CATS Sponsored Technical Services Round Table Discussion – November 7, 2017
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CATS Sponsored Technical Services Round Table Discussion – November 7th, 2017
The CATS Group is hosting a Technical Services Round Table Discussion. This is a great opportunity for technical services librarians and clerks to come together and share techniques, strategies, cataloging and securing non traditional items for circulation. Bring your victories, stories and unique locking or storing boxes, bags or pouches to share with the group.
DATE: Tuesday November 7th, 2017
Time: 9:30am for light refreshments and 10am meeting
Location: Suffolk Cooperative Library System Auditorium
Admission is free and CEU Credits will be earned!
October 5, 2017 – TIF (Technology Information Forum) Meeting
October’s TIF meeting will take place at The John Jermain Library in Sag Harbor on Thursday, October 5, 2017.
Jesse Reinard from the Connetquot Library will be discussing the implementation and success of his Raspberry Pi/Retro Pi program. Additionally, Eric Cohen from John Jermain will show us his new facility. Remember it’s 9:30 for coffee and refreshments and 10am for the meeting. If you can’t make the meeting, we will stream it on the TIF facebook page as well. Hope to see everyone there.
I also wanted to mention that next month (Can November be around the corner already?) we are holding another joint Nassau/Suffolk technology meeting with NCLA. This meeting will be at the Smithtown Library’s King’s Park Branch. So bring your success stories, setbacks and maybe even bring in some tech to show off!! That meeting is a “don’t miss”.
Directions to John Jermain Memorial LIbrary:
Google Group – Join Now!
In an effort to have greater communication regarding future meetings and posting questions, there is now a Google Group associated with the TIF Group and CATS.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/catstif
Do you have a topic you would like to discuss? Post it to the Google Group! If you would like to join please email Chris DeCristofaro (Chris.DeCristofaro@sachemlibrary.org) directly to be added to the group. If you would like to invite people to join, please do so or email Chris and he will send them an invite!
This group will not replace our notifications but will allow for members to interact easier.
September TIF Meeting – Sachem Public Library
Our next TIF meeting will be Thursday September 7th, 2017 at 9:30 for coffee and refreshments and 10am for the meeting. This month, Ruth Westfall from SCLS will join us to talk about The System’s efforts to protect patron privacy. She will speak about what we can all do as Information Professionals to ensure that patron information is secure. After a short break, we will then have a round table discussion, so bring your problems, questions, failures and successes to share with the group.
Sachem Public Library
150 Holbrook Rd
Holbrook, NY 11716
2017 Long Island Library Conference – May 4, 2017
Visit the CATS table at the Long Island Library Conference: Reach for the Stars on May 4th.
The CATS Committee will present a program at Session I. Topic: The State of Technologies in Libraries.
Please join us!
TIF Meeting May 11th Joint Nassau/Suffolk Tech Round table
Thursday May 11th, we are having our second joint Nassau/Suffolk technology round table. It was a great success 2 years ago so we thought we would bring it back. Bring your questions, share your stories and see how they do it on the “OTHER SIDE” of the border!
Coffee, tea and refreshments at 9:30 and 10am for the meeting. Whether you are an Information Technology Professional, Librarian, Clerk or a person interested in technology, consider joining us at the Half Hollow Hills Community Library in Dix Hills.
2017 CATS Executive Board Officers
Tour of Stony Brook University’s Innovation Lab – November 7, 2016
The Computer and Technical Services division of SCLA (CATS) is pleased to announce an upcoming tour of Stony Brook University’s Innovation Lab. The Innovation Lab is a collection of three on-campus makerspaces that feature things like vinyl cutters, 3-D printers, green screen and virtual reality technologies.
The tour will take place on Monday, November 7th at 10:00 a.m. We’re in the process of arranging parking — more details to follow. If interested, please sign up here.
For more information, contact:
Nick Tanzi, CATS president 631-399-1511 x398
ntanzi@communitylibrary.org