NYSLAA conference!

Good morning Everyone!
Curious minds want to know......
Who from our member libraries will be going to the NYSLAA conference this year?

So far - PLS, Williamson and Newark will be represented.
Anyone else???

Stories from the cloud

Check out this story from School Library Journal.
It's great to hear that a Library Assistant can make such a big difference!


http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/printissuecurrentissue/889152-427/stories_from_the_cloud_books.html.csp

Go to the NYSLAA conference for free!

The Executive Council will present one NYSLAA member an Award to attend the 2011 Conference at SUNY Geneseo. The winner will receive full conference registration and one night’s lodging. (Tours, mixer and shirts are on your own.)

To qualify you must be a current NYSLAA member and NOT be receiving any funding from your Library to attend the Conference. Write a statement of 150 to 300 words on “What NYSLAA means to me and why I would love to attend this year’s conference at SUNY Geneseo.”

Please send your essay to me at the below address. Email would be preferred, but if you are sending via the mail, please let me know (phone or email) that it is being sent.

DEADLINE FOR ENTERING TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS YEAR’S CONFERENCE IS APRIL 1^ST.

Sally McMaster

University of Rochester

Interlibrary Loan

755 Library Rd

Rochester, NY 14627

(585) 275-9502

smcmaster@library.rochester.edu

NYSLAA President

2011 Library Journal Paralibrarian.

Congratulations go out to a Library Assistant from New York!


http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/889093-264/ljs_2011_paralibrarian_of_the.html.csp

Library in Egypt

This is a great that was on NPR.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/02/24/134009161/egypts-jewel-of-a-library-reopens-thanks-to-demonstrators

Library of the year contest - sponsored by RRLC

Hello everyone,

Once again this year, RRLC will be sponsoring a National Library Week "Library of the Year" contest.

The contest, held during the late February - March time period, asks your patrons to tell us why your library is a "great" library and why they "love your library". Winners (announced during NLW) in each of three categories - school, public, academic/special - receive a $100 gift card, an engraved plaque and a 6' banner to hang in their library.. plus they are our guests and honored at our Annual Meeting in June. We also work with the library to ensure that the media, local funders, and others in NYS are aware of the winning libraries. Last year's winners were: Chili Public Library, Golisano Library at Roberts Wesleyan, and Barclay Elementary School Library.

People will be directed to our website to complete or download an online nomination form. The _number_ of entries doesn't matter as much as the _heart_ that is behind the nomination!

We will have 11 x 17 posters available for any library that would like one. See a sample of the 2011 NLW poster at: http://bit.ly/gvhvFY

Please let us know how many posters you would like for your library. NOTE: digital files will also be available.

Thank you!

Please respond by: Jan. 21.

Kathy --
Kathleen M. Miller
Executive Director
Rochester Regional Library Council
390 Packett's Landing
Fairport, NY 14450
585-223-7570 (phone)
585-223-7712 (fax)
585-472-6508 (cell)
kmiller@rrlc.org
AIM: kmmiller1863

Book returned after 65 years!

Sound and Symbol in Chinese by Bernhard Karlgren, checked out from Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1946, found its way back to the shelves after a 65-year absence. It was returned by John J. Wolfe of St. Louis who located the book in his private library. Wolfe, a soldier recuperating from surgery at Fort Meade in 1946 after World War II, visited the library and “thought it [the book] might be useful.” Library officials report that Sound and Symbol in Chinese is in pristine condition and has the original due date card in the back.