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Ed Edmonds, Associate Dean for Library and Information Technology |
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Written by Sabrina I. Pacifici, this blog, launched in 2003, provides daily law and technology news with links to reliable primary and secondary sources on topics including: e-government, privacy, government documents, cybercrime and ID theft, the Patriot Act, freedom of information, federal legislation, legal research, KM, blogs, RSS and wikis.
Sabrina has also authored many articles on legal technology topics, delivered numerous presentations at professional conferences nationwide, and is a Washington, D.C. based librarian, with over two decades of law firm library management and online research experience. She is an expert legal technologist, developing and maintaining cutting-edge enterprise-wide knowledge solutions (intranets, websites and blogs), as well as research, practice and marketing related services.
Sabrina has been an active member of the online legal community for many years. She created the webzine LLRX.com in 1996 and is the site's owner, editor, publisher and web manager. She created the journal PLL Perspectives in 1989, and served as its only editor and publisher until 1996. Check it out! |
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Does your staff need grantwriting skills? As a NELLCO member you can get them for free! | |
NELLCO member libraries that can host a 2-day grant writing or grant management workshop will receive two free seats for staff to attend. That's a value of almost $1000.00!
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NELLCO has teamed up with Grant Writing USA to offer these workshops across the US. Host institutions only need to provide space and a local contact person. We do the rest. Interested? Let us know!
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Swank Digital Campus! Take a look. View the recorded demo at your convenience. Swank offers a great service that librarians can provide to support their faculty! |
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We want to highlight your library and your staff on our website and in our newsletter. Please send in any images you'd like to see, along with a brief description, to tracy.thompson@nellco.org or theresa.mccue@nellco.org. All images should be jpgs of at least 620 pixels wide by 310 tall. We can work with larger images but nothing smaller. Now hit us with your best shots! |
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Director's Corner |
Busy New Year Ahead
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you enjoyed the holidays with friends and family and have seen 2012 start off on the right foot!
Website launched
We're pleased finally to have launched the new NELLCO website and we hope you'll have a look. The new site has much more robust community functionality, allowing members to communicate and cololaborate directly with each other and others within their interest areas. Members will need to register and establish a profile on the new site in order to gain access to the members only area of the site.
The new site employs an e-commerce functionality which should feel familiar to you if you do any online shopping. However, this will require some changes to our trials, acquisitions, and renewals processes. Theresa McCue will offer 30-minute workshops on the new processes at the upcoming NELLCO Symposium 2012. Theresa is also happy to do one-on-one telephone training. Just contact her to set something up.
NELLCO Symposium
Earlybird registration closes on Jan. 31 for the NELLCO Symposium 2012: Content, Collaboration, Curation, Innovation. This first-ever event will be held March 12-13 at the Albany Law School in Albany, NY, home to the NELLCO offices. You can visit the conference website for all of the details and registration information.
I'm thrilled to announce that David Weinberger, Ph.D., has agreed to provide the keynote address for the Symposium! You can read more about David and his accomplishments below, but I expect he will be engaging and provocative. After the Symposium, a virtual book/discussion group will be created through the NELLCO community website to continue the conversation.
This issue of Slice continues from last month ( which you can find on our newsletter archive page) and highlights the remaining sessions and speakers.
In order to help us get the word out to our members and Industry Partners we've brought in Kathleen (Kathy) Gundrum to serve as our Event Coordinator. Kathy comes to NELLCO will a breadth of experience, including library conference planning, gleaned from her years at Nylink, most recently as Associate Executive Director there. You can contact Kathy with any questions about the Symposium, and you will be hearing from Kathy directly through our outreach efforts.
We can't make the Symposium a success without you! Please forward this information to anyone who may be interested in attending. The Symposium is open to NELLCO members and to non-member librarians. Register today and plan to join us in Albany!
Yours In Collaboration,
Tracy L. Thompson-Przylucki
Executive Director
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 NELLCO Symposium 2012 Keynote- |
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is a Senior Researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. and co-director (with Kim Dulin) of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab. He writes about the effect of the Internet on ideas.
David is a co-author of the bestseller, The Cluetrain Manifesto(2000) and the author of two other highly regarded books, Small Pieces Loosely Joined and Everything Is Miscellaneous. His recently released book, Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room (2012), looks at how the networking of knowledge and expertise is changing how we understand our world and make decisions in it.
David has been a marketing adviser to many high tech companies, and adviser to several presidential candidates, and was for two years a Franklin Fellow at the U.S. State Department. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto. He lives in Boston.
I can't wait to hear David Weinberger! REGISTER ME NOW! |
NELLCO Symposium 2012 Session- Social Media in Organizations, With Courtney Hunt | |
Courtney Hunt, Ph.D. is the Founder of the Social Media in Organizations (SMinOrgs on Twitter) Community and the Global Center for Digital Era Leadership. Courtney's focus is on social media as an internal tool for communications within organizations (e.g. libraries) rather than solely as a means of communicating or marketing to outside stakeholders. Courtney is a sought after speaker, frequently asked to share her expertise with organizations and professional groups via webinars, speaker panels, presentations, keynote talks, workshops, and training courses.
Wow, sounds great! I want to REGISTER NOW! |
NELLCO Symposium 2012 Session-
Accounting in an Hour, with Rick Makoujy |
Are you finding yourself with budget management responsibilities and no budgeting experience? This session is for you!
Rick J. Makoujy, Jr. is the bestselling author of How To Read A Balance Sheet (McGraw-Hill, 2010) and the acclaimed Accounting In An Hour - Get Smarter Fasterbusiness education program. As a turnaround and restructuring specialist, investment guru and financial professor, Rick has been named a "Top Expert In The World" by the Best Practice Institute.
With Accounting In An Hour, you can learn what you need to know about accounting and finance... in just 60 minutes. Widely considered to be the "best financial product... on the market, bar none." Now employees, job seekers, students and government officials can understand previously mystifying questions such as: What is the difference between an Income Statement and a Balance Sheet? Why is budgeting so important? Why do some profitable companies run out of money? What does EBITDA mean? Discover the value this one-hour course delivers by providing the financial literacy everyone needs to become more productive and valuable on the job and in daily life.
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NELLCO Symposium 2012 Session-
Manage Your Tasks to Manage Your Time, with Gary Thomas |
Gary Thomas, President of GLT Workshops, will show us why the concept of managing our time is misguided. Our focus should be on tasks!
Many of us struggle with proper and effective use of time. We miss due dates, misplace files, lose papers at an exasperating pace. Time management seems to be the culprit, yet "time" doesn't decide what's most important on our "To Do" list, whether we should visit Facebook vs. finish a project or to put off, once again, filing that mound of papers that grows daily.
The goal of Manage Your Tasks to Manage Your Time is to increase individual efficiency and effectiveness, to lower one's visceral stress level and to manifest a sense of "control" to each participant. In Manage Your Tasks to Manage Your Time attendees will learn why "time management" is a fallacy. Understanding the power of responsibly identifying, organizing, ranking and executing tasks establishes the control each of us wants and needs in our lives.
Manage Your Tasks to Manage Your Time will review these fundamentals:
- the concept of time
- where tasks originate
- how to effectively prioritize each task
- the importance of planning
- To-Do List basics
- how to "unclutter" and get started
Put this one on your to-do list!
I need to manage better! REGISTER NOW! |
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