Calling All Library Auteurs: Library Movie Festival!
Free Nylink Community Brown Bag Session

Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008
Time: 11:30am – 1pm
Location: Mid-Manhattan branch of NYPL
http://www.nypl.org/branch/central/mml/directions.html

Have you created a promotional video for YouTube for your Library?

Maybe you’ve only made a request for the equipment.

Or

Maybe you’re just interested in speaking to others who have!

Please join [...]

On Tuesday morning, after an icy drive from Albany, the Nylink crew arrived at CLRC for a meeting of the Local Holdings Summit Planning Committee. This summit is taking place on June 17, in Saratoga Springs and the planning team including: Nancy Howe, Marie Noonan, Lauren Pinsley, Mary Edgerton and Deidre Dowling spent [...]

Nylink’s very first Community Brown Bag Lunch, the theme of which was Share Your Library’s New Year’s Resolutions, was a big hit Friday 1/25/08. Held at the Hudson Valley Community College’s Marvin Library (note to Capital Region library organizations: the space was great, the director, Brenda Hazard, was a terrific host, and parking on a [...]

“Great Discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.”-Alexander Graham Bell
Thursday I attended a webinar presented by the Association of Rural and Small Libraries and Webjunction on collaborations. Partnering and collaborating are vital activities for all libraries and museums whether they are large or small. The presenter Bonnie McKewon had several [...]

ALA Midwinter Meeting, January 11-16, 2008
Join Atlas Systems (http://www.atlas-sys.com/) and Nylink staff at the Atlas booth, no. 2033, to catch up on what’s new with ILLiad, and learn about two new products from Atlas: Ares Reserves Management and Aeon Special Collections Management. You can also register for a special Nylink-only drawing for an iPod Shuffle [...]

OCLC has recently provided new information regarding the “LHOP” (Local Holdings Offline Product) project.
LHOP replaces the “SULOP” product used previously by OCLC members who contributed local holdings records to the Union listing system and wished to retrieve an offline file of those records. Although OCLC has not yet announced a firm date when the Local [...]

NetLibrary is please to announce a new edition to our selection of 2008 eBook Subject Sets…
The 2008 Tax Resource Set - Priced at only $500

Featuring 18 titles of the finest tax preparation guides, financial self-help resources and more to help users prepare for tax day - April 15th! Includes new release and front list [...]

Nylink Local Holdings Maintenance SummitJune 17, 2008Holiday Inn, Saratoga Springs, NY
Mark your calendars for the Nylink Local Holdings Summit, Tuesday, June 17, 2008 in Saratoga Springs, NY.
The goal of this one day summit is to enhance New York State’s leadership role in contributing high quality local holdings to WorldCat. The summit will provide a forum [...]