NYSHEI Executive Director Jason Kramer has an article in the recent edition of the Journal of Collaborative Librarianship.  Titled, “Nontraditional Partnerships in Pursuit of the Information Infrastructure,” the article describes NYSHEI’s evolvution as an advocacy organization. The Journal is sponsored by the Colorado Academic Library Consortium, the Colorado Library Consortium, the Colorado Alliance of Research [...]

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If you have seen any of my presentations over the past eight months, or have otherwise been forced to listen to my opinions, you will have invariably heard me fret about a “higher education bubble.”  Part of my concern is the state and federal budget situations and the overall state and national economy.  In short, [...]

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A searchable bibliographic database of library value and ROI literature is now freely available. The database currently contains more than 400 entries, including books, book chapters, journal articles, theses and dissertations, reports, presentations, and free websites, covering the expanding literature on library value and evaluation, return on investment in libraries of all kinds, as well [...]

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At the October meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Bruce Kingma of Syracuse University and Paula Kauffman of the University of Illinois presented on the Lib-Value study that will include five NYSHEI member institutions. The opportunity for our libraries to participate was made possible through the efforts of David Penniman of Nylink. NYSHEI [...]

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The NYSHEI website is about to change.  Missing from the new site are a few “stock-photo” images for the homepage. If you have a suggestion, or a great image of your library, for the banner of the NYSHEI homepage please send them to nyshei@nyshei.org. Specifically, we are looking for pictures that convey both “library” and [...]

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