Author: Meghan

RASD PR & Marketing Committee Meeting Change

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Please note the change in time for the January 21st roundtable discussion and presentation of the three marketing campaigns submitted for the 2015 Suffolk Library Marketing Award – SLMA. We will now be meeting after the Heads of Reference Meeting, in the SCLA Auditorium at 11:30 a.m. on 1/21/16. All are welcome to participate in this opportunity to learn about three unique events done in 2015 by your colleagues. Plan to stay after the Heads of Reference meeting, join us and get inspired. If time allows we will also be looking at the ALA John Cotton Dana Award winners for 2015.

Contact info:

Jo-Ann Carhart, MLS
Head of Adult Services
Librarian III
East Islip Public Library
381 East Main Street
East Islip, NY 11730
Phone (631) 581-9200 x 5
jcarhart@eipl.org
www.eipl.org

 

MOSAIC Meeting: Tuesday, January 12 at 9:30am

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MOSAIC will be having our first meeting of the new year on Tuesday, January 12, at SCLS.   Coffee will be at 9:30am and our meeting will start at 10am.

We will be having a roundtable discussion covering two topics that were proposed at our last meeting: best practices of welcoming parents of English Language Learners (ELL) in the library and English conversation groups for adults.  Our hope is to put together a one/two page information guide that can be shared. Please bring your ideas and/or resources to contribute.

If you have any questions, please contact Amber Sroka: srokaamber@middlecountrypubliclibrary.org or Gilda Ramos: gramos@pmlib.org.

New Members Welcome!

Emerging Technology Meeting Follow-up

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Ellen Druda did a quick overview the new products and trends showcased at the Consumer Electronics Preview  show in NYC last month.

You can find more about it here: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/12/technology/consumer-electronics-show-previews-trends-to-watch/, including further discussion of predictive consumerism and aggregated learning.

Dave Jones from Westhampton did a terrific presentation on Virtual and Augmented reality and it’s applications in libraries.  Thank you Dave!

Looking for some libraries host 2 of our quarterly meetings in 2016.  They usually run 9:30 to noon, with the typical coffee set ups.

Can any library host Thursday March 17
Or
Thursday December 8?

Please let Ellen know – thank you!

Emerging Technology Presentation Thursday, December 10 at 9:30am

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Please join us for a roundtable discussion on emerging technology at the Emma S. Clark Memorial Library on Thursday, December 10, 9:30 coffee 10am meeting. We’ll talk about some of the trends for 2016, including aggregated learning and predictive consumerism, and how they will affect our libraries.

Dave Jones from the Westhampton Library do a presentation on Virtual Reality and Oculus.

All are welcome!  Please consider joining RASD.  Learn more about the benefits of membership at https://scla.net/rasd/.