SUNYLA Call for Proposals, June 6-8, 2012

SUNYLA 2012: Fashioning the Library of the Future June 6-8, 2012

Academic libraries are responding to a whirlwind of challenges and disruptions - from distance education to demonstrating value, from new technologies to new services. Staying “en vogue” means responding to these challenges in interesting and creative ways. Are you trying a new, user centered service or experimenting with patron driven technology at your library? Are you using new teaching strategies or experimenting with new technology in the classroom? How are you and your staff enhancing the value of your library? Come share your fashion forward knowledge with us at SUNYLA 2012 at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in Manhattan!

We welcome proposals for pre-conference workshops, conference sessions, panel discussions and poster presentations on any topic related to the future of libraries including but not limited to:

• Customer Service
  
• Reference Leadership/Management
  
• Accountability/Assessment
  
• Marketing
  
• Interlibrary Loan
  
• Intellectual Property/Copyright
  
• Information Literacy · Collection Development
  
• Patron driven acquisitions
  
• Archives/ Digitization projects
  
• Reserves
  
• Space Management
  
• Stacks Maintenance
  
• Student Workers Management
  
• Security

Submissions are accepted through our Google Form. If you are submitting proposals for multiple sessions, please fill out a form for each.

Deadline for proposals: February 24, 2012

Pre-conference Workshops
Scheduled Day: Wednesday, June 6
Format: 90 minutes or 3 hours and should include some interactive or hands-on component.
Notes: Special Interest Groups are invited to take advantage of this pre-conference time. Computer labs will be available for up to 3 pre-conference workshops. Please indicate whether you prefer or need a computer lab for your pre-conference session.
Contact: Rosanne Humes (Nassau) rosanne.humes@ncc.edu, 1-516-572-7402

Conference Sessions
Scheduled Day: Thursday, June 7 or Friday, June 8
Format: 45 or 90 minutes, Choose the time frame that is most appropriate. This venue has small presentation spaces so presentations which include interactive and hands-on activities are welcomed.
Contact: Bonnie Swoger (Geneseo) swoger@geneseo.edu, 1-585-245-5593

Panel Discussions
Scheduled Day: Thursday, June 7 or Friday, June 8
Format: 45 or 90 minutes
Notes: Do you have a bit of experience or knowledge in any of the areas below? The planning committee is seeking participants for panel sessions on the following topics:

• Open Educational Resources and Open Content
  
• Repositories
  
• Intellectual Property Trends and Issues
  
• Distance Learning and the Library
  
• Libraries in the state's and nation's political and economic climate
  
• Other topics will be considered
  

You don’t need to be an expert, but your knowledge and experience, combined with others, will be a valuable resource for your fellow librarians.
Contact: Bonnie Swoger (Geneseo) swoger@geneseo.edu, 1-585-245-5593, if you are interested.

Poster Sessions
Scheduled Day: Thursday, June 7.
Format: Posters will be set up between 7:30 to 9am with the poster session in the evening from 4:30 to 6pm.
Contact: Stephanie Herfel (Orange) stephanie.herfel@sunyorange.edu, 1-845-341-9051

Please refer to the “Guidelines for the SUNYLA Annual Conference Expenses” available at: http://sunyla.org/policies/conference-expenses for information on expense reimbursement.

Looking forward to seeing you at FIT for SUNYLA 2012.

Internships: Maritime College, SUNY, Bronx, NY

The Stephen B. Luce Library, Maritime College State University of New York, Throggs Neck, NY is offering internships for the Spring, 2012.

Potential interns may apply for the following areas:

· Archives – The Stephen B. Luce Library has several collections of documents and artifacts that deal with the maritime history of the port of New York. Internship projects include: Processing, arranging and describing, creation of finding aids, creation of digital and physical displays, Digitization and the creation of metadata. Materials can include registers, scrapbooks, photographs, recordings, letters, and other ephemera.

· Information Literacy and Reference – Internship projects include working with reference librarians to provide bibliographic instruction, assisting librarians in the creation and the teaching of information literacy lessons.

· Technical Services, Collection Development and Acquisitions – Internship projects include material selection and deselection, assisting with the budgeting process, user analysis studies, processing of physical and digital materials including hands-on cataloging training. Exposure to government documents and the Federal Depository Libraries Program.

Interns may choose to either focus on specific areas or mix areas depending on desire of the intern to be exposed to different areas and the requirements of the intern’s graduate program. This is an unpaid internship.

HOW TO APPLY

Applicants should be either enrolled in a Library and Information Science program or a recent graduate looking for experience. Skills and abilities required: learn quickly and take initiative, be detail oriented, demonstrate excellent interpersonal and oral communication skills, proficiency in basic computer skills. Students should submit the following:

• Letter of application explaining what library functions and potential projects they are interested in (as described above)

• Current resume

Qualified applicants will be contacted for interview. If accepted to the program, students, sponsoring librarian(s) and/or the student’s academic advisor (if required by academic institution) will work together to negotiate terms of the internship and an agreement and plan of action regarding goals and objectives, training program, schedule and methodology for recording work accomplished and evaluation of the intern’s accomplishments.

