In addition to exhibiting at NYLA (come see us at Booth 73!), Nylink is sponsoring and participating at NYLA programs.
In keeping with the New York Library Association’s conference theme this year of Connecting, Collaborating, Cooperating, Nylink is offering a conference program showcasing collaborations between school libraries, academic libraries and public libraries that prepare high school [...]

Or so says the New York Times. What I thought was interesting about this article is the midwifing role that is assigned to Queens Library, which along with other libraries has a growing urban fiction collection. Authors of urban fiction (think Donald Goines and Icepick Slim) have self-published and hawked their books on the streets, [...]

OCLC Developer’s Network and NYPL Labs are teaming up to present:
WorldCat HackathonDate: November 7-8, 2008Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pmLocation: Science, Industry and Business Library, New York Public Library, 188 Madison Avenue
It’s a chance to play with these OCLC Web Services (according to the Hackathon wiki) : * WorldCat API * xISBN, xISSN, [...]

Imaging how many Jiffy™ bags, packing tape and boxes are being saved every month by the 111 campuses participating in LAND (Nylink’s statewide delivery service). LAND bags are bright blue zippered cloth bags and come in two sizes: 11”x14” and 13”x18”. In August alone, more than 13,000 items circulated throughout New York State [...]

The AASL Learning Standards Indicators and Assessment Task Force has completed the second draft of Standards for the 21st Century Learner in Action. You are invited to review and critique it.
After releasing Standards for the 21st Century Learner in October 2007, AASL charged the task force "to develop a document to expand [...]