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SENYLRC’s blog about events, announcements, and issues of importance to libraries and cultural heritage institutions in the southeastern NY region
Posted on May 11th, 2012
The SENYLRC Board of Trustees invites staff from Governing and HRVH member organizations to take a few minutes to share your thoughts in this online survey about the recently-adopted Strategic Plan 2012-2015 – in particular potential impacts on your library or cultural heritage organization. Continue reading this post…
Posted on April 30th, 2012
The 45th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern NY Library Resources Council is on Friday, June 1, 2012 at the Buttermilk Falls Inn and Spa, Milton NY. The meeting will take place at the onsite restaurant, Henry’s Farm to Table. The meeting agenda includes a panel discussion of the newly approved SENYLRC Strategic Plan 2012-2015. We strongly encourage SENYLRC members, both Governing and HRVH, to join the Board of Trustees in this discussion. Continue reading this post…
Posted on April 30th, 2012
On May 1st catalogs that run on the Koha software will be down for upgrading from 7am till noon.
These are catalogs are in the koha.senylrc.org or seslc.senylrc.org domain.
Posted on April 20th, 2012
The NY 3Rs Association, Inc. negotiated a deal with Boopsie for Libraries to offer a discount for academic and public libraries (MHLS libraries only) . Boopsie for Libraries has created a smart phone application that they will create, customize, and brand for the library to include a variety of features, allowing libraries to go mobile in an easy and affordable way, even if they lack the technical expertise in-house. Continue reading this post…
Posted on April 20th, 2012
Posted on April 16th, 2012
On Monday April 23rd the Hudson River Valley Heritage Site will be down from about 1am till 12PM for software upgrades.
Posted on April 3rd, 2012
We have scheduled an HRVH Users Group meeting to discuss marketing and promotion. This meeting will provide an opportunity to learn what others in our community are doing to promote their digital collections.
The meeting will be Thursday, May 3, 2012 at SENYLRC.
Registration begins at 9:00 AM. The meeting will start at 9:30 and end at 12:00 noon.
Brian Jennings, Local History Librarian at Nyack Library, and two staff members at the FDR Library, Sarah Malcolm and Kirsten Carter, will share their respective organizations’ promotion and marketing strategies. Continue reading this post…
Posted on February 27th, 2012
Two workshops, taught by Kate Flewelling, Outreach Coordinator at the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Middle Atlantic Region, are being held at SENYLRC on March 28, 2012. Both workshops are FREE, provided by NNLM/Middle Atlantic Region Library. Please register online: http://www.senylrc.org/reg/ Continue reading this post…
Posted on February 10th, 2012
Empire Library Delivery Procurement Announcement
The New York 3Rs Association, Inc. (NY3Rs) announces plans for a procurement of library delivery services for libraries throughout the State of New York.This procurement has the potential to include up to five stops per week at more than 400 libraries located in all New York counties as well as a connecting route to facilitate daily cargo transfers between eight or nine transportation hubs.Proposals covering the entire state as well as for smaller service areas will be accepted.The individual parts are likely to correspond with the territories of one or more of the NY 3Rs organizations, which are described here.
For further information, Go to the Empire Library Delivery webpage:
http://www.empirelibrarydelivery.org/2011/11/02/about-empire-library-delivery/
Posted on January 25th, 2012
Title: Technology: Unexpected Consequences of Legislation and Policies in Libraries (Amigos)
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 8, 2012; 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location: Online (Group viewing at SENYLRC)
Cost: $15 for SENYLRC members (Governing and HRVH) $30 for all others.
Registration: http://www.senylrc.org/reg/
In this online conference, we’ll explore the unforeseen, unanticipated, and unexpected consequences of the legislation, regulations, and policies that we have instituted because of the technologies we now provide in libraries. We’ll focus on state, national, and international laws and regulations and how they have affected libraries, as well as local policies that have been developed to support specific technologies. Continue reading this post…
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