Send inquiries or applications by email to:

Joseph Williams
Stephen B. Luce Library
6 Pennyfield Avenue
Bronx, NY 10465-4198
Email: jwilliams@sunymaritime.edu

ABOUT SUNY MARITIME COLLEGE

This four-year college of the State University of New York is situated at the beautiful Bronx peninsula. Surrounded by the Long Island Sound in a historic 19th century fort, SUNY Maritime College provides an outstanding education in the areas of Engineering, Naval Architecture, Marine Transportation/Business Administration, Marine Environmental Science, and Humanities. SUNY Maritime College prepares both men and women as leaders in their respective professional careers, including licensing of merchant marine officers. 100% of Maritime graduates are employed in careers of their choice within three months of graduation. Maritime College's 17,000 ton, 565 foot training ship, EMPIRE STATE VI, is the best equipped training ship in the nation and visits several foreign ports each summer.

For more information see: http://www.sunymaritime.edu

ABOUT THE STEPHEN B. LUCE LIBRARY

The Stephen B. Luce Library is named in honor of Admiral Stephen Bleecker Luce (1827-1917), outstanding educator and seaman, author of the classic text Seamanship, and an effective and persistent advocate for the establishment of state nautical schools and improved training for merchant marine officers. The Luce Library, recipient of the AIA/ALA award of merit for outstanding library design, occupies 19,000 square feet of the north wing of historic Fort Schuyler on the Throggs Neck peninsula in the Bronx. Fort Schuyler, a granite two-story pentagonal fortification, was built in the early nineteenth century and served as part of New York City's coastal defense.

For more information see: http://www.sunymaritime.edu/stephenblucelibrary/

Open Invitation to the Annual, Holiday Dinner of the New York Library Club

The New York Library Club Holiday Dinner Thursday Dec. 15th.
Thursday, December 15, 2011, 6:30pm
Les Sans Culottes

Les Sans Culottes
1085 2nd Avenue (at 57th Street), New York, N.Y.


Please RSVP to Larry Kroah (mailto:%5C%5CLarryKroah@yahoo.com)

Hope to see you there!

Assessing Our True Impact: Understanding Library Impacts Protcol: Columbia University Libraries Assesmment Forum, December 13, 2011

Next Columbia University Libraries Assessment Forum 12/13
"Assessing Our True Impact: The Understanding Library Impacts Protocol"

The Columbia University Libraries (CUL) Assessment Working Group is pleased to announce our next Assessment Forum, "Assessing Our True Impact: The Understanding Library Impacts Protocol (ULI)." Our speaker will be Lisa Norberg, Dean of the Library & Academic Information Services at Barnard College, who will be speaking about Barnard's participation in the development of the ULI protocol.

The ULI protocol is designed to help libraries detect and communicate their contributions to general education and discipline-specific undergraduate student learning outcomes. It explores student use of library and information use in the capstone experience within an academic major. Focusing on the capstone experience can reveal rich data about ways in which library and information uses contribute to student learning outcomes of highest relevance to students, faculty, and other stakeholders. It uses a web-based critical incident survey to explore the range of library information resources, services, and facilities students used during work on the capstone project. At Barnard, the library collaborated with our History Department to gather data from seniors completing their thesis.

Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Time: 9:30am - 11:00am
Location: Butler Library, Room 203

All CUL staff, and the public, are invited to attend CUL Assessment Forums.

We hope to see you there!
Catherine Ricciardi, Interim Co-Chair of the Assessment Working Group

Adjunct Librarian Positions: New York City College of Technology (City Tech), CUNY: Brooklyn, NY

City Tech Library is seeking adjunct librarians holding an ALA-accredited MLS for part-time day, evening, and Saturday hours for the Spring 2012 semester. Adjunct librarians will join a team of library faculty in providing reference services and information literacy instruction to the City Tech community. Adjunct librarians will also work on projects to support reference, instruction, the library's website and resource sharing. Excellent communication and project management skills and other library or educational technology experience are a must. Website development experience is preferred.

Successful candidates will have an established record of excellence in reference service in an academic library, including experience with information literacy instruction. Preference will be given to candidates who have worked with diverse student populations and to those accustomed to the responsibility of overseeing service operations during assigned hours.

Interested candidates should send a CV and a cover letter briefly outlining their interest and background to Prof. Tess Tobin at TTobin@citytech.cuny.edu.

City Tech is located between Brooklyn Heights and downtown Brooklyn, near the Brooklyn side of the Great Bridge. For more information about our library, please visit our website.