Southern Adirondack Library System

CaDiLaC is Back

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:44:55 +0000

CDLC ANNOUNCES CaDiLaC Online 2.0!

The new and improved CaDiLaC, using Index Data’s MasterKey™ information delivery platform, provides fast, easy-to-use access to 25 library catalogs and the records of more than 425 academic, public, school, hospital, and special libraries plus the New York State Library.

Because many people missed CaDiLaC, we are making CaDiLaC Online 2.0 available for use even before help screens or FAQs are finished. The most important points you need to know are on the opening screen (http://www.cdlc.org/CaDiLaC/cadilac.shtml), so be sure to read them. We hope that you will let us know if you have questions or suggestions.

Many thanks to CDLC Systems Consultant Joe Thornton for his creativity and persistence in working with the Index Data staff to get CaDiLaC Online 2.0 up so quickly!

To check out CaDiLaC Online 2.0, go to www.cdlc.org and click on the CaDiLaC Online 2.0 button on the left.

Planning & Management of Buildings — Assessment Results

Jill R — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:19:29 +0000

Participants of the September 2009 CPLA workshop, “Planning & Management of Buildings” presented by Cheryl Bryan, learned how to assess their current buildings and how to develop and implement building improvement projects. As a result of this workshop and the current LSTA grant, library managers were asked to have three building assessment surveys filled out by a library staff member, a trustee, and a patron. They were then asked to tell SALS how they implemented a change to their buildings based on the survey feedback.

Here are some of their stories

Digitizing Audio Workshop

jennifer — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:19:57 +0000

CDLC is sponsoring a workshop on digitizing audio materials on March 24, 2010, 12:30-4:30 at CDLC. Feel free to bring a bag lunch. Cost is $17 for CDLC Digital Collections participants and CDLC Personal Members; $22 for staff of

CDLC member libraries; and $35 for non-members.

Registration deadline is March 19, 2010.

Workshop participants will learn the basics of digitizing audio. This knowledge is essential whether you choose to digitize material in-house or use a vendor. Topics that will be covered in this workshop include the benefits of digitizing audio collections, planning a project, equipment needed to digitize, audio reformatting software, metadata specific to audio reformatting, and storage and preservation considerations. The workshop will also include a demonstration of digitizing a cassette tape.

Our presenter, Mark Wolfe, received an M.A. in History and an M.L.S. from the University at Albany in 2003. He has seven years of experience working with digital technologies in libraries and archives.

For more information and a registration form, visit http://www.cdlc.org/pdfs/DigitizingAudioWorkshop3-10.pdf

Summer Reading Workshop Cancelled: Snow Date in Effect

jennifer — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:40:30 +0000

If you previously did not register for the workshop and can now make it to the March 4th date, please RSVP by Friday February 26th.

Confirmed Programmers and Performers:

Children’s World Awareness Museum

J. Ernie McHale, magiacian and balloon artist

Andy the Music Man, children’s musican

Jodie Fitz, Price Chopper Kids Cooking Club

Registration information

New eAudiobooks

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:09:40 +0000

Having trouble finding something that is in? Try an advanced search and click the checkbox for “Only show titles with copies available”

This month look for the following new titles on the SALON website.

If you have specific title suggestions, and if they are available through Overdrive, every consideration will be given to add them to the collection.

Libraries should send all reader/listener suggestions to Jennifer.

Privacy Rights in a Digital Age

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:47:02 +0000

Join the Director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, Barbara Jones, to learn about a new ALA initiative that invites library users into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age. This session will explore how libraries can assist patrons in thinking critically and making more informed choices about their information privacy. Choose Privacy Week, a week-long awareness campaign and celebration, will take place May 2-8, 2010, and Barbara will be showcasing some of ALA’s ideas and promotional materials.

The same workshop will be presented in 2 sessions. Please indicate which session you will attend, when you RSVP.

