Register now for this free event.  Program below. 8:30: Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:00: Welcome Ruth Copans, Skidmore College 9:15: New York’s Commitment to Innovation and Information. Assembly Member Dennis Gabryszak (D-Erie), Chair of the Assembly Task Force on University-Industry Cooperation 10:00: Winding Down Nylink Operations W. David Penniman, Executive Director, Nylink 10:45: Break 11:00: [...]

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Under the leadership of sponsor and committee chair Senator William Stachowski the Academic Research Information Access (ARIA) act won the unanimous bipartisan support of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Economic Development, and Small Business. With his staff working diligently to ameliorate concerns left by the 2009 Governor Paterson veto of ARIA, Senator Stachowski (D-Buffalo) again [...]

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Assembly Jonathan Bing (D-Manhattan), Chair of the Assembly Committee on Libraries and Educational Technology has introduced legislation (A.10884) to adjust the formula that sets coordinated collection development aid for academic libraries. Mr. Bing said, “I am proud to introduce legislation to update the funding formula for state aid to public and private academic research libraries.  [...]

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