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On Wednesday, February 1, 2012, NYSHEI Executive Director Jason Kramer testifies before the Joint Legislature Budget Committee on Higher Education. The committee is seeking input on the Executive Budget Proposal of Governor Andrew Cuomo. Kramer used the opportunity to state NYSHEI’s support of the procurement reforms included in the budget proposal. Additionally Kramer asked the [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The NYSHEI Board with the Nylink Advisory Board, SUNY Council of Library Directors, CUNY Council of Chief Librarians, will be hosting an informal get-together during the NYLA conference to recognize the excellent work that Nylink has performed on behalf of libraries across the state for the past 40 years. Librarians from all Nylink member libraries [...]
NYSHEI releases the following statement on the 2010 Voters Guide: The Library Advocate’s Guide to the Voting Records of the New York State Legislature produced and released by New Yorkers for Better Libraries (NYBL). “NYSHEI is neither associated with nor supports the ratings of legislators in the document issued by a group called New Yorkers [...]
ACTION NEEDED: OPEN ACCESS TO FEDERALLY FUNDED RESEARCH 5 minutes of your time can make a difference – please contact Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney If you live or work in Manhattan or Queens – Your action is essential. Ms. Maloney directly represents you. She needs to understand that open access to publicly funded research is important [...]
Patrick Callahan, Director of the Library at Purchase College, has joined the NYSHEI Governing Board representing the SUNY 4-year colleges. Mr. Callahan became Purchase College Library Director in 1999. Prior to that, he worked for almost twenty years in technical services, including as Assistant Dean for Collections and Technical Services at St. John’s University (Queens, [...]
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