When the Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers announced the winners of the 2009 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (The PROSE Awards) on February 4, 2010, The Dictionary of Irish Biography won the award for Best Multivolume Reference work in the Humanities and Social
Sciences. Congratulations to Cambridge University Press for this recognition!
Read more about the Association of American Publishers’ Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (and get the rest of the award winners).

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New Content on Dating Violence, Cancer Screening
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We are very pleased to share this announcement from Nylink’s partner, and leader in the Lexis Nexis national aggregation, Lyrasis.  This is great news!   Details specific to Nylink’s subscribers will be forthcoming as soon as we have renewal details from Lyrasis.
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Back on January 22, CISTI announced that beginning on January 25, they would no longer bill using IFM (Interlibrary Loan Fee Management). CISTI announced today that they have reinstated their participation in the OCLC IFM payment option, Effective yesterday, February 3, ILL requests sent to symbol CAI with IFM payment selected will be processed as standard IFM transactions.

Receive 5% of if billed through Nylink and 10% off of IFM requests. You must be registered through Nylink to take advantage of these discounts. Visit the Nylink CISTI Information page and the Nylink CISTI Registration form
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Karen Calhoun, OCLC VP for WorldCat and Metadata Services posted the following WorldCat Cataloging Partners status update on OCLC-Cat on Feb. 1 2010:

This is to provide an update on the resolution of the recent problems with the WorldCat Cataloging Partners service. Nearly all of the reprocessing of incorrect label files and records that resumed on December 18, 2009 has been completed. We continue working to resolve remaining known issues, including Cataloging Report production. We are committed to resolving all of the issues.
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The Museum Association of New York and The Upstate History Alliance just announced their annual meeting:  Museums in Conversation: What Inspires You?.   Taking place in Albany, NY, April 11-13, this conference draws folks from all types of museums, historical societies, special collections and archives from across the state.  This year’s conversation will focus on building better missions and visions for our institutions and thereby generating inspiration to reach and serve our communities.   Make sure you register soon – don’t miss this great opportunity to meet and talk with your colleagues from across New York State!

OCLC is pleased to announce that a freely-accessible site for searching only OAIster records is now available. With this OAIster site (http://oaister.worldcat.org/), you are able to search only OAIster and its millions of metadata records.
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NELLCO is hosting a grant writing workshop in Albany at Albany Law School.  The workshop is open to anyone who works in governmental agencies, colleges, universities and non-profits.  You don’t have to be a law librarian to attend.

The workshop takes place March 18-19, 2010.  Check it out and learn to write a kicking proposal that will nail the funds you need.

ALCTS has recently announced their schedule of web courses, which will include Fundamentals of Acquisitions, Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management, and Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Acquisitions.  Click through for descriptions and info.
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The increasing use of handhelds and other mobile technologies has created a challenge for libraries.   Mainly, we have to find ways to effectively assess and use the many mobile devices and applications that are available so that we can create services needed by our users.

There are a couple of events coming up that may be of interest to anyone intrigued by mobile technologies and libraries.  On February 19, Nylink is offering a webinar that looks at Libraries and the Mobile Web.  This webinar is being conducted by Ellyssa  Kroski.  The webinar will look at the diverse array of mobile Web applications available, how libraries are using the mobile web and how they can get started with the mobile Web.

The Alliance Library System and LearningTimes is offering the second annual Handheld Librarian conference on February 17-18, 2010.  This is an online conference that will include keynote and other speakers, resources, discussion boards and access to recordings of all the live events.  Over 2000 people participated in last year’s conference.