WORKSHOPS AND MEETINGS ARE SCHEDULED
A number of workshop and meetings are scheduled for the Fall months. If
you are interested in taking part in a workshop, please be sure and contact
the Council office to register.
- Sept. 11&12 - "Basic Elements of Historical Records
Collections" will be held from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 11 at the
Hotel Saranac in Saranac Lake, and on Sept. 12 at the Days Inn in
Watertown. This workshop will provide information to the newcomer in
historical records, as well as serve as a refresher course for those who
have been in the field.
- Sept. 16 - The Clinton and Essex Counties Roundtable will be held
from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Senior Center in Schroon Lake. The topic will
be "Reaching Our Audience."
- Sept. 18 - "Interlibrary Loan - North Country Policies, Procedures
and Systems" will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Lake Placid Hilton.
This is the Council's Annual Interlibrary Loan Workshop.
- Sept. 25 - "Security in Archives" will be held from 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. at the Potsdam Museum. Discussion will revolve around the problems and
challenges involved in providing security to special collections of
materials.
- Sept. 26 - North Country regional meeting on Historical Records
Issues will be held from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Adirondack Museum in Blue
Mountain Lake. (For more information, go to www.nyshrab.org)
- Oct. 10 - "Database Searching" will be held from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
at Canton College. There is a cost of $10 which includes lunch. This is a
hands-on class offering training and practice time for learning and
refreshing skills in database searching.
- Oct. 12 - The North Country Reference and Research Resources Council
Board will meet at 10 a.m. in Canton.
- Oct. 13 - "Cataloging Internet Resources" will be held from 9 a.m.
to 3:30 p.m. at St. Lawrence University in Canton. There is a cost of $10
which includes lunch. This class covers how to use the MARC format with
Internet resources (AKA "remote access computer files".)
- Oct. 13 - The St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties Roundtable will be
held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder
Association in Malone. The topic will be "How to Survey Collections and
Make a Work Plan."
- Oct. 14 - The Jefferson/Lewis/Oswego Counties Roundtable will be held
from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Hilltop Restaurant in Constableville.
The topic will be "Volunteers."
- Oct. 25 - "Database Searching" will be held from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
at Clinton Community College in Plattsburgh. (This has been rescheduled
from Oct. 23. See Oct. 10 description.)
- Nov. 1-4 - New York Library Association Annual Conference will be
held in Saratoga Springs.
- Nov. 9 - The Council's Annual Library Assistants Conference will
be held from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at St. Lawrence University in Canton.
There is a cost of $10 which includes lunch.
- Nov. 17 - "Copyright in the Digital Age" will be held from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. at the Cheel Center at Clarkson University in Potsdam. (This has been
rescheduled from Oct. 13.)
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