Friday, July 24, 2009

Steven Bernstein on Making Your Library Visible in the Social Networking Age

Thank you to Steven Bernstein, Assistant Catalog Librarian at the Elihu Burritt Library of Central Connecticut State University for his illuminating presentation entitled "Making Your Library Visible in the Social Networking Age."

You can view his presentation here.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Cathy Balshone-Becze: What Public Libraries Can Do For Special Libraries: Presenting an Overview of Services in Massachusetts

Thank you to Cathy Balshone-Becze for presenting on "What Public Libraries Can Do For Special Libraries: Presenting an Overview of Services."

This presentation is part of a joint session, "What Public Libraries Have to Offer Special Libraries – Massachusetts & Connecticut," presented with Laura Vasselle. It is a fantastic comprehensive overview of the organization of Massachusetts libraries and the services available available to Massachusetts residents, with a focus on those helpful to library professionals working in a Jewish institution. Stay posted for Marie's summary of the session. We appreciate Cathy's sharing her time, expertise and enthusiasm to expand the presentation's audience by allowing it to be posted here and are delighted that she and Laura were able to join forces in the spirit of the conference theme.



Cathy Balshone-Becze is Reference Librarian at the Newton Free Library in Newton, MA.

Thursday, June 25, 2009


Here is the group photo that was taken at the conference last week. Today Jane Zande emailed out a link to the very nice article that appeared in the Jewish Ledger about the conference, including this photo as well as a list of everyone who attended, including those not pictured.

Monday, June 22, 2009

Stephanie (Sara Leah) Gross: Social Media and Social Networking for Librarians

Thank you to Stephanie Gross of Yeshiva University for her presentation at NEAJL, "Social Media and Social Networking for Librarians: Sandbox Lessons Before 'The Real Thing'".


Sunday, June 21, 2009

Laura Vasselle: Electronic Resources available to Connecticut residents through iCONN

Thank you to Laura Vasselle for presenting on "Electronic Resources available to Connecticut residents through iCONN."

This presentation is part of a joint session, "What Public Libraries Have to Offer Special Libraries – Massachusetts & Connecticut," presented with Cathy Balshone. It is a rich sampling of the myriad resources available to Connecticut residents, with a focus on those helpful to library professionals working in a Jewish institution. Stay posted for Marie's summary of the session. We appreciate Laura's sharing her time, expertise and enthusiasm to expand the presentation's audience by allowing it to be posted here and are delighted that she and Cathy were able to join forces in the spirit of the conference theme.

Laura Vasselle is Information Technology Librarian at the Town of Bloomfield Libraries, Bloomfield, CT.

Steven Bernstein: Making Your Library Visible in the Social Networking Age

Thank you to Steven Bernstein for presenting on "Making Your Library Visible in the Social Networking Age."

This presentation is a great overview of how Web 2.0 can be used to build on traditional Jewish models of collaborative learning. Stay posted for Marie's summary of the session. We appreciate Steve's sharing his time, expertise and enthusiasm to expand the presentation's audience by allowing it to be posted here.

Steven Bernstein is the Assistant Catalog Librarian, Cataloging and Metadata Services at the Elihu Burritt Library of Central Connecticut State University.

Who are we?

The conference provided a great opportunity for members to meet personally, attaching names and faces.

To help us bring that to the virtual world and our patrons, please comment to this post with your library and/or institution's name and website so we can develop a list of links to member institutions in the sidebar.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Welcome to the Conference!

Watch this space all day for live updating.

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If you're Tweeting, or have a Twitter account, leave a comment with your username so we can connect!

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Our Spring Conference

Right now volunteers are hard at work planning our upcoming conference:

Maximizing library services through resource sharing

at Congregation Beth Israel, West Hartford, CT, Friday, June 19 from 10:00 - 3:00.
If you are interested in registering, please contact Ann Abrams at aabrams@tisrael.org.

We will have great speakers, cool giveaways and more.

Registration is free but forms are due no later than June 1. Please bring a dairy/parve lunch.

Watch this space for more updates, plus live blogging from the conference!