The NY 3Rs Association, Inc. is prepared to take on the management and administration of a statewide library delivery system. A NY 3RS Association task force was charged with evaluating the existing LAND delivery service and making recommendations for a new service that replicates the services LAND provided. This new service will ideally connect to existing regional delivery services and improve resource sharing throughout the state of New York. The new services would be in place by July 2012; the regional interconnectivity would be phased in by June 2013. The IDS Project and ConnectNY have partnered with the NY 3Rs Association to engage Gregory Pronevitz, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Library System, as a consultant for this project. Responsibilities of the consultant will include:

• developing a survey instrument to survey stakeholders
• developing a procurement document for vendors
• consulting with vendors and reviewing proposals
• working with the task force to identify the best vendor and draft/review a contract

For future updates on this work, please visit the NY 3Rs Association website: http://ny3rs.org.

There are 5 open slots for the 2010/11 Board of Trustees. Each governing member of the Council is allowed one vote. Please complete your online voting by Friday, June 4, 2010. The results will be announced at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Council on June 11, 2010 at Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz.
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You are invited to attend SENYLRC’s 42nd Annual Meeting scheduled for Friday, June 12, 2009 at the West Point Club on the historic campus of the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY.  Following the meeting and luncheon will be two tours -  one of the new Thomas Jefferson Library and Learning Center and a walking tour of the surrounding campus buildings.

For more information and registration information, go to www.senylrc.org/annual.

Please save the date of Friday, June 12, 2009 for the date of SENYLRC’s Annual Meeting. It will be held this year on Post of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York in the West Point Officer’s Club. After lunch, there will be a tour of the sixth-floor new library which is extremely beautiful. We are still working on the speaker for the annual meeting. Registration is not yet open.

Congratulations to Judy Fischetti, SENYLRC’s Member Services Librarian, who today, Friday, October 3, was notified that she received a 2008 NYLA Dewey Fellowship to attend the New York Library Association Conference in Saratoga Springs in November. The Fellowship is a $1250 stipend to attend the conference. Judy was nominated by the Academic and Special Library Section (ASLS) of NYLA for her fine efforts in co-editing the newsletter of ASLS.

Attention academic librarians: Mark your calendar for Thursday, May 7, 2009.    On that day, SENYLRC will be sponsoring an all day workshop titled “Information Commons 2.0-Lessons Learned and Moving Forward.” Currently in the planning stages,  we have secured Dr. D. Russell Bailey, Director of the Phillips Memorial Library at Providence College as our keynote speaker. Dr. Bailey is one of the foremost experts in the Information Commons (Learning Commons) environment and has authored several books and articles on the subject. We also are in the process of identifying potential workshop presenters from academic libraries which have implemented an information Commons and who can share with the audience the results of several years of experience with this concept.

The conference will be held at the Wallace Center on the grounds of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Home and Museum. Conference planners include Chui-chun Lee and Susan Kraat from SUNY New Paltz, Kari Mack from Ulster County Community College, and SENYLRC staff John Shaloiko and Judy Fischetti.

Any comments or suggestions as we continue with this planning effort are welcome on this blog posting

The following libraries and cultural heritage organizations have been accepted as members to the Southeastern NY Library Resources Council since July 2008. For a complete list of SENYLRC’s Governing and Affiliate members:  http://www.senylrc.org/members/directories/members.htm 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…

This link below will take you to the six PowerPoint presentations that were the basis for the May 7 conference at the FDR Home and Museum. You can also get to these presentations through the main homepage of SENYLRC’s website www.senylrc.org

http://www.senylrc.org/ce/presentations/NextGen05072008