MEMBER LIBRARY WEEKLY BULLETIN

No. 01-04                                                                                                                                 February 2, 2001

KAREN CREENAN, Executive Director
  1. New York State Library announces April 4, 2001, date for THE GREAT NEW YORK READALOUD.  The statewide theme is “Books Are Brain Food - Read”. ReadAloud posters for 2001 will be available in late February 2001. The posters are provided, designed and produced as a public service to the libraries of New York State by SIRS/Mandarin of Boca Raton, Florida, a Corporate Partner of the Great New York ReadAloud.  For information on how to organize a ReadAloud, visit our web site at :  <Http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/libdevel.htm>  Or contact Tiffany H. Allen, Statewide ReadAloud Coordinator at the New York State Library,518-486-4863 or via e-mail: tallen@mail.nysed.gov  or your library system. 
  2. Congratulations to Waverly Free Library for having Sunday hours!!

 

CAROL HENDRIX, Executive Administrative Assistant
  1. FYI: For all those library directors that didn’t make the January 25th System Meeting, and for those who did attend…we still have lots of “new book holders” for your book stacks. Please contact me if you are interested, either by e-mail or by phone x21. Thanks.

 

SANDY GROTH, Library Director, Aurora Free Library
  1. Congratulations to Sara Miller, she has been named Assistant Library Director for Aurora Free Library.

 

MARISA IACOBUCCI, Adult Services
  1. I hope everyone out there has successfully survived the January of 2001.  Just remember…the days are getting longer! Here’s a tidbit from the Library Administrator’s Digest that I thought you might like:
IGNORANCE OF INTERNET IS BLISS

Roughly 50 percent of the U.S. population do not use the Internet, and 32 percent of this non-Net-using segment have no intention of ever going online, according to a study released last month by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Further, 25 percent of this segment say they “probably” will never go online, while 29 percent say they probably will go online at some point; 12 percent say they “definitely” plan to go online.  Fifty-four percent of the non-Net-using population consider the Internet a dangerous place, 39 percent say the cost of going online is too expensive, and 36 percent say it is too troublesome to go online.  Quoted in Lamplighter, Wisconsin Valley Library System, November 2000.