Monday, December 20, 2010

Cornell Law Library seeks new director

"Position Announcement -- Title: Edward Cornell Law Librarian
Cornell University seeks an experienced and innovative academic leader to serve as Director of its Law Library. The Law Librarian provides strategic vision, fiscal stewardship, operational management, and ensures outstanding service to faculty and students in the Law School. In order to support the teaching, research, and outreach mission, the Librarian builds collaborative relationships across the law school, within the library system, and throughout the profession. The Law Librarian works closely with the dean and vice dean of the law school, the library administration, and the faculty to understand the current and anticipated needs of the community. Within the Law Library, the Librarian has the opportunity to develop a strong team of service-oriented research attorneys and library assistants and to work with the staff to develop a compelling and cohesive vision for a 21st century law library."
Read full post and link to application at http://library.lawschool.cornell.edu/Announcements.cfm#librarian

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Winter Wonderlands

Frozen Horseshoe Falls from Canadian sideHere in Western New York winter has fully arrived, despite any protestation the calendar may make.  It's cold.  It's snowy.  But you know you're a real Western New Yorker when your first response to cold and snow is, "Oh, good -- the lakes will freeze!"  It's never the heat but the humidity, nor never the snow but the Lake Effect.

Does that wisdom hold true throughout the ALLUNY region? How would you fill in these blanks?

You know you're a real  _________  New Yorker ______________ ...

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

ALLUNY Newsletter Volume 35, No. 3 : Winter 2010

Greetings,

The Winter 2010 issue of the ALLUNY newsletter is now available: http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/alluny/2010-03winter.pdf

Updated web page: http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/alluny/newslett.asp

Thanks to everyone for their hard work on this issue. Enjoy!

Venessa