As designated by the Academy of American Poets… who very nicely will send you a poem a day from new books of poetry published this spring.The Academy also provides tip sheets for librarians. Those tips were developed by Poetry in the Branches, right her in New York, by Poets House in collaboration with The New [...]

Nylink’s Brown Bag Lunch webinar on Free Tools for your library was well attended; thanks so much to everyone who signed up and who contributed to the discussion. We hope you learned about at least one great app or resource that you’ll plug into your librarian’s utility belt.
We’d like to share the presentation with everyone [...]

Nylink sells and supports technical services, resource sharing, digitization and reference resources, and you are the ones who use them every day. We’d like to hear from the front lines, so to speak, about the tips, tricks and workarounds that make your daily grind a little easier. No fix is too small! Whether it’s a [...]

From now until June 30th, 2008, libraries that subscribe to Recorded Books eAudiobook subscription program through NetLibrary will receive 15% off a subscription to the *NEW* Blackstone eAudiobook subscription.
A title list of Blackstone titles is available at: http://library.netlibrary.com/blackstone_US.aspx
All content is front list (2006-present) and is available for unlimited simultaneous users.
For more information please contact [...]

Last week, New York’s resource sharing community was well represented at the ILLiad International Conference in Virginia Beach, VA, presented by Atlas Systems, and sponsored by OCLC and the Copyright Clearance Center. Presentations from New York librarians included:

An overview and update on the IDS Project by Ed Rivenburgh and Mark Sullivan of SUNY [...]

Now through June 25, 2008, Nylink, in partnership with OCLC NetLibrary, is offering Nylink Shared Collection 8. This new collection contains front list titles from the most widely used subject areas and all titles have never appeared in previous Nylink Shared Collections!
For a title list and ordering information visit:http://www.nylink.org/reference/nl/netli_share8.cfm
This is a one time flat fee [...]