0 Comments The Society of American Archivists recently released “Orphan Works: Statement of Best Practices”.
This statement describes what constitutes reasonable actions and efforts that can be used in identifying and locating rights owners.
Additional information about the statement can be found at the History News Network site.
IMLS just announced its winners for the National Leadership Grants. Several winners are from New York State. Queensborough Community College partnering with the Nassau County Museum of Art; Queens Library partnering with the Queens Museum of Art and The Children’s Museum of Manhattan partnering with the Association of Children’s Museums have all received awards. Congratulations!
Project descriptions can be found the the press release:
IMLS Awards National Leadership Grants to 51 Institutions
$17.9 Million Distributed
Washington, DC-The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the primary source of federal funds for the nation’s museums and libraries, announces the 51 institutions receiving National Leadership Grants (NLG) totaling $17,894,475. Projects by these institutions will advance the ability of museums and libraries to preserve culture, heritage, and knowledge while enhancing learning.
“Projects funded by IMLS’s National Leadership Grants focus on education, health, computer literacy, and problem solving skills. We believe that museums and libraries play an important role in building a competitive workforce and engaged citizenry. We are equally confident that these institutions will elevate museum and library practice through this work,” said Anne-Imelda Radice, IMLS Director.
NLG recipients will generate new tools, research, models, services, practices, and alliances that will positively impact the awarded institution and the nation. These projects include:
* The Boston TV News Digital Library: 1960-2000, developed by The WGBH Media Library and Archives, will be the first online resource offering a city’s commercial, noncommercial, and community cable TV news heritage to educators and the public. The project, created in collaboration with Northeast Historic Film, Cambridge Community Television, and the Boston Public Library, will establish a new collaborative model for local collecting institutions, create modules for clarifying legal issues relating to TV news collections, and provide curricular context for the study of urban history in classrooms and community institutions.
* The Pathways to Excellence and Achievement in Research and Learning (PEARL) project, created by the University of Hawaii, Manoa campus, will produce a training guide that can be used to create professional development programs to address “expectation gaps” between high school and post-high school pursuits. These programs will focus primarily on the mastery of 21st century skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, interpreting information, and analytic reasoning.
* Inviting Institutions, a program developed by the Queens Museum of Art and the Queens Library and Quality Services for the Autistic Community, will develop and implement a model community-based art therapy program for Spanish- speaking families of children with autism spectrum disorders.
* The Supporting Early Literacy Learning project will partner the Minnesota Children’s Museum, the Dakota County Library System, Hennepin County Library System, Saint Paul Public Library System, and other institutions to develop and test an innovative early literacy program that will explore new directions in the ways that libraries and museums bring their unique expertise together for successful collaborations.
* The Floral Report Card, a program created in collaboration with the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Northwestern University, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, and the University of Washington, will use gardens, citizen science, and technology to teach and engage students with one of the most urgent contemporary issues: climate change.
* The CALTA (Culture and Literacy through Art) project, developed by the Nassau County Museum of Art with the Queensborough Community College, will build on a long-standing partnership to plan an innovative, multi-generational, visual literacy program using visual art as a catalyst for literacy and critical thinking in adult English Language Learners.
* The National Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Program, created by the Children’s Museum of Manhattan in partnership with the Association of Children’s Museums, will adapt the NIH’s “We Can!” curriculum to provide community-wide leadership in the fight against childhood obesity for children under 8 and their parents.
Click here to learn more about the 2009 NLG awardees http://www.imls.gov/news/2009/092409b_list.shtm.
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Velocity’s restructuring will be accomplished through a pre-packaged Section 363 sale to The ComVest Group, a leading private investment firm, pursuant to the Chapter 11 reorganization laws. Many companies have utilized this legal tool to restructure and improve their balance sheets. While Chapter 11 law is a chapter of the United States Bankruptcy Code, it deals with reorganization rather than liquidation.
This transition at Velocity will not affect your library. There will be no impact on the day-to-day operations of Velocity, or of LAND. Importantly, there will be no disruption of service to your libraries. Payments to independent contractors from Velocity are guaranteed during this process, so your couriers should continue to be the same people that stop at your library every day.
Nylink supports Velocity in taking this step. If you have questions or concerns about this announcement, we encourage you to contact us.
The Underground Railroad History Conference is holding its ninth annual event on February 26, 27, 28, 2010 at Russell Sage College, Troy, NY. The conference is sponsored by the Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region, Inc.
A recent call for proposals was sent out. View the information below:
“GENDER, CLASS, RACE, AND ETHNICITY IN ABOLITIONISM, ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, AND IN THE STRUGGLE SINCE”
The Ninth Annual Underground Railroad History Conference Sponsored by Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region, Inc.
February 26, 27, 28, 2010 at Russell
Sage College in Troy, NY
The forces of gender, class, race, and ethnicity have
deeply and complexly conditioned the Underground Railroad
and the movements for freedom that have arisen in its wake.
The theme of the 2010 UGR History Conference calls on us
as academic scholars, independent researchers, performers,
educators, and community members to examine the many ways
that these forces interacted to shape the UGR and the
struggles that followed it, and to consider how
these interactions impact us today.
For the full call document visit:
http://www.ugrworkshop.com/call.pdf
SAVE THE DATE!
The Poetry in The Branches National Institute returns! Join us this year in the spectacular new quarters of Poets House, opening this fall at 10 River Terrace in lower Manhattan.
Registration is now open! Partial and full* scholarships are available!
