NELA News March 2009
NELA News is a monthly e-newsletter of the New England Library Association
Educational Assistance Deadline March 15
It’s not too late to apply for scholarship help. Check with your school’s Financial Aid Office for details. More information is on our website on the Educational Assistance Committee page, http://nelib.org/educationalassistance
NERTCL and MLA (Massachusetts Youth Services) Spring Program:
“Rick Riordan: Mythology and Magic in the Classroom”
Friday, April 3, 2009, 9:30-12:00 pm, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Rick Riordan will discuss how his years as a teacher, his love of mythology, and his son's struggles with learning differences combined to form the #1 New York Times bestselling Percy Jackson & the Olympians series.
Rick is also the author of The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones, another #1 New York Times bestseller. He lives in San Antonio with his wife and two sons, and is a full-time writer.
Q&A and Book Signing to follow. Books are available for pre-purchase, and a limited number will be available at the event. Signing of outside books is limited to one per person.
This program is for library professionals only. Your registration confirmation serves as your ticket to the program. Children will not be allowed into the program. Due to high interest, ticket sales are limited to one per person, and purchaser must be a member of MLA, NELA, their New England state school library association, or currently enrolled in an MLS program.
You can register on the MLA website: http://masslib.org/yss/2009SpringProgram
NETSL (New England Technical Services Librarians) Spring Conference: “Working the Cataloging Landscape: Fishing, Mining, and Harvesting”
Friday, April 17, 2009, 9:30-3:30,
Hogan Campus Center, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Highlights include:
- Karen Coyle, Librarian and Consultant in the area of digital libraries, “Metadata is a Plural Noun”
- Breakout Sessions:
- RDA: Boondoggle or Boon? And What About MARC?
Rick Block, Columbia University Libraries
- Beyond Federated Search: The Next Generation of Discovery
Tracey L. Thompson-Przylucki, New England Law Library Consortium
- Fishing Upstream: Publisher-supplied Cataloging and Libraries
Andreas Biedenbach, Springer Pub.
Leslie Horner Button, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Collecting Free Web Resources: Selecting, Harvesting, Cataloging
Alex Thurman, Columbia University Libraries
- Presentation of the NETSL Award for Excellence in Technical Services
- Spotlight on the New England Chapter of the Music Library Association (NEMLA) http://www.wesleyan.edu/nemla
- Ted Fons, Director, OCLC WorldCat Global Metadata Network
- Mining the OPAC: Next Generation Catalogs Panel
- Primo: Kevin Kidd, Boston College
- VuFind: Daniel Lovins, Yale University Library
- WorldCat Local: Remlee Green, MIT
Program details, online registration and the mail-in registration form are now available at http://nelib.org/netsl/conference
ITS (Information Technology Section) Annual Spring Event
co-sponsored by the Portsmouth Public Library
“CMS-Day!”
Friday, June 12, 2009, 10am – 3:30pm, Portsmouth Public Library, Portsmouth, NH
Building a better Website: Drupal, Joomla, Plone, & WordPress
Keynote Speaker: Jessamyn West
Detailed agenda and online registration to follow soon! Check http://nelib.org/its
State Conferences this spring:
Counterparts, a Conference for board members of all State Associations and NELA
“The Role of Libraries in Promoting Civic Engagement”
Thursday-Friday, July 16-17, Connecticut College, New London, CT
Keynote speaker: Nancy Kranich, Past President of ALA
More details and registration forms at http://nelib.org/counterparts
“IT’S HAPPENING IN HARTFORD“ SAVE THE DATE!
You are cordially invited to the next NELA Annual Conference.
- WHEN: OCTOBER 18-20, 2009
- WHERE: CONNECTICUT CONVENTION CENTER, HARTFORD, CT
We're planning many innovative learning opportunities and entertaining programs for the interests of both public and academic library devotees. Mark your calendars and plan to join us for all of the happenings.
Check here for details http://nelib.org/conference
NELA News is a monthly e-newsletter of the New England Library Association. It is published the first week of the month. Deadline for news items and articles is the last day of the previous month.
To submit news or articles contact: publications@nelib.org;
NELA, 31 Connor Lane, Wilton, NH 03086; 603-654-3533, 603-654-3526 fax
Jan Drake, Publications Committee
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