Points North Newsletters

May 2008

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NNYLN’s 43rd Annual Meeting Is Set The Northern New York Library Network is hoping to see a large turn-out for its 43rd Annual Meeting being held Thursday, May 22, 2008 at the Bonnie Castle Resort in Alexandria Bay. Following registration at 9:30 a.m., participants will hear from featured speaker Robert J. Lackie, Associate Professor-Librarian at Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J., who will discuss Making the Next Generation of Web Technologies Work for Your Library. Web 2.0 is considered to be a new generation of services - or older, remixed ones - on the Web that let all of us better communicate, interact, collaborate, acquire, share, and create (or remix) and publish information online. It is driving changes in the way many want to access and use information. Some call it the social Web; others call it the read/write Web. Whatever students want to call it, RSS, blogs, wikis, tagging, and other social interactive tools and techniques are igniting tremendous interest everywhere. This excitement is not limited to the tech geeks or the iGen crowd, because many educators, including librarians of all types, are finding these technologies to be practical and worthy of exploration. Professor Lackie will discuss how libraries are adapting operations and procedures to include Web 2.0. Professor Lackie’s presentation will be followed by lunch and the Annual Meeting, including introduction of new trustees, and the announcement of the winner of the Network’s Award for Excellence in Library Service. Following lunch, those attending are in for a special treat - a performance by Adirondack storyteller Bill Smith. Mr. Smith is a native and life-long resident of the place he calls the Featherbed, just above the Village of Colton in St. Lawrence County. Bill Smith is as much an icon of life in the Adirondack Mountains as the guide boat, or the ash splint pack basket (which he happens to make with great skill). From his father, Mr. Smith learned about many of the old woodsmen‘s adventures and how to tell their stories; from his mother he learned many old ballads and songs that were popular among local folks in an earlier time in the North Country. Mr. Smith has become well known throughout the Northeast, traveling almost constantly to one place or another to tell Adirondack stories and sing old songs. There is no fee to attend the Annual Meeting, but registration with the Network is required.

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