Events

ACRL/NY New York City Section Library & Exhibit Tours, Thursday, May 14 

The NYC Geographic section of ACRL/NY is pleased to offer two tours in one to ACRL/NY members. The event will begin at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where participants will get a guided tour of the exhibit “Drachmas, Doubloons, and Dollars: The History of Money.” Participants will then proceed to the American Numismatic Society Library for a guided tour of its new headquarters.

The exhibit “Drachmas, Doubloons, and Dollars: The History of Money” is international as well as global in scope. Over 800 pieces from the American Numismatic Society’s collection are on display. “Every coin and paper bill can be a work of art, a political messenger, or a piece of jewelry. By looking at the money of many cultures and periods, we not only learn about their histories and attitudes, but we also gain a better understanding of how our own money works and what it says about our own culture and history.” (from http://numismatics.org/html/exhibits )

The American Numismatic Society moved into a new building in late 2008. Its library houses one of “the world’s most comprehensive collections of numismatic literature, presently numbers some 100,000 items. These include books, periodicals, manuscripts, photographs, pamphlets, auction catalogs, and microforms, all of which are cataloged.

In addition to numismatic works, the Library includes a strong reference collection and a wide selection of non-numismatic periodicals in the areas of archaeology, art history, economic history and other disciplines. (http://numsimatics.org)

 

When: Thursday, May 14, 2-4 pm

 

Where:This event will start at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 33 Liberty Street between William and Nassau Streets. Directions to the Federal Reseve Bank of New York are available here: http://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/ny_directions.html

To get from the Federal Reserve Bank to the American Numismatic Society, participants can take the C local train from the Broadway-Nassau Station to the Canal Street station.

 

Directions from the Federal Reserve Bank to the American Numismatic Society are available here.

 

Please RSVP to Anne Leonard at aleonard@citytech.cuny.edu. Participants should RSVP by Tuesday, May 12. All will need a government-issued photo ID for entry into the Federal Reserve Bank.

 

Hope to see you there!

 

From Transaction to Interaction: Transforming the User Experience

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Library presents: From Transaction to Interaction: Transforming the User Experience Friday, April 24, 2009, 9 am to 3 pm Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Library Rockefeller Research Laboratories (RRL) Building (Auditorium) 430 East 67th Street NY NY 10065 An engaging dialogue about User Experience (UX) and its relevance within the information profession. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. William Gribbons, well-known UX expert and Director, Master of Science in Human Factors Information Design Program, Bentley College, MA. Registration information to follow. For more information contact Donna Gibson (gibsonD@mskcc.org); Brian Lym (blym@hunter.cuny.edu); or Valeda Dent Goodman (vdent@rutgers.edu)

ACRL/NY New York City Section Podcasting for Librarians Workshop

Podcasting can be a powerful tool for librarians to showcase their libraries and enhance services. It can help make the library more relevant to users and provide more interactive communication and collaboration. The ACRL/NY New York City Section held a free informative workshop for librarians on the basics for creating audio and video podcasts on November 21, 2008. Held at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, the workshop was presented by Dr. Sara Marcus, the Electronic Resource / Web Librarian at QCC.  Attendees were provided with hand-on experience time to create their own audio and video podcasts.  In the evaluations, the attendees rated the workshop presentation, program format, usefulness of information, use of time and duration of the program, as “excellent” and “very good” and commented that they learned a great deal. Suggestions for future workshops included: methods for engaging library users more efficiently via pod casts; more video podcasting workshops and podcasting II.

 

Barbara Bonous-Smit,

Queensborough Community College, CUNY