SMART Sessions at NYLA 2010

Thursday, November 4, 2010

9:15 AM – 10:30 AM
Digital Images: Moving and Shaking
How to migrate your digital collection to a new platform.  Issues and considerations will be discussed.
Speakers:
Lynne Webb, New York State Library
Maria Kessler McShane, College of St. Rose

1:45 PM – 3:00 PM
How Fast Do They Want It?
When they want everything yesterday, how do you deliver?  Learn about purchase on demand services and other ways to deliver information fast to your patrons.
Speakers:
Sheryl L. Knab, Executive Director, WNYLRC
Cyril Oberlander, SUNY Geneseo

3:15 PM – 4:30 PM
SMART Flash Talks
Come join your fellow SMART members as they share short & fast presentation on how technology is shaping their libraries.  Flash Talks with conclude with a short membership meeting.

Friday, November 5, 2010

2:30 PM – 3:45 PM
2010 Rudi Weiss Lecture: Emerging Areas of Professional Opportunities for Librarians
At the whirling speed at which increasingly diverse information resources, information technologies, and new constituencies are arriving at the doors and portals of libraries, we observe that both practicing librarians and academic programs that educate librarians are quickly adapting, as well as expanding their purview into arenas that may not have previously appeared to be naturally within their realm. One of the most promising of these is e-librarianship, a newly emerging focus within our field that applies our recognized information organization, management, and access skills to supporting large scale information management projects for researchers, initially within science and engineering, and now expanding to the humanities, for researchers and practitioners who are dealing with very, very large information collections. Results of a research study of eScience professionals’ knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes support the belief that eScience roles constitute a new “embedded librarianship” where library science trained professionals may embody a new wave of librarianship.
Speaker:
Liz Liddy, Dean of iSchool, Syracuse University

4:00 PM – 5:15 PM
Creating a Disaster Plan
This program will help you understand what is meant by a “disaster” in libraries and archives, and to understand the planning process. Topics will include identifying risk, preventive action, prioritizing collections for effective response, and the contents of a disaster plan. A bibliography, including a list of online tools and resources, will be distributed.
Speaker:
Karen Brown, Preservation Librarian, University at Albany
Karen E.K. Brown is the Preservation Librarian for the University at Albany, SUNY, University Libraries, a position she has held since 2001. In this capacity she is responsible for managing the preservation laboratory, including budget, grant programs, staffing, materials repair and reformatting, and equipment maintenance; the repair and conservation of collections for the University Libraries; managing the Libraries' brittle and irreparable books program, including selection, microfilming, photocopying, and scanning; participating in emergency preparedness and response, environmental control, staff training, and other preventive activities; coordinating preservation initiatives with other departments and units; and participating in digital initiatives, including serving as a resource person for the preservation of digital assets.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

9:30 AM – 10:45 AM
LibraryThing
LibraryThing is an online service that helps you catalog your books easily, searching the Library of Congress, Amazon.com and close to seven hundred other world libraries. You can search, edit, sort and tag your books with your own subjects, or use LC and Dewey. LibraryThing also offers a social space, connecting people with the same books and subject interests, providing suggestions for what to read. The 1,130,000 plus members have cataloged more than 52 million books. Members include individuals, organizations and libraries. Librarians are using LibraryThing in a variety of ways, so feel free to bring along a list of why your favorite uses of LibraryThing!
Speaker:
Barbara Ciambor, Rochester Regional Library Council
Barbara Ciambor is the Outreach Librarian at the Rochester Regional Library Council (RRLC). Her current activities include promotion and training for RRLC programs and services including the CLIC-on-Health Outreach to Unaffiliated Health Professionals project, WorldCat and NOVELNY.

11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Emerging Tech Trends for Librarians
The popular panel discussion of what technologies are hot now and what to expect in the immediate future.
Speakers:
Blake Carver, New York Power Authority
Edward Corrado, Binghamton University
Ken Fujiuchi, Buffalo State College