The University of Rochester, Finger Lakes Regional Resource Center would like to invite you to register for their annual Healthcare Emergency Management Conference scheduled on April 25, 2013 in Batavia, NY.  The conference focus is Trauma Management for Rural EMS and Community Hospitals. See attached flyer for more information or you can access online registration here:  http://www.cvent.com/d/kcq4jh/1Q

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New York Emergency Management Summit 2013

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Hilton New York

1335 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York, 10019

Tel: 212-586-7000

Time:

Registration / Breakfast: 8 -9:00 AM

Program: 9:00 AM -2:40 PM

To view the current agenda:

http://www.emergencymgmt.com/events/NY-EM-Summit-2013.html?p=home

Register today:

http://forms.erepublic.com/em-event-registration-step1-default?contentID=189232171&r=EV-2391

Registration is free for public professionals and non-profit organizations!

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SAVE THE DATES: May 29 and 30, 2013

2013 Long Island/NYC Emergency Management Conference

Long Island Marriott Uniondale

Welcome to the Long Island/New York City Emergency Management Conference 2013. Our theme, “Assessing the Past – Paving the Road to Recovery” will explore the lessons learned from events of the past year with a focus on weather impacts from Superstorm Sandy. The conference is attended annually by approximately 650 emergency managers primarily from the tri-state area. We welcome your attendance at this year’s event!

When:  April 8, 2013

Where:  Eatontown, NJ

Registration/Details:  http://lss.njstatelib.org/news/2013/feb/08/ports_in_a_storm_the_library_as_disaster_recovery_center

Sponsored by the New Jersey State Library, the Middle Atlantic Region of the NN/LM, Library Link NJ, and the New Jersey Library Association.

The Center for an Urban Future’s report, Branches of Opportunity, highlights the unique position of libraries to help cities address economic, demographic and social challenges.  According to the report, “No other institution, public or private, does a better job of reaching people who have been left behind in today’s economy, have failed to reach their potential in the city’s public school system or who simply need help navigating an increasingly complex world.

Although they are often thought of as cultural institutions, the reality is that the public libraries are a key component of the city’s human capital system.  With roots in nearly every community across the five boroughs, New York’s public libraries play a critical role in helping adults upgrade their skills and find jobs, assisting immigrants assimilate, fostering reading skills in young people and providing technology access for those who don’t have a computer or an Internet connection at home.”

The report is a call to action for policymakers, social service leaders and economic officials to support and use public libraries as a critical 21st century resource of opportunity for all.  Read the full report at:  http://bit.ly/URNXnY.

METRO and the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program at New York University are co-sponsoring a full-day, low-cost workshop on Thursday, March 7: Disaster Preparedness and Response Bootcamp for Mixed Media Collections. Registration for this full-day, hands-on workshop is only $45 thanks to partial funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

The recent experience of Hurricane Sandy emphasized the importance of disaster planning and disaster response for local libraries, archives, and museums. In this full-day workshop, participants will be introduced to critical first response steps as well as logistics considerations and operational requirements of a salvage-and-recovery scenario for cultural heritage collections by way of hands-on exercises covering a variety of media types. Participants will also learn how to improve their disaster preparedness plans so that when the next disaster strikes, caretakers will be ready to respond. While handling and recovery procedures for different media types will be discussed, this workshop will not go into great detail on conservation procedures for specific media types.

Disaster Preparedness and Response Bootcamp for Mixed Media Collections will be led by Kara Van Malssen of Audiovisual Preservation Solutions, whose work with disasters and audiovisual collections began in 2005 when, as a graduate student in NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program, she received a grant provide assistance to damaged audiovisual collections in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. She has recently used her experience in disaster response to manage the recovery of 1500 media items at Eyebeam Art+Technology Center, which was flooded during Superstorm Sandy, overseeing 40+ volunteers in an intensive three-day effort to salvage and clean damaged videotapes and computer disks.

Registration for this event is now open.

Disaster Recovery Summit

When:  April 8, 2013

Where:  Eatontown, NJ

Details:  http://www.njstatelib.org/news/2013/feb/08/ports_in_a_storm_the_library_as_disaster_recovery_center

Sponsored by the New Jersey State Library, the Middle Atlantic Region of the NN/LM, Library Link NJ, and the New Jersey Library Association.

Make a point of checking out the latest issue of our newsletter:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/newsletter/

You’ll find articles about:

• Participating on a MAR Advisory Committee
• MLA’s Disaster Information Specialization Program
• Funding Opportunities from MAR
• NLM Environmental Health Resources
• Creating an Elevator Message
• MLA’s Consumer Health Information Specialization Program
• Our New Technology Webinar Series

The ALA Washington Office webinar on the new Congress and library issues, the recording is now available at  http://www.districtdispatch.org/2013/01/the-113th-congress-and-the-library-community-webinar-archive/.

