NAC of RASD Meeting Monday, November 16 9:30am

Join the New Adult Committee of RASD at our November 16, 2015 meeting at the Middle Country Public Library-Selden Branch. The speaker will be Andrea Snyder of the Nassau Library System on the topic of marketing.

9:30am Networking, Meeting will begin at 10am
Middle Country Public Library – Selden Branch
575 Middle Country Road, Selden, NY 11784
 
To register, please use this link: ​​​

or contact Co-Chair Lauren Bernat: lbernat@smithlib.org

 
Save the Date:
The next meeting will be at the Hauppauge Public Library on Monday, December 21st featuring speaker Chris DeCrritofaro of the Sachem Public Library. The meeting topic will be using technology to engage millennial patrons.
View Past Minutes here:​

SCLA/RASD Health Concerns Annual Breakfast: Wednesday, October 28, 9:00am

The Health Concerns Committee of RASD, a Division of SCLA, will hold their Annual Meeting and Breakfast at SCLS on Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 9:00am. Breakfast will be served from 9:00 to 9:30am, a short meeting will be conducted from 9:30 to 10:00am, and at 10:00am, we will have our speakers discuss the topic for this year, PTSD. This topic can be seen in children through adults, and not just the military. If you had any traumatic event, an accident, a robbery, family illness, you might be a candidate for PTSD. Come hear all the particulars at this workshop.

Our speakers this year will be:
Dr. Keith Shebairo,   Psychiatrist and Program Director of the PTSD residential unit at Northport VA medical center; Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University School of Medicine {Voluntary Faculty}; Board certified in adult, child, and forensic psychiatry.
Dr. Jenna L Taglienti,  specializing in seeing Adult psychiatric patients with a vast array of disorders.  She is the associate director of the psychiatry residency program at Stony Brook, and outpatient department.  This is where she works currently seeing private patients as well as supervising the resident physicians daily.

Help! I’m Not a Business Librarian! Thursday, November 19, 2:00pm

The CARE (Career and Resource Exchange) Committee of RASD (Reference and Adult Services Division), a division of SCLA, will be hosting a joint meeting with the Electronic Resources Committee on Thursday, November 19, 2015 at the Suffolk County Library System in Bellport. Please join us for coffee at 2:00pm–the presentation starts at 2:30pm.

Does the thought of answering business reference questions fill you with fear or dread? Sal DiVincenzo of Middle Country Public Library will present, “Help, I’m Not a Business Librarian!”  Mr. DiVincenzo will give an overview of some resources that are available to librarians to assist patrons asking some of the most common business reference questions.

Please email Nicole Berroyer at nicole@connetquotlibrary.org to let us know if you plan on attending, or if you have any questions about the committee or our speaker.

Looking forward to seeing you,

CARE Committee of RASD
Serena Brooks
Reference Librarian
Smithtown Library