SENYLRC
Board Set to Begin New Fiscal Year
Celia Seupel,
author, professor and owner of the Whispering Pines Bed & Breakfast
in High Falls, NY, is a recently-elected member of SENYLRC’s Board
of Trustees. Some of the major issues that the board will be discussing
include the new building project, strategic planning, and the annual
applications for various categorical aid programs...More
SENYLRC
to Participate in "Recruiting & Educating Librarians"
Grant
The NYS
Library was recently notified by the Federal Institute of Museum and
Library Services (IMLS) that this federal agency is awarding the NYS
Library $995,630 over a 3-year program to “Recruit and Educate
Librarians for the 21st Century.” One of these “library
recruits” comes directly from SENYLRC staff...More
FirstSearch
Base Package with Wilson Full Text - A Tremendous "Deal"
Southeastern
continues to offer the FirstSearch Base Package with Wilson Full Text
as one of the resources subsidized with RBDB funds. This resource was
chosen by the members of the Electronic Resources Advisory Committee
(ERAC) beginning in 2001...More
Featured
SENYLRC Staff Member: Chris Hyzer
Chris Hyzer,
SENYLRC Systems Manager, has been employed with Southeastern for just
over two years. Chris’s role at Southeastern is to assist staff
with computer and technological aspects of their jobs...More
Leadership
and Supervisory Development Program
The SENYLRC
Leadership and Supervisory Development Program begun in March of this
year will shortly complete its eight-session program. This has been
a significant time commitment for the almost 40 attendees...More
Bard
College Hosts SENYLRC's 37th Annual Meeting
The architecturally
beautiful Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College
was the site of SENYLRC’s 37th Annual Meeting on Friday June 4.
About 70 people from libraries of all types in the Southeastern region
attended...More
HLSP
Marketing & Promotion Committee Wins Award
In May,
SENYLRC librarians Stuart Moss, Kathy Fiola, Maryallison Farley and
staff member Patricia Carroll-Mathes attended the Medical Library Association
(MLA) conference in Washington DC. Along with the many educational activities,
classes, and meetings, another popular event was a marketing materials
contest...More
Spotlight
on Hospital Libraries
Hospitals
in the region are facing enormous changes and challenges as so are their
libraries. The Kingston Hospital was fortunate to find Margaret Cirillo
ready to step in when Ann Blish took an early retirement in late January.
Now in the midst of consultations with architects, engineers, and furnishing
designers, Catskill Regional Medical Center will open the enlarged and
expanded Health Resource Center later this year...More
Party
With Wireless Security!
If you’ve
ever wondered why our wireless LAN is not a “drop-in” LAN
where anyone can bring a wireless machine and connect, you’re
about to find out why. You’ll also see one approach to keeping
a wireless LAN as secure as possible...More
NOVEL
Invitational Grant
SENYLRC
submitted a grant to the Division of Library Development in June as
part of the State Library’s NOVEL Invitational Grant Application.
The focus SENYLRC’s application is to train the staff at hospitals,
medical centers and health-related special libraries within the Southeastern
region on the use of NOVEL and other licensed electronic resources...More
Regional
Resource Sharing Update
The new
online regional interlibrary loan directory currently being constructed,
now has more than two hundred entries. The Regional Interlibrary Loan
Committee, although concerned about the quantity of email that people
already receive, agreed that a regional interlibrary loan listserv was
needed....More
Grant
Research & Writing Program in July
On Monday,
July 12 and 19th, sixteen people attended a two-part program at SENYLRC
on Grant Research & Writing. Participants were from academic, public,
special libraries and SENYLRC. The trainer for the program was Esther
Odescalchi...More
