowd was a small but avid group, very passionate about the reader’s advisory role, and eager to share tips about finding great read-a-likes. There was also discussion of great ways to get local businesses to contribute tchotchkes and cash to motivate reading clubs, and the nuances of making book recommendations. Thanks to the participants for coming out! Here’s a link to one of the most popular book list sites, the Multnomah County Library’s collection.

I just ran across this announcement and thought it might be of interest.  Amigos Library Services and the SCCTP Training Program have created an online version of the SCCTP Cataloging workshops.  This is the first online version of these popular courses.  The course will take place virtually over the course of the following days;  May 18, 19 -10:00-noon; May 21-9:00-noon; and May 26, 27, 28, 29-10:00 to noon, all central time.

The course will cover topics such as how to create standards-compliant holdings records, using MARC 21 Format for Holdings Data and ANSI/NISO Z39.71.

More information can be found at http://www.amigos.org/learning or by calling Chris Brown at 800.843.8482 ext. 2829

Join an interactive webinar to learn more about new and recent Oxford electronic resources!

• Oxford Biblical Studies Online
• AMA Manual of Style Online
• Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
• Electronic Enlightenment
• Oxford Scholarship Online

See dates and times for the sessions here (PDF), and RSVP to Taylor Stang by May 6th. Taylor will need your name, title, the name of your institution, and of course your email so that he can send the session URL and password.

The World Digital Library launches today Here is the link:  http://www.wdl.org/en/

WHAT:
During National Library Week 2009 on the days of April 12-18, librarians and library staff in New York State will take a wide range of photographs of librarians working, meeting, teaching, and doing all that librarians do in a given day. We encourage you to be creative in taking photos that capture the essence of New York librarianship.

Winners will be recognized on the NYLA website (www.nyla.org) and during the 2009 NYLA Annual Conference in Niagara Falls this October. Winners in each category will also receive a $50 gift certificate to be used to purchase items in NYLA’s Fundraising Store or toward registration costs for the 2009 Annual Conference or for a NYLA Institute.

WHEN:
April 12-18, 2009. We suggest that you capture images at all times during these seven days. Photos must be submitted via Flickr.com and tagged with snapNY09. There is no need to pre-register to participate in the project. See guidelines below for more submission details.

WHERE:
Wherever you work! Wherever NY Librarians are!

Suggested photographic subjects:

• At the circulation desk
• Working in technical services
• Assisting a patron in the stacks or with career resources
• Shelving books
• Teaching a class

Photos may be submitted in the following categories with one winner chosen from each category and one overall winner honored:

1. Librarians as Teachers and Trainers
2. Librarians as Trailblazers in New Technology
3. Most Humorous

WHO:
The contest is open to all libraries, librarians and library staff in New York State. Professional photographic skills are not required.

HOW:
Use whatever photographic equipment you have available-from digital cameras to 35mm as long as you can post them to Flickr.com. We welcome color as well as black and white images. Details for submitting the photographs are provided below.

CONTEST GUIDELINES

1) Only librarians and staff from New York State (from any type of library) may submit entries for the contest.

2) Entries must be submitted between April 12 and April 18, 2009. Entries must be submitted to the NLW – Library Snapshot New York State Flickr group by simply posting them. You must first have a flickr.com account, and then join the group:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/nylasnapshot09/

Each photo should also have the tag snapNY09. You may use any additional tags and titles and descriptions that relate to the photo.

3) Each individual library staff member may submit up to seven photos to the Flickr group. The entries do not have to be spread among the three categories.

4) All individuals pictured in submitted photographs must sign a photo release form. Entries will not be valid until all signed photo releases are received by fax (518-427-1697) and must be submitted by 4pm April 20, 2009. Please be sure to identify the photo as best you can on the release so it can be matched with the posted photo.

5) Winners from the photographic contest will be announced on Friday April 24, 2009 on the Flickr group page and via the New York Library Association web site (www.nyla.org). Judging criteria will be based on composition, quality, subject, lighting, creativity, and the ability to capture of the spirit of NY librarianship.

A total of four photos will be selected winners: One in each category and one overall. These 4 photos will be posted on the NYLA web site and will be announced in a press release.

Winners in each category will also receive a $50 gift certificate to be used to purchase items in NYLA’s Fundraising Store or toward registration costs for the 2009 Annual Conference or for a NYLA Institute.

Various honorable mentions will also be announced. Winners will also be recognized at the annual fall NYLA conference in Niagara Falls, October 14 – 17, 2009.

CONTEST CONTACT INFORMATION
Johanna Geiger
New York Library Association
events@nyla.org
518-432-6952 x102

Snapshot Contest Guidelines <http://www.nyla.org/index.php?page_id=1727>

Link to Group on FLIKR <http://www.flickr.com/groups/nylasnapshot09/>

Photo Release Form <http://www.nyla.org/content/user_1/NLW09_PhotoConsent.pdf

The following update on the “Expert Community Experiment” has been provided by OCLC.

In March, there were 18,910 Expert Community Experiment replaces.  There were 1001 institutions that did at least one replace.  Individual institution numbers ranged from 3 institutions doing more than 500 replaces to 242 institutions doing 1 replace each.

Here are the numbers for the other types of replaces during the same time period:

Database Enrichment: 18,235
Minimal-Level Upgrade: 14,791
Enhance Regular: 15,052
Enhance National: 3,583
CONSER Authentication: 1,929
CONSER Maintenance: 6,183

OCLC staff replaced 1,086,715 records during the same time period.

The Experiment  began in mid-February 2009, and OCLC expects it to  last six months.

More information can be found by visiting the Expert Community Experiment page at http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/catalog/quality/expert/default.htm