Clinton Hall

         Directions to Our Office

• SCRLC  Summer Hours
  Monday - Thursday  8:00 - 4:30
  Friday   8:00 - 2:00

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• SCRLC  purchases one-year subscription to ILLiad online training from Atlas Systems more...

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• Summer Camp 2009 for Teacher Librarians
  Join colleagues from around the region to learn new skills, swap experience, and have a great time in an informal atmosphere.

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• One of our Region’s own, Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton of the 125^th district, has been appointed Chair of the New York State Assembly’s Libraries and Education Technology Committee. Lifton, whose home office is in Ithaca, has been a strong supporter of libraries. She is quoted in the 6/5/09 Ithaca Journal: “I’m passionate about the importance of reading and literacy,” she said. “I  welcome the challenge and the opportunity. Libraries are critical institutions in a democracy, and in our state.”  She also said,  “After too many years of stagnant state funding, and in this tough economic time, libraries have been forced to cut programs and staff.” more

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The John H. Martin Learning Center Dedication
& Tech Fair 2.0 was a rousing success. We were delighted to welcome    Mrs. Phyllis Martin, her son Todd, and about 60 of our members and otherguests to help us celebrate the official opening of our new training room. Featured in the Tech Fair were AskUs 24/7, Tools of History, InfoQuest Text Ref, Twitter, Online Programming for All Libraries (OPAL), Second Life,  Kindle,  SMARTBoard, Skype, and screencasting.

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State Librarian, Bernie Margolis, Main Message from SCRLC visit...

"Tell your representatives you are not happy about the cuts in library funding and keep telling them over and over until they tell Bernie we are getting annoying - and don't assume someone else will contact your representative for you!"

* NYS Assembly  *  NYS Senate  *  NYS Governor

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• SCRLC Awarded Member Item!  Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton announces $15,000 will go to South Central Regional Library Council for offsetting digitization costs and purchasing software for our Tools of History program!
  

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• Interested in learning more about the AskUs 24/7 Virtual Reference Program?
       For more information contact Mary-Carol, mclindbloom@scrlc.org

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