You are invited to participate in an informational session via conference call about the New York 3Rs E-Book Pilot Project (Phase 2) on June 14th at 9:30 am at SENYLRC. Sheryl Knab, Director of the Western New York Library Resources Council and Pilot Coordinator, will describe the project and answer any questions during the call. Please register here: http://www.senylrc.org/reg/ Continue reading this post…

Earlier today, the NY3Rs released I2NY: Envisioning an Information Infrastructure for New York, a report that is the result of ongoing discussions about the urgent need for library and archives collaboration in New York State. The initiative’s overall mission is to “ensure that all New Yorkers have seamless, unfettered, and affordable access to information.”

The official press release outlines the needs which are addressed in the report:

Like many others throughout the country, New York libraries have been tasked with providing more essential services with fewer financial resources — an equation that is clearly unsustainable. Instead, libraries must focus on doing more with more, building on existing collaborations and developing new ones, removing barriers to cooperation, and proving that working together ultimately improves the services provided to constituent communities.

SENYLRC Executive Director John Shaloiko says, “The I2NY initiative is a culmination of the discussions over many months by the directors of the nine Regional Library Councils and other library stakeholders that will leverage collaboration among the councils, libraries, and library systems to formulate an information infrastructure for not only the Southeastern region, but the entire state.”

“The I2NY Report reflects our assessment of the current conditions for collaboration and shared project management among libraries in the state,” stated Kathleen Miller, Chair of the NY 3Rs Association.

For more information, The I2NY Report can be found here. (pdf) and the press release about the report can be found here. (pdf)

About I2NY:

In 2012, The New York 3Rs Association, Inc. engaged Tom Clareson, Senior Consultant for Digital and Preservation Services, LYRASIS, to work with library leaders throughout the state in the development of the “I2NY” project, formulating an Information Infrastructure for the State of New York. Clareson and a NY 3Rs Association Planning Committee designed a program that included a Summit on library and archival collaboration, a web survey on current trends and future needs of libraries and archives, and a series of meetings with leaders from the state’s library and archival community to gather and synthesize information for the development of a new collaborative framework for library and archival innovation and service delivery in New York.

About NY 3Rs:

NY 3Rs Association, Inc. comprises nine Reference and Research Library Resources in New York State, including the Metropolitan New York Library Council. Members of the nine NY 3Rs include both individual libraries – academic, special, hospital libraries, and public libraries – and other library systems. Additionally, all the public and school library systems in the state are members of their regional NY 3Rs. The mission of NY 3Rs Association, Inc. is to ensure and support interlibrary sharing of resources – print and electronic – among all kinds of libraries and to ensure equal access to information for all New Yorkers.

We hope you enjoyed participating in our webinar series as much as we enjoyed having you! After spending all this virtual time together, we want to have you over for lunch and a debriefing session to review what we’ve learned. You can register for lunch here: http://www.senylrc.org/reg/ and you can click “more” for the details:

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A PDF version of our newsletter is now available for download on our site here! Read more about Wilderstein, SENYLRC on social media, HRVH, upcoming grants, news from members, and much more!

This issue’s lead story is about the Wilderstein Historic Site, excerpted from the full story below:

The Mansion at Wilderstein

I recently had the privilege to meet Duane Watson, Wildestein Historic Site curator, for a tour of the mansion. The occasion for my trip to Rhinebeck was to hear more about the NEH grant awarded to the site and to see their environmental preservation in action. The grant was awarded in the fall of 2012 and provides $50,000 of expert advice through a team of two conservators, Alan Balicki, the New-York Historical Society, Rick Kerschner, the Shelburne Museum, VT and principle investigator Michael Henry of Watson & Henry, Bridgeton NJ, an architecture, planning and engineering firm. Mr. Henry teaches in the University of Pennsylvania program in Architecture and Historic Preservation. Continue reading this post…

What’s our best tool to help users find what they need? A pathfinder! Now, more than ever, online research guides are essential for navigating the online sea of information. However, do you sometimes feel a need for a guide for the guides? Join us for SENYLRC’s next Technology and Trends webinar with presenter Jason Puckett of GSU in Atlanta, who has extensive experience with the numerous modern pathfinders available to you. Continue reading this post…

News from the Southeastern Region, including updates on our webinars, iPad grants, lynda.com accounts, new hires, what’s new at hrvh.org and much more!

Download the .pdf newsletter here.

Below the jump – the full details on the update SENYLRC’s Strategic Plan from John Shaloiko, which was abstracted in the newsletter.

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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…

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has released a new mobile app that is intended to serve as the authoritative guide to NLM mobile resources. This app will improve your ability to find and use NLM mobile apps and sites.

The app was created as an HTML 5 mobile Web site in support of the Library’s ongoing efforts to make our information broadly available. Support for HTML 5 is available in Web browsers on many mobile devices. Information on all NLM mobile resources will be available through this app. To explore the app, visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mobile-app/ on a mobile device such as an iPhone, iPad, Android smart phone, Blackberry, or Microsoft phone.

In the app, users can find NLM Mobile resources by
Type: Web site vs. Application
Device: Android, Apple iOS, or Blackberry
Tags: Descriptive tags assigned by NLM used to categorize the resource (e.g., Drugs or Disasters)