NY 3Rs News!

• METRO announces the release of Digitization in the Real World: LESSONS LEARNED FROM SMALL TO MEDIUM-SIZED DIGITIZATION PROJECTS.   This book represents the first self-published text METRO has ever sponsored.     Press Release
  

• Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System faces layoffs, closures due to budget shortfall  Read more

   

• RRLC hosted a group of visitors from Morocco as part of the US Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program IVLP). The five Moroccan women were in the United States from June 28 through July 16, and spent three days in the Rochester area  Read more

• Academic Librarians Conference 2010 huge success!  Conference presentations and reading lists

• LILRC Executive Director, Herbert Biblo, receives the Distinguished Service Award for 2010 by the NYS Association of Library Boards Read more

• The Editorial Team of the Journal of Library Innovation announces the publication of its first issue. Editor-in-Chief is Sheryl Knab, Executive Director of WNYLRC Read more

• SENYLRC Announces Launch of New Website  Read more

• NY 3Rs Role in Academic Library Services  Read more

Explore these exciting, innovative, collaborative services, projects, and programs:

NY 3Rs Association and the Academic and Special Libraries Section of NYLA were proud to present The Academic Librarians 2010 Conference: Faster than the Speed of Bytes: Technology, Cognition, and the Academic Librarian on June 7 & 8, 2010, in Ithaca, NY. We wish to extend a large "Thank You" to our generous sponsors: WALDO, EBSCO, CCP Solutions, Busca, University at Buffalo Department of Library and Information Studies, iSchool@Syracuse University, Mango Languages, Playaway, and ProQuest

Conference presentations and reading lists

       ************************************

Help us protect NY’s libraries and library systems!
Tell the NYS Legislature to reject the $2.4 million cut in Library Aid Governor David Paterson is proposing in the 2010-2011 Executive Budget. This fifth cut in less than two years will bring Library Aid down from $102 million in 2007 to $84.5 million in 2010...an 18% reduction in funding for library services. Libraries are part of our safety net—they are essential to life long learning, jobs and opportunity, quality of life and community empowerment.

************************************

Ask Us 24/7 is an Internet-based virtual text chat service connecting information seekers with librarians, available 24 hours a day, 7 days per week.  Read more...

************************************

NewYorkHeritage.org is a research portal for students, educators, historians, genealogists, and others who are interested in the Empire State's history. A gateway to hundreds of digital collections about New York State's people, places, and institutions. NewYorkHeritage brings together freely accessible digital collections from libraries, museums and archives from all over the state. See New York State's rich and unique history told through images, artifacts and documents--just a click away!

************************************

Featured Member

Congratulations to METRO on the release of their self-sponsored publication: Digitization in the Real World: LESSONS LEARNED FROM SMALL TO MEDIUM-SIZED DIGITIZATION PROJECTS.  According to Executive Director, Dottie Hiebing, "Digitization in the Real World represents a significant new milestone in our commitment to providing library professionals with the hands-on experience and guidance they need to plan, execute, and manage digitization projects over the long term.  As we continually look for new ways to help libraries stay ahead of the curve in digitization, technology and other areas, this strategy has the clear potential to be a major focus of our work in the years ahead."  Read more on their blog

************************************

Latest update August 24, 2010