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Plan to join us for an informative meeting and network with academic library colleagues from across the state. Keynote speaker is New York State Librarian Bernard Margolis, who will share his vision for New York’s libraries. Learn about NYSHEI advocacy efforts on behalf of New York’s academic libraries. Hear from state policy makers on our [...]
NYSHEI congratulates Trudi E. Jacobson, winner of the Association of College & Research Libraries’ 2009 Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award. Ms Jacobson holds the rank of Librarian and heads the UA Libraries User Education Program. The Miriam Dudley Award was first bestowed in 1984, making Trudi Jacobson the 25th recipient of this prestigious honor. The [...]
The following is the text of an email announcement I received from Ken DiFiore of Portico. The full news release is included. As NYSHEI is a valued partner of Portico, I am writing to make you aware of an important organizational development. Recently Ithaka, the organizational home of Portico, was merged with JSTOR, a related [...]
Embarrassing news from our state capital is hardly news at all. Whether it has been the well documented ethical and proceedural problems, the all-too-frequent criminal charges, or the simply inappropriate use of state dollars and extravagence of pork-barrel spending, New York State government never fails to disappoint hardened cynics. Recent articles in the Albany Times [...]
NYSHEI Executive Director Jason Kramer provided written and oral testimony to the New York State Legislative Joint Fiscal Committee during the hearing on the Higher Education portion of Governor Paterson’s budget proposal. Mr. Kramer warned the Senators and Assembly members of the committee to be mindful of the importance of academic and research libraries to [...]
That is the title of a new report from the Albany-based Fiscal Policy Institute. The report concludes that New York is denying SUNY and CUNY the funds needed to deal with enrollment increases. Read the full report.
NYSHEI News is moving. From now on the news blog will be found at http://nyshei.org/blog. This change will not affect you if you traditionally come to it through the NYSHEI home page or through links in the NYSHEI E-News. However, if you have bookmarked http://nyshei.wordpress.com or subscribed to the News feed here you will want [...]
Intensive lobbying has begun as NYSHEI is fighting to protect the interests of academic and research libraries. Is there something you would like said to your elected officials? Do you have a story that clearly illustrates the important role of your library in research and learning? Is there some fact you think it essential they [...]
It seems to me that our political leaders are making a case for ARIA, the NYSHEI proposal for a statewide information infrastructure. On January 8, at George Mason University, President-elect Barack Obama set forth his argument for a massive federal spending program intended to spur economic recovery. In doing so Obama said that his spending [...]
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