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Karen DeAngelo Reports from YSS Annual Conference

Thanks to a generous grant from the SALS Board, I was able to attend “Bring on the Joy, Bring on the Books,” the 32nd Annual Spring Conference of the Youth Services Section of the New York Library Association, which was held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in White Plains, NY.  It did, indeed, bring on the joy, from the kickoff with humor columnist Jerry Zezima to Saturday’s breakfast with author Libba Bray.Continue reading→

SALS 49th Annual Meeting

Longfellows Restaurant
500 Union Ave., Saratoga Springs, NY

Keynote presentation
Library 2.0: Meeting Community Needs
by Polly Alida Farrington

Polly is President of PA Farrington Associates, a consulting firm specializing in technology training, website development and project management, working with library systems in NY and CT. Recent classes have focused on the use of web 2.0 technologies in libraries. Before forming her own training and consulting firm in 1997, Polly was a librarian at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Polly has an undergraduate degree in archeology from the University of Buffalo, and an MLS from the State University of New York at Albany.

To view the evening’s agenda and for the registration form click here.
The deadline to register is Friday May 11, 2007.

This workshop is supported in part by Federal Library Services and Technology Act funds, awarded to New York State Library by the Federal Institue of Museum and Library Services.