Title: Basic Cataloging 411 or "How I Learned that Catalogers are NOT Trying to Make My Life Difficult!"
Date: Friday, May 9, 2008
Presenter: Marguerite "Maggie" Horn, Library Data and Systems Analyst, Office of Library and Information Services, SUNY; and John F. Myers, Catalog Librarian, Union College
Time: Sign-in, 8:30-9:00 a.m. Class, 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System, Plattsburgh
Fee: $15.00 for library staff, $59.95 for all others (Includes lunch.)
Description: This basic introduction to cataloging covers four elements:
       Content (AACR2)
       Communication (MARC)
       Classification (DDC/LCC)
       Presentation (the catalog)
The workshop will be a mix of presentation and hands-on exercises, with a focus on monographic cataloging. Participants will learn to be more comfortable in the cataloging environment. Those who are not catalogers will learn how their catalogs work and why the catalog works the way it does.
This program is appropriate for anyone looking to refresh or acquire basic cataloging skills:
       New staff
       One person library
       Staff needing refresher
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Title: Conflict Resolution
Date: Friday, May 16, 2008
Presenter: Sarah Barker, The Resolution Center of Jefferson and Lewis Counties
Time: Sign-in, 9:00-9:30 a.m.; Class, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Northern New York Library Network, Potsdam
Fee: $10.00 for library staff, $29.95 for all others
Description: Students will learn to handle conflicts between co-workers, between employer and employee, etc. In a way that provides opportunities to resolve disagreements with a win/win outcome.
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Title: Documentary Heritage Program: Clinton-Essex Counties Spring Regional Roundtable
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2008
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Samuel de Champlain History Center, Champlain
Fee: None
Description: The agenda of the Clinton-Essex Counties Roundtable includes a discussion on "Interpretive Use of Collections."
Although there is no charge to attend, registration is appreciated. The Documentary Heritage Regional Roundtables offer opportunities for archivists and local historians to share meaningful information and to learn more about services available through the Network’s DHP Program, including free on-site technical advisories and workshops.
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Title: Documentary Heritage Program: St. Lawrence Franklin Counties Spring Regional Roundtable
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2008
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Lawrence Town Hall, Lawrence
Fee: None
Description: The agenda of the St. Lawrence - Franklin Counties Roundtable is "Oral History."
Although there is no charge to attend, registration is appreciated. The Documentary Heritage Regional Roundtables offer opportunities for archivists and local historians to share meaningful information and to learn more about services available through the Network’s DHP Program, including free on-site technical advisories and workshops.
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Title: 43rd Annual Meeting
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008
Presenter: Northern New York Library Network
Time: Sign-in, 9:30-10:00 a.m.
Location: Bonnie Castle Resort, Alexandria Bay
Fee: None
Description: Keynote speaker: Robert J. Lackie, Associate Professor-Librarian at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
Professor Lackie co-heads the Library Instruction Program and serves as Reference Collection Development Librarian, and will lead us through the intricacies of "The Invisible Web."
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Title: QuickBooks, Level 1
Date: Friday, May 30, 2008
Presenter: Angela Gray, CPA
Time: Sign-in, 9:00-9:30 a.m.; Class, 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Northern New York Library Network, Potsdam
Fee: $15.00 for library staff, $59.95 for all others (Includes lunch.)
Description: This class will include an overview of Basic QuickBooks, including Setup Company: company information, preferences, customers and vendors, inventory, and chart of accounts. There will be a review chart of accounts and enter beginning balances; Setup Payroll and Employees: payroll items (taxes, garnishments, etc.), and employees. Discussion will include Enter Transactions: bills from vendors, invoices for customers, receiving payment on invoices, pay bills, and process payroll; as well as prepare bank reconciliation. And Print Financial Statements: balance sheet, profit and loss statement (income statement), and cash flow statement.
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