June 25, Albany NY. Multi-type New York State library consortium Nylink is pleased to announce a partnership with Maryland-based library services company Library Dynamics to market and support their collection analysis suite of tools including the Spectra line of services.
Spectra Web services provide collection overview to individual title analytical capability, leveraging the time and [...]

Like many other children of the 70s, I still have a few hundred vinyl LPs, and a few dozen cassette tapes. I have in some cases replaced them with CDs, but there hasn’t been a compelling reason to dispose of the albums to which I have a sentimental attachment. Holding on to media that has [...]

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 [...]

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!

On March 24, 2009, Governor David A. Paterson and First Lady Michelle Paige Paterson honored the recipients of the New York State Women of Excellence Awards, seven trailblazers in the areas of business, health, justice, law enforcement, community service, and education.
The Women of Excellence Awards Celebration takes place in March to coincide with Women’s History [...]