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• 7-16-08 - WORKSHOP - Chief Midtown Librarian Marina Zilberman and Information Literacy Librarian Sara Tabaei attended "Managing Copyright Issues in the Library" at METRO. The workshop focused on how emerging technologies and increasingly diverse collections have made it more difficult to determine whether a given work may be reproduced without copyright infringement. A risk assessment to develop institution-wide policy for intellectual property dissemination was recommended to assist in consistent and appropriate decision making.

• 7-1-08 - WELCOME - Emily Nurkin is the new Assistant at Technical and Electronic Services.

• 6-19-08 - CONGRATULATIONS - Kings Highway Library Assistant Starvita Thompson graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree.

• 6-18-08 - WELCOME - Deavon (Dave) Wilson is the new Assistant at Technical and Electronic Services.

• 5-28-08 - NEW DATABASE - JSTOR Arts & Sciences III and Business II Collections have been added to the collections already available.  They are accessible through the JSTOR link.

• 5-28-08 - NEW DATABASE - EBSCO GreenFILE focuses on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with nearly 300,000 records from scholarly journals, government studies and more. Full text is available for more than 4,600 records from open access sources.

• 5-21-08 - NEW DATABASE - Teacher Reference Center (TRC) provides access to abstracts of over 260 journals and books geared toward K-12 teachers. Subjects covered include assessment, continuing education, current pedagogical research, curriculum development, instructional media, language arts, literacy standards, etc.

• 5-19-08 - NEW DATABASE - Nursing and Allied Health Collection This exciting new resource utilizes Gale's PowerSearch platform and features over four million articles in nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.

• 5-5, 6-08 - CONFERENCE - Technical & Electronic Services Librarian Sara Levinson attended Nylink's 2008 Annual Meeting "Evolution and Transformation: Get Ready for the Future!"  The two-day conference in Saratoga Springs featured presentations on cutting edge information technologies, including Web 2.0, Open Libraries and WorldCat Local.

• 4-28-08 - NEW DATABASE - JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II & IV and Business Collections This popular resource allows deep-linking to articles on the Internet. JSTOR articles also often appear in Google Scholar search results.