News & Events
New Nylink Connection Now Available
- The Summer Nylink Connection, which has as its theme "New York Libraries: Meeting Tough Challenges with Grace and Ingenuity," is now available for reading on the Nylink web site.
RDA Brown Bag Lunches
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Discuss the new RDA (Resource Description and Access) cataloging standard at lunch.
Register now for a 12/3 (Rochester) or 12/12 (Manhattan) session.
About OCLC’s Revised Policy for Use & Transfer of WorldCat® Records
- Read Lauren’s post on OCLC’s revised policy statement regarding the use of bibliographic records from WorldCat, on Nylink's new Status Line blog.
Introducing Aeon!
Request management software for your special collections, designed by special collections librarians. Get more info and sign up for a demo
Netlibrary Winter ‘09 Shared eBook Collections
Ready Reference, Academic and Community College collections available through 1/31
Thriving Through Disruptive Change
Save May 8th for Nylink's Annual Meeting. | Wallace Center, FDR Library, Hyde Park, NY.
- RDA Complete Draft Now Available For Comment
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As announced November 17 by the Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA (JSC), the complete draft of RDA is now available for review. Please note that this draft is being made available in PDF chapters, and not as an online version.
The JSC will be accepting public comments until February 2, 2009. The comment form is available online. When completing this form, please be sure to give the following information:Rule number for the rule upon which you are commenting;
Brief statement of the problem;
Your proposed solution(s) to the problem and reason; and
Your name and email address.
- While the free Nylink Community Brown Bag discussions of RDA in Rochester on December 3rd and in Manhattan on December 12th are full, we hope to be able to offer more in the near future.