Faster than the Speed of Bytes: Technology, Cognition, and the Academic Librarian

Dates: June 7 & 8, 2010
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HANDHELD LIBRARIAN ONLINE CONFERENCE
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
& Thursday, February 18, 2010

Hosted by:
Southeastern NY Library Resources Council
21 S. Elting Corners Rd.
Highland, NY 12528
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Would you like to attend this conference but have no place to view it uninterrupted at your location? SENYLRC is hosting the Handheld Librarian Online Conference scheduled on February 17 – 18, 2010 from 11:00 am to 6:30 pm EST both days. The entire conference is “attended” virtually via the Internet. Come to SENYLRC to join your colleagues for an online gathering on mobile services by and for libraries. There is no fee to attend, however registration is required. When you register, please select the times that you will attend. The cost for SENYLRC’s registration to host a group viewing is fully subsidized through SENYLRC’s regional automation program through New York State funds. Lunch is available for $5.00/day, payable at the event. Continue reading this post…

SENYLRC’s Continuing Education Committee needs your help to plan their very first “unconference” Solutions for Hard Times: Cutting Costs While Improving Services. Please fill out a brief survey to help us determine areas of greatest interest. Go to: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Um5fkSuoZllOBZn6jpfXPA_3d_3d. Continue reading this post…

SENYLRC sponsored Information Commons 2.0: Lessons Learned and Moving Forward, a conference that was held on May 7, 2009.  One of the people who attended blogged about the conference on the PLA blog.  Here is the link to the posting: http://plablog.org/tag/senylrc.

This link below will take you to the four PowerPoint presentations that were the basis for the May 7 conference at the FDR Home and Museum. 

http://www.senylrc.org/ce/presentations/information_commons_05072009/

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.

An   engaging dialogue about User Experience (UX) and its relevance within the information profession.
Keynote speaker will be Dr. William Gribbons,  well-known UX expert and Director, Master of Science in Human Factors Information Design Program, Bentley College, MA.

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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.