Richard DelBango of Nassau Community College is setting sail as the Ship’s Librarian for SUNY Maritime’s 2009 sea cruise this spring!  Follow his blog at http://bibliosailor.blogspot.com/  Avast!

Johanna over at NYLA just announced the winners for the National Library Week Snaphot Contest.  Here is the announcement.
The New York Library Association is pleased to announce the winners of the National Library Week Snapshot Contest. Please feel free to contact Johanna at events@nyla.org with any questions you may have.
Librarians as Teachers [...]

I had the opportunity to represent Nylink at one of our Brown Bag Lunches yesterday and made a trip out to Long Island to visit the beautiful Farmingdale Public Library. The crowd was a small but avid group, very passionate about the reader’s advisory role, and eager to share tips about finding great read-a-likes. There [...]

I just ran across this announcement and thought it might be of interest.  Amigos Library Services and the SCCTP Training Program have created an online version of the SCCTP Cataloging workshops.  This is the first online version of these popular courses.  The course will take place virtually over the course of the following days;  May [...]

The World Digital Library launches today Here is the link:  http://www.wdl.org/en/

WHAT:
During National Library Week 2009 on the days of April 12-18, librarians and library staff in New York State will take a wide range of photographs of librarians working, meeting, teaching, and doing all that librarians do in a given day. We encourage you to be creative in taking photos that [...]

Libraries, museums, archives, arts and historic preservation organizations across the nation will set aside May 1 to participate in MayDay, a national effort to prepare for disasters.  Sponsored by Heritage Preservation, AASLH and other members of the Heritage Emergency National Taskforce, MayDay encourages organizations to take one simple step to protect the art, artifacts, records, [...]

National Volunteer Week is taking place April 19-25.  This year’s theme is Celebrating People in Action.  Is your institution having any events to celebrate the way that your volunteers dedication improves their communities?
Working with volunteers can be a very rewarding experience, though it does take work and skill.  Two upcoming training events will focus on [...]

Very important news from the Scholarly Kitchen blog: “Publishing giants Springer, Elsevier, and Wiley-Blackwell will merge, according to a leaked document that made its way into the Scholarly Kitchen late last night.”Philip Davis under, The Scholarly Kitchen, Nov 1991
A must read for academic librarians!

Libraries, archives and museums deal with the issues and activities surrounding preservation on a regular basis.  For preservation to work it is vital that staff and users be educated about preservation.  This spring there are a number of events taking place around the state that focus on various aspects of preservation.  Nylink will be offering [...]