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Minutes for September 2009 Board Meeting Posted

UNYSLA Board September meeting minutes have been posted to the wiki.

Librarian's Toolbox: LibGuides and Other Tools

by Kim Montenyohl

At UNYSLA’s recent fall meeting, The Librarian’s Toolbox, Christian Miller and Linda Galloway presented an overview of several inexpensive and free online tools that librarians can use to share information and improve collaboration.

They began by discussing LibGuides, an online content management system that allows librarians to create multimedia subject guides. LibGuides are simple to set up and maintain, easy to customize for different groups of patrons, and they enable librarians to combine a wide variety of informational tools within one subject guide, such as RSS feeds, embedded videos, and chat reference features. LibGuides also has an active user community of librarians, so new users can get inspiration for creating their LibGuides by browsing the LibGuides of other libraries. In addition, advice and tips are readily available from Springshare's online discussion forum. Miller and Galloway created a sample LibGuide for their presentation to demonstrate some of these features.

Ex Libris Mid-Atlantic User Group Meeting 5&6 November

Ex Libris Mid-Atlantic User Group Meeting
5 & 6 November 2009

The Ex Libris Mid-Atlantic User Group promotes the exchange of ideas and innovation between users of all Ex Libris products (Aleph, Voyager, SFX, MetaLib, DigiTool, Verde, and Primo) in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Eastern Pennsylvania. In addition, we invite users from any other state or country.

The annual Ex Libris Mid-Atlantic Users Group (EMA) Meeting will be held at Binghamton University’s Downtown Center in Binghamton, New York on November 5th from 9am to November 6th till 2pm, 2009.

Information and registration available on the official conference website. 

Upstate New York Science Librarians Meeting on 26 October

Registration for the Upstate New York Science Librarians Meeting is now open!

This year's meeting will be held in Ithaca at Cornell University. The program includes topics ranging from public services, reference & outreach to technology, data and open access issues. Come join your colleagues!

In addition to the posters and presentations, there are several tours scheduled around Cornell's campus, including the Lake Source Cooling Facility and the Biofuels Laboratory. A welcoming reception will be held at the Lab of Ornithology on Sunday night before the meeting. If you can't make that, don't worry: join the Lab of O for their Monday Night Seminar!

New Member Profile: Beth McCalister

Beth McCalister is currently employed by Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services, in Buffalo, New York, working as a library assistant in the Information Resources Center. Working in a corporate library has given Beth an entirely new perspective -- for which she is grateful -- on libraries and librarians and she looks forward to being an active member of UNYSLA.

Beth received her B.A. in Environmental Design from the University at Buffalo in 2003 and is presently working on her Masters degree at the same university. In her free time she most enjoys spending time with her 4-year-old daughter, reading and supporting Buffalo's local NHL hockey team, the Sabres!