MEMBER NEWS…
● “Congratulations to the Lab of Ornithology, Macaulay
Library, Cornell University team. They received an extraordinary honor when Science magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of
Science announced the 2006 winners of the “Science and Engineering
Visualization Challenge.” The Macaulay Library IT team were awarded second
place in the category “Interactive Multimedia” for their web-based application
allowing anyone to visualize the sounds archived in the Macaulay Library’s
digital collection of natural sounds and bird videos. This application,
developed with collaboration with the Lab’s Bioacoustics Research Program,
provides spectrograms and wave forms in real time as the user listens to sound
or video clips from the collection. Public announcement of this award coincides
with the Lab’s first public release of web-access to our world-leading sound
and video archives. For the first time, 60,000 sound clips and 15,000 video
clips are now available to the world for online browsing! This in itself is
literally a “jaw-dropping” accomplishment that opens a new era of public
engagement with the Lab and the Macaulay Library’s unique collection.” Article written by John Fitzpatrick, Director. Explore the Macaulay Library Collection
at 
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/Macaulay
Library/
● After more than ten years as University
Librarian at Cornell University Sarah
Thomas is leaving to become Bodley’s Librarian and Director of University
Library Services at the University of Oxford.
● Rebecca Dixson is the new DCMO BOCES
School Library System Secretary. Her telephone number is 607-335-1373, her
email is dixsonr@dcmoboces.com
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● A couple of new directors in our region:
Melissa Jadlos who used to be at
Binghamton University Libraries is now director at St. John Fisher.
On October 8th
, Sarah Conrad Weisman of Elmira College
became the new Director at Corning Community
College, Arthur A. Houghton,
Jr. Library.
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● New York Historical Society in Cooperstown,
will be hosting the 2007 Conference on New York State History, on June 7-9. The
conference is an annual meeting of academic and public historians, librarians
and archivist, educators, and publishers who come together to discuss topics
and issues related to the people of New York State in historical perspective
and to share information and ideas regarding historical perspective and to
share information and ideas regarding historical research, programming, and the
networking of resources and services.