Want to enrich the poetry resources and programming in your library? Join the staff of Poets House and guests, Keynote Speaker Mark Doty, winner of the 2008 National Book Award for Poetry, and brilliant, engaging faculty poets Dave Johnson and Tina Chang, for a weekend that has been described as “… very human, very open, very expanding and inspiring.”
Beginning at 1 pm on Friday, November 6, and continuing through Saturday afternoon, you will be immersed in the rich world of poetry. Here at Poets House you will learn how to reach out to and empower your patrons through poetry. Explore our 50,000 volume poetry library and find resources for developing your library’s poetry collection. Connect personally with our guest poets. Leave the weekend with a practical poetry plan for your library and lots of nuts-and-bolts information to help make that plan a reality. Take in our new view: the Hudson River all the way down to the Statue of Liberty. At night, eat and drink with your colleagues and experience the wealth of cultural events that New York City has to offer.
You will go home refreshed and inspired!
In the words of a former participant, “I really enjoyed the clear information (nuts & bolts) combined with the vision of the larger purpose of why we are here. You fed and nourished us with poetry–what better way to inspire us to share this type of experience with those we serve?”
Questions? Contact Marsha Howard, Poetry in the Branches Coordinator, at 212-431-7920 x 2213 or marsha@poetshouse.org
Full information is available on our web site, www.poetshouse.org, where you can also learn much more about amazing resource that is Poets House!
*Full scholarships require modest fee for food and materials.
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Computype is a world leader in the production of bar code label products, and also manufactures CD/DVD labels, label printing systems, and full color patron cards. Did you know that Nylink and Computype have partnered to provide a considerable savings on the full line of Computype’s library products? Computype provides all invoicing and shipping of ordered products, and so you deal directly with Computype while receiving the Nylink discount. For Nylink pricing, please go to visit our website and click on the Computype Pricing link.
Cambridge University Press, the world’s oldest publisher, is proud to announce the November release of the Dictionary of Irish Biography: From the Earliest Times Until the Year 2002, a collaboration between the Press and the Royal Irish Academy. With both a nine-volume print set and a searchable online database, the Dictionary of Irish Biography is an essential work for any library serving schools with Irish history or literature departments.
Over 700 contributors from the world over have written biographies for over 9,700 lives under the careful guidance of General Editors James McGuire (University College Dublin) and James Quinn (Royal Irish Academy). Each entry is cross-referenced to other subjects in the Dictionary, and the entries are as long as 15,000 words for major figures.
The Dictionary includes the lives of Irish men and women who made a significant contribution in Ireland and beyond, as well as those born overseas who had noteworthy careers in Ireland – from James Ussher to James Joyce, St. Patrick to Patrick Pearse, St. Brigit to Maud Gonne Macbride, Shane O’Neil to Eamon de Valera, Edward Carson to Bobby Sands. Historical figures from centuries ago up to national figures from as recently as 2002 are covered.
Cambridge has always been at the forefront of innovation in publishing, and is continuing that tradition by offering this major work both in print and in a searchable online format. The online version can be purchased either as a standalone product or at a discounted rate when purchased with the nine print volumes. Please email online@cambridge.org or services@nylink.org to set up a free trial of the Dictionary of Irish Biography Online.
Nylink now offers a collection of ITS.MARC files by The Library Corporation (TLC) specially aggregated and priced for member libraries only. This collection is not simply a copy of the Library of Congress catalog, but a comprehensive set of files that builds on the LC foundation by including audio-visual, pre-publication, and other records appropriate for public, school, and academic libraries.
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From now until December 15th, small academic libraries that commit to purchasing Cambridge Histories Online, a 250-plus volume collection of award-winning titles from Cambridge University Press’ acclaimed Histories series, can purchase the entire CHO collection for $3600. That is a 50% discount from the original 2009 CHO price of $7200.
Award-Winning Content Equals Great Value
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award winners in CHO include The Cambridge History of Native Peoples of Americas and The Cambridge History of American Literature.
In print, The Cambridge History of American Literature, an eight-volume set, costs $1100 and takes up valuable shelf space. CHO offers you the same great content, with all the increased functionality of an online resource, for less than fifteen percent of that price.
Lawrence M. Schell, in the American Journal of Human Biology, has this to say about The Cambridge World History of Human Disease, another CHO title:
The Cambridge World History of Human Disease is probably the single most valuable reference work for any scholar of human health and medicine….[T]his work covers an enormous range of biology, history, anthropology, and epidemiology with impressive depth.
When you purchase CHO, you’ll have an eBook collection that includes this title and over 250 others at a cost of less than $15.00 per title. And the collection will continue to grow with new Histories titles added to CHO as they are published.
For a complete list of current CHO titles, see http://tinyurl.com/CHO-list-9-09.
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The entire collection, over 196,000 print pages that cover 15 academic subject areas, can be cross-searched and book-marked by users. Librarians will appreciate the MARC records, library branding, and COUNTER-compliant usage statistics.
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This special pricing is currently available to four-year academic libraries with an FTE of 2500 or less, and two-year academic libraries with an FTE of 5000 or less. The $3600 one-time purchase price entitles your library’s users to unlimited access. An annual fee (for hosting and new content) of $400 also applies beginning in year two of access. This ongoing fee is itself discounted from the regular annual fee of $750. To qualify for this offer, a library must commit to a CHO purchase by December 15, 2009.
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Digitization projects have brought a wealth of historical documents and objects to folks through the web. These items range from maps, household inventories, photographs, artworks, and architecture. Many people researching and viewing these historical items may not be well versed in interpreting them. The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University has created a website of tutorials to assist these archival novices. These tutorials give insight into how a professional would approach a type of material, such as maps, and help to guide students and others in working with historical items.