The University at Buffalo’s Department of Library and Information Studies Advisory Board is seeking nominations and applications from library and information science professionals who are interested in serving a three-year term.  The ideal candidates will have demonstrated success within their field, be currently active in their profession or sector, and have distinguished themselves as professionals with vision.

The Advisory Board is seeking national and international applicants, as well as those from the Western New York community.  Applicants do not need to have graduated from the University at Buffalo to be considered for membership.  The Board is seeking members who represent varied experiences and backgrounds, including school, public, and academic librarians, special librarians, information systems scientists and managers, database administrators, network architects, archivists, curators, conservators, and market research analysts and specialists.

Interested parties should email their curriculum vitae or resume to Christopher Hollister <cvh2@buffalo.edu> no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on February 25, 2013.  Please label the subject line of your email message “Advisory Board Applicant.”

Letters of invitation will be sent by March 15, 2013.

Urban Librarians Unite (ULU) is spearheading the first Conference to focus specifically on the issues of the working librarian in the city. The Conference will be held at the Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture at Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library, and will take place from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, April 5th. Registration is $25 ($22.50 for NYLA members).

The Conference will target skills and techniques for people on the front line of information services in urban areas. The theme of the Conference, “Living in Interesting Times,” is taken from the apocryphal Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.” The curse implied chaos and the difficulties of living through times of change. In contrast, the Urban Librarians’ Conference seeks to embrace all of the potential inherent in change. These are indeed very interesting times for libraries and librarianship and an incredible amount of innovative work is happening in city libraries all across America.

The Conference aims to bring together information professionals near and far for a lively conversation about practical courses of action that can be used for the benefit of urban patrons and institutions. Discussion topics will be attendee-driven; themes may include teens in gangs, eBooks in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas, innovative outreach, job information services, and more.

Urban librarians and information professionals across the country are also encouraged to join the conversation by providing feedback and asking questions using Twitter with the hashtag #ULCON13

The Conference Keynote speaker is Peter Bromberg, Associate Director at the Princeton Public Library in Princeton, NJ and a 2008 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. Other featured speakers include Steve Teeri (Detroit Public Library), founder of the DPL HYPE Makerspace, a place for teens to learn, create and take control of the world around them; Rebecca Lubin (Albany Public Library), who has been involved in community outreach since she was five; and Wick Thomas (Kansas City Public Library), President of Empowering Queer Activists and Leaders (EQUAL), which provides activism and leadership training for queer and allied youth.

Many thanks to our sponsors; The Leadership and Management Section of NYLA, NYLA, Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Library and New York Public Library. The conference wouldn’t have been possible without their support.

For more information about the Conference, including details about the schedule, sponsors and registration, visit http://www.urbanlibrariansconference.org/.

The 2013 Sara Fine Institute Lecture

When: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 / 2:30 pm

Where: Teplitz Memorial Moot Courtroom, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh, Barco Law Building, 3900 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Who:  Pamela Samuelson, Professor, Law School and School of Information, University of California at Berkeley

There are at least three serious obstacles to the creation of digital libraries.  While technological and financial obstacles are nontrivial, there are reasons to be optimistic that they can be overcome in time.  Copyright looms as perhaps the most significant impediment, one that seems more intractable than the others.  This talk will consider the role of the fair use limitation on copyright as a mechanism through which at least some digital library projects may be accomplished.  How much digital librarians will be able to depend on fair use will be affected by the forthcoming appellate court rulings in the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust and Authors Guild v. Google cases.   The talk will explore the pros and cons of some other options that have either been adopted or are under consideration to overcome copyright obstacles in the U.S. and elsewhere.  The implications of the current U.S. Copyright Office inquiry about orphan works and mass digitization will also be discussed.

Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California, Berkeley. An acknowledged expert on digital copyright law, intellectual property, cyberlaw and information policy, Samuelson is Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She serves on the board of directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, as well as on the advisory boards for the Center for Democracy & Technology, Public Knowledge, and the Berkeley Center for New Media.

A 1971 graduate of the University of Hawaii and a 1976 graduate of Yale Law School, Samuelson practiced law as a litigation associate with the New York law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher before turning to academic pursuits. From 1981 through June 1996 she was a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, from which she visited at Columbia, Cornell, and Emory Law Schools. Since joining the Berkeley faculty, she has been a distinguished visiting professor at University of Toronto Law School as well as a visiting professor at the University of Melbourne and Harvard Law Schools. She was named an honorary professor at the University of Amsterdam in 2002.

She teaches courses on intellectual property, Internet law, and information law and policy. Professor Samuelson has been a contributing editor of Communications of the ACM, a journal devoted to coverage of existing and emerging technologies. From 1997 through 2002, Samuelson was a fellow of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The Anita Borg Institute honored Samuelson with its Women of Vision Award for Social Impact in 2005, and the public interest organization Public Knowledge awarded her its IP3 Award for her contributions to Internet law and policy in October 2010.

This event is hosted by the Sara Fine Institute at the School of Information Sciences and co-sponsored by the Innovation Practice Institute at School of Law at the University of Pittsburgh.