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.

Koha software will be upgraded to the latest version Monday June 27 from 8:30-9:30 AM.

Customized features such as logos, colors and the Online Resource Buttons may not return immediately but everything should be updated by 12:30 AM. If you have trouble with SENYLRC hosted catalogs after that time, please contact Zach Spalding ,883-9065 x11 (note this is a new extension for Zach)

This change will also impact web site retrievals from the catalog for all institutions using the new Drupal web sites, Catskill Regional Medical Center, Nyack Hospital,  Vassar Brothers Medical Center, and Nathan Kline.

SENYLRC’s Regional Interlibrary Loan Committee (RIC) is planning an unconference and needs input from ILL staff in the region. Please go to

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GYSY733 to fill out a brief survey to determine topics of interest.

Committee members during their meetings discuss resource sharing and interlibrary loan topics and learn much from each other. The committee would like to include all interlibrary loan staff in the region for an “unconference”. What is Continue reading this post…

Message from the National Library of Medicine:

Featuring a freshened look and feel, a new logo, and distinctive color schemes for English and Spanish pages. The content on the current site will still be available in the new design, with some exciting new features and enhancements. The new design emphasizes search, makes navigation more intuitive, and highlights frequently used content. We invite you to preview the new design and read more about the changes.

Once the new look is live, please visit MedlinePlus, and send your feedback and comments to NLM staff about the new design via the “Contact Us” link that appears on every page.

While most people access the Hudson River Valley Heritage site though the web browsers, it is also possible to access the Hudson River Valley Heritage (HRVH) through OAI or Z39.50 if you know the correct settings.  You would use this information if you wanted to add HRVH to a repository or union catalog.

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Free online ILLiad training is available for staff from libraries in the region using ILLiad for resource sharing.  SENYLRC and the other 3R Councils in the state and SUNY have together purchased a subscription to Atlas Systems’ online ILLiad training.  Through this subscription, SENYLRC libraries using ILLiad have access to “live” online classes and all previously recorded classes for the next 11 months (June 1, 2010). Continue reading this post…

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.