Fill Your Library Toolbox with Free ResourcesFree Nylink Community Brown Bag SessionDate: Tuesday, March 25, 2008Time: 12 noon – 1:30Location: Webinar
Join us from the comfort of your own desk for this free Webinar to discuss and share free online resources that help your Library.
We would like to share with you:
A free MARC editing [...]

On February 21st, Evelyn Butrico and Jen Stelling traveled to Manhattan to hold a library “film festival” at the Mid-Manhattan Branch of the NYPL. We looked at about 20 films, ranging from the traditional library tour to spoofs of library services and rules. Our playlist is available below.
As we watched the films and listened to [...]

OPAC: Dead, Alive, or Revived?

Reserve the Date: Monday, May 19, 2008
The Spring 2008 ENY/ACRL Conference will be held at Syracuse University. Presenters will demonstrate innovations that are changing the nature of the catalog. Those innovations include PennTags, Encore and Grokker, WorldCat Local, and eXtensible Catalog.
The keynote address will [...]

From the Society of American Archivists:
February Action Alert! Preserving the American Historical Record LegislationThe PAHR legislation will be introduced soon in the House by its principal sponsors, Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), John McHugh (R-NY), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), and Edolphus Towns (D-NY).
Ask your member of [...]

Library Journal gave OUP’s new Islamic Studies Online database a 10 in all of its four categories, content, design, navigability, and usability, and calls it “An essential purchase for academic and public libraries; school libraries should certainly take a serious look, too.” Read the review in its entirety at http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6516112.html. Pricing for OISO is very [...]

IT ‘S FINALLY HERE!The OCLC Local Holdings Offline Product (“LHOP”) is finally available!The OCLC Local Holdings Offline Product replaces the old SULOP (“Serials Union List Offline Product”) used for many years by OCLC members participating in the old Union Listing system on OCLC. The old SULOP product has not [...]

Nylink will be forming a CAMIO group for the FY08-09 renewal year (July 2008-June 2009). The group discount will be contingent on the number of libraries who join.

You will receive unlimited access to the CAMIO art museum image database (http://www.oclc.org/us/en/camio/) and the over 95,000 high resolution art images it contains.

If Nylink can aggregate [...]

This opinion piece was written for the Washington Post by a school librarian in Virginia and was run in this morning’s (Feb 7) Albany Times Union. It really struck a chord with me, as I read it while simultaneously watching the Today show, composing an agenda for an afternoon meeting in my head, and stacking [...]

This was posted on LIS News Blog (http://lisnews.org/) and I thought it worth sharing. I do hope someone out there can take advantage of it.

Digital Information Management Certificate Program Application Deadline Extended; Scholarships available
Posted February 4th, 2008 by brucefulton on the LIS News Blog.

The University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science [...]