Session 1:
Thursday March 11^th, 2010 6 pm to 8 pm in the Holden Room of the Crandall Public Library

Session 2:
Friday March 12^th, 2010 9 am to 11 am in the Harry Dutcher Community Room of the Saratoga Springs Public Library

Seating is limited. Please RSVP by March 8^th to Jennifer Ferriss

Outreach Grant: Adult English Language Learners

jennifer — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:26:51 +0000

A grant opportunity to add or expand literacy services for adult English language learners at your library. The “American Dream Starts @ your library” program has seventy (70) $5,000 grants available for public libraries. Sponsored by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation.
For requirements and guidelines visit the grant website.
Application is due February 28, 2010

Money for Rural Libraries

sara — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:28 +0000

We all know that the libraries in the Southern Adirondack Library System are both culturally and technologically critical in our rural communities. We provide internet access, computer literacy training, and provide information in all formats. The Secretary of Agriculture has designated$100 million in USDA Rural Development CommunityFacilities funding for public libraries. The program will provide educational opportunities and improve public services in rural communities.

From the press release: The $100 million will primarily be provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The Recovery Act funds will help give rural communities the opportunity to improve their library facilities, enhance educational opportunities and improve economic conditions in America’s rural communities. Library construction or renovation projects also will create and save jobs for residents in the construction and library service fields.

2010 Notables and Youth Media Award winners

jennifer — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:28:28 +0000

Randolph Caldecott Medal: Honors the illustrator of the most distinguished picture book for children published in the U.S. during the preceding year.

Winner: The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney

John Newberry Medal: Honors the year’s most distinguished contribution by a U.S. citizen or resident to American literature for children.

Winner: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Coretta Scott King Book Award: Honors a black author and a black illustrator for an outstanding, inspirational, and educational contribution to literature for children and young people published during the preceding year.

Winner (author) : Bad News For Outlaws by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Winner (illustrator) : My People by Langston Hughes, photographs by Charles R. Smith Jr.

Michael L Printz Award: Honors literary excellence in books for young adults.

Winner: Going Bovine by Libba Bray

For more Youth Media awards visit the ALA website.

Notables: Readable fiction, nonfiction and poetry books for adult readers selected by the Notable Book Council, a group of Reference and User Services Association members and readers’ advisory experts.

Fiction:
The Convalescent by Jessica Anthony
The Year of the Flood : A Novel by Margaret Atwood
The Anthologist: A Novel by Nicholson Baker
Await Your Reply: A Novel by Dan Chaon

For more fiction titles visit the RUSA blog

Nonfiction:
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsessions in the Amazon by David Grann

For more non-fiction titles visit the RUSA blog

Poetry:
Face by Alexie Sherman
What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009 by Stephen Dunn

Snapshot: A Day in the Life of a Library

jennifer — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:33:57 +0000

What’s life like on a typical day at your library? Wouldn’t you like to document in statistics, pictures, videos and user comments just how busy and essential your library is?

Then join New York’s libraries and participate in “Snapshot: A Day in the Life of a Library” by collecting statistics, comments, and photographs/videos from one day between now and Feb. 17th to provide tangible proof that libraries consistently provide invaluable services to our communities, in our schools and on our college campuses.

Pick a day and send NYLA your statistics for that one day in any or all of these areas:

1. Patron/Student Visits/Door Count

2. Internet/Public Computer Usage

3. Number of Reference Questions

4. Number of Educational Programs Offered (computer, early childhood/adult literacy, etc.)

5. Circulation Total for the Day

In the near future, NYLA will provide you with a link to a survey form and website to provide statistics that you have gathered and any comments, photos or videos you would like to share from that day.

For assistance in organizing your “ SnapShotNY: A Day in the Life of a Library” , please contact Johanna Geiger at events@nyla.org.

Submit your statistics and testimonials by Feb. 17th so NYLA can compile everything and showcase the information at Library Lobby Day, Tuesday, March 2nd in Albany.

The libraries submitting the top three videos/photos/comments will receive a Flip Video Camera and one free registration to the NYLA Annual Conference in Saratoga Springs – Nov. 3-6th.

Check out these other similar initiatives for some ideas and results:

<SnapShotPA: A Day in the Life of Pennsylvania Libraries>

<Snapshot: One Day in the Life of New Jersey Libraries>