Calling all Syracuse area information professionals and students:

Please join us for a Celebrate Spring  Social Hour!

Where: Drumlins Windows on the Green Bistro 800 Nottingham Road, Syracuse [directions]
When: Thursday, May 2, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
RSVP: Let us know you’re coming so we have enough appetizers.
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Co-sponsored by:

• Eastern New York Association of College and Research Libraries (ENY/ACRL) chapter
• Pi Lambda Sigma chapter of Beta Phi Mu,  the international library and information studies honor society.
• Syracuse University ALA/SLA Student Chapter/LIS Student Assembly
• Upstate New York Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (UNYSLA)

This is great opportunity to meet members of these organizations and students entering the profession.

Does your library or information center…

• Have email accounts?
• Provide access to the internet?
• Store personal information such as addresses, birth dates, and ID numbers?

If you said yes to any of the above, your library has a stake in digital security. For example, email accounts can be hacked through malicious links or stolen passwords and used to send spam. Internet access provides opportunities for hackers to infiltrate your computer systems. And the very nature of circulation and integrated library systems requires at least some personal information to be stored.

A recent article from ACRL’s TechConnect Blog highlights common security issues faced by libraries including the value of MARC records to hackers, vendors blocking access to electronic resources because of strange internet activity at your location, and different ways staff and users can make your technology vulnerable to attacks.

Other examples of digital security vulnerabilities in libraries such as generic ILS passwords that have not changed in years can be found scattered throughout techsoup for libraries’ information guide to Networking and Security.

To learn more about current security threats and what you can do to address them, attend UNYSLA’s upcoming conference: Digital (In)security: Protecting our Libraries, Networks, and Identities.

Due to the temporary shut-down of all SLA websites this past week to allow for the launching of the new SLA website, UNYSLA will be extending its early bird registration rate for Digital (In)security: Protecting Our Libraries, Networks, and Identities until 5:00pm, Wednesday, 3 April.

At SLUSH, we know every librarian is a star. And we believe that inside that star, there’s a superstar inside just waiting to get out.*  So on March 20, 2013, we’re giving those superstars the opportunity to be free.

The March SLUSH event will be KARAOKE AT THE HAUNT.

The fun begins with a SLUSH Happy Hour at the Haunt/Razorback BBQ Wing Night starting at 5PM, but plan to hang out until the Karaoke gets started at 8pm. (And continues until 1am, but most of us have to get up the next morning so we’ll see how long we last.)

The Haunt/Razorback BBQ is located at 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca, NY. Show up anytime, whether you want wings, drinks, karaoke, or a combination thereof.

It will be a night to remember.

SLUSH (Savvy Librarians Uniting for Social Hour) is a group of library professional, para-professional, students and other affiliated personnel that meet regularly over dinner to discuss anything in Library Land. There is no agenda or formal outline – just show up at a dinner and bring your success stories, your woes, questions and, of course, your appetite!

Join SLUSH on Facebook www.facebook.com/libraryslush or get on the mailing list at: http://list.scrlc.org/mailman/listinfo/slush-l_list.scrlc.org

* SLUSH apologizes to any physical sciences librarians with a specialty in astrophysics.

Registration is now open for the SLA 2013 Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO ! Join thousands of your colleagues in San Diego for innovative sessions, inspiring speakers, networking, and an exhibit hall filled with the leading companies in the industry!

Early bird registration ends 12 April.

Please join us for our spring meeting.

Digital (In)security:
Protecting our Libraries, Networks, and Identities

Date: Friday, 26 April Time: 8:30-3:00 Location: Century House, Latham, NY (map) Plan on attending this exciting, one-day conference with presentations on online reputation management, balancing security and privacy in higher education, and cyber security and hacktivist threats. Our presenters include academics, information technologists and the Director of the New York State Office of Cyber Security. In addition to the conference on Friday, please join us for the Networking Dinner (Dutch treat) on Thursday evening, 25 April.

Registration

SLA Members $50 (early bird, by 4/1/13 – $40)
Non-members $65 (early bird, by 4/1/13 – $55)
Students/retired/unemployed $30 (early bird, by 4/1/13 – $25)  – Apply to be a student shadow and attend for free!
Early bird rates apply to registrations and payments received before 3 April.

Full schedule and program details.

Join librarians, LIS students and faculty, and others to learn, discuss, and share about the topic of librarianship and place.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013
8:30am–12:30pm
Conference Room 304ABC at Schine Student Center at Syracuse University

RSVP today!
Anyone interested in the topic is welcome. Please spread the word. The more attendees, the better the conversation.

About Unconferences
Unconferences are meetings driven by the attendees. Spaces + Places will embrace the spirit of an unconference—no keynotes, no registration fee, whoever shows up decides what to talk about, anyone attending may present, anyone attending may facilitate a discussion.

About This Unconference
This unconference was conceived and planned by iSchool LIS students Stephanie Prato, Matthew Gunby (MS LIS December ’12), Mia Breitkopf, and Sarah Bratt as part of Dave Lankes’s IST 600 course in Fall 2012. It is being sponsored by the iSchool.

Because many librarianship students and practicing library and information science professionals and scholars will be there, there will probably be a lot of discussion about library spaces and places. Other likely discussion topics include the Third Place, spaces and the participatory movement, innovative uses of public spaces, co-working spaces, maker- and hacker-spaces, virtual knowledge networks, digital libraries and more.

Anyone is welcome, but please RSVP so we know how much coffee to order. Check out our video on YouTube for ideas and visit the Wiki we made to share thoughts and perspectives. Here you’ll find registration information, the schedule, logistical information, and more. It’s the people who come to an unconference that make the conversations great and the event worthwhile, so please consider sharing your voice and your perspective with us on February 26th.

Questions? Visit the Spaces + Places wiki to contact us.