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Extinction is Not an Option: Ensuring OUR Future

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the LILRC Annual Conference on Libraries and the Future. What a better time than now to take a look back at where we’ve been in order to explore where we’re going. Our first Annual Conference explored the theme of “Access to Information: Paradigms for the Future,” in which strategic visions of library services were explored. Thru the years, the LILRC Annual Conference has delved into timely topics including virtual reality, the library of the future, cyberstudents, einformation and e-libraries, access in the digital age, information commons, and much more.

As we reflect on the past and look to the future, the conference theme chosen for this year, “Extinction is Not an Option: Ensuring OUR Future” will mark 20 years of what hopes to be innovative and inspiring speakers, an engaging learning experience, and an opportunity to network with colleagues. And so, we would invite you to mark your calendars and take advantage of early bird rates for registration.

We’ll kick off Thursday night with a guest speaker from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and follow-up on Friday with three distinguished speakers including:

▪ James G. Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University

▪ Eli Neiburger, Associate Director, IT and Production, Ann Arbor District Library

▪ Michael Porter, Community Product Manager, WebJunction, OCLC

We look forward to seeing many of you on October 27th & 28th, at DowlingCollege, Fortunoff Hall.

REGISTER NOW FOR EARLY BIRD RATES

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Guest speakers include:

• Nicole Engard, Director of Open Source Education at ByWater Solutions
• Cindy Stark, Associate Librarian, New York State Library.  Cindy Stark has worked at the New York State Library for over 20 years. She is currently the associate librarian in charge of interlibrary loan, document delivery, and acquisitions. The State Library uses ILLiad software to process interlibrary loan requests and belongs to IDS, a resource-sharing cooperative within New York State.
  
• Lisa Carlucci Thomas, Digital Services Librarian, Southern Connecticut State University. Lisa Carlucci Thomas is an experienced manager and librarian known for her leadership and innovation in academic libraries and for her research on mobile devices & ebooks. Lisa is Digital Services Librarian at Southern Connecticut State University, where she is responsible for exploring, developing, and coordinating library technologies, systems, and digital initiatives. Lisa previously worked at the Yale University Library in the areas of digital collections, e-resource management, archives, reference, and access services. Lisa was named a 2010 Library Journal Mover & Shaker and was recognized by the American Library Association as a 2009 Emerging Leader.
  
• Blake Carver, Owner, LISHost.org

Be sure to visit the LILRC Continuing Education Calendar online at http://lilrc.org/calendars/cont_edcalendar.php for additional information on upcoming workshops.

This presentation explored what QR codes are, how they are being used, and library applications.  Through discussion and the use of videos, Joe demonstrated how libraries can engage their audience within and beyond libraries–including such examples as scavenger hunts within and outside of the library, learning to use the academic library, marketing, information delivery and much more.

PRESENTATION SLIDES: 

(http://www.slideshare.net/secret/sMJ0CeCNrK6MXF)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

QR CODE GENERATORS:

• Kaywa (http://qrcode.kaywa.com/)
• ZXing Project (http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/)
• QR Stuff (http://www.qrstuff.com/)

Special thanks to the Sachem Public Library for hosting this event.

PRESENTATION SLIDES:

The session began with a  conversation covering how people may critique your work and the common tools used for desktop publishing such as Microsoft, etc.  Participants then shared their own backgrounds and knowledge of different design projects.  During this conversation, attendees where asked to consider:

• What is your brand and what three words describe it?
• What do people go to you to ask? What are they coming to you for and what do you want them to come to for?

In the context of libraries, we considered the question: why do people come to your library; to your space–what attracts them?

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

Open Source Design Resources:

• Scribus (www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus)
• Gimp (www.gimp.org)
• Inkscape (www.inkscape.org)
• Google Picasa (www.picasa.google.com)

Other Sites of Interest:

• MorgueFile (www.morguefile.com)
• Portable Apps (http://portableapps.com)
• Vi.Sualize.Us (http://vi.sualize.us)
• FFFFound (http://ffffound.com)

Texts:

• Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden and Jill Butler
• Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities by David Airey

For more information, please visit John LeMasney’s website at: http://johnwlemasney.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/lilrc-graphic-design-best-practices.

Helen Tannenbaum teaches a PubMed Clinics of North America class at Farmingdale State College, Greenley Library, to 17 academic, public and hospital librarians from Long Island.

The day’s activities included exercises on how to locate articles, the process and procedure for subject indexing, and participants even participated in a scavenger hunt.

Additional PubMed-Related Resources:

Sample Search: Using advanced search feature to combine two previous search results.

NN/LM PubMed Brochures

• Full Text and PubMed: http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/fulltexttri.pdf
• LoansomeDoc: http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/ldtrifold.pdf
• PubMed Basics: http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/pmtri.pdf
• PubMed My NCBI: http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/myncbitri.pdf
• Searching PubMed with MeSH: http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/meshtri.pdf

NLM PubMed Online Training: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html

NN/LM Non-English Guides to PubMed: http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/intlpubmedlinks.html

MedlinePlus® for Health Professionals: http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/mp4hptri.pdf

Also be sure tour the new, customizable My NCBI home page and functions:

Special thanks to Farmingdale State College, Greenley Library for hosting this event and to all that attended.

Fun Fact: Do you know what EBSCO stands for?
Answer: Elton B. Stephens COmpany

The EBSCO Support site, which was recently redesigned, now offers a variety of resources including tutorials, handouts, online training sessions and much more.  Visit http://support.ebscohost.com for more details.

Getting the Most with EBSCO’s Alt HealthWatch
Hands-On Training Session

Date: April 6, 2011
Time: 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Location: Farmingdale State College, Greenley Library

EBSCO’s Alt HealthWatch database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness and offers access to full‐text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer‐reviewed journals and reports.

During this hands-on training session, Pamela Erickson, Implementation Specialist for EBSCO Publishing, will lead the group on how to get the most out of EBSCO’s Alt HealthWatch database. This session will also focus on new enhancements to the EBSCOhost platform including the text-to-speech feature, improved user‐interface, EBSCOhost Mobile, and much more.

Presented by: Pamela Erickson, Implementation Specialist, EBSCO Publishing

Maximum number of attendees: 25

Click HERE for registration form.

PRESENTATION SLIDES:

Special thanks to the Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library for hosting this event, Joe Murphy, and all who attended and contributed to the conversation.

Join LILRC on Monday, March 28, 2011 from 9:30AM-3:30PM at the Brentwood Public Library for a day-long workshop which provides a framework for facilitating, enabling, and sustaining organizational change.  In addition to an introduction to organizational change theory, an applied approach to understanding and managing change will be taken. Participants will work in large and small groups with the end goal of designing an action plan for implementing a change scenario.

Emphasis will be placed on:

• Examining one’s own reaction to change
• Cultivating an awareness of others reactions to change through a study of the various behavioral stages that people experience in light of organizational change
• Identifying key stakeholders and change agents within one’s organization
• Developing effective tools, including the necessary communication skills to enable staff to understand, accept, and embrace change
• Designing a metric for charting the progress of change

PRESENTED BY:

Deb Schmidle
Director
Research and Learning Services Olin/Uris Libraries, Cornell University

CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION FORM*

*Registration fee includes morning coffee and lunch

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