Space is still available winter and summer.

Learn to find and use primary sources like these.

The series will emphasize items available online from the Library of Congress and regional collections such as Hudson River Valley Heritage while covering common formats, citation and copyright issues, tools, and strategies for using primary sources. Special attention will be given to Common Core. Continue reading this post…

Learn to use primary sources available online from the Library of Congress and regional collections including Hudson River Valley Heritage.

We’ll cover common formats, citation and copyright issues, tools and strategies for using primary sources. Special attention will be given to the Common Core.

Participants will research projects related to their own classrooms ending the series with ready-to use activities or lessons. The series will provide information, and more importantly time, to integrate primary sources to your teaching. Continue reading this post…

Learn to use primary sources available online from the Library of Congress and regional collections including Hudson River Valley Heritage. Continue reading this post…

The Greater Hudson Heritage Network (GHHN) was awarded a Connecting to Collections Statewide Implementation Grant from the IMLS. The NY 3Rs Association is one of many partners in this 2-year project.  The Southeastern NY library Resources Council is the primary contact between GHHN and the NY 3Rs. Continue reading this post…

Is your organization interested in providing web access to historic materials from your collections? The Hudson River Valley Heritage (www.hrvh.org) service, administered by SENYLRC, is a digital repository designed for contributions from multiple organizations. The first step to contributing items to HRVH is to learn about the various aspects of digitization.

SENYLRC is offering a four-day workshop series on digitization for staff at libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies. These workshops are for people ready to be trained in the five basic areas of digitization necessary to contribute digital objects to www.hrvh.org : management, copyright, digital imaging, metadata and CONTENTdm (software application). The goal is to develop staff with expertise to create and maintain digital collections, on their own, with the assistance of SENYLRC staff. Continue reading this post…

On Monday April 23rd  the Hudson River Valley Heritage Site will be down from about  1am till 12PM for software upgrades.

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…

Digitizing for HRVH Historical Newspapers: A Planning Primer
Date: Wednesday, February 22^nd (snow date Friday, February 24^th)
Time: 9:30 AM to 12:00 noon
Location: SENYLRC, Highland, NY

Cost:
SENYLRC governing members and HRVH members: no charge
Non-members: $10.00

Register Online: http://www.senylrc.org/reg/

Do you have historic newspapers on microfilm? Have you ever thought about digitizing them for greater access? If you have, then this information session is for you! Continue reading this post…

Published: Sunday, November 06, 2011

By ANN GIBBONS

Daily Freeman

HUDSON VALLEY CHAPTER OF (SLA) SPECIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

ANNUAL MEETING 2011

WHAT YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT DIGITIZATION BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK Continue reading this post…