June 2002
June 2002
Mark Your Calendar...June 3 - "Imaging: Scanners and Digital Cameras" will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the NNYLN in Potsdam. There is a $10 fee and lunch is included. June 5 - "PC Troubleshooting: Protecting Your Public Access PC" will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the NNYLN in Potsdam. There is a $10 fee and lunch is included. June 14 - "Searching Electronic Reference Databases" will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the NNYLN in Potsdam. There is a $10 fee and lunch is included. (This workshop was rescheduled from June 12.) June 21 - "OCLC ILL Basic Using the Web Interface" will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the NNYLN in Potsdam. There is a $10 fee and lunch is included. July 4 - The NNYLN office will be closed in observance of Independence Day. July 8 - "Interactive Web Site Essentials" will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the NNYLN in Potsdam. There is a $10 fee and lunch is included. (This workshop will take the place of "Search Engine Savvy," which was originally scheduled for this date.) July 8&9 - "Creating a Culture of Assessment" will be held in the METRO New York Library Council area. It will be repeated on July 11&12 in the Southeastern New York Library Council area, and on July 15&16 in the Rochester Regional Library Council area. For information or to register for any of the workshops being held at the NNYLN, please contact us at 315-265-1119, or toll-free at 877-833-1674, or email: cont-ed@northnet.org |
Professional Development Grants ApprovedThe Professional Development grant program continues to be very successful through the Northern New York Library Network. The following library staff wrote successful applications for Professional Development grant funds in May 2002: Nancy Alzo, SUNY Potsdam and Holly Heller-Ross, SUNY Plattsburgh will be attending the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Information Literacy Immersion Institute. Barbara Osgood, Clarkson University, will be attending the New York State Library Assistants Association Annual Conference. Ravil Veli, SUNY Plattsburgh, will attend the American Library Association annual conference, and Allison Wheeler, St. Lawrence Lewis BOCES School Library System, will attend the School Library Systems Association 2002 Conference. Sarah Sachs, Potsdam Public Library, recently attended "Impressions and Experience" at Syracuse University. With regard to the distance learning program at SU she said, "I find the distance learning situation to be an incredible opportunity for people who already have an established family and/or work life and live far enough away from a school to make a commute impossible. "My favorite experience to date was a group project in Telecommunications and Information Policy class that I worked with two gentlemen, one a manager at ATT in Syracuse, and one a Japanese employee of a German telecommunications firm in Japan. We have never met, probably have little in common, and yet we wrote a policy paper that was passed around the globe for additions and editing a dozen times before it was finished," Ms. Sachs said. |