Welcome to Southeastern’s blog, SEquest. This is the place where Southeastern staff will post announcements from the council, relevant regional news, and important topics related to libraries and cultural heritage organizations. We decided to create one big blog for the council and divide it up into different categories based on our various services. We modified our homepage slightly, so that the BIG news items posted to the blog will appear on the homepage – at least the top five news items will appear. News items will move on and off the homepage and give you something new to read each time you visit our website.

We encourage our readers to post comments to the blog. Your contributions will add to the original content and we hope that some ongoing dialogs will develop for certain topics of discussion.

Here are some technical details on how to use the blog… Continue reading this post…

I had the pleasure of attending the dedication ceremony for Thomas Jefferson Hall, Cadet Library and Learning Center at West Point on September 24th. This new state-of-the-art library was 11 years in the making from inception to completion. It is a spectacular building – open and very inviting. Everyone I spoke to said that the Cadets love it and are flocking there in droves in the evenings (hence the title for this blog post). Continue reading this post…

Congratulations to Helene Tieger, Bard College, and Tina Kiernan, Dutchess Community College, for their recent contributations to the Fall 2008 newsletter for the Eastern New York chapter of the ACRL. Almost the entire newsletter is dedicated to digitization projects from New York State.

Here is the link to the newsletter http://www.enyacrl.org/Fall2008.pdf

RSS feeds are a very popular technology that allow you to be notified if a sites changes or adds content such as SEquest.  To view an RSS feed you need to have an RSS reader, such as Bloglines or Google Reader for example.  Continue reading this post…

SEquest which is the SENYLRC blog is a communication tool for SENYLRC to share with members news, events, and other information.  By the use of a blog it will allow SENYLRC to offer information in a variety of different formats such as web, email, or RSS feed. Continue reading this post…

SEARCHING AND REQUESTING FROM THE ADELPHI UNIVERSITY CATALOG IN SEAL

I have received several phone calls from SEAL users asking what items can be borrowed from Adelphi.  The Adelphi University catalog was added to SEAL in July 2008.  The Adelphi University Main Campus is located in Garden City on Long Island and they have three additional locations.  One of them, the Hudson Valley Center is in Poughkeepsie and is participating in the SEAL ILL System. Continue reading this post…

The MISP Tool kits will be distributed to school librarians at the first meetings of the School Library Systems. Sullivan schools have already received theirs, Rockland schools will be distributed on 9/14 and other school library council meetings  will follow in October. Continue reading this post…

On September 9, 2008, Congressman Maurice Hinchey announced that SENYLRC was awarded a grant of $39,600 to plan for the identification of and digitization of oral history sound recordings from the region. Continue reading this post…